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Around the Nation
5:42 am
Thu July 5, 2012

VA Hospital Recuits Mental Health Providers

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LINDA WERTHEIMER, HOST:

The Department of Veterans Affairs is adding staff to its hospitals to meet the mental health needs of vets of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. As Erin Toner of WUWM in Milwaukee reports, some clinicians say the help cannot come soon enough.

ERIN TONER, BYLINE: The VA hospital in Milwaukee is a hectic place. On most mornings you have to circle the parking lots over and over to find a spot. Luckily there's valet service if patients would rather leave the parking to someone else.

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Business
3:46 am
Thu July 5, 2012

Business News

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LINDA WERTHEIMER, HOST:

NPR's business news starts with the back story on VIP loans.

(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC)

WERTHEIMER: A former mortgage company, Countrywide, used a VIP loan program to buy influence with members of Congress, staffers and other officials, including a number at Fannie Mae, the government backed mortgage giant central to Countrywide's business. That the bottom line of a new report out today from the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

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Around the Nation
3:46 am
Thu July 5, 2012

Power Outages Darken Many July 4 Celebrations

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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:

On the day after the Fourth, it's MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm Steve Inskeep.

LINDA WERTHEIMER, HOST:

And I'm Linda Wertheimer.

It was especially easy for some Americans to see the fireworks last night. They had no competing source of light.

INSKEEP: Brilliant displays lit up cities like New York and Washington, but across Maryland, Virginia and New Jersey, about a quarter of a million homes still have no electricity.

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Election 2012
3:46 am
Thu July 5, 2012

Romney: Obama's Health Mandate Is A Tax

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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney walks with his wife, Ann, and other family members, along with Republican Sen. Kelly Ayotte, in the Wolfeboro, N.H., Independence Day parade Wednesday. Ayotte has been mentioned as a possible vice presidential contender.
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Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney spent his July Fourth holiday marching in a New Hampshire parade, and backtracking statements a top adviser made about the individual mandate in the Obama health care law.

There was something for almost everybody in Wolfeboro's Independence Day parade: a local brass band, bonnet-wearing Daughters of the American Revolution, a Zumba instructor shimmying across the bed of a pickup truck, and even a Jimmy Durante impersonator, complete with prosthetic nose.

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NPR Story
3:42 am
Thu July 5, 2012

EX-Barclays CEO Apologizes To British Panel

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LINDA WERTHEIMER, HOST:

In Britain today, parliament continues its hearing on the interest rate scandal at Barclays Bank. This week, several of the bank's top executives resigned, including the chief executive, Bob Diamond. Yesterday, parliamentarians quizzed Diamond for three hours.

NPR's Philip Reeves is in London, where he says outrage is growing.

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Southword
2:15 am
Thu July 5, 2012

Meet Al Black: Florida's Prison Painter

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Al Black is one of Florida's 26 officially recognized "Highwaymen" — a loosely affiliated group of artists who began painting in the 1960s, some of whom are still at it today.
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Examples of Al Black's prison murals from the book The Highwaymen Murals: Al Black's Concrete Dreams, University Press of Florida, 2009
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Examples of Al Black's prison murals from the book The Highwaymen Murals: Al Black's Concrete Dreams, University Press of Florida, 2009
Credit Gary Monroe
Examples of Al Black's prison murals from the book The Highwaymen Murals: Al Black's Concrete Dreams, University Press of Florida, 2009
Credit Gary Monroe
Examples of Al Black's prison murals from the book The Highwaymen Murals: Al Black's Concrete Dreams, University Press of Florida, 2009
Credit Gary Monroe
Examples of Al Black's prison murals from the book The Highwaymen Murals: Al Black's Concrete Dreams, University Press of Florida, 2009
Credit Gary Monroe
Examples of Al Black's prison murals from the book The Highwaymen Murals: Al Black's Concrete Dreams, University Press of Florida, 2009
Credit Gary Monroe
Examples of Al Black's prison murals from the book The Highwaymen Murals: Al Black's Concrete Dreams, University Press of Florida, 2009
Credit Gary Monroe
Examples of Al Black's prison murals from the book The Highwaymen Murals: Al Black's Concrete Dreams, University Press of Florida, 2009
Credit Gary Monroe
Examples of Al Black's prison murals from the book The Highwaymen Murals: Al Black's Concrete Dreams, University Press of Florida, 2009
Credit Gary Monroe
Examples of Al Black's prison murals from the book The Highwaymen Murals: Al Black's Concrete Dreams, University Press of Florida, 2009
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In the 1960s, Al Black could be found cruising up and down Route 1 in his blue-and-white Ford Galaxy — with a trunk full of wet landscape paintings.

