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Weekend Edition Saturday host Scott Simon speaks with Financial Times U.S. economics editor Robin Harding, who attended this year's annual central bankers meeting in Jackson Hole, Wyo.

In our monthlong blog that ended Aug. 31, we collected stories of people working together to make the world a better, safer, greener and greater place to live.

Though he went on to a string of Top 40 solo hits, Art Garfunkel is still best known as half of a legendary duo. With the release of a new retrospective, which covers his work from Simon & Garfunkel's heyday through the present, Garfunkel says he's looking for some long-overdue credit.

Republican vice presidential candidate Rep. Paul Ryan claimed he'd run a marathon in less than three hours — an athletic feat. Runner's World magazine checked the claim and discovered his running time in the only marathon he's ever run was just over four hours.

Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney took a detour to hurricane-soaked Louisiana Friday, making a president-like visit to the area three days before the actual president makes it there. NPR's Ari Shapiro reports.

Some 270 striking miners were charged with murder in the deaths of 34 others killed by police two weeks ago. Defense lawyers are threatening legal action if the miners are not released.

Actress Kristen Bell could watch the comedy Wet Hot American Summer a million times. "[Director] David Wain clearly made a movie that he liked and that's why I love it," she says.

Not so long ago, baseball, not football, was the big professional sport to watch. That all changed in the 1970s. Weekend Edition Saturday host Scott Simon talks with author Kevin Cook about his new book, The Last Headbangers: NFL Football In The Rowdy, Reckless 70s: The Era That Created Modern Sports.

Throughout the week at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., NPR digital journalists asked delegates, politicians and other attendees to react to the statement: "Why I'm a Republican." Here are some of those responses.

Richard Bach, who authored the popular Jonathan Livingston Seagull and Illusions, was injured Friday when the light plane he was piloting crashed as he tried to land on San Juan Island, Wash.