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Melissa Block and Robert Siegel

In-depth reporting and transformed the way listeners understand current events and view the world. Every weekday, hear two hours of breaking news mixed with compelling analysis, insightful commentaries, interviews, and special - sometimes quirky - features.Melissa Block and Robert Siegel

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Environment
2:35 pm
Tue May 14, 2013

With Rising Seas, America's Birthplace Could Disappear

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Colonists built the original glass-blowing kiln in Jamestown, Va., at this beach for easy access to the sand. Now the site is just inches above the water level.
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A re-created section of the fort wall in the English colony of Jamestown, Va., sits on top of the original post holes. The fort was thought to have been lost to the James River, but was rediscovered by excavations that began in 1994. Since then, approximately 2 million artifacts have been recovered.
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A view of the continuing excavations at Jamestown fort.
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A brackish marsh separates most of Jamestown Island from the Virginia mainland.
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Archaeologists excavate a section of the fort near a church tower that was built in the 17th century.
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They call it "fried chicken." A lab worker shows a box of old metal that once served as a kind of chain mail for a Jamestown soldier. Each piece is carefully buffed with a wire brush to remove the copious rust.
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Bly Straub, the lead curator of the Jamestown artifacts, stands in a private storage and display room on Jamestown Island. Straub has traced the history of the artifacts to all parts of the world.
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Glass blower Ron Rogers works in a replica factory near the site of the original Jamestown kiln. He practices his craft just as the colonists did, except for using gas-fueled ovens instead of wood-fired ones.
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Dorothy Geyer, a natural resource specialist for the National Park Service at Jamestown, says it's common practice among archaeologists to intentionally leave some artifacts in the ground — so future researchers can study them with better technology. But with flooding in the forecast, that principle is now up for debate.
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Gary Speiran is a hydrologist who has been monitoring the ground water level on the island. He says not only is the river water level rising, but the water table itself is also rising. All this water threatens artifacts still in the ground and many of the original Jamestown sites, such as the kiln and the fort.
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Carl Hershner, a climate scientist at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, says that some coastal sites might actually be sinking because pumping out groundwater causes soil to settle.
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Originally published on Tue May 14, 2013 6:15 pm

By the end of the century, the birthplace of America may be underwater.

The first successful English colony in America was at Jamestown, Va., a swampy island in the Chesapeake Bay. The colony endured for almost a century, and remnants of the place still exist. You can go there and see the ruins. You can walk where Capt. John Smith and Pocahontas walked. But Jamestown is now threatened by rising sea levels that scientists say could submerge the island by century's end.

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Planet Money
2:34 pm
Tue May 14, 2013

Who Hides Money Outside The Country?

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Belize, the home of our offshore company, Unbelizable.
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Originally published on Tue May 14, 2013 6:15 pm

Over the past decade, some 39,000 people have come forward voluntarily to tell the IRS about offshore money they haven't been paying taxes on. This group provides a small window into the world of people who are hiding money in offshore havens. (It's a world we've been trying to learn more about, partly by setting up an offshore company in Belize.)

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World
2:28 pm
Tue May 14, 2013

Living On The Border, Driven — Literally — Underground

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Abimael Martinez, who was deported from Riverside, Calif., sits next to the hole he dug to live in beneath the banks of Tijuana's fetid river canal.
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Originally published on Tue May 14, 2013 6:15 pm

After living underground in the United States — figuratively speaking — some undocumented immigrants deported to the Mexican border city of Tijuana are living in holes. These migrants have dug bunkers along Tijuana's sewage canal to protect themselves from police who routinely burn down their makeshift homes.

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Media
7:27 pm
Mon May 13, 2013

U.S. Obtained AP Journalists' Phone Records

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Originally published on Tue May 14, 2013 4:42 pm

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AUDIE CORNISH, HOST:

Today we learned of some news from the Associated Press in which the AP is at the center of the story. The newswire service reports that the Justice Department secretly obtained two months of editors and reporters' phone records from last year as part of a government investigation. Late today, the Justice Department issued a statement saying it strives to strike a balance between the need for information in criminal cases and the rights of individuals and news organizations.

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Law
5:47 pm
Mon May 13, 2013

Supreme Court Sides With Monsanto In Seed Patent Case

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A farmer holds Monsanto's "Roundup Ready" soybean seeds at his family farm in Bunceton, Mo.
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Originally published on Wed May 15, 2013 10:59 am

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday that when farmers use patented seed for more than one planting in violation of their licensing agreements, they are liable for damages.

Billed as David vs. Goliath, the case pitted an Indiana farmer against the agribusiness behemoth Monsanto.

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