At the time, he was a salesman who could snatch your breath away and sell it back to you. As artist Mary Ann Carroll puts it, he could "sell a jacket to a mosquito in summer."

"A salesman is a con-man," Black readily admits himself today. He's a storyteller. And does he have stories to tell.

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Revolutionary Road Trip
2:13 am
Thu July 5, 2012

In Libya's Shifting Sands, Kids Try To Find Their Way

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Three students outside the Science College of Benghazi University. They say they expect to have opportunities in Libya that would not have been possible when Moammar Gadhafi was in power.
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Schoolgirls outside the Martyrs of Libya school near Leptis Magna, Libya. The country's history books are being rewritten, and Gadhafi's rule is now described as a time of corruption and atrocities.
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Schoolgirls at the newly renamed Independent School in Misrata. The city was badly damaged in the fighting last year, and many lost friends or family members.
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The vice principal at the Okba Bennafee high school, Abdel Mutaleb Suker, is a former rebel who says he started wearing military fatigues to command respect from the students, many of whom come from families loyal to Gadhafi.
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In a stretch of sandy wasteland, Hisham Sadowi, 12, smacks a tee shot across a makeshift golf course in Benghazi, Libya.

On this course with no grass, local rules allowed him to place the ball on a little square of artificial turf he carries around.

Hisham dreams of becoming a professional golfer, and he stops briefly to speak to us. We asked him who his favorite golfer is.

"Tiger Woods," he exclaims.

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Dead Stop
2:13 am
Thu July 5, 2012

Beyond The Music In St. Louis Cemetery No. 2

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Ernie K-Doe poses outside his Mother-In-Law Lounge during Jazz Fest in New Orleans in 2001. He died a few months later and was buried in St. Louis Cemetery No. 2.
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Antoinette K-Doe (second from the left) stands with friends around a statue of her deceased husband, Ernie, at the St. Louis No. 2 tomb. Antoinette is buried in the tomb, and her mother — Ernie K-Doe's second and favorite mother-in-law, Leola Clark — is shown in the portrait. Clark is buried in the tomb, too.
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Earl King on stage at the 1997 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. He died a few years after Ernie K-Doe, and now the two share a tomb.
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There's so much water in, around and underneath New Orleans, that the dead spend eternity in tombs above ground.

Most of the tombs now have a similar design: On top, there's space for a wooden coffin or two, and at the bottom lies a potpourri of decanted family remains. Sooner or later, whoever is up high must vacate and settle lower, making room for the newly dead. That's how families stay together — in a desiccated jumble of grandpas, grandmas, siblings and cousins.

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Around the Nation
6:23 am
Wed July 4, 2012

A Cheesy Twist On This Indpendence Day

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Around the Nation
6:17 am
Wed July 4, 2012

Woman Flees Accident Scene To Chill Her Ice Cream

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LINDA WERTHEIMER, HOST:

Good morning. I'm Linda Wertheimer. An Arkansas woman high-tailed it home after she rear-ended another car in Van Buren. It didn't take long for police to find her. When they did, they slapped her with a citation for following too closely and leaving the scene of an accident. Her excuse? She didn't think there was enough damage to call the cops and she was afraid her ice cream was melting. A bit of a messy alibi. It's MORNING EDITION. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.

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