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The Curious Case Of Teen Tics In Le Roy, N.Y.

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GUY RAZ, HOST:

Now to a story that's gripped a small town in Upstate, New York for the past five months. It's about 18 high school girls in the working-class town of Le Roy. It's just outside of Rochester. Reporter Susan Dominus wrote about it in this week's issue of the New York Times magazine, and she says it all started back in October when a high school cheerleader named Katie Krautwurst woke up from a nap.

8:55 am

Sat March 10, 2012

Here (And There, And Really Everywhere) Be Dragons

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A close-up of a dragon robe, or long pao, dated late 18th- or early 19th-century China. It's one of many on display in the exhibit "Dragons, Nagas, and Creatures of the Deep" at the Textile Museum in Washington, D.C.

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Participants perform a dragon dance during the annual Chinese New Year parade in 2007 in the Chinatown section of Washington, D.C.

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In the popular video game The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, the player fights ancient dragons and can learn their secrets in order to harness their powers.

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A thousand years old, the dragon Kilgharrah (voiced by veteran actor John Hurt) is both a boon and a bane to Camelot in the BBC series Merlin, which airs in the U.S. on SyFy.

By Allison Keyes

Originally published on Sat March 31, 2012 4:43 pm

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As the supernatural enjoys a pop culture resurgence — from vampires to fairy tales — there's also been a firestorm of fascination with dragons. Fire-breathing dragons are central to the much-anticipated second season of the HBO series Game of Thrones, which opens April 1. And this year alone the mystical creatures are being featured in two movies, a new book, video games and a museum exhibit.

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

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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.

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

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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."

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.

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