2007 February | Here & Now

Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Markets and the Economy; Iran, Pakistan Al Qaeda and the Bomb; The Lost Tomb Of Jesus?; A New Life; Borat Fatigue

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Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Suicide Bombing in Afghanistan; Teaching the Iraq War; Reducing the Greenhouse Gases; Opportunities Inside A University Cafeteria; Bushmen and Kalahari

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Monday, February 26, 2007

Cheney in Pakistan; Fame Junkies; Congress Back; Ice Melt; Musical Guilty Pleasures

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Friday, February 23, 2007

Sending Troops Back To Iraq; Diamonds On The Red Carpet; Another Cold War?; A Beaver Returns To New York; Adapting Little Children to the big screen

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Thursday, February 22, 2007

Iraqi Soldiers Accused of Rape; Report Says Iraq War Increasing Terrorism; Success Story?; Water on Other Planets; Sports Update; Shout, Sister, Shout!

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Wednesday, February 21, 2007

U.K. Leaving Iraq; When Nixon Met Mao; Rise of the Machines; Dog Part in Kid’s Book Concerns Some; Danny Glover and Bamako

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Tuesday, February 20, 2007

JetBlue’s Ups and Downs; Obama’s “Blackness”; Preparing for Retirement; Satellite Radio Merger; TAL on TV

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Monday, February 19, 2007

Surge on the Hill; Dems in the Palmetto State; And They’re Off; Preserving Presidential History; “Praying to Be Thin”; His Podcast is Ancient History; Films for Family Movie Night

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Friday, February 16, 2007

War Resolution Votes; “Beyond Beat and Rhymes”; Torture on “24″; Sports Update; Turtle Man

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Thursday, February 15, 2007

Target Iran?; Case Spotlights Bipolar Disorder in Children; The Ethanol Gold Rush; Congress in Session; Iris Yamashita

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Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Bush Press Conference; A Time Honored Tradition; Iranian Involvement in Iraq?; Congress Debates Troop Surge Resolution; Modern Love

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Tuesday, February 13, 2007

House Debates Resolution on Troop Surge; Space Tourism; Lebanon and Iran; Mitt Romney’s Michigan Ties; “Angel of The Garbage Dump”

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Monday, February 12, 2007

Campaign 2008; Grammy Review; China Eyes the Moon; Lost in Translation; Author Myriam Cyr

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Friday, February 9, 2007

“Pretty Good” Intelligence?; Woman in War; Spotlight on Brain Injury; Sports Update With Bill Littlefield; Fashion Week Comes to a Close

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Thursday, February 8, 2007

Cigarette Handout Sparks Lawsuit; The Vietnam-era Congress; Congress Probes Iraq War Contracts; A Union for Freelancers; Actress Cherry Jones

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Wednesday, February 7, 2007

Austria Says it’s Busted Child Porn Ring; The New Governors; “100 Percent Heterosexual”; Pachyderms Sent Packing; Music and Treats for Valentine’s Day

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Tuesday, February 6, 2007

Iranian Diplomat Kidnapped in Iraq; Color Commentary; Iraq War Resolution; Remembering Sergeant Fuller; Break the Ban on Afghan Music

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Monday, February 5, 2007

Iraq Update; Washington News Round-up; Too Much Stuff; Budget Blueprint; A Lush Life

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Friday, February 2, 2007

Panel: Earth Heating Up; Advisor to Iraq’s President Speaks Out; Imposter Student; Boston’s Response to Publicity Stunt; The Sounds of Ennio Morricone

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Thursday, February 1, 2007

Marketing Stunt Spurs Fear and Fury; Study Spotlights Eating Disorder; Chavez Granted Unprecedented Power; Superbowl Sunday; Darker than the Deepest Sea

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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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