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4:05 am
Thu June 14, 2012

A Minor Leaguer's Life: Bats, Games And A Nickname

Originally published on Thu June 14, 2012 10:51 am

Tyler Saladino plays baseball in the minor leagues in Birmingham, Ala. A prospect in the Chicago White Sox system, he was sent to the AA Birmingham Barons after spending part of spring training with the major league club.

And when he arrived in Alabama, Saladino's first task was to find a place to live, as he tells Morning Edition's David Greene. He settled on sharing an apartment.

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Music Interviews
4:04 am
Thu June 14, 2012

Ice-T Gives A Hip-Hop History Lesson In 'The Art Of Rap'

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Ice-T (left) with Chuck D in a still from his documentary From Something to Nothing: The Art of Rap.

Originally published on Thu June 14, 2012 2:18 pm

Ice-T, the rapper and actor, wants people to think about the craft of making rap music. He has directed and starred in a documentary called Something From Nothing: The Art of Rap that takes viewers from Harlem into the South Bronx, to Detroit and South Central Los Angeles. In the film, Ice-T talks to musicians like Doug E.

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Revolutionary Road Trip
4:04 am
Thu June 14, 2012

Divided Politics, Creaky Economy Put Egypt On Edge

Originally published on Fri June 15, 2012 10:06 am

NPR Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep is nearing the end of his Revolutionary Road Trip, a journey of some 2,500 miles across North Africa to see how the countries that staged revolutions last year are remaking themselves. Steve and his team have traveled from Tunisia's ancient city of Carthage across the deserts of Libya and have now reached the third and final country, Egypt.

On the road eastward from the Libyan border, the Egyptian desert became a blur. Then we started to run low on fuel.

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American Dreams: Then And Now
4:00 am
Thu June 14, 2012

Immigration Law Slows A Family's March Forward

Originally published on Thu June 14, 2012 9:33 am

Immigrant success stories are closely woven into the concept of the American dream. In South Carolina, two generations of an immigrant family have worked hard to live out their dreams, but anti-illegal immigration laws have put even legal immigrants like them on edge.

Working Upon Arrival

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Media
4:00 am
Thu June 14, 2012

'A Morning Ritual': New Orleans Fights For Its Paper

Originally published on Thu June 14, 2012 6:07 am

What happens when a media company wants to take away your daily newspaper? In New Orleans, you take to the streets.

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