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Today, Susan Stamberg is a special correspondent for NPR.

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The Inauspicious Start To Susan Stamberg's Broadcasting Career

9:53pm July 25, 2015

by Daniel Hajek

Susan Stamberg is an NPR "founding mother" and the first woman to anchor a national nightly news program. But her radio debut was not so glamorous: a fake weather report on a local radio station.

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Jim Gaffigan spent years in stand-up before, finally, someone took a chance on him: that someone just happened to be David Letterman. "The weird thing is, because Letterman thought I was good, everyone changed their mind," he says. "It changed the narrati

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From Adman To Stand-Up: Jim Gaffigan's Transition Took A Few Good Naps

9:52pm July 25, 2015

by Daniel Hajek

The comedian once worked in advertising — until he got caught dozing on the job. So, he took his savings and stepped on stage. Still, it was years before he hit his big break: a gig on the Late Show.

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Roger Moore and Jane Seymour in Live And Let Die.

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From Bond Girl To Medicine Woman: Jane Seymour's Big Break

9:51pm July 25, 2015

by Daniel Hajek

The actress is best known for her role as Dr. Quinn, the physician on the American frontier. But her big break came years before, when she played 007's tarot-reading love interest in Live and Let Die.

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Skyler Gisondo (from left), Steele Stebbins, Christina Applegate and Ed Helms are the new Griswold family — en route to Walley World — in the 2015 follow-up to the 1983 movie Vacation.

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Back To Walley World: The Griswolds Go On 'Vacation' Again

5:28pm July 25, 2015

by NPR Staff

The movie's co-director says the goal wasn't to remake the National Lampoon film, but rather "to bring it to the next generation." Rusty, the son from the '80s classic, is now in the driver's seat.

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Parsons School of Design graduate Lucy Jones created Seated Design, a collection of clothing for people who use wheelchairs. The clothes include extra fabric at the elbows for greater mobility.

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From Canes To Closures, Designing With Style For People With Disabilities

1:51pm July 25, 2015

by Jacki Lyden

Almost 60 million Americans have a permanent disability, but the fashion industry hasn't tapped into that market. Activists and designers are trying to change that, a signature and a stitch at a time.

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Not My Job: Surgeon General Vivek Murthy Gets Quizzed On 'General Hospital'

11:29am July 25, 2015

Sure, he knows hospitals, but does he know General Hospital? We ask Murthy three questions about the long-running soap opera which treated 5,000 percent more amnesia cases than the national average.

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Lea and Bandy met in 1976 at a high school dance. "He was the boy from out of town," Lea writes. "I was the girl who wanted out."

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In 'Wondering Who You Are,' A Man Wakes Up And Doesn't Know His Wife

10:55am July 25, 2015

by NPR Staff

Sonya Lea and her husband Richard Bandy had been married for more than 20 years when he had to have an operation for a rare cancer. Since then, he's been piecing together the puzzle of his past.

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Finding The Humor In Desparation In 'Samba'

10:55am July 25, 2015

In the new movie, Samba, Omar Sy plays a Senegalese immigrant living illegally in France. NPR's Scott Simon talks to Sy about his own background and his transition from comedy to drama.

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Iconic Literary Road Trips, Mapped In Time For Summer

10:55am July 25, 2015

The website Atlas Obscura has mapped out a dozen famous road trips in American literature, from Mark Twain's stagecoach journey to F. Scott Fitzgerald's drive from Connecticut to Montgomery, Ala.

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An Unlikely Pair Form A Wily Duo In 'Crooked Heart'

10:55am July 25, 2015

An orphan boy becomes friends with the scheming woman who takes him in in Lissa Evans' new novel, Crooked Heart. NPR's Scott Simon speaks with her about her WWII-era novel.

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