2008 July | Here & Now

Thursday, July 31, 2008

Soft Power; Wildfires; Vice Presidents; Looking for a Few Good Men; A Ludacris Situation; Ann Patchett’s Run

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Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Rip Currents; Alimony; Monica Goodling; When Global Becomes Local; The Shack

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Tuesday, July 29, 2008

The Anglicans and Bishop Robinson; Artificial Joints; Green Products; 1968: Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison

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Monday, July 28, 2008

Iraq; Social Scientists in War Zones; Medicare and Doctors’ Incomes; Younger Kids’ Summer Reads; Kids’ Summer Reads – for the young (and older)

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Friday, July 25, 2008

Help for Homeowners; Salman Rushdie; Middle Class in Crisis; Sports; Choreographer Sara Rudner

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Thursday, July 24, 2008

Obama in Germany; Obama and McCain; Body Armor; Sizzle; “Mad Men”; Beer Versus Wine

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Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Brave New World of Alternative Energy; Marine Suicides; Srebrenica Survivor Responds to Karadzic’s Arrest; Cable Television Satire

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Tuesday, July 22, 2008

The Capture of Radovan Karadzic; The Fiddle Factor; Your Letters; “American Teen”

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Monday, July 21, 2008

Mukasey on Detainees; Microtargeting 2.0; The List of Hunted Iraqis; Guantanamo Bay; Jazz CDs for Summer

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Friday, July 18, 2008

US and Iran; Can Lightning Strike Twice?; Pakistan Update; Speeding through Airport Security; Mandela at 90

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Thursday, July 17, 2008

Has the Oil Bubble Burst?; Mentally Ill Kids Stuck in the ER; McCain Facing Ageism; How Green is Fake Grass?; Music in Alfred Hitchcock’s Films

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Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Racial Attitudes and the Presidential Election; Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac; High Tech Olympic Gear Beyond the LZR Suit; Pavlovian Fish; Eli “Paperboy” Reed

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Tuesday, July 15, 2008

The Economy; Brain Scientist’s Stroke Leads to Enlightenment; Guantanamo Interrogation Tape; When Satire Isn’t Funny – The New Yorker Cover; Art Critics Out

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Monday, July 14, 2008

Mortgage Crisis; Afghanistan; Cook County Tax Hike; Parental Dating Rules; “The Closer”

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Friday, July 11, 2008

Fannie and Freddie Crisis; The Rome Olympics; Barbara Ehrenreich; This Week in Sports; 13th Annual Microcar and Minicar Classic; Street Lane Closures Make Way for Public Space

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Thursday, July 10, 2008

Airline Industry; The Dirty Dozen; Bangladesh and Global Warming; Popcorn-Popping Cell Phone Video Marketing Campaign; Mothers and Daughters

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Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Terrorism Surveillance; Crime and Section 8 Vouchers; Detainee Legal Cases; Let Them Eat Worms; Everyday Observations and Science

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Tuesday, July 8, 2008

War Powers; Who Gets to Declare War?; Mexico’s Drug War – America’s Guns; Subconscious Racism; Guitarist Ry Cooder

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Monday, July 7, 2008

Kids and Cholesterol; Girls of Riyadh; John McCain’s War; The “Bicycle Whisperer”; The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

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Friday, July 4, 2008

Agreement in Iraq; America: The Untold Story; What’s an Authentic Vacation?; Jesse Helms Dies; Songs of Insects

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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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