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All Things Considered host Robert Siegel speaks with Sari Nusseibeh, the newly appointed top political representative for the Palestinian Authority in Jerusalem, on the path for peace and the need for moderation and reason in the Middle East.

In a gravity-defying move, rapidly revolving hard-boiled eggs will push themselves upright and spin like a top. NPR's Joe Palca explains the science for All Things Considered.

Senior news analyst Daniel Schorr says that the resignation today of two top HHS officials over the welfare reform bill indicates that the President has not yet resolved the welfare issue.

NPR'S Eric Westervelt reports that a federal judge in Philadelphia today ruled that two former top city officials do not have to pay damages to surviving members of the group MOVE, for the city's 1985 bombing of their home which killed 11 people.

Essayist Julie Hauserman has seen the light: it's blue and it's spinning on top of a pole at Kmart. She says it's time for Americans to heed the call of our national religion: shopping.

NPR's Joanne Silberner reports on the lobbying done by doctors on Capitol Hill. The top three things physicians most commonly lobby for are Medicare reimbursement, managed care reform and funding for medical research.

Hours after failing to win enough votes to avoid a runoff, Taylor announced that he would no longer seek re-election after admitting to an extramarital affair.The runner up, former Collin County Judge Keith Self, is the other contender in the May 24 election.

The list captures a wide range of toys. For example, My Little Pony, Jenga, Care Bears — and the most basic of toys, the spinning top. On the other side of the spectrum: the smartphone.

For more than 260 weeks, ABC World News Tonight trailed NBC Nightly News. At last, they finally won a week. A software glitch, however, caused ABC to come out on top. NBC was restored to the top spot.

Since World War II, inequality in the U.S. has gone through two, dramatically different phases.