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This NPR newsmagazine offers a balanced perspective on the events of the day.

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Three-Minute Fiction
11:01 pm
Fri March 9, 2012

Three-Minute Fiction Round 8: She Closed The Book...

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Luis Alberto Urrea was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for nonfiction in 2005.
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Originally published on Fri September 7, 2012 10:06 pm

Ready for some creative competition? Weekends on All Things Considered is launching Round 8 of its Three-Minute Fiction contest. Here's what we look for: original, short fiction that can be read in less than three minutes — that's no more than 600 words.

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Performing Arts
4:09 pm
Fri March 9, 2012

Mike Nichols: 'Salesman' By Day, Always An Artist

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In the course of his career, director Mike Nichols has won Emmy Awards, Tony Awards, an Oscar and a Grammy.
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Andrew Garfield (left) stars opposite Finn Wittrock, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Linda Emond in Mike Nichols' revival of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman.
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Originally published on Fri March 9, 2012 5:13 pm

Film and theater director Mike Nichols doesn't talk — he sells.

"The producers want us to sell, sell, sell," Nichols tells NPR's Robert Siegel. "That's my little joke. That's what we do by day; by night, we're artists."

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Sports
2:00 pm
Fri March 9, 2012

Preview To March Madness

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Originally published on Fri March 9, 2012 5:00 pm

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ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST:

Flip through the channels this weekend and you are bound to see some college students dribbling basketballs. It is March after all. And the final lay-ups, jump shots and dunks are taking place before the madness officially begins next week. NCAA conference championships wrap up on Sunday and then comes the selection of teams for their respective NCAA tournaments. Sportswriter Stefan Fatsis joins us now as he does most Fridays. Hi, Stefan.

STEFAN FATSIS, BYLINE: Hey, Robert.

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Energy
2:00 pm
Fri March 9, 2012

Ohio Toughens Regulations On Gas Drillers

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Ohio has announced new regulations for drillers as state officials say the injection of gas-drilling wastewater likely caused a number of small earthquakes.

Planet Money
12:11 pm
Fri March 9, 2012

This 14-Year-Old Girl Just Bought A House In Florida

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Willow Tufano, landlord.
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Willow and her tenants, in front of the house Willow bought with her mother.
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Originally published on Mon March 12, 2012 9:46 am

Meet Willow Tufano, age 14: Lady Gaga fan, animal lover, landlord.

In 2005, when Willow was 7, the housing market was booming. Home prices in some Florida neighborhoods nearly doubled from one month to the next. Her family moved into a big house; her mom became a real estate agent.

But as Willow moved from childhood to adolescence, the market turned, and the neighborhood emptied out. "Everyone is getting foreclosed on here," she says.

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