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Commentator Ted Rose wasn't particularly reflective when -- a year ago this week -- he chucked his rent-controlled one-bedroom on New York City's Upper West Side to embrace a Spartan life at a Buddhist retreat center in the middle of the Colorado Rockies.

For those at risk of a stroke, the use of stents yields as good or better results in preventing an attack as surgically cleaning out the arteries, according to a new study. Doctors at 29 medical centers compared the two procedures. NPR's Joanne Silberner reports.

The film centers around a family struggling to cope after the robot they bought as a caregiver breaks down.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Victor Cha, the Center for Strategic and International Studies Senior Adviser, about the latest in North Korea.

Oliver Stone, known for sweeping films about contemporary America, from Wall Street to JFK to Nixon, tells a much tighter story in World Trade Center. He talks about working with a script based on conversations with the men involved in a gripping story of survival.

The center of Hurricane Gustav crashed ashore near Cocodrie, La., some 70 miles southwest of New Orleans, Monday morning. New Orleans was spared a direct hit from the 110-mile-an-hour winds.

Since the pandemic, more people work from home at least a few days a week. That has left many big city centers plagued with vacant office space.

It centers on the 1976 presidential race, the tightest primary ever and the sharp rise of the conservative wing of the Republican party.

Singer Mari Anne Jayme and trumpeters Marlon Winder and Matt White are among a group of promising young musicians invited to Betty Carter's Jazz Ahead program at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Started by the late jazz singer in 1993, the annual event offers workshops and coaching for emerging artists. NPR's Cheryl Corley reports.

Plans for a $165 million Clinton presidential center are helping spark a construction boom and downtown revitalization in Little Rock, Ark. They've also stirred old partisan sentiments, spurring one group to plan a "Counter Clinton" library. NPR's Greg Allen reports.