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4:29 pm
Tue July 10, 2012

Vote For The Albums Everyone Can Love, For July 10

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Originally published on Wed October 17, 2012 10:06 am

We continue our search this week for the top ten records everyone can love with a look back at last week's poll results.

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The Salt
4:15 pm
Tue July 10, 2012

A Second Helping Of Pie Week: How Pumpkin Pie Turned My Life Around

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Pumpkin pie to the rescue?

Originally published on Tue July 10, 2012 8:57 pm

Yes, we know, Pie Week is officially over, and we already commemorated your contributions to it with our Storify post on Friday. But one more irresistible pie story came across the transom that we just had to share.

So without further ado, here's NPR listener Marie Metivier-DeMasters' story about how pie changed her life, which we received by email and edited a bit for length and clarity:

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Around the Nation
4:14 pm
Tue July 10, 2012

Homeless Rural Vets Find A Place To Call Home

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American Legion Post Cmdr. Mark Czmyr and his father, Navy veteran William Czmyr, originated the idea to create permanent apartments for homeless vets in Jewett City, Conn.

Originally published on Tue July 10, 2012 6:34 pm

This month, more than a dozen homeless veterans will finally have a place to call their own, thanks to the American Legion.

The organization's post in a small Connecticut town has been working for a decade on a unique project to create not transitional but permanent supportive housing in their rural community.

For 55-year-old Army veteran Jeff MacDonald, the new facility in Jewett City, Conn., was like "winning the lottery."

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NewsPoet: Writing The Day In Verse
4:13 pm
Tue July 10, 2012

NewsPoet: Paisley Rekdal Writes The Day In Verse

Originally published on Wed July 25, 2012 1:10 pm

Today at All Things Considered, we continue a project we're calling NewsPoet. Each month, we bring in a poet to spend time in the newsroom — and at the end of the day, to compose a poem reflecting on the day's stories.

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All Songs Considered
4:09 pm
Tue July 10, 2012

Dinosaur Jr. Returns, Metal From Baroness, Son Lux And More

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Clockwise from upper left: Dinosaur Jr., Victoria Bergsman of Taken By Trees, Baroness

Originally published on Wed July 11, 2012 8:57 am

On this week's All Songs Considered, listen to what happens when Robin takes a chance on an album based solely on its cover art, and when Bob brings on a surprise guest who makes our ears bleed.

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