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  • Dead Can Dance is the name of a musical duo which has been creating rich, genre-defying music for more than a decade. Their seventh album has just been released, and they begin a tour of the United States this week. Charles de Ledesma (duh-leh-DEZ-ma) reviews "Spirit Chaser." Spirit Chaser is on the 4AD label. 800/232-7385 http://www.nets.com/dcd/ FUNDER 0:29 CUTAWAY 0:59 >Music =========================SECOND HOUR======================= BILLBOARD :59 NEWS 2:59 NEWS 1:59 THEME MUSIC 0:29 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 2A 9. KIDS, CRIME & CLINTON -- President Clinton announced a program today that will track the origins of guns confiscated from teenaged criminals. The 17-city effort will collect serial numbers and other information on the guns and feed that into a computer system run by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. The network should improve law enforcement's chances of finding out who is selling guns to juveniles. NPR's John Nielsen reports that the President has high hopes for the program, but some analysts don't see it making much of a dent in crime.
  • Water flooded downtown streets and some 18,000 residents experienced power outages as heavy rains, high winds and hail battered Omaha, Neb.
  • Starting Wednesday, a statewide mask mandate was back in effect, but vaccinated San Francisco residents will be allowed to go without face coverings inside gyms and workplaces.
  • Meet the multifaceted Ashley and LaVance Walker. They are graduate students, newlyweds and the owners of Walking Visions Photography Inc. in Bloomington and the minds behind the Selfie Express Museum.
  • Six people were killed and at least 15 others were injured in gun violence in Bloomington-Normal in 2021, according to police tallies and WGLT reporting.
  • John Bellezza has spent decades searching for evidence of lost civilizations high in the Tibetan Plateau. Once the plateau was wet and warm, and whole cities thrived in the plains.
  • As the big resident stages became major cultural institutions, some began to worry that the regional movement had lost its way. NPR's Bob Mondello talks to a new generation of theater professionals about where they’d like to see the movement head in the future.
  • John Ridley takes a trip to the home of the fabled Algonquin Roundtable to imbibe a gem of a drink: a $10,000 martini, complete with a diamond at the bottom. It's an extravagant cocktail suitable for big events like getting engaged, and just ordering one takes a bit of planning.
  • Hundreds of thousands of immigrants, activists and their supporters filled the streets of cities across the United States with shouts of "Si, se puede!" ("It can be done!") -- a phrase from the Chicano movement of the 1970s, now motivating a new generation.
  • An Armenian passenger plane crashes in stormy weather off Russia's Black Sea coast as it heads in for landing, killing all 113 people on board.
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