2005 December | Here & Now

Friday, December 30, 2005

Police Monitors to Increase in Iraq; Prescription Drug Benefit; Politics for 2006; Culinary Catastrophe; Food Fiascos

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Thursday, December 29, 2005

Economy Check-in; Revolutionary Science; Jared Diamond on Civilization; Golden Age Rivals; The Year in Photos

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Wednesday, December 28, 2005

The Enron Plea Deal; Language Empires; Iraq: The Year in Review; Bill T. Jones; The Year’s Best Pop

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Tuesday, December 27, 2005

Iraq Update; The Next Attack?; The Lost Languages of New Orleans; Child Development; Hanukkah Music

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Monday, December 26, 2005

One Year Later; A Web of Information; The Year in Sports; Camp Shakespeare

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Friday, December 23, 2005

Troop Reductions; Pastor Looks Back; End of a Holiday Tradition; Munich; Dancer Turned Scholar; A Joyful Noise

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Thursday, December 22, 2005

Police and Protest Rallies; Relief Efforts in Pakistan; Saddam Trial; Chimps and Kids Reveal Clues on Learning; An Interview with Duncan Tucker

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Wednesday, December 21, 2005

Cheney Breaks Tie on Spending Bill; Cloning Scandal and Peer Review; Iran Nuke Talks Resume; Judge Resigns Over Spying; Cookbook Gift Ideas

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Tuesday, December 20, 2005

NYC Transit Workers Strike; “Boys of Baraka”; Cheney Returns to U.S.; Alexander Siddig in “Syriana”

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Monday, December 19, 2005

The Bush Press Conference; Vaccines and Liability; Editorial Roundtable; Reporter Becomes a Marine; Jazzy Gifts

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Friday, December 16, 2005

Domestic Eavesdropping; Congressional Round-Up; Listener Letters and Emails; Iraq Civilian Casualties

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Thursday, December 15, 2005

Iraq Heads to the Polls; President Bush’s Approval Rating; NFL Update; “The Lighthouse”

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Wednesday, December 14, 2005

Bush, Iraq, Elections; Home Healthcare and Medicaid; Toxic Spill Flows Toward Russia; Study: Fiber Doesn’ Fight Cancer; The Return of Winter

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Tuesday, December 13, 2005

Saudi Prince Donates Millions for Islamic Studies; Was it Genocide?; Drug Plan Provokes Confusion, Satire; Starbucks Republicans; Gaming Granny; Andy Serkis, the Man Inside “King Kong”

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Monday, December 12, 2005

Iraqis Go to the Polls; Lawyers Seek Stay for Former Gang Leader; The White House Conference on Aging; Richard Pryor Remembered; Buried at School; Undiscovered Gems from Motown

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Friday, December 9, 2005

Congressional Update; Novelist Uzodinma Iweala; The Spread of Methamphetamine; Baseball with Bill; Comic Strip Artist Chris Ware

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Thursday, December 8, 2005

Parsing Rice’s Words; Early Education and the Achivement Gap; Global Warming After Katrina; Remembering John Lennon; Crafts from the Internment Camps

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Wednesday, December 7, 2005

Congress Analyzes Katrina Response; Arabs on the U.S.; Open Bethlehem; Global Warming Conference; Mary Louise Parker

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Tuesday, December 6, 2005

Secretary Rice in Berlin; Informing in the Inner City; What Causes Anorexia; The Gift of Savings Bonds; Real Indie Rock

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Monday, December 5, 2005

The 9/11 Commission Issues Report Card; Military Recruitment Case Reaches Supreme Court; America’s Budding Young Scientists; The Seasonal Name Game; Crime Omnibus

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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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