Bombers set off explosions at two luxury hotels in Jakarta, Indonesia, killing at least 8;  Richard Lugar of Indiand becomes the first Republican Senator to pledge support for Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor; and 59-year-old golfer Tom Watson is tied for the lead at the British Open.  Other top stories on today’s PM programs include:

Marketplace: Argentina–South America’s “bread basket”–may soon be forced to import beef and wheat for the first time.  The official reason: a severe drought.  But farmers blame government policies.  Ian Mount has the story.

The World: Laura Lynch speaks with Jonathan Powell about delivering bad news to powerful people.  As chief of staff for Tony Blair, had the thankless task of waking the Prime Minister up when there was something important that just could not wait until morning.

All Things Considered: Kurds in the north of Iraq have been operating with a high degree of autonomy since the start of the Iraq War.  But now, the Kurdistan region’s president says relations with the Iraqi government are deteriorating.  Quill Lawrence reports.

Author Frank McCourt is gravely ill with meningitis and is unlikely to survive, his brother said Thursday.

Malachy McCourt said his 78-year-old brother is in a New York hospice, “his faculties shutting down.”

“He is not expected to live,” said McCourt, himself an author and performer.

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Adrienne Arsenault of CBC News went into Swat with a crew earlier this year, despite warnings from Pakistan and the Taliban that it was too dangerous. And her two in-depth reports provide a disturbing view of a territory some now call a “prison” under the rule of Sharia law.

We missed these reports when they first aired on CBC’s flagship news program, The National, but we saw them Wednesday night when they aired again. They’re highly recommended.

CBC doesn’t offer embeds, so click on the links below to watch video.

• The Price of Peace
• The March Toward Militancy

Arsenault’s text story is here.

Diane Rehm: Weekly News Roundup.

On Point: News roundtable. Hour 2: The world of infomercials.

Fresh Air: Listening back to an interview with Sacha Baron Cohen.

Talk of the Nation Science Friday: Apollo astronauts remember the Moon landing. Hour 2: Test your energy-savings IQ and cool science trivia.

Tell Me More: A Washington DC school official has closed failing schools and fired non-effective teachers. But has it improved the students’ education?

The Story: Andrea Richardson Stowers always wondered how her father died during the Cold War. When a mysterious piece of paper slipped out from behind a photo, it became her first clue.

To the Point: This week’s Senate confirmation hearings were supposed to uncover the real Sonia Sotomayor. Have they revealed more about the Republicans?

The prime ministers of India and Pakistan begin peace talks; day 4 of confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor; and Family Guy becomes first animated series to garner an Emmy nomination for best comedy since 1961 (The Flintstones). Other top stories on today’s PM programs include:

Marketplace: UPS and FedEx are battling.  But not just over business.  UPS is pushing for FedEx employees to get the right to organize.  FedEx is resisting.  Dan Grech reports.

The World: As a result of the economic crisis, there are some great bargains to be had for those who have a little money.  And some of the best finds–at least as far as antiques are concerned–are in Istanbul.  Aaron Schacter goes bargain hunting.  Field reporter Laura Lynch hosts today.

All Things Considered: California and General Motors have more in common these days than a state and an auto manufacturer have any right to.  And their shared traits are not exactly in the “positive attributes” column.  For one, they both are on the hook to pay out a lot in pensions to former employees.  KQED’s Rob Schmitz explains.

Well, we have this page over there, you see, and up until recently, it was mainly a translator station for this blog, dumbly repeating everything we published.

But now, we’re curating a slightly different flavor of public media content on our Facebook page. There’s all the stuff you find here, and we’re sharing other things we find throughout the day.

Here’s the thing: Graham and I are busy people, and while we only have a small amount of time to compose posts each day, we’re actually discovering a lot more public media content that we want to share. So what we’re doing on Facebook is simply hitting the share button for good stuff when we don’t have time to write a post about it.

Should we put that stuff here, too? That’s a good question. This is kind of a wonky issue, but what we find is that Wordpress (the blogging software we use) is designed for an older kind of blogging that involves writing text, assembling photos and links, laying everything out, hitting the publish button.

The new kind of blogging is what you do on Facebook when you share something you like: you enter the URL, Facebook grabs the content for you and you can publish it instantly, with or without comment. Posterous does something like this, too. There’s a place for both kinds of blogging. The problem is when the mechanics get in the way of sharing.

