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July 9, 2007

Dire Consequences

Around 150 people died in a suicide truck bombing on Saturday in a town north of Baghdad. New York Times reporter Stephen Farrell joins us from Baghdad with the latest.

Washington’s Iraq Clock Ticks Again

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As more prominent Republicans express doubt about White House policy, Congress returns to take up Iraq War funding. Gail Chaddock, Capitol Hill correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor, is our guest.

Time To Go?

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An editorial published in Sunday’s New York Times argues the necessity to leave Iraq and lays out a strategic plan to accomplish the pull-out. Anthony Cordesman, military analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, discusses the “The Road Home,” and the possibility of an imminent military withdrawal.

Pediatric Innovation

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As doctors continue to adapt adult drugs and medical devices for pediatric use, Donald Lombardi, the president of the new Institute for Pediatric Innovation is encouraging engineers and drug makers to develop new products for children.

“iSolation”

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Apple’s iPhone is the latest gizmo that allows users to get lost in a computer. We speak to Business Week.com’s ethics guy Bruce Weinstein about iPhones and “iSolation.”

Alexander McCall Smith

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We speak with best-selling author Alexander McCall Smith about his Isabel Dalhousie mystery series. The latest book “The Right Attitude to Rain,” comes out in paperback this week.

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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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