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The jungle and rain forest surrounding the Tiputini Biodiversity Station is still incredibly wild, even by the standards of the Amazon. There are tantalizing hints that it also may be full of insects that talk to each other.

A firefighter happened upon the motionless animal on the ground of a fire-blackened forest as he patrolled and extinguished hot spots. The calf, dubbed Cinder, is recovering at a wildlife center.

Fire danger is expected to remain high through Thursday, meaning that wildfires are likely and might be difficult to control.

An animal welfare worker in New York City tells StoryCorp about his experience providing aid for dogs in Chernobyl more than 30 years after the nuclear disaster there.

From member station KPBS in San Diego Carrie Kahn reports that American authorities detained 45 Iraqi Christians yesterday after they tried to walk across the Mexican border and into the United States. Mexican police are holding about 150 more in a hotel just across the border.

Commentator Andrei Codrescu says traveling becomes harder in the summer, when the airports and hotels are full of tourists. His proposed alternative: stay home in a cool room and come down with a malady he calls spleen -- a malady that prevents you from doing or caring much about anything.

Commentator Jeffrey Tayler was in the Belarusian town of Polatsk. He opted to spend the evening at the restaurant in his hotel. As he writes in his journal, he was pulled into the drunken conversation of two young women. The women mistake him for a Pole, and take offense at his unwillingness to share their bottle of vodka with him.

Commentator Bob Garfield reflects on how fate and timing played a part in a near abduction. He was in the Virgin Islands when a gunman attempted to force his female companion into a car. The intervention of a hotel worker who wandered off the job and into the crime scene made the difference between certain violence and a happy ending.

An American businessman was gunned down in Moscow today near the upscale hotel he'd been fighting to manage. NPR's Andy Bowers reports on Paul Tatum and the message his murder gives to other Americans doing business in Russia.

Throughout the week, we will be sitting-in on the Pennsylvania Delegation to the RNC. The Delegates are staying at a pretty posh beach resort about 10 miles from downton San Diego. The RNC visited the hotel yesterday with some Republican luminaries -- there to give a pep talk to the Pennsylvania Delegation.