Well enough shoptalk. The bottom line is this: we have TONS of excellent public media content to share, and while there all kinds of factors that prevent us from sharing more of it, Facebook’s easy platform takes care of one factor, and the result: you’ll find even more public media content on our Facebook page.

Over and out, Mediavores.

It’s a great story with a sad ending, and yet, maybe it’s not quite the end. After three years of searching for tapes of the original footage of the Apollo 11 moonwalk, NASA video specialists say the tapes were probably destroyed.

Unbelievable, yet true, apparently. As they explain in Nell Greenfieldboyce’s report, NASA had launched satellites that were spitting out so much data, that NASA faced a shortage of tapes on which to store it.

And so, NASA withdrew about 40,000 boxes of tapes from the archives. And erased them. And that’s probably what happened to the original tapes of one of the most important moments in the history of humankind.

Now some good news: technicians took the existing footage from film libraries around the world, and cleaned it up. And today, NASA is releasing it. It looks good.

Listen to the story and watch the video.

Diane Rehm: Sotomayer confirmation hearings. Hour 2: The rise and fall of rational market theory.

On Point: California was the Golden West. Now, says The Economist magazine, it’s Texas on top. What does that mean for the country? Hour 2: It’s Moon versus Mars for the next big push in space.

Fresh Air: The politics of health care reform. We’ll hear from Jonathan Cohn, he writes about health care in The New Republic and on his blog, “The Treatment.” He’s also the author of Sick.

Talk of the Nation: Why a Latina for the Supreme Court? Hour 2: Chris Steiner on why gas is too inexpensive.

Tell Me More: Pulitzer-prize winning author Elizabeth Strout talks abouts her struggle with memoir writing.

The Story: Most of us are thinking about how to save a penny these days. Dick Gordon speaks to one woman who has gone from being a spendthrift to a thrift store junkie.

To the Point: Goldman Sachs has posed big earnings again and it’s paying big bonuses – only a month after re-paying American taxpayers billions of dollars. Is it cause for public relief or public outrage?

The Senate Health Committee votes along party lines to approve the Democrats’ health care reform bill; day 3 of confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor; and an Iranian airline crashes, killing all 168 passengers and crew.  Other top stories on today’s PM programs include:

Marketplace: 7-Eleven’s land grab.  The convenience store chain is one business that is using the recession, and the corresponding low real-estate prices, to expand.  Dan Grech has the story.

The World: Some Israeli soldiers who were part of a January invasion of the Gaza Strip have are going public with claims that their commanders ordered them to use excessive force and showed little concern for the safety of civilians.  Matthew Bell reports.

All Things Considered: Folloing Nina Totenberg’s daily report on the Sotomayor hearings, Diantha Parker delivers an audio postcard from the Puerto Rican community of the Supreme Court nominee’s home borough, the Bronx.

Listen to NPR’s audio highlights of the opening day confirmation hearings for Alito here, and for Roberts here.

This week’s show is an interesting conversation that considers an aspect of the Honduras coup we’ve not heard much about: the explosion of independent media – blogs, twitter, non-state controlled news services – and their impact on traditional, often state-run media in Honduras and Latin America.

Check it out.

Diane Rehm: Falling milk prices. Hour 2: An evolutionary history of God.

On Point: Sotomayor confirmation hearings. Hour 2: Crystal meth and how one Iowa town decided to fight back.

Fresh Air: Michael Ian Black and Michael Showalter, the creators and stars of the new Comedy Central series Michael and Michael Have Issues.

Talk of the Nation: Political Junkie: the woes of Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons. Hour 2: Sotomayor confirmation hearings.

Tell Me More: Fantasia talks about her new career in theater.

The Story: James Morrow comes from a troubled home. His mother has a mental illness, he s dropped out of high school, and rather than stay with a foster family, he’s taking care of himself.

To the Point: Is Somalia exporting jihad?

Republican Senators press Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor on comments she has made about the “advantages” of being a Latina woman; Bernie Madoff enters federal prison in North Carolina; and Former Liberian President Charles Taylor goes on trial at The Hague for war crimes.  Other top stories on today’s PM programs include:

Marketplace: Goldman Sachs earnings rose 33% over the second quarter of 2009.  Company spokespeople say the profits are the result of trading activity.  Bob Moon looks at some other factors that had a lot to do with the turnaround.

