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The airways, newspapers, magazines are all filled with ads telling you to spend money, despite the hurting economy. Marc Fleishhacker of the ad firm Oglvy & Mather talks with host Jacki Lyden about how companies are trying to get consumers to open their wallets.

Prosecutors in Georgia recently charged four members of a group called the Final Exit Network with assisting in suicides. Investigators say they could be involved in as many as 300 deaths. The group's president, Jerry Dincin, who was not charged, says the group isn't doing anything wrong.

In an NPR interview, the Dalai Lama renewed his call for "meaningful" autonomy for Tibet within China and said China, "whether intentionally or unintentionally," is carrying out "cultural genocide" in Tibet.

Hollywood actor Richard Widmark, who often portrayed killers, cops and Western gunslingers, died after a long illness. He was 93. Widmark made his film debut in 1947 as a giggling killer in "Kiss of Death." David Thompson, author of the Biographical Dictionary of Film, discusses Widmark's career in film.

The Buchinger Clinic in southern Germany is famous for promoting fasting as a cure-all. There is little hard science to back up the program, but that doesn't lessen its appeal to guests from around the globe. About two-thirds are repeat customers.

A heat wave that's expected to peak this weekend kicked off with record high temperatures and put one-third of Americans under heat alerts.

Fifteen cities in Italy, most of them in the country's center and south, were under heat advisories. Czech temperatures soared to a new record high. European countries father north also sweltered.

President Obama will tour several Western locales this weekend, including the western slope city of Grand Junction, Colo. The city is the site of an innovative program for controlling health care costs that the president wants to highlight.

Firefighters in Phoenix have been scrambling to help people suffering from relentless heat. The city broke a national record Tuesday with 19 consecutive days of temperatures of at least 110 degrees.

Ragamala Dance Company is the life work of Ranee Ramaswamy — and now her adult daughters, Aparna and Ashwini. Creative work can be lonely, Aparna says, and having "built-in companions" is a gift.