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June 1, 2007
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Robin Young speaks with Bobby Block of The Wall Street Journal about the latest twists in the story of the globe trotting attorney who has a drug resistant strain of tuberculosis.

On Being 16, Pregnant and Shunned

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Robin Young speaks with Meredith Hall about “Without a Map,” a memoir that dredges up the deprivation and grief Hall has dragged around for decades.

The Internet Primary

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Robin Young speak with Wall Street Journal reporter Amy Schatz, who’s been covering the online politics of the 2008 presidential campaign.

Inside GITMO

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Moazzam Begg, a British Muslim who spent three years in U.S. detention, including two years at GITMO, shares his thoughts about a recent suicide at the facility.

Hasan Elahi’s Life is Online

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Listen to a conversation with an artist and obsessive record keeper who is documenting his life on his website. He says his project was inspired in part by his experience being detained following 9/11.

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