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Miami's New World Symphony offers a unique educational environment for talented young musicians. The artists have all their expenses paid while they play a concert season, build their repertoires and study with veteran conductors. But the symphony fellowships don't just stop at musical training. NPR's Ari Shapiro reports.

President Bush addresses the nation in a televised speech from the French Quarter in New Orleans. The president pledged a massive federal effort to help the Gulf Coast re-build. He offered words of encouragement for a stricken region, and took responsibility for the federal government's failings in the relief effort.

Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono meets with President Bush this week. As the two leaders discuss economic reform and human rights in Indonesia, efforts to rebuild areas devastated by a tsunami at the end of 2004 continue.

As New Orleans wrestles with plans to rebuild, nonprofit groups concerned with protecting the city's unique architecture are helping homeowners salvage what's left of their houses.

Also: The San Bernardino mass shooting site reopens today; armed protesters continue to hole up in a federal building in Oregon; and a robbery suspect is caught after taking a selfie with the victim.

Also: Chinese stock markets remain volatile; suspicious packages are sent to several Oregon government buildings; and the world's oldest panda is 37 and living in Hong Kong.

Defying a pet ban, Gavin Williamson keeps the spider at his desk, where it apparently intimidates people. He says he won't consider removing it until somebody removes all the mice in the old building.

Also: Kansas tornadoes injure two; Greece gets promises of additional debt relief; and Dubai builders create an office building out of 3-D printed material.

Watch as members of the "vertical dance troupe" BANDALOOP suspend themselves against the side of a Boston office building and perform a routine that's as terrifying as it is mesmerizing.

Residents in 30 apartments had to evacuate a large complex in Nashua Tuesday night when part of a roof collapsed from heavy snow. No injuries were…