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Yesterday marked the end of the week-long international AIDS conference in Durban, South Africa. Many called the event historical. NPR's Joe Neel reports.

NPR's Michele Kelemen reports on how Vladimir Putin's actions as president have stoked the flames of an age old rivalry between St. Petersburg and Moscow.

Scott Simon talks to Thomas Katroscik commissoner of the Stoop Ball league about the stoop ball championships held on a farm in Wisconsin.

Scott reads letters from listeners.

Scott on Mojo magazine's poll, which selected the Beatles' "In My Life" as the greatest pop song of the century.

Commentator David Ewing Duncan reflects on his attendance at the thirteenth International AIDS Conference.

NPR's David Welna reports on the 20th anniversary of the Mariel Boatlift, the massive wave of immigration from Cuba to Florida in 1980. Over a five-month period, 125-thousand Cuban refugees left Cuba from the port of Mariel, and traveled to the United States in small boats. Processing the huge influx overwhelmed the Immigration and Naturalization Service. The INS task was even harder because the refugees included convicted criminals who had been released from prison and mental patients freed from institutions.

NPR's Melissa Block reports on French chef Alain Ducasse and his new restaurant, where every detail counts. Ducasse is the only chef to earn a three-star rating at two different establishments, so New York gourmets have been eagerly awaiting the opening of Alain Ducasse at the Essex House. It's the city's most expensive restaurant where one meal averages about one hundred and sixty dollars. And it limits its number of customers with just two lunches per week, dinner Monday through Friday, and just one seating per meal.

Nearly 30% of coronavirus cases in McLean County in the last week involved children ages 17 and under.

In part two of our look at juvenile facilities in South Dakota, NPR's Madeleine Brand reports that after the death of 14 year old Gina Score, others came forward with charges of abuse. These allegations are the basis for half a dozen lawsuits and 2 federal investigations.