The World: Veteran foreign correspondent Charlie Sennott kicks off a series on the growing influence of the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

All Things Considered: The Chinese government’s official line on last week’s violence between Uighur and Han ethnic groups is that it was simply “terrorism.”  But, as Anthony Kuhn reports, the outbreaks have sparked debate over autonomous regions, multiculturalism, and affirmative action in China.

But did you know that there’s a blog and podcast that’s active all the time, publishing all sorts of original audio and video? Yes, it’s true, and it’s where we found this stimulating conversation about biological evolution between Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion and Radiolab co-host Robert Krulwich.

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A few years ago, we were eating at a rather chic restaurant in Chicago, and the server brought to our table a plate that wasn’t listed on the tasting menu. It was foie gras, which is hardly an unusual dish for a restaurant. But the server, with a smile, made a point of telling us that the item, which he didn’t identify, was “compliments of the house.”

For awhile, selling foie gras on a restaurant menu was illegal in Chicago. That’s no longer the case. But the debate about foie gras, and the practice of overfeeding geese or ducks to produce an enlarged liver, is far from over.

Chicago Tribune reporter Mark Caro has written The Foie Gras Wars, about the battle over the delicacy in Chicago, and the wider debate about the treatment of animals.

He’s Steve Scher’s guest on KUOW’s Weekday, and Chef John Sundstrom of Lark in Seattle, will join the discussion.

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Did you know this? We didn’t. We also didn’t know that demand for peppermint oil is up and farmers in the Northwest are earning up to $30 a pound for mint oil.

As the first cutting is finished, check out this mini-report from Northwest News Network. (produced by Anna King at Northwest Public Radio)

Diane Rehm: The Bush Administration’s national security policies. Hour 2: Why 1959 was a pivotal year in American history.

On Point: US policy on gays in the military. Hour 2: Skin-obsessed culture.

Fresh Air: Roger Cohen, of the New York Times, stayed in Tehran to cover the protests. He’ll talk about witnessing the protests and attacks against demonstrators.

Talk of the Nation: Moving past partisanship. Hour 2: Special coverage of Sotomayor confirmation hearings.

Tell Me More: Smart advice for protecting your kids.

The Story: Dianne Reinhardt dealt with the stresses of nursing by doing impulsive things; that’s how she ended up building an artisan bread oven before she even knew much about baking. Now she’s a successful baker, thriving despite the bad economy.

To the Point: Can Beijing maintain its central control?

The Senate Judiciary begins a week of debate over Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor; President Obama names a new Surgeon General; and China agrees to sanctions against North Korea.    Other highlights on today’s PM programs include:

Marketplace: Wal-Mart has angered competing retailers.  Not by undercutting prices, but by coming out in support of some of the Obama Administration’s health care reform proposals.  And the National Retail Federation is pushing back.

The World: Jeb Sharp guest hosts today.  She’ll speak with the BBC’s Martin Patience about increased troop levels for American forces in Afghanistan, and what appears to be a corresponding increase in casualties among US and international forces there.

All Things Considered: Madeleine Brand co-hosts with Robert Siegel.  Given Brand’s experience with Day-to-Day at NPR West, she is well positioned for today’s stories on California’s political and economic struggles.  After Ina Jaffe delivers a report on some of the challenges of governing the nation’s largest state, Brand speaks with an economist about how California’s budget crisis might affect other states.

The special irony of the Central Valley is that it produces the fruits and vegetables that most of the rest of eat. It’s all shipped away.

But The Kitchen Sisters highlight a few efforts to change this. In their piece “Breadbasket Blues” (it aired on Morning Edition last Friday), they look at a program that offers free fruits and vegetables to local residents, as well as another that “plants” farm stands in places like school campuses and encourages new farmer’s markets. Part of this story is also about wiser use of public spaces – not just for community gardens, which is a great idea – but also as spaces for relaxation and exercise.

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First, is Nina Totenberg’s piece from Morning Edition, which provides a view of how Republicans will approach the proceedings. Totenberg reports that polls show growing negative sentiment toward Sotomayor among voters, but she says the GOP likely can’t prevent her confirmation, and with large numbers of Latinos now identifying themselves as Democrats, perhaps they don’t want to. Listen

PRI/WNYC’s The Takeaway looks to Dahlia Lithwick, the legal correspondent for Slate, for a preview of the week ahead. Listen You can also check out this preview with its Washington correspondent Todd Zwillich. Listen

The Newshour with Jim Lehrer offers this preview of the hearings.

