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Zombie Pumpkin Carving Gives Viewers The Shivers

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Originally published on Wed October 31, 2012 7:52 am

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RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST:

Good morning. I'm Renee Montagne with news of jack-o-lantern art this Halloween. Ray Villafane is a former teacher who found his medium after carving a gourd a student gave him. The sculptor began with a pumpkin, this year, weighing just under a ton to create a vividly realistic life-sized stringy haired orange zombie pulling other zombies out of a pumpkin garden. The work of pumpkin art is now giving people the shivers at the New York botanical garden. It's MORNING EDITION. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright National Public Radio.

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3:26 am

Wed October 31, 2012

The Night A Computer Predicted The Next President

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Walter Cronkite (right) listens as Dr. J. Presper Eckert (center) describes the functions of the UNIVAC I computer he helped develop in the early 1950s.

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Much of the UNIVAC system was housed in a cabinet big enough for a person to walk in. There were more than 5,000 vacuum tubes and tanks of mercury where data was stored as sound waves for memory.

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A printout of the UNIVAC prediction of the 1952 presidential prediction.

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Originally published on Thu November 1, 2012 12:55 am

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3:25 am

Wed October 31, 2012

Sandy Underscores Debate Over Government's Role

By Scott Horsley

Originally published on Wed October 31, 2012 12:09 pm

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President Obama offered thoughts and prayers Tuesday for all those who have been affected by Sandy. He also offered something more tangible: the full resources of the federal government.

"The most important message I have for them is that America's with you," he said. "We are standing behind you, and we are going to do everything we can to help you get back on your feet."

For Obama, the federal government is a critical vehicle for that kind of help. Republicans put more faith in local government, and even voluntary efforts.

3:25 am

Wed October 31, 2012

Can Drug-Sniffing Dog Prompt Home Search?

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Miami-Dade narcotics detector canine Franky, who came out of retirement to give a demonstration, sniffs marijuana in Miami in 2011. Franky's supersensitive nose is at the heart of a question being put to the U.S. Supreme Court: Does a police K-9's sniff outside a house give officers the right to get a search warrant for illegal drugs?

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Miami-Dade retired narcotics detector canine Franky looks on during a demonstration in Miami.

By Nina Totenberg

Originally published on Wed October 31, 2012 7:52 am

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You can already hear all the likely jokes at the Supreme Court, about the justices going to the dogs. But the issue being argued Wednesday is deadly serious: whether police can take a trained drug-detection dog up to a house to smell for drugs inside, and if the dog alerts, use that to justify a search of the home.

In the case before the court, the four-legged cop was named Franky, and as a result of his nose, his human police partner charged Joelis Jardines with trafficking in more than 25 pounds of marijuana.

9:03 pm

Tue October 30, 2012

The American Pastime Fades In Popularity

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The late comic George Carlin famously compared baseball and football, stating, "Baseball is a 19th century pastoral game. Football is a 20th century technological struggle."

By Frank Deford

Originally published on Wed October 31, 2012 7:52 am

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Jacques Barzun, the esteemed cultural historian, lived 104 years and wrote a multitude of words about the most important issues in society, but when he died last week, his one quote that was invariably cited was a pithy one that he wrote back in 1954: "Whoever wishes to know the heart and soul of America had better learn baseball."

Never mind that that is no longer even remotely true.

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