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Gauthier's latest album, Rifles & Rosary Beads, is the product of compassion and a call for more of it at a time when it's needed most.

While the makers of e-cigarettes tout them as a potentially safer alternative to tobacco products, critics worry the fad may lead to a new generation of nicotine addicts.

All this week, All Things Considered and Morning Edition has aired stories about the global journey a T-shirt makes from seed to finished product. Over the months NPR's Planet Money team spent reporting the series, they tackled questions about trade, work and clothes play in the global economy.

In Belgium, the Trappists produce Orval. Forbes Magazine reports there simply aren't enough monks to expand production of Orval. The abbey once had 35 monks, but today that number is down to just a dozen.

The online retailer is introducing a service that lets Twitter users add Amazon.com products to their carts without leaving the social media site.

No, really. Generational hues of tender soul cascade across Thundercat's crystalline production in "Show You The Way." Drunk comes out Feb. 24.

Gross domestic product grew at a 3.1 percent annual rate, well above earlier estimates. But, claims for jobless benefits rose last week — another sign that while the economy may be on the mend, there are still problems.

In Raleigh Wednesday, a bipartisan group of lawmakers took to a stage of sorts, in an effort to build support for the state’s film incentives. The tax…

Mayer is the fifth CEO to take the helm at the ailing company in five years.

Major retailers have agreed to stop carrying the "high-powered magnets."

The materials are plentiful and the process of twisting, shaping and lacquering makes for a frame that's strong and durable, inventor Izhar Gafni says. Mass production is supposed to start in the next few months. See video of a bike in action.

2: Clarinetist, jazz musician, and klezmer virtuoso DON BYRON. He's an unlikely candidate to play kelzmer, a product of Eastern European Yiddish culture: BYRON is African American and dreadlocked. BYRON has become best known for klezmer, but musically he's all over the map: He plays jazz with his Don Byron Quintet, modern classical music with the Semaphore quintet, and he toured Europe last fall with Music for Six Musicians, an Afro-Cuban ensemble. He's also currently writing a classical piece for the avant-garde Kronos Quartet. BYRON's most recent CD is "Don Byron Plays the Music of Mickey Katz," (Elektra Nonesuch).

Flower Foods, which makes Tastykakes, said one of its vendors reported an ingredient in some cupcakes may have been contaminated with bits of wire mesh. The company is recalling the products.

African agriculture is in crisis, and Africa's farmland is losing its fertility at an alarming rate. Farmers in sub-Saharan Africa don't produce enough food to feed their own people, while population growth is outpacing agricultural production.

In memory of a woodshop teacher and set designer for high school musical productions, a song about carrying on after loss.

James Avery is best known as Philip Banks, the wealthy uncle of Will Smith's character in the 1990s TV series The Fresh Prince of Bel Air. But his work encompasses a broader range, from movies to voicing animation to his latest role in a California stage production of William Shakespeare's Othello.

Madonna's new single, "4 Minutes," is an airtight, spit-polished production loaded with current stars, designed to send the message that Madonna still matters. Music critic Tom Moon reviews the pop icon's latest album, Hard Candy.

Bondy's album When the Devil's Loose is ragged all over, most notably in its intimate garage-band production, but there's a sugary sparkle to songs like "Mightiest of Guns." For all its fatalistic, even apocalyptic imagery, Bondy can't help but infuse the song with acoustic-guitar-fueled gentility.

The theatrical "Lie Down Here (And Be My Girl)" highlights Cave's charm, as he growls his way to the heart of a dark libretto: "One day I'll buy a factory, and assemble you on a production line / I'd buy a million of you, baby, and every single one of them will be mine."

Kelly reflects on juggling motherhood and chasing the news. Justin Chang reviews Showing Up. Groban first auditioned to play Sweeney Todd. Now he's starring in the Broadway production.