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David Simon, creator and executive producer of HBO's series The Wire, joins Fresh Air to talk about his career and the genesis of the show. Simon writes many of the episodes — and some story lines come from his former job as a police reporter for the Baltimore Sun.

The combined airline would offer 1,000 daily flights to more than 145 destinations in 19 countries and directly add 10,000 jobs by 2026. But consumer advocates have their doubts.

The work of America's military doctors and nurses in Iraq is recorded in Terry Sanders' documentary; there's no editorializing, admirably, though the sight of 19-year-olds having limbs amputated does raise questions about the politics of war.

Commentator David Kuo reviews the second in the series of Christ the Lord books written by Anne Rice. In The Road to Cana, Rice revels in the artistic and spiritual challenge of contextualizing a fully human Jesus. In narrative pacing and character development, Rice's Jesus is a reading revelation.

Writer-director Roland Emmerich, who is responsible for Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow, has taken audiences to a lot of strange places. Not one of them was as strange as his 10,000 B.C.

From dewy-eyed ingenue in Dangerous Liaisons to martial-artist mother in Kill Bill, Uma Thurman has played a range of singular roles. She joins Fresh Air to talk about her career — and her new independent film The Life Before Her Eyes.

Jeff Deck of Boston had seen a lot of misspellings on signs around the city, and one day he couldn't take it anymore. Deck founded the Typo Eradication Advancement League and set off on a nationwide quest to repair the mistakes by any means necessary, including sticky vinyl letters.

Photojournalist Robin Bowman spent four years driving across the United States, photographing and interviewing more than 400 teens. Some of those pictures — and the teens' words — are included in her new book, It's Complicated: The American Teenager.

The battery reportedly occurred at a nightclub. The running back was arrested without incident and posted bond.

In her home studio in East Hampton, New York, illumination artist Ellen Frank is working to revive the atelier, a workshop where apprentices learn the skills of a master by working with the artist on his or her original works.