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View the full archive of NPR: Story of the Day Rough Road For Military Families With Special Needs Deployments are usually hard on families. Spouses must become single parents for months on end, managing households with little outside help. These challenges become even more daunting for families with special needs children. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Gore Urges Obama To Take Lead On Climate Change In his new book, Al Gore argues that consumers have "all the tools we need" to solve climate change. But unless the United States takes a leadership role, "it would be impossible to resolve this crisis," he tells NPR. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Differing Views On What U.S. Should Do Next Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, is calling for a counterinsurgency strategy based on more U.S. troops and more training of afghan troops. Max Boot, of the Council on Foreign Relations, backs this strategy. But Vice President Joe Biden instead wants the focus to be counterterrorism. Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) is seeking a limited troop increase, and a credible Afghan partner. But retired Marine Col. Thomas Hammes wants U.S. troops withdrawn. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Gay-Marriage Advocates Weigh Next Move Same-sex marriage supporters are vowing to continue their fight after a loss at the polls in Maine on Tuesday. Voters there passed a measure blocking gay marriage, dealing a major blow to the cause of same-sex marriage around the nation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Magic And Bird: A Rivalry Gives Way To Friendship In the 1980s, the "golden era" of the NBA, basketball superstars Larry Bird and Earvin "Magic" Johnson had an intense rivalry that elevated the entire league. But after years of hating each other, they developed a close friendship, chronicled in a new book, When The Game Was Ours. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Marco Rubio: Conservatives' New Man in Florida? A former Florida state House speaker, Rubio is challenging former Gov. Charlie Crist for the Republican nomination in next year's Senate race. Rubio is confident and gifted on the stump, but some local GOP officials worry his message is too extreme to attract moderate voters. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Facing Identity Conflicts, Black Students Fall Behind Why do middle-class black and Latino teens often have lower test scores and college attendance rates than their white peers? Some researchers suggest media stereotypes might be to blame; others point to a peer culture of underachievement. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | New Cubs Owner Feels Fans' Pain, Promises Relief There's an old joke: How do you become a millionaire? Have $1 billion — then buy the Chicago Cubs. Well, Tom Ricketts did buy the storied franchise and its famous ballpark, Wrigley Field, spending almost $900 million. And it's a team that hasn't won a World Series for more than a century. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Cases Show Disparity Of California's 3 Strikes Law Not everyone who has been put away for 25 years to life under California's three strikes law has committed a violent crime, including two people convicted of stealing. Both challenged the law — and while one was released, the other wasn't as lucky. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democrats Unveil Health Care Bill House Democrats bowed toward their more conservative members with their new health care overhaul bill, which was unveiled Thursday. Throughout the negotiations, Republicans remained firmly on the sidelines, leaving Democrats to cobble together a bill that can satisfy enough of their own members to make a majority Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Two Torn Families Show Flip Side Of 3 Strikes Law California voters passed the nation's strictest three strikes law in 1994. The "third strike" carries a mandatory 25 years to life. Mike Reynolds, whose daughter was murdered in 1992, brought the ballot initiative and has fought to uphold it since. But Sue Reams, whose son is in prison because of it, is working for change. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Former NBA Coach Switches Gears At Charter School Joe Carbone is the gym teacher at a small New York Charter School called The Equity Project, based in Manhattan's Washington Heights. The former NBA strength coach has given up the big league to teach gym at the innovative charter school where the kids are only somewhat impressed with his NBA credentials. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Planners Contemplate Phoenix's Post-Boom Future The vast majority of the Phoenix metropolitan area — 90 percent — was built after 1950. It's been a pell-mell push for growth. But like many places, that growth came to a screeching halt during the recession. Planners now wonder whether the area can build a more sustainable economy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Recession Squeezes Mexican Workers In U.S. The vast majority of undocumented Mexican workers in the U.S. are staying put. They are working less and hoping that an economic recovery restores jobs. Besides, they say, the recession back home in Mexico is even worse. Immigrant economic ties are strong between New York City and the Mexican city of Puebla. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | At Great Lakes, Tom Hanks Gets Back To His Roots The star of The Da Vinci Code and Toy Story visits the Cleveland theater where he got his professional start to speak with host Scott Simon about his early years in theater — and the ups and downs of working in the movies. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Brain Battered By Football The years of hard hits have left former NFL player George Visger with severe memory loss. His doctors warn his brain problems could get worse quickly. While he struggles with his short-term memory, his days as a star high school lineman are vivid and special. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Accidents Of History Created U.S. Health System Since the 1960s, Americans have looked at employer-based health insurance as though it were the natural order of things. But economic historians say there was never any central logic at work in building that system. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | On Rural Navajo Reservation, Jobs Are Still Scarce Many rural tribes of the nation's 500 Indian tribes are struggling despite $3 billion in stimulus money earmarked for Indian country. The money hasn't started flowing, and even when it does, it won't have a huge impact, according to a Harvard economist. Shonto, Ariz., is trying to find "different avenues of funding," says community developer Brett Isaac. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Bionic Eye Opens New World Of Sight For Blind Implanting an electronic retina can help restore some vision to people who've been blinded by retinal diseases, scientists reported Tuesday at the Neuroscience 2009 conference. Other researchers partially restored sight by growing new retina cells from stem cells. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Ore.'s Fly-Fishing Governor Aims To Hook Green Jobs Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski, a Democrat who is in his second and final term, has two passions: fly fishing, and bringing the renewable energy jobs of tomorrow to his state, where unemployment currently hovers near 12 percent. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |