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Show archive for January, 2004

White House Adjusts Medicare Projections; Defining a Super Delegate; President Who?; Shock Jock’s Feeling the Heat; Editorial Roundtable 01/30/04; Wanted, Reward; Beyond Marching Bands; The Big Bounce

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Kay Calls for Prewar Intelligence Inquiry; Dean Faces Money Problems; FDA Modifies Cattle Feed Law; Surviving the Hajj; Scientist Work to Cure Avian Flu; Listen, Baby

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NH Primary and Beyond; Three-State Report; South Carolina’s Clyburn; Report Spares Blair on David Kelly Suicide; 9/11 Commission Meeting; Ohio Shelter Solution; The Divas Uncorked; Goodbye New Hampshire

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New Hampshire Democrats Vote; New Hampshire Primaries Past; Powell Criticizes Russian Power Structure; Blair Faces Kelly Report, University Vote; New Hampshire Abroad; Mary McGrory; NH Economy; Capturing the Friedmans

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Candidates Trade Jabs as NH Primary Nears; Polling New Hampshire; Halliburton Admits Role in $6 Million Iraq Scheme; 9/11 Commission Conducts Hearings; DC Roundtable 01/26/04; California City Bans Karaoke; David Gonzalez

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Candidates Debate Issues, Worthiness; Dean Revamps on TV; New Hampshire Residents on Iraq; Candidate Wesley Clark; Mars Rover Sends New Signals; Child Sex Trade; The Butterfly Effect

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Sharon Stands Firm Despite Bribery Scandal; Judiciary Probe Looks at Computer Infiltrations; States Address Gay Marriage; Following an Arms Inspector; Healthcare and the NH Vote; Letters 01/22/04; The Nields Sisters

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Campaign Rhetoric in the State of the Union; Bush Seeks Discretionary Spending Limit; Healthcare Initiatives; Voting Hackers; Candidates Woo New Hampshire; The Sims Underworld; Atkins and Fast Food

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Onward to New Hampshire; Senator John Edwards; State of the Union Past and Present; Congress Considers Spending Package; Nosey Parker

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Bremer Headed to U.N. as Thousands Protest in Iraq; Pakistan’s Nuke Probe; A Look at Iowa Voters; The Culture of Cosmetic Surgery; D.C. Roundtable; King and Islam; Great Jazz Saxophone Players

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Bremer Meets with DC Officials; Avian Flu; Arctic Food Contamination; Judith Steinberg Dean; Editorial Roundtable 01/16/04; Religious Officials Seek Jewish Artifacts at Vatican; Along Came Polly; Super Bowl Predictions

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JP Morgan-Bank One Merger; Earthquake Relief in Iran; Living with the Jerusalem Wall; Foreign Aid and Local Business; Democratic Candidates Eye New Hampshire, Iowa; Letters 01/15/04; Charlie Kohlhase

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Bush Announces Space Initiative; Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease; The Jerusalem Wall; Iowa Caucus Primer; SEC Warns about Mutual Funds; Pittsburgh Parking Hike; New Yorkies; German Duelist Societies; Spaulding Gray Missing

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Iran’s Parliament Showdown; MS Study Points to Vitamin D; Forty Years of “Bad for You” Smoking; High Court Considers Disabilities Case; Federal Government Proposes “Registered Traveler Program”; Where Old Christmas Trees Go; The Holmes Brothers

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Shiite Leader Calls for Iraq Elections; Summit of the Americas in Mexico; Haitian Marchers Challenge Aristide; Mountain Lion Attack; DC Roundtable 1/12/04; Teaching Forensic Science; Sacred Harp Singing

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U.S. to Reinvigorate Manned Spaceflight; Farmed Salmon Higher in PCB’s, Study Says; Immigrant Work on the Rise; And I Walked; Editorial Roundtable 01/09/04; Mad Cowboy; Women Serial Killers and “Monster”

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IMF Warns About U.S. Deficit; Bush Campaigns in Florida; Conn. Governor Makes Voter Appeal; Scholar of Warfare; Democrats Take Aim at Tax Cuts; Letters 01/08/04; Outkast

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Bush Seeks Changes to Immigration Policy; Undocumented Workers in North Carolina; Immigrant Advocates React to Bush Plan; Animal Stories; Why We Went Orange; Iraq Human Rights and Health; Fruit Picking Technology; Heating Coat; Emmylou Harris

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India and Pakistan Agree to Talks; Afghanistan Bomb Kills 10; Iraq Rape Reports Anger Turks; Memory Glasses; Catholic Church Reform Check; Democrat Debate at NPR; Auto Show Report; She’s Not There

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Officials Track Foreigners Entering U.S.; Chinese Civet Cats Killed in SARS Scare; Mars Images Unveiled; The Future for Anglicans; DC Roundtable 01/05/04; Nursing Shortage; Charles Ives Remembered

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Amid Security Concerns, Airline Grounds Flights; U.S. Delegation to Visit North Korean Nuke Site; French Journalists Fired After Book Published; Editorial Roundtable: Arming Journalists; From Cow to Beef; Long Movies

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DUI Licence Plates; NAFTA Turns 10; Micro-Media Campaigning; The Year in Sports; And the Band Marched On; Middle East Roadmap in 2003; Listener Letters; Beef Industry; The Song Remains the Same

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NOTES & UPDATES

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