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Soldiers around the world will stop what they're doing Thursday to take part in suicide prevention training. The "stand down" is part of the Army's response to an alarming suicide rate — on average, one a day.

Oncologist Siddhartha Mukherjee has written an article in Newsweek about what he calls America's current failure to treat and prevent cancer — and a failure to make funding cancer research a priority. Dr. Mukherjee tells David Greene there is a lag in designing cancer drugs as well as funding cancer research in the U.S.

In 2009, the city denied requests to paint crosswalks in the Pittsburgh neighborhood of Polish Hill. An unknown person has taken the law into his own hands and painted unofficial crosswalks. By coincidence, officials are also promising to install real crosswalks within a few weeks.

As soon as Italy clinched its win over England in the Euro 2020 soccer championship, racist comments started pouring in blaming three Black players for the loss.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports on the US military's plans to evacuate American citizens from Zaire if that country's civil war reaches the capital, Kinshasa. About a hundred and fifty American troops are in Brazzaville, the capital of neighboring Congo, just across the Zaire river from Kinshasa. Another two thousand are on the U-S-S Nassau, an ambphibious assault ship stationed off Zaire's coast. If an order to evacuate is given, the American forces are ready to move into Kinshasa with attack helicopters to evacuate the roughly five hundred U-S citizens there.

with a report on how the Internet can be helpful for families looking for private financial aid. More than a billion dollars a year in such aid is available from private organizations, and the World Wide Web is an excellent place to begin the search. [The web sites for the financial aid search services mentioned in the piece are >www.fastweb.com and www.finaid.com]

Linda talks with Calvin Sims, a reporter for the New York Times. They discuss reports that some of the Tupac Amaru rebels who were holding 72 hostages in the Japanese Ambassador's residence in Peru attempted to surrender, but were killed in the military raid that freed the hostages anyway. Families of these rebels have been forbidden to hold funers...and the bodies will be buried in unmarked graves.

Korva talks with Roger Bagnell of Columbia University, a scholar who has worked to reunite scattered fragments of papyrus in cyberspace...the results: ordinary people can get a window on the everyday lives of people in ancient times.

of the stock market. The market continues to soar, despite predictions of downturns. Experts disagree whether it could go even higher or is ready for a decline.

how our brains make sophisticated decisions before we are aware that we've made them.