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This Week On Metro Connection: Coming Of Age

September 27, 2013
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This week we'll bring you stories of how we grow up, grow wise, and come into our own. We'll meet a young man who spent much of his adolescence locked up in juvenile detention — and is determined to keep history from repeating. We'll find out how teens in Takoma Park are responding to their city's decision to lower the voting age to sixteen. And we'll hear why one religious community integrates frank talk about sex into its Sunday school curriculum.

[Music: "Every Little Bit Hurts" by John Davis from Title Tracks / "Young Folks" by Easy Karaoke Players from Sing Instrumental Hits, Vol. 67]

Arts & Culture

NPR

George R.R. Martin, Author And ... Movie-Theater Guy?

The author of the wildly successful Game of Thrones books has been spending his days working on reopening an old movie theater in Santa Fe — much to the displeasure of fans who think he should be writing the next book.

Food

NPR

Sandwich Monday: The Limited Edition Candy Corn Oreo

For this week's Sandwich Monday, we try a new take on the classic sandwich cookie: the Limited Edition Candy Corn Oreo.

Politics

NPR

Shutdown Diary, Day 7: The Blame Game

New polling shows that both parties are taking a hit over the shutdown, but Republicans are bearing the brunt of the blame from the American public.

Technology

NPR

Funding For Software To Cloak Web Activity Provokes Concern

A service called Tor makes it possible to communicate and surf the web anonymously. It sounds like a plot by privacy-minded rebels, but in fact the service receives most of its funding from the government and was started by the Pentagon. Despite recent revelations of government email snooping, the U.S. government supports anonymous communication so foreign dissidents can work undetected, and so government agents can pursue bad guys without giving away their identities. But now the service faces new accusations that it might be serving NSA surveillance efforts.

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