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The women's race starts Sunday in Paris and lasts for 8 stages, ending July 31. The last multiday women's race was held in 1989.

An NPR investigation last December found that supervisors at Colorado's Fort Carson punished soldiers who suffered mental anguish. Leaders at the base now attend mandatory training on spotting troubled soldiers, but mental health experts say it may be doing as much harm as good.

Charter school board members carry huge responsibility: More than 145,000 students attend charter schools, and North Carolina spent $986 million on charter schools last year.

Federal regulators, medical experts and safe-sleep advocates have warned of the potential danger of weighted infant sleepwear, but manufacturers say their products have helped millions of families.

From medieval medicine to 18th century English "crack," gin has come a long way. But according to Richard Barnett, author of The Book of Gin, now is "the best time in the last 500 years to be drinking" it.

One in five Black Americans are either immigrants or the children of immigrants. But feeling embraced or understood by the U.S. can seem daunting for some, and impossible for others.

A new Kickstarter campaign has been launched to sell Eau de Space to the public — an aroma recreated by NASA decades ago to help astronauts acclimate to space during training.

In the late 1960s, saxophonist Wayne Shorter wrote a series of pieces for trumpeter Miles Davis and orchestra. They were never recorded — until Wallace Roney played them at the Detroit Jazz Festival.

Project LIFT plans to continue working with West Charlotte High School and the schools that feed into it for at least a sixth year. The schools have seen…

Two weeks into the NFL training camp, Colin Kaepernick still hasn't been signed to a team

A report says North Carolina has the 9th highest rate of uninsured children in the nation. The report was produced by a Washington, D.C., group called…

The state of North Carolina installed its newest poet laureate after some controversy swirled around the position last July. Shelby Stephenson, never…

An man in Oregon had a pistol and was openly carrying it which the state permits. The suspect, who had a more powerful gun, approached the man with the pistol and demanded he give him the weapon.

This week President Barack Obama has been rolling out the White House’s strategy to combat cyber attacks. North Carolina A&T is a part of that strategy.…

Astrophysicist GEORGE SMOOT. Since 1974 he's worked on NASA's Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite, leading the instrument team that detected cosmic "seeds." In 1992 he announced that he and a team of researchers had detected the biggest, oldest objects ever observed in the universe, the "cosmic seeds" that were the origin of galaxies and clusters of galaxies. He was quoted as saying then, "If you're religious, it's like seeing God." SMOOT has co-authored a new book about the development of the big bang theory, and the effort he's been involved in, looking for what he calls "wrinkles in time, those distant echoes of the early formation of the galaxies." It's called "Wrinkles in Time," (William Morrow) by Smoot and Keay Davidson.

Detective writer MICKEY SPILLANE. One of the world's most popular writers of the hard-boiled private investigator genre. His most famous character is Mike Hammer. In 1989, SPILLANE wrote his first Mike Hammer story in 19 years. SPILLANE's latest book is called "Big Kill." Last year his book "My Gun is Quick" (Chivers North America), first published in 1950, was reprinted. (REBROADCAST FROM 11/22/89)Veteran crime novelist LAWRENCE BLOCK. He's written ten novels staring Manhattan private eye Matt Scudder. His latest is called "The Devil Knows Your Dead" (William Morrow). (REBROADCAST FROM 3/

Vice President Al Gore and Texas Governor George W. Bush have been all but bumper-to-bumper on the campaign trail this week as they concentrate on Midwestern swing states. Yesterday, Bush addressed the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Milwaukee, Wisconsin before heading to Illinois. Today, Gore spoke to the same VFW meeting before making his way to Chicago. Bush told the veterans that the Clinton-Gore administration had allowed U-S military readiness to deteriorate. Gore today enlisted the help of former Defense Secretary William Perry to rebut those charges. NPR's Melissa Block reports from Milwaukee.

Guest: The Reverend Al Green Pastor, Full Gospel Tabernacle, Memphis, Tennessee Author Take Me To the River (Harper Collins, 2000) Singer, songwriter and 9 time Grammy Award winner Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Inductee, 1995 Al Green is unquestionably a success story. He started as the son of an Arkansas sharecropper and went on to become one of the greatest soul singers in American music. Al Green has sold more than 40 million records and won nine Grammy Awards and in 1995, he was inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame. He's also the author of a new autobiography Take Me To the River. Join Juan Williams for a conversation with the Reverend Al Green.

Guests: ALAN LIGHT Editor-in-Chief, Spin magazine Attending the Grammys in Los Angeles February 21, 2001 MICHAEL GREENE President and CEO, The Recording Academy of Arts and Sciences ESTA SOLER Executive Director, Family Violence Prevention Fund CATHY REENA News Media Director, Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) Some say he's the poster boy for vile entertainment --others claim he's a musical genius. Whatever you thin--of him and his music, there's no question that Eminem is hugely popular. The white rapper has sold almost 10 million copies of his newest CD and was nominated for four Grammy Awards. Join Juan Williams and guests for a look at the controversy over Eminem and the Grammys.

A sound montage of some of the voices in this past week's news, including Major Perry Newis, Spokesman, U.S. Space Command; Marc Herring, a member of the Mir reentry observatory expedition; Phil Condit, CEO, the Boeing Company; Mark Blondin, a local president of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers; Secretary of State Colin Powell; Kirk Hartman, Chief Investment Officer, Fixed Income, Bank of America Capital Investment; Bob Knight's introduction as the new basketball coach at Texas Tech; the theme from The Flintstones, created by William Hanna, who died this week at age 90; Senator Mitch McConnell (Republican, Kentucky); and Joan Claybrook, President, Public Citizen.