2006 July | Here & Now

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, 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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