Thursday, August 31, 2006

Bush’s Iraq; The Lost Boys of Polygamy; Unrest in Pakistan; Sports Buzz; Delicioso! Mexican Cuisine at its Best

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Wednesday, August 30, 2006

Pendleton Eight Hearing; Back to School in the Big Easy; Diary of Rehab; Flat Dads; Robin Cook

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Tuesday, August 29, 2006

Iraq Violence; Katrina, One Year Later; Louisiana Turns Republican; Salt Lake City; Polygamist Arrest; New Orleans Writer

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Monday, August 28, 2006

Tropical Storm Ernesto; FEMA since Katrina; Using Drugs for Weight Loss; New Orleans Family Settles in MA; Dimanche a Bamako

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Friday, August 25, 2006

False Alarms in Aviation; Homework and Learning; Impeaching the President; Listener Letters; Singer-songwriter Antje Duvekot

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Thursday, August 24, 2006

Over the Counter for Morning-After; The Power and the Glory; Eliminating Middle School?; Pluto Demoted; Faces of Shakespeare

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Wednesday, August 23, 2006

Marine Callback; Marine’s POV; Hezbollah; Senate Race; Meningitis Vaccine; Pollini

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Tuesday, August 22, 2006

Iran Says it is Ready to Negotiate; Political Fallout in Israel; Doping in the Nation; Face Dances; A Big Fish Story

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Monday, August 21, 2006

Bush Press Conference; Internet and Child Pornography; Lieberman under Fire; Why is the Sky Blue?; Chopin Nocturnes; “Babylon by Bus”

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Friday, August 18, 2006

Security Moms, Court Ruling on Wiretapping; Fixing FEMA; Class and Health; Economic Check-in; Terence Blanchard and “Requiem”

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Thursday, August 17, 2006

Bush Pledges to Revise US Pension System; Treating AIDS; Rebuilding Lebanon; This Week In Sports; “The Death of Kevin Carter”

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Wednesday, August 16, 2006

Passenger Disturbance Causes Emergency Landing; Terror Suspects to Remain Custody?; Passenger Profiling; 9/11 Emergency Calls Made Public; Planets: Pluto Plus Three; Listener Letters; How Americans do Funerals

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Tuesday, August 15, 2006

Investigation Update; A Future Shaped by Sunni – Shia Clash; Parental Consent for Abortion; The Jill Carroll Story; Bush Meets with Security Officials; “The Maine Squeeze”

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Monday, August 14, 2006

Sharon’s Condition Worsens; “Life in Hell: A Baghdad Diary”; Investigation in Britain Continues; Revised Air Travel Restrictions; “The Symphonic Jethro Tull”

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Friday, August 11, 2006

Pakistan: Terrorists Train with Al-Qaeda; Missing Exchange Students Found; Neither Bird, Nor Plane… It’s a Meteor!; “Why Do Men Fall Asleep After Sex?”

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Thursday, August 10, 2006

Traveling Today; An Attack of Unimaginable Scale; A Global War on Terror; State of Airline Security; Treating Lung Cancer; “Coronado”

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Wednesday, August 9, 2006

Carroll’s Kidnappers Arrested; Cuba: Another Turning Point; Lieberman Loses, What Now?; You’re on Here & Now; “World Trade Center” Hits the Big Screen

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Tuesday, August 8, 2006

Boston Police Corruption Case; The Middle East According to Juan Cole; Prudhoe Bay Pipeline; Stafford, Texas Houses of Worship; John Pizzarelli

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Monday, August 7, 2006

Alaskan Oil Field Shut Down; “Campus Confidential”; Middle East Update; Jean Baker Miller; Art Buchwald, Still Smiling

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Friday, August 4, 2006

Pro-Hezbollah Shiites Rally in Baghdad; Hezbollah Fundraising on U.S. Soil; Mel Mania; One Hundred Years of Voice; One Hundred Years of Cool; “The Brambles”

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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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