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Morning Edition Returns: Literal Tax Hikes

NPR

Published December 10, 2002 at 12:00 AM EST

Germans give up the shirts off their backs.

Copyright 2002 NPR

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This Nigerian chess master aims to raise money by playing the longest continuous game

Emmanuel Akinwotu

Under the glare of the lights in New York's Time Square, a Nigerian chess master makes his bid to break the world record for the longest continuous chess game to raise money for children back home.
National & International News

Now a poet, a boy in Jamaica could barely read until a teacher-in-training came along

Juleus Ghunta is a published children's author and award-winning poet. But growing up in rural Jamaica, he could barely read. When he was about 12, a young teacher-in-training arrived at his school.
Cookbook author Joan Nathan looks at her own culinary history in 'My Life in Recipes'

Mia Venkat

Joan Nathan has spent her life exploring Jewish culture through recipes. Now in her 80s, her new book is her most personal work yet — excavating her own culinary history.

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