2009 June | Here & Now

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Jet Crash in the Indian Ocean, Factory Targeted in Immigration Raid to Close, Madoff Hires a Prison Consultant, Coup in Honduras, Amber Benson

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Monday, June 29, 2009

Supreme Court Discrimination Ruling, Are Iraq’s Cities Ready for American Pullout?, Advice for the Prison Bound CEO, Can you Teach Satisfaction?, The Low Anthem

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Friday, June 26, 2009

Iran at Two Weeks and Counting, Remembering Michael, Virginia’s Hatton Ferry, Proxy Servers, Current TV

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Thursday, June 25, 2009

Saddam Interrogations, An Iran Primer, Prank Calls in Alabama, How Texting Affects Teenagers’ Development, ‘Tween Books, Part 2

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Thursday, June 25, 2009

A who’s who of Iranian clerics and political leaders.

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Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Mystery (Partly) Solved, The Rating Companies, Whaling, N.O.W.’s New President, Summer Reading for Tweens

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Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Iran Update, Washington Train Crash, Are Unnecessary Medical Tests Driving up Costs?, Older Drivers, Tonight Show Sidekick, Remembering Ed McMahon & UFOs in New Mexico

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Monday, June 22, 2009

More Election Fallout in Iran, The Long View on Iran, Prank Calls, What Would You Do With a Billion Dollars?, Deep-Sea Treasure Hunting

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Friday, June 19, 2009

The Ayatollah Speaks, Stay at Home Dads, Kentucky Budget Woes, Reporter’s Notebook from Zimbabwe, Tiempo Libre

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Thursday, June 18, 2009

Montana Public Health Emergency, Food Inc., American Forces Leave Iraqi Cities, Iranian Protests Confound Ruling Clerics, Letters and Bartering

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Thursday, June 18, 2009

After our recent segment on Carl Sandburg’s guitar, we received a photo and email from listener Kenyon Hodge.

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Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Regulation of Financial Markets, Prescription Drug Prices, Magnets on the Brain, California Budget Woes, Country Music TV Awards & ‘The Shape of Jazz to Come’

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Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Iran’s Disputed Election, Remembering Thembi Ngubane, Twitter and the Protests in Iran, Homemade DNA Lab, Olive Kitteridge

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Monday, June 15, 2009

Iran’s Disputed Election, Diminishing Winds, Going Green in India, Departing from ‘Standards’

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Friday, June 12, 2009

Iran Elections, Miracle Ball, Letters, Hate Crimes in America, Carl Sandburg’s Guitar

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Thursday, June 11, 2009

Swine Flu Pandemic, Glimmers of Hope or Dangers Ahead?, Feeling the Pain in Laos, GM’s Image Control

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Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Health Care Overhaul, Sotomayor’s Reverse Racism Ruling, Environmental Sensors in Cell Phones, Presidential Elections in Iran, Violinist David Garrrett

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Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Guantanamo Detainee in NY Court, Free Range Kids, The People’s Court Chinese Style, Ethics at Business Schools, Peter Holsapple & Chris Stamey

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Monday, June 8, 2009

Mayors on Stimulus Money, American Journalists in North Korea Sentenced to 12 years, Is Toyota Moving to Town?, Air France Flight 447 and the Future of Aircraft Tracking, Jack Kerouac, Fantasy Sportsman

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Friday, June 5, 2009

Saturn and the Indy 500, Women’s Health in Nepal, Can Gordon Brown Survive?, D-Day Prayer, Gayle Forman

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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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