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During the day, Kyle Feerick is a funeral student. He studies embalming, funeral arranging, and the art of the corpse.By night, he is a musician and a…

President Bush is presented with the National Thanksgiving Turkey (and an alternate) -- for whom he promptly issues pardons. On Thursday, Marshmallow and Yam will serve as honorary grand marshals for Disneyland's annual Thanksgiving Day Parade.

Americans honored veterans around the country Sunday in celebration of Veterans Day. Former Secretary of State Colin Powell spoke to mourners gathered at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. It is the 25th anniversary of the memorial wall.

General Electric workers continue the second day of a strike to protest an increase in health-care costs. Rates for GE employees rose almost 50 percent in the last two years -- an additional $200 per year, on average. NPR's Bob Edwards talks to Uwe Reinhardt of Princeton University.

Writer Samina Ali's first novel, Madras on Rainy Days, is about a woman modeled after Ali herself. The book is about a young Muslim woman from India, who lives for a while in America and returns to her homeland for an arranged marriage. NPR's Liane Hansen talks with Ali.

Tune in to the All Songs Considered 24/7 music channel for a non-stop playlist of songs for the solar eclipse.

In the struggling town of Winlock, Wash., residents gather to honor their agricultural legacy with an egg-centric festival. Harriet Baskas of member station KUOW visits the Egg Days celebration.

The filmmaker has released a new Valentine's Day album called A Date with John Waters. It's a compilation of love songs including Mink Stole's "Sometimes I Wish I Had a Gun" and the late Edith Massey (aka the Egg Lady) singing "Big Girls Don't Cry."

Trumpeter Enrico Rava is one of Italy's best known and most recorded jazz musicians. In the 1970s, Rava made some memorable records for the ECM label. Now he's back with the company and one happy result is The Words and the Days.

NPR's Mike Pesca reports from the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., where political leaders, friends and family attend a funeral service for former President Ronald Reagan.