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Delta Air Lines will start paying flight attendants for the time that passengers are boarding. That's a first for a major U.S. airline. Flight attendants in the U.S. generally don't begin getting paid until the doors close after boarding.

Delta will begin paying flight attendants for flight boarding time

Pay for flight attendants typically starts when all the passengers are seated and the plane's doors close. The change is expected to increase wages by several thousand dollars a year.

'Another Thing': A Terrible Toy For The 21st Century

All Things Considered and author/blogger Lenore Skenazy offer a weekly on-air contest to test your cleverness skills. The "Another Thing" contest takes a trend in the news and challenges you to help us satirize it with a song title, a movie name or something else wacky.

Daniel Hernandez walks across the lawn outside University Hospital in Tucson on Sunday. Prior to his current internship he worked on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' 2008 campaign.

Intern: 'I Ran Toward The Congresswoman'

Daniel Hernandez is a junior at the University of Arizona. Last Saturday was his fifth day as an intern in Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' district office. Hernandez raced to her side after she was shot, stanched the bleeding and stayed with Giffords through her ambulance ride to the hospital.

Officials: Loughner Took Photos Of Himself With Gun

Law enforcement officials tell NPR that the suspect in Saturday's Arizona shooting rampage went to a store that morning to get prints made of photographs he had taken of himself posing with a gun.

Which composers would you invite to your Thanksgiving table?

Turkey, Cranberries And Composers At The Table

Commentator Miles Hoffman invites an eclectic group of long-gone composers to Thanksgiving dinner.

An 'Alt.Latino' Christmas

Alt.Latino hosts Felix Contreras and Jasmine Garsd join Weekend Edition Saturday's Scott Simon to discuss modern interpretations of traditional Latin holiday music.

Apply now to work at the British base in Port Lockroy, Antarctica, and young Gentoo penguins like this one could be your Goudier Island neighbors.

Antarctica's 'Penguin Post Office' is hiring

If you can sort mail, sell postage stamps and count penguins, this could be the job for you.

Zika Virus: What Happened When

The warning is believed to be the first of its kind for the continental U.S. from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Read about this update and see a full timeline of the Zika outbreak.

Whitefield Brothers: A Dance Travelogue

The German duo has been active since the early '90s, making dance music its members call "raw soul," though most would call it funk. On a new album, Earthology, the pair branches out into indigenous sounds.

Karsh Kale's latest album is titled <em>Cinema</em>.

Karsh Kale: Up In The Air

The Indian-American composer discusses writing for film, and explains how traveling alone from New York to India and back helped inspire his newest album.

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