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Friday, February 26, 2010
Germany's Maria Riesch speeds down the course during the first run of the Women's slalom, at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics(AP)

Toyota From Congress To Courts, Vancouverites Look To Olympic Legacy, Murder In Dubai… Who Done It?, Helping AIDS Orphans In Swaziland, Yuriko: A Dancer With Martha Graham

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Thursday, February 25, 2010
Dick Button

Dick Button’s free skate at the St. Moritz Olympics in 1948, during which he became the first skater to land a double axel jump in competition: Dick Button’s free skate at the Oslo Olympics in 1952, during which he became the first skater to land a triple jump in competition:

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Thursday, February 25, 2010
Dick Button skates during a practice session at the 1948 Winter Games in St. Moritz, Switzerland

What Will The Health Care Summit Produce?, Is Temple Grandin Changing How Animals Are Treated?, The Case Against Amy Bishop, Force Feeding and the Doctor’s Dilemma, Listener Letters, Dick Button on Olympic Skating

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Wednesday, February 24, 2010
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Seulewah Golf Course, after the tsunami

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Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Building homes that can withstand major hurricanes and earthquakes, as envisioned by Miami-based architect and urban planner Andres Duany.

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Wednesday, February 24, 2010
haitiddrawing

Toyota CEO Before Congress, Health Care Check-Up, Wyoming Considers A “Cowboy Code, Rebuilding In Haiti, Good Greens and Long Fairways

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Tuesday, February 23, 2010

How Many Jobs Will The Jobs Bill Create?, Restitution For Victims Of Child Porn, Shadow Of Saddam, Cyber-spying In High School?, The Best Pictures Of 1943

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Monday, February 22, 2010
Lay Low, 2007. (Arnar Ómarsson)

Health Care, Again, ‘Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows’, More Questions For Toyota, Olympics Update, Florida Woman Fights Court Order For Bed Rest While Pregnant, Iceland’s Patsy Cline Reflects On Finding Country Music

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Friday, February 19, 2010
This early Dec. 2009 photo provided by the Illinois River Biological Station via the Detroit Free Press shows Illinois River silver carp jump out of the water after being disturbed by sounds of watercraft. Many fear that the Asian carp, which can reach 4 feet long and weigh up to 100 pounds, will wreak havoc, not by attacking native fish, but starving them out by gobbling up plankton. Michigan asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday, Dec. 21, 2009 to close shipping locks near Chicago to prevent the carp from invading the Great Lakes and endangering their $7 billion fishery. (AP Photo/Illinois River Biological Station via the Detroit free Press, Nerissa Michaels)

Plane Crash Pilot Had Decades-Long Fued with IRS, A Closer Look At Clergy Sex Abuse, Tiger Woods Emerges, Olympics Update, The Big Fish Swimming… To Chicago, Musician Matt Morris

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Thursday, February 18, 2010
Olympic Champion Shaun White of the USA, center, runner up Peetu Piiroinen of Finland, left and third placed Scott Lago of the USA celebrate at the flower ceremony after the men's snowboard halfpipe competition at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

President Appoints Deficit Panel, Terror Trials Trouble, Olympics Update, Operation Mostarak, Listeners Weigh In, There Are No Small Roles

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Wednesday, February 17, 2010
President Barack Obama delivers remarks on the economy on the one year anniversary of the signing of the Recovery Act, Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2010, in the South Court Auditorium in the Old Executive Office Building on the White House campus in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Stimulus Year One, Mayors Across America, The Skinny In Spain, President Obama To Meet The Dalai Lama, What Is Beauty?

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Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Number Two Taliban Commander Arrested, N.I.H. Chief On Science, Health And Faith, Living In Boston With No Central Heat- By Choice, Alabama Shooting Raises Questions In Massachusetts, Violin Prodigy Sam Weiser

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Monday, February 15, 2010
The Casa Dos Durasip House (Durasip.com)

U.S. Troops Facing Resistance in Marja, To Help Haiti, Expert Says Let Haitians Leave, Is The Solution To Haiti’s Housing Woes Fiberglass?, Winter Olympics Update, John McCain Is Feeling The Heat, Smelt Fishing In America

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Friday, February 12, 2010
A drawing of William and Ellen Craft (New York Historical Society).

Incumbents Get Nervous, Brain Scientist’s Stroke Leads To Enlightenment, ‘Cyber Cyrano’ Plays Matchmaker, Mental Health Providers In Ethiopia Looks West, Listener Letters, The Messrs. Craft

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Thursday, February 11, 2010
French movie producer, Jacques Tati shoots a scene,  jumping in the role as camera man on the set producing his latest and third film "Mon Uncle" (My Uncle) in France, April 1958. (AP Photo)

Providing Shelter in Haiti, Is the U.S. Exporting Mental Illness?, Anniversary In Iran, Blizzard Heats Up Global Warming Debate, The Films Of Jacques Tati

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Wednesday, February 10, 2010
A snowplow clears the snow along Pennsylvania Ave., in front of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2010. (AP)

Toyota Safety Problems: Where Were The Regulators?, Previewing U.S. Prospects In Vancouver, A Look At Polygamy In North America

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Tuesday, February 9, 2010
President Obama with (from left) House Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio; House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calf.; and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev Tuesday, Feb. 9, in the White House. (AP)

Looking for a Thaw in Washington, The Great American University- Is It Under Threat?, Argentina Finds Clues About ‘Disappeared’ Through DNA, Amy Bloom’s ‘Where the God of Love Hangs Out’

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Monday, February 8, 2010
Waves pound the sandbagged seawall in Kivalina, Alaska, Sept., 2007. (AP)

Investigation Begins into Connecticut Gas Explosion, Sifting Through New Credit Card Rules, Alaskan Village Sues Oil Companies over Climate Change, Do Calories Count?

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Friday, February 5, 2010
A protestor holds an American flag and sign during the tax-day rally on the Capitol steps in Frankfort, Ky., Wednesday, April 15, 2009. Protesters gathered at state Capitols and in neighborhoods and town squares across the country Wednesday to kick off a series of tax-day protests designed to echo the rebellion of the Boston Tea Party. (AP)

NY Town Vies for 9/11 Trial, Student’s Suicide Raises Concerns Over Bullying Prevention, Tea Party Convention Kicks Off, The Life and Times of the NFL’s Bert Bell, Music From ‘Who Dat’ Nation

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Thursday, February 4, 2010
A man drives a Toyota Motor Corp.'s "Prius Plug-in Hybrid" during a test drive event at a Toyota facility in Tokyo, Japan, Monday, Dec. 14, 2009.  (AP)

Scott Brown Jetting to Washington, Using the Airwaves for Political Force, Car Talk, Can Wikipedia Keep Growing?, ‘Love Letters and Some Not So Lovely Letters’

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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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