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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

When It Comes To Brain Injury, Authors Say NFL Is In A 'League Of Denial'

Brothers Mark Fainaru-Wada and Steve Fainaru take an exhaustive look at how the NFL has dealt with allegations that playing football can lead to brain damage. They say the NFL has repeatedly avoided tying football to brain injury, even as they've given disability payments to former players with dementia-related conditions.

Food

NPR

School Pulls All-Beef Burgers From Menu, Citing Complaints

Students in a Virginia school system are now eating hamburgers with additives in them, after officials heeded their complaints about the appearance and taste of all-beef burgers it had been serving. The burgers that are now being served include a reported 26 ingredients.

Politics

NPR

What's The Cost Of Budget Gridlock?

Renee Montagne talks to David Wessel, economics editor of The Wall Street Journal, about the cost of the government shutdown, and the dangers of the threatened government default.

Technology

NPR

Wanted: A New Generation of High-Tech Aviation Workers

Millions of U.S. factory jobs have been lost in the past decade. Now, in North Carolina, high school students are being encouraged to think about taking manufacturing jobs. But this isn't the furniture-making or textile labor of generations past — it's a new kind of highly technical work in aviation.

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