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Show archive for July, 2009

Cash for Clunkers, Afghan Star TV show, Curbing CEO Pay, Bike Polo, Steroid Scandal Snares Ortiz & Ramirez, “Escape from Bellevue” memoir

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Beer Summit, The Pecora Hearings, Young Gitmo Detainee in Court, A New University Goes Online, “13 Reasons Why” novel about teen suicide

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Photographs by the late Brad Washburn, a mountain climber, surveyor, and mountain photographer

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Terrorist Conspiracy in North Carolina, The ‘Great Recession’ is Over, Swimsuit Beats Phelps, Tweet This!, Julia Child Revisited

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Mortgage Modifications, Chinese Immigrants in the U.S., Tagging Trash, Gates in Iraq, Brad Washburn

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Health Care, Dead Soldier Return to U.K., Lahore Responds to Taliban.

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Taken by the Taliban, Pot Tax Hike, A Policeman’s View of Professor Gates’ Arrest, Steely Dan

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The Cleveland Clinic and Healthcare Reform, Higher Ed. as the Petrified Forest?, Radio Science Orchestra, What Matters Most in Healthcare?, Healthy Food Music For Kids

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The Health Insurance Industry and Reform, Surgical Errors at Philadelphia’s Veterans Hospital, Remembering Spc. James Wertish, Aung San Suu Kyi, Author Kate Walbert

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Harvard Professor Racially Profiled?, Reporter’s Notebook: Cairo, Russian Cosmonaut Looks Back on Space Race, Is Massachusetts A Model for Healthcare Reform?, Rocker Ian Hunter

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Captured Soldier, Mars: The Next Frontier?, Tour de France Update, More Lobbying than Ever on Healthcare, Music to die for?

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“Global Payments” Budget Health Care, The Quiet American, Wheat Field in London, Should You Be Able to See Your Doctor’s Notes Online?, Red Planet on the Silver Screen

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Pensacola Murders, Lightning Strikes Again, Iraqis To Sue the UK, Kidnapping and Foreclosure Crises Collide in Phoenix “Drop Houses,” Listener Letters, What’s with the Wolf T-Shirt?

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Goldman Sachs the “Bubble Machine,” How’s the Bank Bailout Working & What Kind of Help Do Consumers Need?, Entrepreneur Explores Space, Return to the Moon, The “Harry Potter” Franchise

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Day Two of Sotomayor hearings, Business Guru’s Prescription for Healthcare, Facebook vs. Google, Charles Taylor war crimes trial, and jazz saxophonist Grace Kelly

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CIA’s Secret Al Qaeda Plan, Sotomayor Hearings, Sherpa for Supreme Court Nominees, Turned onto Tap Water, Author Danzy Senna

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President Obama Goes to Africa, Beowulf on the Beach, Letters, Cyber Attack, Is President Obama Morphing into President Bush?, Satchel Paige

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Stimulus, What Stimulus?, Big Pill Bill Not Easy to Swallow, Black Box Hopes Fade, Fighting D.O.M.A., The Hurt Locker

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Help for Troubled Homeowners, Buying Health Insurance, Tiny House, What next in Iran?, The Conscience of Nhem En

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A graduate student at Yale describes why she chose to live in a 144 square foot home.

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Unrest in China, President Obama Pushes The Reset Button, A New General Motors, TV News Dives Deeper into the Pool, Secret Lives of the Supreme Court

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Why is Sarah Palin Resigning?, Special Criminal Courts for the Mentally Ill, Who Pays for Michael Jackson’s Memorial?, Robert McNamara Remembered, Philip Bailey

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Pennsylvania Workers Temporarily Lose Paychecks in Budget Impasse, Great American Songwriters & their Songs, Kaboom!, The Flushing Remonstrance, Revolutionary War Blindspot

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Marines Storm into Southern Afghanistan, America: The Untold Story, Sports with Bill Littlefield, Energy Secretary Profile, Singer-Songwriter Freedy Johnston

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Grilling is not only an American phenomenon, it’s a global one.

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The Dangers of Acetaminophen, Ayn Rand & Economic Collapse, Iraq, Does Language Shape the Way We Think?, Grilling with Kathy Gunst

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