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Diane Rehm Explores Mortgage Crisis in Evening Special
The Diane Rehm Show will present a one-hour call-in special on "Facing the Mortgage Crisis" tomorrow, April 29 at 6 p.m. (CT). Diane's guests will be (tentatively):
NPR News Returns to Chengdu
 One year after a horrific earthquake leveled much of China's Sichuan province, All Things Considered host Melissa Block and producer Andrea Hsu have returned to Chengdu. Their reports will be broadcast across all NPR programs beginning Monday, May 4; until then, you can read their blog, Chengdu Diary. In this entry from April 23, Melissa shares some of the challenges in reporting events under the watchful eye of the Chinese government, and in asking traumatized survivors to relive the horror.
The Splendid Table Searching for "Gastrosexuals"
 There's a new term among gourmands: "gastrosexual", defined as someone who uses their culinary skills to impress their friends and potential love interests.
As always, The Splendid Table is searching for the pentultimate in culinary tastes, and so is launching a "Gastrosexual of the Month" contest.
Nominate yourself or your loved one before June 30 at thesplendidtable.org.
Highlights from the Networks:
NPR News: Benchmarking Obama
 As the president's 100th day in office approaches, NPR news programs offer an assessment of the early days of the Obama administration.
Taking the goals and benchmarks set by the Obama administration, NPR News will gauge the administration's progress in reports all this week. Hear their reports and see a summary scorecard at NPR.org.
100 Days: NPR On the Road in Troubled Times
NPR's David Greene has been on the road for the first 100 days of the Obama presidency, visiting parts of the country hit hardest by the recession and searching for coping mechanisms and recovery efforts.  You can see photos of his road trip and hear the reports he has filed since setting off January 25, all at NPR.org.
David will be hosting an online chat about the series on Wednesday, April 29 at 1:30 p.m. (CT) And tune in Saturday, May 2 on Weekend Edition for David's final report from Silver City, New Mexico, a town struggling with unemployment in the copper mining industry.
We Shall Remain ~ A Sovereign (And Successful) Chickasaw Nation
 The Chickasaw Nation, headquartered in Ada, makes huge sums of money from casino revenues. But there's a hesitation to basing an entire nation's fortunes on gambling, and Chickasaw Governor Bill Anoatubby has spent the past 20 years working to diversify the nation's economic foundation. Hear this story, from April 27 on Morning Edition, the second of NPR's companion stories to the public television series We Shall Remain.
WEB EXCLUSIVE
That Voodoo That They Do  It's premature to conduct a postmortem of the economic crisis of 2009 — but it's not too early to point out that many economic experts have been wrong in their assumptions. Linton Weeks explores how economic theory crashes into economic reality in this Web extra at NPR.org.
Opinion ~ Don't Mess with Texas ... Get Rid of It
 The governor of Texas brought it up – but in David Faris's opinion, getting rid of Texas is a once-a-century opportunity for America's new leader. Faris describes how Texas could be "kicked out" of the U.S. peacefully. Read his treatise, which tops both the most-commented and most-recommended lists at NPR.org. Rabid football fans in Oklahoma might agree!
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