GITMO
Here & Now previews this week’s congressional hearings that aim to redesign military commissions to try Guantanamo Bay detainees.
Train to Tibet
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After a half century of effort, China launches “Sky Train,” which will allow an estimated one to two thousand passengers armed with oxygen masks to travel from Beijing to Tibet in only two days.
No Sanctuary in Sandwich
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As communities around the nation musts choose if they will offer a friendly environment to illegal immigrants, Here & Now takes a look at two Massachusetts towns that have adopted two, very different, attitudes.
Books for Kids
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What books will get your fourth grader reading this summer? Nina Lindsay, 2007 Chair of the Newbury Awards Selection Committee, joins us with her top titles.
Photographing Farmers
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In a spectacular new book, entitled “Black Farmers in America,” photographer John Francis Ficara documents the experience of black agriculture.
