Friday, June 30, 2006

This Week In DC; Mexico Moving Left?; Peace Talks in Spain; Foster Parents Unite; Camp Creates Activist Gay Community; Bus or Bike?

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Thursday, June 29, 2006

Court Says Bush Overstepped Authority; Tension Heightens in Israeli-Palestinian Conflict; Flooding Devastates Northeast; Cannibal Island?

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Wednesday, June 28, 2006

Supreme Court Today; Who is Ayman Al-Zawahiri?; Flooding; Student Loans; Specializing in Sleepless Nights; Freedom is its own Finish Line

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Tuesday, June 27, 2006

Palestinian President Brokers Agreement; Revised WTC Memorial Criticized; Conspiracy Theorists Peddle 9/11 Myths; ElderCare; Here & Now Hears from You; Voters to Pick Scottish National Anthem

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Monday, June 26, 2006

Supreme Court Decisions; Hot Issues and Debates; The Eagle Has Landed; What’s to Eat?; Scott Simon on the Siege of Sarajevo

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Friday, June 23, 2006

Sears Tower Terror Target?; Patients Teach Doctors; CIA Monitoring Bank Records; Garbage Art; Red Elvis

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Thursday, June 22, 2006

Proposals to Withdraw Troops Gunned Down in Senate; Somalian Anti-American Sentiment Intensifies; America’ Episcopal Church; USA Gone After Falling to Ghana; Bridging Strait to Sicily

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Wednesday, June 21, 2006

Interned to Iraq; Pursuing Guantanamo; Understanding JFK and Civil Rights; Talk of Forbidding the Fluffernutter Ruffles Feathers; Migrant Soccer in Michigan; Of Brides, Politics and Comedy

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Tuesday, June 20, 2006

David Safavian’s Secret Dealings; An Invisibly Enemy: A Soldier’s Account of Iraq; Cell Phone Records for Sale; The Personal is Political; But the Poetic Can be too

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Monday, June 19, 2006

Plot to infiltrate City Subway with Cyanide Confirmed; Online Outsourcing; Electric Shock Treatments: Tough love or Torture?; Prescriptions for Pups; Getting Jazzy with James

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Friday, June 16, 2006

Measuring Success in Iraq; Food, Family and First Base; A New League of Nations; Here & Now Hears from You; Midsummer Music

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Thursday, June 15, 2006

Today in Iraq; Iraq in Congress; Making Cents of Our Economy; Refuting Repressed Memory; “Birding Babylon”

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Wednesday, June 14, 2006

Bush Affirms US Support of Iraqi PM; Avoiding Medical Mishaps; Unshrouding Catholic Sex Scandal Secrecy; Travel Insured; Donald Hall Named Nation’s Poet Laureate

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Tuesday, June 13, 2006

Bush in Baghdad; Preventative Vaccine for Cervical Cancer; Increasing Violence in Middle East; Medical Records in the Digital Age; Best Beach Reading 2006

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Monday, June 12, 2006

Final Appeal Granted to Death Row Inmates; Reporting South Asia; UAW Constitutional Convention Begins Today; A Bi-Partisan Ticket in 2008?; The Best American Fiction since 1980

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Friday, June 9, 2006

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi; NASA Cuts; Physician Shortage and Healthcare; Fiddler Mark O’Connor

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Thursday, June 8, 2006

Al-Zarqawi Dead; Michael Berg Reacts; Reactions from the Middle East; No Longer the Face of Al Qaeda; Catching up with Only A Game; Julia Glass: “The Whole World Over”

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Wednesday, June 7, 2006

First Prisoners Released from Iraqi Prisons; Iraqi Police Advisor Home to Massachusetts; Primary Elections Held Yesterday in Eight States; Ethics of Embryo Cloning; Here & Now Hears from You; A Jersey Boy; A Tony for this Jersey Boy?

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Tuesday, June 6, 2006

Striving for Stem Cells; Virtuous Video Games?; Canadian Terror Attacks Thwarted; Back to School with BusRadio; Staying Peachy Keen

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Monday, June 5, 2006

Congress Debates Gay Marriage; Heart of a Conflict; Sudanese “Lost Boy” becomes a College Graduate; Des Moines Register Columnist Rob Borsellino; Soccer World Cup

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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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