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  Binyamin Appelbaum of The New...

  PBS NewsHour

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  The Federal Reserve has cut interest rates for the second time in three months in a bid to keep the U.S. economy growing. What indicators are driving the recent rate reductions, and what is the larger influence of economists on U.S. fiscal and monetary policy? Judy Woodruff sits down with Binyamin Appelbaum of The New York Times, author of “The Economists’ Hour,” to discuss growth vs. inequality.

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  Orson Welles - The Ultimate...

  Orson Welles

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  If you are a lover of old-time radio and a fan of Orson Welles, you won't want to miss this treasure chest of legendary Orson Welles radio broadcasts! With his flair for the sensational and innovative, Welles captured audiences' attention with his 1930s CBS weekly drama series The Mercury Theatre on the Air, later renamed The Campbell Playhouse, which featured hour-long dramatizations of classic books. His 1938 production, The War of the Worlds (an H. G. Wells adaptation) was especially memorable, as were many other productions, each featuring talented voices and actors. 
  Tune into the master of entertainment and enjoy this collection of original Orson Welles recordings, including more than 125 hours of radio drama! Content:Campbell Playhouse—A Christmas Carol—December 23, 1938Campbell Playhouse—A Christmas Carol—December 24, 1939Campbell Playhouse—Ah, Wilderness—September 17, 1939Campbell Playhouse—Algiers—October 8, 1939Campbell Playhouse—Arrowsmith—February 3, 1939Campbell Playhouse—Beau Geste—March 17, 1939Campbell Playhouse—Counselor-at-Law—January 6, 1939Campbell Playhouse—Craig's Wife—March 10, 1940Campbell Playhouse—Dinner at Eight—February 18, 1940Campbell Playhouse—Dodsworth—November 26, 1939Campbell Playhouse—Escape—October 15, 1939Campbell Playhouse—Huckleberry Finn—March 17, 1940Campbell Playhouse—I Lost My Girlish Laughter—January 27, 1939Campbell Playhouse—It Happened One Night—January 28, 1940and many more!

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  A War-Crime Mystery Drives Scott...

  Scott Turow

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  Testimony, a new legal thriller by bestselling author and attorney Scott Turow, centers around a mass killing in Bosnia and subsequent war crimes trial at the International Criminal Court in the Hague. Turow joins Jeffrey Brown to discuss his inspiration and the research that went into his new work.

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  One-Act Play Collection 007

  Various Various

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  Librivox’s One-Act Play Collection 007 includes one-act plays in the public domain read by a variety of LibriVox members.

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  Kicksology - The Hype Science...

  Brian Metzler

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  Kicksology is your all-access pass into the fascinating, colorful world of running shoes — and what makes up a perfect pair of kicks.
   
  Sports journalist and veteran shoe tester Brian Metzler takes runners and kicksologists deep inside the $10 billion running shoe industry with a behind-the-curtain look at what makes iconic running shoe brands tick. Kicksology follows a shoe from inspiration to store shelf to show how innovative ideas evolve into industry-wide trends and fads. Metzler tours shoe labs where scientists advance our understanding of shoes and running mechanics as well as the domestic and overseas shoe factories where the world's favorite kicks are assembled.
   
  A dedicated shoe nerd and running junkie, Metzler shares his love of great shoes in this fascinating look at the intersections of shoe culture and history, science and storytelling, intel from the innovators with on-the-ground insight from top runners.
   
  Kicksology is filled with information as entertaining as it is surprising, tapping into the passion runners have for their kicks and feeding their curiosity about what makes a great shoe.

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  The History of the Caliph Vathek

  William Beckford

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  Vathek, ninth Caliph of the race of the Abassides, was the son of Motassem, and the grandson of Haroun Al Raschid. 
  From an early accession to the throne, and the talents he possessed to adorn it, his subjects were induced to expect that his reign would be long and happy. His figure was pleasing and majestic; but when he was angry one of his eyes became so terrible that no person could bear to behold it, and the wretch upon whom it was fixed instantly fell backward, and sometimes expired. For fear, however, of depopulating his dominions and making his palace desolate he but rarely gave way to his anger. Being much addicted to women and the pleasures of the table, he sought by his affability to procure agreeable companions; and he succeeded the better as his generosity was unbounded, and his indulgences unrestrained, for he was by no means scrupulous, nor did he think with the Caliph Omar Ben Abdalaziz that it was necessary to make a hell of this world to enjoy Paradise in the next. He surpassed in magnificence all his predecessors. 
  The palace of Alkoremmi, which his father Motassem had erected on the hill of Pied Horses, and which commanded the whole city of Samarah, was in his idea far too scanty; he added therefore five wings, or rather other palaces, which he destined for the particular gratification of each of his senses. In the first of these were tables continually covered with the most exquisite dainties, which were supplied both by night and by day, according to their constant consumption, whilst the most delicious wines and the choicest cordials flowed forth from a hundred fountains that were never exhausted. This palace was called “The Eternal or Unsatiating Banquet”.

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