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In Chile, foreign children’s books, translated, open worlds for kids

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Chile’s children’s book industry isn’t known for light-hearted, fun reads. It’s about morality-building and lesson-teaching. So a Dane, who lived in Chile for a time, decided to change that. She’s organized a library that receives foreign-language books and then translates them into Spanish.

Statue of freed slave causes uproar in Indianapolis

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A Children’s Library In Chile

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Increase in the use of Drone Raise Legal Concerns

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I’ll See Your Lorrain and Raise You a Turner

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The Pope and the President

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Unemployment numbers for April come out today. Dan Gross, Columnist for Newsweek and Slate, joins The Takeaway from East Lansing, Michigan, to help us make sense of the numbers.

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Joining The Takeaway to talk about the origins of Memorial Day and how the meaning has morphed over the decades is Caroline Janney, an assistant professor of history at Purdue University.

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