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Asia
7:29 am
Fri September 28, 2012

China's Communist Party Expells Disgraced Politician

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DAVID GREENE, HOST:

A sensational political scandal in China involves murder, abuse of power, and an attempted defection. And the case of senior politician Bo Xilai took another twist today. After months of speculation, it has just been announced that he has been expelled from the Communist Party and will face criminal charges. NPR's Louisa Lim is on the line with us from Beijing, and Louisa, what kind of charges is Bo Xilai going to face?

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Movies
6:44 am
Fri September 28, 2012

'Flight': A Few Million Little Creatures That Could

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"Supergenerations" of monarch butterflies migrate over 2000 miles from Canada to Mexico.
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More than three decades have passed since Catalina Aguado and her husband discovered a monarch butterfly sanctuary in a Mexican forest — and helped solve the mystery of the monarch's migration.
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Originally published on Thu October 4, 2012 9:19 am

A young boy in Canada wondered where butterflies go in the winter — and spent 40 years trying to answer that question.

In 1973, Dr. Fred Urquhart — all grown up by then — placed an ad in a newspaper in Mexico looking for volunteers to tag and observe butterflies and find their destination. A woman named Catalina Aguado and her American husband, Kenneth Brugger, answered that ad. They spent two years searching in remote parts of Mexico.

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World
5:48 am
Fri September 28, 2012

Briton Walks On Water In Human Hampster Wheel

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Around the Nation
5:27 am
Fri September 28, 2012

Candidate's Wife Douses Reporter With Water

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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:

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NPR Story
3:49 am
Fri September 28, 2012

Business News

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Originally published on Fri September 28, 2012 7:29 am

PNC Bank says its website is the latest victim of a denial of service attack. Users who tried to access the bank's websites had trouble loading the pages, or couldn't get into their accounts. But officials say the accounts were not compromised.

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