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many surrounding areas. The historic C and O canal is once again in danger only a month after a $25 million repair job following the winter flood.

Author Jonathan Franzen joins Fresh Air to discuss his critically acclaimed and award-winning novel, The Corrections. It is a saga about two generations of an American family; the parents and their children.

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The Canadian Auto Workers went on strike against General Motors early this morning. The C.A.W. says a strike is necessary because G.M. farms out a lot of its work to outside, non-union suppliers. NPR's Don Gonyea reports that the strike should have little effect on General Motors in the United States unless it continues for more than a week.

NPR's Eric Weiner reports that the Taleban militia, which now controls about two-thirds of Afghanistan, today criticized the decision by the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees to suspend relief operations in Kabul. U-N-H-C-R said several members of its local staff have been arrested and Afghan women employees have been told to stay at home since the Taleban captured Kabul nearly two months ago.

former Executive Director of the New York Financial Control Board, about the problems the District of Columbia Financial Control Board has had during its first year-and-a-half of existence. Procter says the D.C. Board is being asked to make decisions about financial priorities that are political in nature and should be decided by the Mayor and City Council.

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In his late seventies, Bluesman Archie Edwards is still going strong. He's working at his Washington D.C. barbershop of many years, playing with the many musicians who stop by, and teaching them a style of music few musicians play anymore: the Piedmont Blues. Lex Gillespie reports.