NPR will offer stations live coverage of the hearings from beginning to end. We don’t expect a large number of stations to offer this option, but you can access it easily online.

NPR is also offering evening summaries of the day’s events, with Linda Wertheimer and Nina Totenberg. These air live at 7pm ET/4pm PT, although some stations may delay the shows, particularly in the West.

And on Tuesday and Wednesday, Neal Conan will host what NPR calls Special Coverage of the hearings at 3pm ET/12pm PT. This is part of the Talk of the Nation block, but some stations that don’t normally carry the show may choose to take the special coverage.

And, of course, this is in addition to the coverage on Morning Edition and All Things Considered.

What about TV? The Newshour is providing live coverage, with Judy Woodruff anchoring, to PBS stations, and in this multichannel world, we expect many stations will offer it. You can also watch the stream at The Newshour, which is one of the best public media news sites, if you haven’t checked it out lately.

Diane Rehm: The future of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. Hour 2: The American solar power industry.

On Point: The hardest hit victims of job loss. Hour 2: “Icky” creatures with gardener-journalist Constance Casey.

Fresh Air: The nature of whales: marine mammal behaviorist Toni Frohoff and writer Charles Siebert.

Talk of the Nation: Are patients partly to blame for health care problems? Hour 2: How former longtime prisoners adjust to their new lives outside of jail.

Tell Me More: The scope and impact of sexual abuse against boys.

The Story: Christie Todd Whitman and Donna Shalala share advice for Justice Sotomayor. Both women were also nominees for big Washington jobs.

To the Point: The life of Judge Sonia Sotomayor is a story of rags-to-robes. Does that qualify her for the US Supreme Court?

We’ve highlighted WNYC’s Radio Rookies project before, but if you want more of a taste of the stories young people have been telling over ten years, then listen to this hour long special today.

Radio Rookies founder Marianne McCune hosts a collection of thoughtful, intimate stories. How do you tell your dad he needs to stop using heroin? What do you do when your classmates tease you? Is revenge ever right? Big questions, and some thoughtful answers from young radio journalists in the Radio Rookies series.

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MPR News’ Dan Gunderson visited the small building (does it look like a nuclear facility?), took the elevator 60 feet underground into a bunker housing the former launch control center, and talked to some of the former missileers who now serve as tour guides.

The Oscar Zero facility is located near Cooperstown, ND.

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MPR News also features a multimedia tour. (photo credit: Dan Gunderson/MPR)

This conversation is excellent from beginning to end, but one of the best parts is the discussion of the debt in the first approximately 10 minutes of the show.

Recommended.

Diane Rehm: The weekly news roundup.

On Point: The week in the news. Hour 2: Recession-friendly summer trips.

Fresh Air: Drew Barrymore. The HBO film, Gray Gardens, which she starred in, comes out on DVD next week.

Talk of the Nation Science Friday: Now, there’s a pig version of the Ebola Virus. Scientists say the the virus could mutate and become dangerous. Hour 2: How foods alter your mind and how food companies are cashing in.

Tell Me More: What’s ahead for the careers of Michelle Obama, Sonia Sotomayor and Sarah Palin?

The Story: Dick Gordon talks to Olivia Helmig, a young woman who joined a door-to-door magazine sales crew.

To the Point: What do Africans think of the first American president with roots in their continent?

After 11 days of relative quiet–albeit a tense quiet–demonstrators hit the streets in Tehran today.  And the Iranian police and Basij militia responded with tear gas and batons, according to witnesses.  ATC and The World cover the story this afternoon.  Other highlights include:

Marketplace: With unemployment now above 9.5%, some economists fear that the joblessness is stalling economic recovery.  Commentator and blogger (check out his contributions to the Freakonomics blog) Justin Wolfers argues that it is time to consider another stimulus package.

The World: Expanding human development around Kenya’s national parks may be pushing protected animals out.  Jon Miller visits the Masai Mara reserve to observe efforts to protect wildlife there.

All Things Considered: House Speaker Nacy Pelosi sits down with Melissa Block to discuss waterboarding, , and health care reform.

Gloria Steinem has been appearing on some talk shows in recent weeks, and today she’s on KUOW’s Weekday with Steve Scher.

