2009 August | Here & Now

Monday, August 31, 2009

California Prison Release, Modern-day Slavery, Lockerbie, Pentagon Cancels Reporter Review Program

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Friday, August 28, 2009

Robin shares some thoughts about the cacophony over health care this summer.

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Friday, August 28, 2009

Who are the Groups For & Against Health Care Reform?, Two Perspectives on Protests, Missing Girl Found after 18 Years, The Endangered Bluefin Tuna, Honored at Arlington

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Thursday, August 27, 2009

Senator Kennedy and the Catholic Church, Sen. Kennedy’s Faith & Politics, Constituent Services, Swine Flu and College Campuses, Time to Get a New Card?, Clipped Viewing

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Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Ted Kennedy’s Death, Kennedy’s Legislative Legacy, Kennedy’s Political Legacy, Chappaquiddick and Beyond, Kennedy’s Personal Touch

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Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Paul Krugman, Controversy Continues Over Lockerbie Release, Adult Autism

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Monday, August 24, 2009

A new sustainable farming project is luring dozens of urban immigrants into growing organic crops for the market and for their own tables.

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Monday, August 24, 2009

CIA Interrogations, How the Mighty Fall, Cash For Clunkers, Pumpkin Greens Grow in Massachusetts, Understanding the Wicked Witch and Cowardly Lion

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Friday, August 21, 2009

President Obama Losing Support, Long Term Care, Violence in Iraq, A Doctor in the House, The Heartless Bastards

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Thursday, August 20, 2009

Lockerbie Convict Released, Healthcare Reform Opponents, The Uninsured Congressman, New Credit Card Regulations, Seeding Clouds to Make Rain, Should ‘Beanballs’ be Banned?, Ripley’s Believe it or Not! Hunts Down Oddities

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Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Afghanistan Elections, Do Doctors Make Good Authors?, Choosing Silence, Seniors and Health Care Reform, From Mao to the Met

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Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Swine Flu: What to Expect, Homeless Heroin Addicts, Rain Disaster in Sri Lanka, Backward Planets Discovered, The Best Year in Filmmaking: 1939 or 1999?

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Monday, August 17, 2009

What is the difference between universal health care and a single-payer system? Will Medicare Advantage see changes under a new health care plan? Robin Young and Los Angeles Times reporter Noam Levey answer your most common questions.

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Monday, August 17, 2009

Democratic Divide on Health Care, Allegations of Murder Against Blackwater’s Erik Prince, Afghan Sushi, Presidents and Health Care, Writer Nick Burd

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Friday, August 14, 2009

Fact v. Fiction in Healthcare, Part 2, Tomato Blight, Letters, The Basij Militia in Iran, And Now This Commercial Interruption, Remembering A Rock Radio Legend

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Thursday, August 13, 2009

Health Care Reform and Nazi Symbolism?, Is Asia Rising?, Obamarita Anyone?, Business in Iraq, A Musical ‘Stew’

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Wednesday, August 12, 2009

A group based in Tennessee is holding a massive health clinic in California this week. From dental care to eye tests, people are lining up for help.

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Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Free Medical Care, Pythons in Florida, How is the Millennial Generation Changing the Workplace?, Why We Fight in Afghanistan, Awakening Alzheimer’s

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Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Protestors & Supporters Converge at Obama Town Hall, California Slashes Funding for Domestic Violence Programs, Yoga Warriors

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Tuesday, August 11, 2009

A Scottish childcare specialist is teaching babies how to use sign language to communicate H1N1 swine flu symptoms.

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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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