Jan 28th, 2009 · The new tell-all steroids book Bases Loaded went on sale this week. In it, former Major League Baseball clubhouse attendant Kirk Radomski says he spent a decade selling banned performance-enhancing drugs to nearly 300 big leaguers. Book sellers aren't stocking a lot of the books, they say readers are tired of sports doping stories.
Jun 17th, 2008 · The Wood Brothers' latest CD, Loaded, enlists some major friends: Amos Lee, Pieta Brown and John Medeski. In a session on WXPN, The Wood Brothers play their own distinct style of jazz, blues and rock.
Aug 22nd, 2007 · Caribou's "Melody Day" sounds like the product of a different era -- a song that might have been at home on, say, The Velvet Underground's Loaded, had Lou Reed been replaced by Brian Wilson and incorporated layered electronic beats into his songwriting.
Nov 19th, 2005 · Thanksgiving is next week -- and that means it will be the busiest travel week of the entire year. NPR's Scott Simon talks with Kenneth Button, director of George Mason University's Transportation Policy, Operations, and Logistics Center, about airlines' passenger loading strategies to reduce boarding times.
Sep 23rd, 2005 · Noah Adams talks with Capt. Rich Callas aboard the Navy amphibious assault ship Iwo Jima, currently riding out Hurricane Rita in the Gulf of Mexico. The ship is loaded with emergency equipment and supplies, and ready to begin rescue and aid missions as soon as possible after the storm makes landfall.
Aug 24th, 2005 · Amazon.com has rounded up more than 1,000 titles of classic literature and is offering them as a single purchase for just under $8,000. The Penguin Classics Collection weighs 700 pounds -- but delivery is free.
Aug 21st, 2005 · Celebrities and common folk celebrated the life of journalist Hunter Thompson Saturday night, then cheered as his ashes were loaded into shells and fired into the skies over his ranch outside Aspen. NPR's Loren Jenkins, a close friend, was in attendance.
Jun 24th, 2005 · Slate contributor Mark Jordan Legan reviews what the critics are saying about this week's new movie releases, including Bewitched, Herbie: Fully Loaded and Land of the Dead.