Monday, July 31, 2006

Middle East Update; Training Iraqi Forces; Art Collectors Invest Millions; Schwarzenegger and Blair Tackle Emissions; Inside Out

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Friday, July 28, 2006

Middle East Update; Congress Cracks Down on Internet Gambling; Striving for Peace in Northern Ireland; “Jay Johnson: The Two and Only”

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Thursday, July 27, 2006

Update from Israel; America’s Rich on the Rise; AC Up, Power Out; Big Dig Debrief; Miami Vice… the movie

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Wednesday, July 26, 2006

Report from Rome; Inside the Israeli Army; Shark Bites; Islamic Rule in Somalia; Making Mathematicians; 30 Days, Season Two

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Tuesday, July 25, 2006

Bush Meets with Iraqi PM; Envisioning a Democratic China; Lebanon Update; Outages in Queens; “The Tailenders”

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Monday, July 24, 2006

Condoleezza Rice Visits Beirut; Proxy War in the Middle East; Iraq: Why We Can’t Leave Now; Charles Taylor; Farewell to Bloggers; Taking off her Tennis Shoes

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Friday, July 21, 2006

The Latest from the Middle East; Infertility Treatments; Lieberman, Lamont: Close Race in Connecticut; Super Termites; The MFA presents: “Americans in Paris 1860-1900″

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Thursday, July 20, 2006

Bush Appears at NAACP; “The Syringa Tree” by Pamela Gien; International Response; Investigating the Big Dig Disaster; This Weekend in Sports; Subversive Choppers’ Urban Legion

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Wednesday, July 19, 2006

Stem Cell Veto; American in Lebanon; Michigan Father Waits for Sons; Reactions in Israel; Motherhood in Prison; Peruvian Glaciers; You’re Beautiful

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Tuesday, July 18, 2006

Today in the Middle East; Big Coal, Big Secret; Women in Science; New Orleans Hospital Employees Face Murder Charges; Oil Prices Approach Record Levels; “Tsotsi”

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Monday, July 17, 2006

Middle East Debrief; Discovery Lands Safely; Air Show; Senate Debates Stem Cell Research; Summer Reading for Middle Schoolers; Jazz for July and Beyond

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Friday, July 14, 2006

Israel steps up Strikes on Lebanon; Plame Affair; Barbaro Battles Fatal Hoof Disease; Belly Dancers… from the U.S.?

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Thursday, July 13, 2006

Israel Strike Beirut Airport; Revisiting the 1965 Voting Rights Act; Big Dig Faces Big Problems; Rubber Sidewalks Save Trees; Brazilian Beats

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Wednesday, July 12, 2006

Israel Retaliates for Captured Soldiers; NOLA Hurricane Insurance Trial; Hurricane Katrina: Digging Through Debris; Famous Last Words…; Foraging For Food; “Woody Guthrie: Ain’t Got No Home”

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Tuesday, July 11, 2006

Guantanamo Bay Detainees; Death at Boston’ Big Dig; Explosions in India; A Promising Paper Clip; Roots Rock Lives

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Monday, July 10, 2006

GITMO; Train to Tibet; No Sanctuary in Sandwich; Books for Kids; Photographing Farmers

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Friday, July 7, 2006

Bush Speaks to Press; New News out of Africa; Midterm Elections; World Cup Finals: France to Face Italy; The Math Behind the Music; Scottish National Anthem Chosen

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Thursday, July 6, 2006

Gay Marriage Declared Illegal in NY; Balanchine’s Stradivarius; London Bombings–”Only the Beginning”; Bush Meets with Canadian PM; Provocative Places

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Wednesday, July 5, 2006

N. Korea Launches Spark Emergency UN Meeting; “The Forgotten Fifth: African Americans in the Age of Revolution”; Taliban Renaissance in Afghanistan; Enron Founder Dies; The Cool Seu Jorge

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Tuesday, July 4, 2006

Insurgent Violence in Afghanistan; America’s Birth Certificate; Beyond the Briquette; Travel Reviews a Mouse Click Away; Founding Kids

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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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