2009 April | Here & Now

Thursday, April 30, 2009

Swine Flu Update, ‘The Sicario’ Speaks, Climate Change with NY Times Columnist Thomas Friedman, Student Financial Aid Deadline, Theater Director Diane Paulus

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Thursday, April 30, 2009

A conversation with Diane Paulus, director of the American Repertory Theater and the critically acclaimed revival of the musical “Hair.”

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Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Swine Flu, The First 100 Days, Humanitarian Crisis in Sri Lanka, Shabab, The Good News Network, Mormons and Young Adult Literature

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Tuesday, April 28, 2009

School Nurses Respond to Swine Flu, Mexico Update, Swine Flu, A History Lesson, Humanitarian Crisis in Sri Lanka, Green Jobs for Poor Communities, The Music of Cloistered Nuns

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Monday, April 27, 2009

Swine Flu, Severance, Law Firms offer New Hires Stipends to do Public Service, Is Boeing Next?, China’s Gender Gap, Is There a Movie That Changed Your Life?

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Friday, April 24, 2009

Iraq Bombings, The Face On Your Plate, Anne Frank’s Chestnut Tree, What Good are Economists?, Art Exhibit in Detroit

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Thursday, April 23, 2009

GM Factory Shutdowns, Slavery By Another Name, The Taliban in Pakistan, Familicides

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Wednesday, April 22, 2009

A Mayor Eyes Green Jobs, Farming in the U.S.A., Christian Seders, The Democracy Index, Remembering Kurt Vonnegut

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Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Congress Back in Session, A Conversation with Howard Dean, Arraignment in the ‘Craigslist Murder’ Case, Recession TV, Return to South Africa

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Monday, April 20, 2009

Washington vs. the Credit Card Industry, Until It Hurts, A First in Turkey, Ten Years After Columbine, Boston Marathon

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Friday, April 17, 2009

Torture Memos, Afghanistan, Booze Bus, Running Barefoot?, Roy Haynes Goes to Harvard

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Thursday, April 16, 2009

Foreclosure Crisis, Breastfeeding Debate, Internet Piracy on Trial, Islamic Banking, Wells Tower

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Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Tax Day, The Relationship between Drug Companies and Doctors, Cuba, A Star is Born, Leon Kirchner

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Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Obama on the Economy, Independence or Marriage?, Remembering Harry Kalas and Mark Fidrych, Red Shirts vs. Yellow Shirts, Killer Whales, A Reel Find

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Monday, April 13, 2009

The Future of International Piracy, Obama’s First Hundred Days, Bank Stress Tests, Postville, Iowa- One Year Later, Raymond Chandler

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Monday, April 13, 2009

After our segment on Postville, we received an email from listener Sally Morrow Gomez who recently photographed parts of the town.

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Friday, April 10, 2009

Italy Mourns, Pension Problems, Electronic Books, Good Friday Agreement, Angus and Julia Stone

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Thursday, April 9, 2009

Piracy on the High Seas, Tax Tips, China’s Safety Net, Trouble at the Times, Do Billboard Hits Reflect the Economy?

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Wednesday, April 8, 2009

American Ship Hijacked, U.S. Civil-Military Relations, China’s Safety Net, Police Deaths, Libraries in Economic Downturns, The Sisters Antipodes

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Tuesday, April 7, 2009

President Obama in Iraq, Friendly Fire, Earthquake in Italy, OCD of the Brain, Vegan Soul Food

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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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