The show offers a great pairing with Amy Richards, one of the up-and-coming leaders in the feminist movement. Steinem and Richards are speaking together tonight at a fundraiser in the Seattle, and today, as they sit at the interview table, we expect a smart conversation that spans the history of feminism, as well as it future.

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New York Times reporter Charlie Savage has written Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency. It’s about the long struggle between the executive and legislative branches of government, with a particular focus on the Bush administration and the efforts of former Vice President Dick Cheney and others to strengthen the power of the President.

WNYC’s Leonard Lopate talks to Savage about presidential power, the Bush record, and whether the Obama administration is committed to rolling back those powers.

We watched this interview back in 2003, and were reminded of it when Rose aired his appreciation of McNamara last Friday night.

That show “isn’t working” at the moment – we’re having trouble getting it to feed properly as we write this. Here’s the link. But here’s the 2003 interview for your viewing pleasure.

Diane Rehm: Ethnic violence in China. Hour 2: Inside a National Guard unit.

On Point: Can America afford to spend more on stimulus? Hour 2: iRobot CEO Colin Angle on the business and science of robotics.

Fresh Air: Joseph O’Neil, author of the novel Netherland.

Talk of the Nation: Private healthcare insurance. Hour 2: Discount culture.

Tell Me More: The big business of skin lightening.

The Story: Jim Sadwith was a teenager when he wrote a play based on the book The Catcher in the Rye. The story of how Jim found and met the book’s reclusive author, JD Salinger.

To the Point: Is another stimulus needed?

Leaders of the G-8 nations have pledged to keep temperatures from rising more than 3.6 degrees above average pre-industrial levels.  This after rejecting a plan to reduce by half production of greenhouse gases over the next 40 years.  That’s one of the main stories across PM programs today.  Other highlights include:

The World: Jessica Golloher follows up on her story from last week in which she reported on Russians’ relative ambivalence toward President Obama.  Today, a day after Obama’s departure from Moscow, Golloher examines Russian TV’s coverage of the visit, and whether the US president’s popularity has increased.

All Things Considered: ATC leads with back-to-back segments on health care reform.  Julie Rovner looks at how the deals the Obama Administration has cut with hospitals and the drug industry might affect consumers.  That report is followed by a profile of a middle income woman who has joined the ranks of the uninsured.

Marketplace: Credit card default rates are skyrocketing as the recession continues.  Stacy Vanek-Smith reports on new measures banks are taking to determine “credit worthiness” of potential cardholders.

But the danger is greater than that. There’s a toxic legacy from years of mining, and pollution seeps into the environment.

The original mine owners went out of business a long time ago, and the Environmental Protection Agency has been trying to create incentives to get the new owners to clean them up. Now, the EPA is offering “brownfield” grants to mine owners for the first time, and once the owners have cleaned up the mines, they’re shielded from future litigation.

Northwest News Network’s Tom Banse visited a couple mines for his report. Listen

The cause is a collapse in the price of milk, and it’s tearing farms apart.

Sasha Khokha reports.

The BBC’s Harriet Gilbert went to Trafalgar Square for The Strand to talk to sculptor Anthony Gormley and others participating. Listen (begins 7 minutes into Tuesday’s program.)

The BBC produced this (non-embeddable) video about the project as Gormley was preparing it. Watch

First, The Takeaway looks at Chinese President Hu Jintao’s decision to leave the summit and return to China because of unrest in Xinjiang province. Ted Plafker, a correspondent with The Economist, and Yuwen Wu, the editor of the BBC’s Mandarin service provide perspective. Listen

On Morning Edition,  Sylvia Poggioli reports from the earthquake devastated city of L’Aquila, where the summit will take place. World leaders will be staying in spartan surroundings, since people left homeless by the quake have filled the hotels. Those left homeless aren’t too happy about the summit taking place there. Rather than drawing attention to their plight, they think it will divert money from reconstruction. And there are still tremors. Listen

photo credit: Sylvia Poggioli/NPR News

Diane Rehm: Food safety. Hour 2: Global oil prices and demand.

On Point: The coup in Honduras and ousted President Manuel Zelaya. Hour 2: American Nuns.

Fresh Air: Wired magazine Editor in Chief Chris Anderson tells us how business can profit by giving it all away. His new book is called Free.

Talk of the Nation: The Political Junkie. Hour 2: Roger Cohen on reporting in Iran.

