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Show archive for August, 2006

Bush’s Iraq; The Lost Boys of Polygamy; Unrest in Pakistan; Sports Buzz; Delicioso! Mexican Cuisine at its Best

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Pendleton Eight Hearing; Back to School in the Big Easy; Diary of Rehab; Flat Dads; Robin Cook

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Iraq Violence; Katrina, One Year Later; Louisiana Turns Republican; Salt Lake City; Polygamist Arrest; New Orleans Writer

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Tropical Storm Ernesto; FEMA since Katrina; Using Drugs for Weight Loss; New Orleans Family Settles in MA; Dimanche a Bamako

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False Alarms in Aviation; Homework and Learning; Impeaching the President; Listener Letters; Singer-songwriter Antje Duvekot

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Over the Counter for Morning-After; The Power and the Glory; Eliminating Middle School?; Pluto Demoted; Faces of Shakespeare

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Marine Callback; Marine’s POV; Hezbollah; Senate Race; Meningitis Vaccine; Pollini

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Iran Says it is Ready to Negotiate; Political Fallout in Israel; Doping in the Nation; Face Dances; A Big Fish Story

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Bush Press Conference; Internet and Child Pornography; Lieberman under Fire; Why is the Sky Blue?; Chopin Nocturnes; “Babylon by Bus”

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Security Moms, Court Ruling on Wiretapping; Fixing FEMA; Class and Health; Economic Check-in; Terence Blanchard and “Requiem”

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Bush Pledges to Revise US Pension System; Treating AIDS; Rebuilding Lebanon; This Week In Sports; “The Death of Kevin Carter”

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Passenger Disturbance Causes Emergency Landing; Terror Suspects to Remain Custody?; Passenger Profiling; 9/11 Emergency Calls Made Public; Planets: Pluto Plus Three; Listener Letters; How Americans do Funerals

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Investigation Update; A Future Shaped by Sunni – Shia Clash; Parental Consent for Abortion; The Jill Carroll Story; Bush Meets with Security Officials; “The Maine Squeeze”

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Sharon’s Condition Worsens; “Life in Hell: A Baghdad Diary”; Investigation in Britain Continues; Revised Air Travel Restrictions; “The Symphonic Jethro Tull”

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Pakistan: Terrorists Train with Al-Qaeda; Missing Exchange Students Found; Neither Bird, Nor Plane… It’s a Meteor!; “Why Do Men Fall Asleep After Sex?”

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Traveling Today; An Attack of Unimaginable Scale; A Global War on Terror; State of Airline Security; Treating Lung Cancer; “Coronado”

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Carroll’s Kidnappers Arrested; Cuba: Another Turning Point; Lieberman Loses, What Now?; You’re on Here & Now; “World Trade Center” Hits the Big Screen

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Boston Police Corruption Case; The Middle East According to Juan Cole; Prudhoe Bay Pipeline; Stafford, Texas Houses of Worship; John Pizzarelli

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Alaskan Oil Field Shut Down; “Campus Confidential”; Middle East Update; Jean Baker Miller; Art Buchwald, Still Smiling

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Pro-Hezbollah Shiites Rally in Baghdad; Hezbollah Fundraising on U.S. Soil; Mel Mania; One Hundred Years of Voice; One Hundred Years of Cool; “The Brambles”

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Relief Workers Seek Safe Passage; Rumsfeld Faces Senate; State of the Seas; Sports Flash; “Little Miss Sunshine”

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Iraq Reconstruction; The Future of Castro’s Cuba; The War Online; What’s Hot… And What’s Not; “Talladega Nights: the Ballad of Ricky Bobby”

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Pill Without Prescription; How Heat Hurts; Against a Disguised Enemy; Farmers Face Labor Shortage; Murdoch Management Meetings; Music that Moves Mexico

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