Show archive for November, 2009

David Leonhardt on What’s Missing in the Health Care Debate, Cyber Monday, Toy Makers, A Film Score without the Film

The Evolution of Cheap, Dubai World, Crashing Couple, Sports, Seeing Music

Peter Gomes and the Pilgrims, Stewed Pompion, Anyone?, Syria and Iraqi Relations, Turkey Day Classic, Robin’s Trip to Vermont

We join Robin and her now-late uncle, Lachlan Maclachlan Field, on their trip to see the migrating snow geese in Vermont.

Peter Gomes is a nationally-recognized Baptist preacher and a Harvard professor. He’s also an African-American who grew up in Plymouth, Massachusetts. We speak with Professor Gomes about his connection to the Plymouth of the Pilgrims.

Helping Soldiers Get Home, ‘Up in the Air’, Prisoner Swap, Looking Back on the Mumbai Attacks, Octavian Nothing

Here and Now’s resident chef Kathy Gunst brings us some new takes on squash, potato, and green bean dishes for Thanksgiving.

War Surtax, What’s the Right To Do?, Biodiversity in the Deep Sea, The Card Game, Thanksgiving Sides

Mammogram Controversy, Regulating Wall Street, Khmer Rouge, Containers to Clinics, The Mormon as Vampire

Elizabeth Sheehan is trying to increase access to preventive care in the developing world, by converting shipping containers into health clinics. She says “shipping Containers litter the world. They’re often used once and they sit there.”

New Guidelines for Pap Smears, The Oxford Project, Why We Overeat on Thanksgiving, China – Bright spot for Auto Industry

Holy War with Health Care?, Teaching Hope, Texas Execution, Another Army Murder Spree, Filmmaker Frederick Wiseman

Hearings on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s Trial, Climate Debt, Karzai’s Inauguration, Concerns about Reverse Mortgages, ‘The Lacuna’

Questions about Mammograms, Black TV Goes Online, Sarah Palin Back on Tour, Can Parents Become Toxic?, Remembering Johnny Mercer

Guantanamo Detainees to Illinois?, China in Afghanistan, ‘Twilight’ Mania, ‘Don’t Be Creepy,’ ‘Lark and Termite’

9/11 Mastermind to be Tried in New York, ‘Million-Dollar Throw’, Iranian Dissidents in Iraq, The Porous Border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, Letters, Pirate Radio

13-year-old Nate Brodie gets the chance of a lifetime in best-selling author Mike Lupica’s new book for young readers. Nate, who idolizes Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, can win a million bucks if he can make a perfect throw.

Afghanistan Options, Elite Male Runner Discusses His Anorexia, Stomp The Stigma, The End of the World as We Know It

Conspiracy theorists are fixated on an apocalyptic date: December 21, 2012. That’s the day the Mayan calendar resets. We look at the roots of the theories with Colgate University professor, Anthony Aveni.

Major Hasan and the U.S. Army, 9/11 Memorial Controversy, The British Debate, Brian Turner, Veteran and Poet, From Swords to Ploughshares

A conversation with Army Veteran Brian Turner, who turned his experience in Iraq into poetry.

To mark Sesame Street’s 40th Anniversary, we hear from Carroll Spinney, the voice behind Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch.

Fort Hood Update, Buying and Selling Carbon Offsets, Last Words, Health Care & Abortion, Woman Saved in Subway Station, The Man Behind the Bird

Latest on Fort Hood, Time to Choose Your Health Insurance at Work, Fall of The Wall, A Closer Look at Mohammed Atta

Fort Hood Shooting, Guantanamo Detainees in Amherst Massachusetts?, Can’t Get There From Here, The Indie Band ‘The Walkmen’

The New York-based rock band “The Walkmen” have been compared to Bob Dylan and U2, but as they age their hard rock sound is giving way to softer ballads. We caught up with the band at a concert in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Healthcare in Congress, Journalist Michael Goldfarb, Japan’s Lost Generation, Medical Marijuana Business Booming in CA, The Prisoner Returns

In the 21st century, European countries are still struggling to integrate immigrants, primarily Muslims, into their societies. Veteran journalist Michael Goldfarb says the same thing was happening in the 1700s, only with the Jews. He delves into that history in his new book, “Emancipation: How Liberating Europe’s Jews from the Ghetto Led to Revolution and Renaissance.”

Elections Aftermath, What Does the New Black Barbie Say about African Americans and Hair?, Solamente Online, Framing the War, Cooking for One

A look at Mattel’s new line of black Barbie dolls — they have wider noses and fuller lips, but their hair is smooth and silky, and little girls can keep it that way with a hair straightening kit.