2008 May | Here & Now

Friday, May 30, 2008

Food Prices; “Without A Map”; Florida and Michigan Delegates; High Art or Child Pornography?; Hayes Carll

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Thursday, May 29, 2008

Army Suicides; Father Sues VA; Children Without a State; Iowa Tornadoes; Tiempo Libre

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Memoir Bombshell; Foreclosure Fallout; Conservation Refugees; Honorary Degrees; Letters; Protest 101

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Tuesday, May 27, 2008

European Fuel Protests; Islam in the U.S.; Border Fence; Record Fall in Home Prices and Consumer Index; Frank Sinatra

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Monday, May 26, 2008

A NEW G.I. BILL; THE AMERICAN RESTING PLACE; SUMMER TRAVEL AND THE HIGH COST OF FUEL; THE HIGH COST OF FUEL; TED WILLIAMS AT WAR

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Friday, May 23, 2008

Presidential Campaign; Insomnia; Organ Transplants; The Rise, or Fall of The Phoenix; “Encyclopedia of Our Universe”

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Thursday, May 22, 2008

Summer Air Travel; Lebanon; Speedo; The Week in Sports; David Halberstam

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Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Senator Kennedy’s Cancer Diagnosis; Cancer Research; Moody’s; On The Make; Karen Allen

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Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Iraqi Forces Enter Sadr City; Pennsylvania Avenue; “Kill Switch”; Steve Winwood

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Monday, May 19, 2008

China; Sharia Law; Sports Injuries; No Left Turn for UPS; Olive Kitteridge

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Friday, May 16, 2008

Oil Prices; Exodus 1947; Farm Bill and Food Stamps; Sports Update; Summer Camp

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Thursday, May 15, 2008

Burma; China; Politics; Letters; Martin Luther King Memorial; Bill The Band

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Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Prescription Drugs; Congress; Al Franken; The Truth is out There; Nikki Giovanni

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Tuesday, May 13, 2008

China Bookstore Owner; China/Burma; Mangroves; Graduation Names; Hebrew Words

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Monday, May 12, 2008

China Earthquake; Israel at 60; Alton Logan Case; Cyclone Relief; Richard Russo

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Friday, May 9, 2008

Lebanon; Haiti Food Crisis; Tips; Snacktime

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Thursday, May 8, 2008

Iraq; Slavery by Another Name; Congress; Swat Moms; Writers on Writing

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Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Political Update; Foster Care; Russian Presidency; “Here and Now”

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Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Presidential Primary Voting; Al Qaeda; Measles; Pandemic; The Warrior

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Monday, May 5, 2008

Presidential Politics; The 1968 Indiana Primary; Eight Belles; Portishead; Henry Winkler

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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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