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Kim Ruocco regularly relives her darkest days – her husband’s suicide and the downward spiral that led to it – to save other military families from the same heartbreak.

Solo rappers might be the norm, but one Los Angeles management company is hitting with a group.

The Vegetarian Life

It is National Day of Reconciliation in South Africa, a public holiday created in 1994 after the end of apartheid to promote racial harmony and heal past divisions. But 16 years after the official end of apartheid, a new survey shows that there is still deep distrust between blacks and whites. Host Michel Martin discusses reconciliation and race relations in South Africa with Ferial Haffajee, editor of the weekly City Press newspaper and Jan Hofmeyr, who's with the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation.

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Groups Claim Plan Would Increase Pollution, Urban Sprawl

With intense emotions in her voice, the great singer of fado music became the heart and soul of the Portuguese people.

The Norwegian author does his best to show NPR's Eric Westervelt that Oslo really does have a seedy side. In his fiction, at least, Nesbo's city is full of shady characters who draw the attention of the reckless, alcoholic detective Harry Hole.

On opposite sides of the Mekong River, Laos and Thailand also found themselves in different camps after the communist takeover of Laos in 1975. Legacies of that era still affect the countries today in Southeast Asia's "Golden Triangle," as Thailand thrives and Laos struggles to catch up.

Louisiana state Rep. Noble Ellington is the national chairman of ALEC, a membership-only group that brings together state legislators, interest groups and corporate representatives to draft model bills. He responds to a series of pieces about the organization recently published in The Nation.