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January 1, 2008
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Kenya’s Elections

We check in with Christian Science Monitor reporter Scott Baldauf on the situation in Kenya following the hotly contested presidential election …

U.S. Presidential Race

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We check in on the campaign trail in Iowa with two veteran reporters, Richard Wolffe, Senior White House correspondent for Newsweek, and Kay Henderson, News Director of Radio Iowa.

Under Reported Humanitarian Stories

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The aid group Doctors Without Borders has released its annual list of the top ten humanitarian stories of 2007 that the groups says did not get enough media attention. We talk with Nicholas de Torrente, Executive Director of Doctors Without Borders in the U.S.

Friend or Foe?

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A new study says that infants as young as six months are able to evaluate social behaviour to separate the nice from the nasty. We speak with Kiley Hamlin, a Yale graduate student and lead author of the study.

“Stroke of Genius”

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We revisit a conversation we had with former ad executive Dan Mountain who was given up for dead after he suffered a stroke and went into a coma …

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