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Economy
4:34 pm
Wed June 20, 2012

Federal Reserve Cuts Back U.S. Growth Forecast

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Originally published on Wed June 20, 2012 5:23 pm

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ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST:

From NPR News, this ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Robert Siegel in Washington, D.C.

MELISSA BLOCK, HOST:

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Food
4:33 pm
Wed June 20, 2012

Pizza Coalition Protests Menu Labeling Proposal

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Originally published on Wed June 20, 2012 5:23 pm

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MELISSA BLOCK, HOST:

This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Melissa Block.

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST:

And I'm Robert Siegel.

(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC)

SIEGEL: Well, actually, in Washington...

BLOCK: Where franchisee meets lawmaker...

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SIEGEL: Yes, that's right. Some of the nation's largest pizza chains are lobbying on Capitol Hill to deliver a piping hot message.

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History
4:33 pm
Wed June 20, 2012

Pakistan's 'Burushaski' Language Finds New Relatives

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Originally published on Wed June 20, 2012 5:23 pm

Robert Siegel talks to professor Ilija Casule of Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. His research shows that a language spoken by about 90,000 people in a remote area of Pakistan is Indo-European in origin. He explains how 20 years of research has tied this isolated group of people to a migration that started in the Balkans and moved East 3,000 years ago.

Politics
4:31 pm
Wed June 20, 2012

House Cites Attorney General Holder For Contempt

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MELISSA BLOCK, HOST:

This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Melissa Block.

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST:

And I'm Robert Siegel.

The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee voted today to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress. He's accused of refusing to turn over certain documents related to the controversial gun-trafficking operation known as Fast and Furious.

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Around the Nation
3:14 pm
Wed June 20, 2012

Saving Calif. State Parks: The End Of Public Funding?

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Brad Beadell (right) takes his 11-year-old son, William, on his first backpacking trip through Henry W. Coe State Park in Morgan Hill, Calif.
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Coe Park is California's second-largest state park, spanning more than 87,000 acres.
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Dan McCranie (left) hands over a check for $279,000 to Ruth Coleman, director of California State Parks, at a ceremony at Coe Park in May. The amount is the first installment of about $900,000 from the Coe Park Preservation Fund that will keep the park open for three years.
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Originally published on Wed June 20, 2012 5:23 pm

On July 1, 15 California state parks are slated to be closed permanently to the public — the first such closures in the state's history. They're the victim of budget cuts in a state with a $16 billion shortfall.

Over the past year, park enthusiasts have scrambled to save dozens of parks from closure, including Henry W. Coe State Park, California's second-biggest state park, located about 30 miles south of San Jose.

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The Salt
11:58 am
Wed June 20, 2012

Seattle Forager Inspires Others To Learn About Wild, Forgotten Foods

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Langdon Cook shows off the morel and porcini mushrooms he's foraged and stored in the trunk of his car.
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Originally published on Wed June 20, 2012 8:17 pm

For Langdon Cook, a walk in the woods isn't that different from a walk through the produce section of the supermarket. He's a writer, blogger and all-around outdoorsy type, but in outdoorsy Seattle, he's made his name primarily as a forager.

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U.S.
5:59 pm
Tue June 19, 2012

Senators Get Time In Solitary Confinement

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An exercise area for inmates in solitary confinement in California's Pelican Bay prison. Inmates are allowed to leave their windowless cells for 2 1/2 hours daily to exercise and bathe.
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To illustrate living conditions under solitary confinement, a Senate Judiciary subcommittee erected a cell replica inside a Capitol Hill hearing room on Tuesday.
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At any given moment, about 15,000 men and women are living in solitary confinement in the federal prison system, housed in tiny cells not much larger than a king-sized bed.

"It is hard to describe in words what such a small space begins to look like, feel like and smell like when someone is required to live virtually their entire life in it," says Craig Haney, a psychologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

But Tuesday, Haney, who has studied life inside prisons for three decades, had an opportunity to paint that picture.

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Education
5:59 pm
Tue June 19, 2012

Board Member Resigns After U.Va. President Fired

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MELISSA BLOCK, HOST:

From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Melissa Block at NPR West, in California.

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Law
5:31 pm
Tue June 19, 2012

Senate Holds First Hearing On Solitary Confinement

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Advocates for prisoners rights say too many inmates spend years in solitary confinement — in violation of the constitutional bar against cruel and unusual punishment. Today, they persuaded the U.S. Senate to hold the first hearing on the issue, as state and federal prison systems fend off new lawsuits over the practice.

Energy
5:11 pm
Tue June 19, 2012

Shell Faces Pushback As Alaska Drilling Nears

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Shell says it hopes to never need to use its new 300-foot-long, $100 million oil recovery ship named Nanuq for anything other than drills and training.
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Richard E. Reanier, an independent archaeologist working for Shell Oil, uses GPS to record the location of the remains of a sod house along the Chukchi Sea coast near Wainwright, Alaska, in July 2011.
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Pete Slaiby, Shell's vice president for Alaska, says the costs of doing business in Alaska are big, "but the volumes are substantial."
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Originally published on Tue June 19, 2012 5:59 pm

The federal government could soon give the final go-ahead for Royal Dutch Shell to begin drilling for oil in the Arctic Ocean. Shell has spent $4 billion since 2007 to prepare for this work, and is hoping to tap into vast new deposits of oil.

But the plan to drill exploratory wells is controversial — opposed by environmental groups and some indigenous people as well.

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