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  • Colombian-American photographer and filmmaker Juan Arredondo turns his lens on the people of the world who do not have birth and death certificates — and how these vital records are created.
  • Mitt Romney had a handy counterargument for all those who have called him a political flip flopper: his apparent steadfastness in all his personal commitments, like his 42-year marriage to his wife Anne. Turns out, that argument can do double duty since it helps Romney draw a contrast with Newt Gingrich who is on his third marriage.
  • Israeli officials say they expect some Jewish settlers slated for evacuation from the Gaza Strip to resist relocation but there are families that have already begun to move on their own.
  • As we move into the dog days of summer, NPR's Susan Stamberg ferrets out at least one recipe for the perfect iced tea -- a drink some call the "house wine of the South." Stamberg talks with Iced Tea author Fred Thompson, who shares a recipe he grew up with, Friday on All Things Considered.
  • President Trump heralded an advance in making a deal with Iran to end the war, but the way forward remains unclear.
  • After 33 years in business, the landmark New York City nightclub CBGB will close its doors for good at the end of October. This week, the seminal black punk-reggae band Bad Brains said goodbye to the club with three reunion shows.
  • Host Bob Edwards talks with Wendy Hamilton of Mothers Against Drunk Driving. The group was founded twenty years ago.
  • Forty years ago, four wacky moptops called The Monkees bounced onto the nation's TV screens and into the hearts of generations of teenage girls. The band made a brief comeback in the late 80s when reruns of their TV show popped up on MTV. That's when producer Petra Mayer became a lifelong Monkee-maniac.
  • The history of a union fort in Tennessee is getting an update to include the story of the Black laborers who built it.
  • NYU Law professor Melissa Murray gives context and commentary on the nation's founding document in her new book The U.S. Constitution: A Comprehensive and Annotated Guide for the Modern Reader.
  • The National Security Agency has issued a set of print advertisements that call to mind the "Loose Lips Sink Ships" messages of World War II. On Weekend Edition Saturday, author and curator William Bird critiques the ads and compares them with the posters of that bygone era.
  • President Bush summons White House reporters to the Rose Garden to hear his views on a dozen issues, including the violence in Iraq, charges of abuse at Guantanamo Bay, his campaign for new federal judges and a new approach to Social Security.
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