2005 August | Here & Now

Wednesday, August 31, 2005

The Aftermath; Rising Tides; Natural Barriers Disappearing; Petroleum Reserve Tapped; Red Cross Mounts Relief Operation; A Global Chanteuse

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Tuesday, August 30, 2005

Katrina Devastates Gulf Coast; A Closer Looks at John Roberts; China Seeks to Quench Oil Thirst; Streamlining FEMA; Fringe Politics

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Monday, August 29, 2005

Katrina Plows Through New Orleans; Should the U.S. Stay or Go?; New Orlean Faces Flood Risk; Katrina and Baton Rouge; Hybrid Gets Great Mileage; Crude Oil Prices Surge

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Friday, August 26, 2005

Final Draft; The Facebook; The Valerie Plame Affair; Return of the Beasts; Grinding Act

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Thursday, August 25, 2005

Base Closings and the BRAC Commission; Islamic Extremism in Europe; U.S. Reaction to the War in Iraq; Your Letters; Sports Roundup with Bill Littlefield

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Wednesday, August 24, 2005

Staunching the Bleeding; Moral Killing; Steamy Politics in the Big Apple; Reuniting Foster Care Children; Divine Garbo

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Tuesday, August 23, 2005

The Price of Gas; Northwest Strike; Impact of the Northwest Strike; Afghanistan Insurgents in Training; Trent Lott Memoir; Raul Midon

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Monday, August 22, 2005

Iraqi Constitution; Liberian Election; Tools That Help Save Children’s Lives; The Stones; Death of Moog

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Friday, August 19, 2005

Northwest Negotiations; Internships in India; Stress in High School Students; Geocaching; Hanna-McEuen

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Thursday, August 18, 2005

Gaza Pullout; Transnationalism and Nation State Iraq; Atta and the Pentagon; Boxing U.S.A.; Biography of Thomas Paine

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Wednesday, August 17, 2005

Gaza Pullout; School Calendar; Lung Cancer; Mental Health for Veterans; This Man’s Army

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Tuesday, August 16, 2005

Reaction to Abu Ghraib; Be Your Own Lawyer; Free in Guantanamo; Gas and the Economy; No Tips, Thank You; Secret Critic

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Monday, August 15, 2005

Final Draft; Gaza Withdrawal; Ambassador Ross on Gaza; Soldiers of Fortune; God Bless the Economy; Camp Training

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Friday, August 12, 2005

New Set of 9/11 Transcripts Released; Britian Plans to Rewrite Rules For the War on Terror; Burning Gas; One Mother’s Iraq Vigil; New Drug May Help Addicts Seeking Treatment; Negro League Legend Dies

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Thursday, August 11, 2005

London Investigation; Gaza’s Future; N.Y. Times: 9/11 Commission Rejected Hijacker Report; Supreme Court Ads; Mascot Ban; Remembering an Icon

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Wednesday, August 10, 2005

Alleged 9/11 Intelligence Flaws; Bioterror: How Prepared is the U.S.?; Should Daylight Saving be Saved?; Money, Money, Money; Saving the Pipes

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Tuesday, August 9, 2005

Congressman: 9/11 Hijackers Were Surveilled; Gaza Pullout; Rare Map Thefts; The New Bad Boy of Graffiti Art; Letters; Touchy Stories

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Monday, August 8, 2005

Rethinking Homeland Strategy; Fight Against Famine; Police Lineups Reconsidered; Hysterectomy Concerns; The Last of a Long Line

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Friday, August 5, 2005

Iraq Update; Notes Recount A-Bomb’s Devastation; The Forgiveness of Nations; Walking the Walk; Ohio Remembers Fallen Marines; Wartime Propaganda

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Thursday, August 4, 2005

New Al Qaeda Tape; Ohio Community’s Reaction to Iraq Loses; Cell Phone Tracking; Prescription: Fewer Drugs; Field of Dreams, Hope and Prayers

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Friday, February 3, 2012
Running legend Alberto Salazar. (Photo Alex Ashlock)

Here & Now’s Alex Ashlock recently sat down with Alberto Salazar, one of the top distance runners in American sports history.

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Friday, February 3, 2012
A portrait of Dickens at age 29, painted during his 1842 American trip by Boston artist Francis Alexander. It’s on loan to the UMass Lowell exhibit from the MFA where it hasn’t been seen in 30 years. Diana Archibald says it shows the young Dickens’ penchant for flashy dress, which inspired another part of the Lowell exhibit, “Dickens as Steampunk Muse.” (Courtesy Of Museum of Fine Arts Boston)

“People think of Dickens as that old guy with the beard that’s not relevant. And he is relevant! In fact, I think of him as sort of like Jon Stewart, he uses wit,” said Diana Archibald, a Dickens scholar. Dickens was born 200 years ago, we look back on his trip to the famous mills of Lowell, Massachusetts in 1842.

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Friday, February 3, 2012
Jasmine Zhuang, a Yale junior who says she avoided checking the "asian" box on her college application out of fear it would prevent her from getting in. (Courtesy Jasmine Zhuang)

When it comes to college applications, some Asian-Americans are purposely not checking the race box. For many, it has nothing to do with their heritage, and everything to do with the high expectations that come with it.

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