Tell Me More: Remembering Michael Jackson.

The Story: A group of women weren’t finding what they needed through traditional unemployment support groups, so they started their own group for women who still need a job.

To the Point: Amid a global economic crisis and unfulfilled promises, is the G8 still relevant?

As most of the US news media is leading with coverage of the Michael Jackson funeral in Los Angeles, All Things Considered and The World turn to the ongoing violence between Muslim Uighers and Han Chinese in Western China.  As the BBC reports, protests in China are not uncommon, but the protests in Xinjiang are more serious and violent than usual.  Other top stories on today’s PM programs include:

The World: During the protests and following government crackdown of the last couple of weeks in Iran, many Iranians shared news of the events with the outside world through the Internet and social media tools such as Twitter.  Cyrus Farivar reports on tech activists around the globe have been working to help Iranians bypass government censors.

All Things Considered: Some states are looking to smokers to heal their budget ailments.  Debbie Elliott reports on states’ use of higher tobacco taxes to raise revenue.

Marketplace: Kai Ryssdal speaks with Google CEO Eric Schmidt as part of Marketplace’s “Conversations from the Corner Office” series.  The interview comes the same day as Google moves its popular e-mail program–GMail–out of Beta mode (after five years of “testing”).

KCRW will have live coverage beginning at 1pm ET/10am PT. Talk of the Nation will devote much of its second hour to coverage, too, at 3pm ET/12pm PT, on many NPR News stations.

California politics is complicated, as is politics in most states, but Myers does a good job of laying out the forces that are behind the impasse.

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MPR has followed this story week after week, and reporter Mark Zdechlik guides us through the twists and turns, from the campaign through election night and the months of recounts and legal maneuvering that followed.

Highly recommended. Listen

Diane Rehm: Democratic Congressman Henry Waxman on how Congress works. Hour 2: Learning to get along with in-laws.

On Point: President Obama, in Russia, talking nukes and geopolitics. Hour 2: Writer Reihan Salam on the “death of macho.”

Fresh Air: The state of the state of Alaska, now that Governor Palin is stepping down. We’ll talk to Michael Carey, former editorial page editor and current columnist for the Anchorage Daily News.

Talk of the Nation: Explore human navigational power. Hour 2: Michael Jackson’s memorial.

Tell Me More: Vibe Magazine is closing down. Could the recession kill the future of ethnic media?

The Story: Dick Gordon speaks with a man who has had just about the toughest summer job there is: a firejumper.

To the Point: Can the Obama administration still find an opening for diplomatic engagement for Iran?

President Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev agreed today to cut nuclear warhead arsenals by about a third; a federal bankruptcy judge approved General Motors’ reorganization plan–much to the chagrin of car dealers around the country; and the Chinese news agency reports 156 have been killed in riots and ethnic clashes that started yesterday in the western province of Xinjiang.  Other top stories on today’s PM programs include:

All Things Considered: Todd Mundt posted earlier about filmmaker Errol Morris’s award winning film, Fog of War, which was based on hours of interviews with former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara (who passed away earlier today).  This afternoon Morris speaks with Robert Siegel.

The World: President Obama’s popularity around the globe has been well documented–but Russians may not be as fond of the American president.  Jessical Golloher reports onthe Russian reluctance to embrace Obama.

Marketplace: 8,000 New Yorkers think they need a hug.  That is, Indian spiritual leader Amma is expecting at least that many to show up for the next stop on her North America hugging tour.  April Dembosky has the story.

So, ten years later, New Hampshire Public Radio’s Word of Mouth contacted one of the Cluetrain authors, David Weinberger, who says they got a lot of things right, but made a few mistakes, too, as they thought about the web and its potential.

Listen to his interview with Abby Goldstein.

Listen live at 1pm ET/10am PT

KUOW doesn’t believe in blogs. But that’s alright; we still believe in KUOW.

Weekday looks back over the first eight years of this century, from 9/11 to Afghanistan, Iraq, Katrina, and now, President Obama.

KUOW’s documentary “Mission Accomplished” features a number of interviews from KUOW’s archives. We’ve not heard it, but it looks promising and we recommend it.

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We expect you may hear some of this on Fresh Air, but here it is, complete, from 2004. It’s exceptional, and highly recommended.

(Terry Gross interviewed Robert McNamara in 1995, but as far as we can tell, this predates the NPR digital archives.)

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