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January 23, 2006

Ford Cutting 30,000 Jobs

The automaker is shuttering 14 plants from Atlanta to Ontario over the next six years.

Hamas Poised for Big Showing

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Polls show the Islamic group prepared to post big wins in the first Palestinian parliamentary elections in a decade.

Underground Adoption: Part Two

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We continue our look at a adoption network that allows parents of adopted children to give them to other couples to raise.

Makeover for an American Icon

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Wonder Bread is launching two new whole wheat versions of the famous spongy white bread.

Fisher Poets

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Producer Elizabeth Winn Johnson takes us to a gathering of full-time fishermen and part-time poets.

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Friday, May 18, 2012
The Appian Road, in the Monti Aurunci area of Italy. (Robert Kaster/University of Chicago Press)

For many people, this time of year is an occasion for road trips — up and down the coasts, across the U.S., through Europe. For Robert Kaster, it was a time to venture along the most ancient roads of all time: the Appian Way in Italy.

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Friday, May 18, 2012
(Michael M. Phillips/Wall Street Journal)

It was supposed to be a calm ride for marines travelling in Zaranj, along Afghanistan’s border with Iran, but a suicide bomb changed that. Photographer Michael Phillips witnessed the scene unfold and joins us.

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Thursday, May 17, 2012
Musician John Fullbright at Here & Now studios at WBUR in Boston. (Jesse Costa/Here & Now)

Okemah, Okla., is the birthplace of folk legend Woody Guthrie. It’s also the hometown of singer-songwriter John Fullbright, who at just 24, is already being compared with folk great Townes Van Zandt.

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