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The self-coached 23-year-old runner from Kenya beat two-time Olympic champion Eliud Kipchoge's previous world record by 34 seconds at the Chicago Marathon.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with listener Jonathan Cosin of West Hartford, Connecticut, and Weekend Edition puzzlemaster Will Shortz.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with KPCC listener Seth Bowling of Long Beach, Calif., and puzzlemaster Will Shortz.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro and puzzle master Will Shortz play the puzzle this week with Roger Wesby of Staten Island, N.Y.

Lourdes Garcia-Navarro talks to Sean Rameswaram, host of the weekly pop culture podcast, Sideshow, about his top picks for the best of the Internet in 2014.

in America, reports that cultural changes, especially in the role of women, are helping to widen the difference between families at the top and bottom of America's income ladder.

Robert talks to Dr. Gary Hack, who teaches at the dental school at the University of Maryland at Baltimore. Yesterday he presented a paper on his discovery of a previously undescribed muscle in the face. He says that it is attached behind the eye and to the top of the jaw and helps us to chew. Many anatomists are skeptical, saying that it is highly unlikely that there could be a muscle in the face that was not previously discovered.

A Connecticut legislative committee yesterday heard testimony from one citizen who thinks the state should replace "Yankee Doodle" as the official state song. Certain references, say the citizen, are dated and sexist. We do a top-to-bottom analysis of the song to highlight its other possibly objectionable lyrics.

A look at the Campaign trail for the presidency in Russia. Robert speaks with Scott Bruckner, director of the Moscow Center of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, about the start of the Russian campaign for president. Bruckner does not see an easy campaign ahead for Boris Yelstin, who, after firing two top aides, potentially damaged loyalty among liberal reformers.

NPR's Eric Weiner reports that Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid handed over the daily running of the government to his deputy Megawati Sukarnoputri. Wahid made the change in an effort to appease top legislature who accuses him of failure to lead the country out of years of economic and social crisis.