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Friday, July 2, 2010
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From Jaws to Indiana Jones, what’s your favorite summer blockbuster? Tell us what you’ll be watching or re-watching this summer.

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Thursday, July 1, 2010
** AIn this Feb. 16, 2010 file photo taken from a helicopter shows a view of Santa Fe bridge that links the Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez, bottom, with the U.S. city of El Paso. After 40 years of blood and money, both Mexico and the U.S. governments admit that the War on Drugs is a failure.  (AP)

Mexico’s Ciudad Juarez has become ground zero in terms of drug violence- yet no official death toll is kept. So American librarian Molly Molloy decided to start her own database.

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Thursday, July 1, 2010
Anna Chapman is one of 10 people arrested on charges of conspiracy to act as an agent of a foreign government without notifying the U.S. attorney general. (AP)

Alleged Russian Spies Face Bail Hearings, Rwanda Prepares For Elections, Opposition Parties Allege Oppression By President, Unemployed Blogger Calls Benefits A ‘Lifeline’, Librarian In US Tracks Mexico Drug Deaths, Pianist Fred Hersch Makes A Comeback

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Thursday, July 1, 2010
Fred Hersch performing at Jordan Hall in Boston in 2009. (Andrew Hurlbut/NECN)

Pianist and composer Fred Hersch discusses his long road back to health and music-making after a battle with AIDS left him unable to walk or perform.

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Thursday, January 26, 2012
Rep. Scott Reske, D-Pendleton, stands outside of the House of Representatives during a debate on the right to work bill at the Statehouse Wednesday in Indianapolis. (AP)

Indiana, in the heart of the industrial Midwest and where about 10 percent of the work force is unionized, is now the country’s 23rd right to work state.

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Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Singer songwriter Kevin Gordon, at Here & Now's studios at WBUR in Boston. (Jesse Costa/ Here & Now)

Musician Kevin Gordon puts his masters degree in poetry to good use in his Southern rock music.

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Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Dalia Ziada in Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt. (Courtesy Dalia Ziada)

As Egypt marks the year anniversary of the revolution that brought down Hosni Mubarak, we speak with Dalia Ziada, an Egyptian human rights activist who has been working to spread Martin Luther King’s ideas of non-violence in the country.

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