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Thursday, March 7, 2013

Music From The Show

Atlas Genius, “Back Seat”
Stephane Wrembel, “A Night in Tunisia”
Max Asoka, “Peals”
The Mavericks, “Back in Your Arms”
EST, “Eighthundred Streets by Feet”
Ron Carter, “Joy Spring”
Steve Earle, “Pocket Full of Rain”

From Billy Bragg Gets Personal In New Album:

Billy Bragg, “Help Save the Youth of America”
Billy Bragg, “Swallow My Pride”
Billy Bragg, “January Song”
Billy Bragg, “Handyman Blues”
Woody Guthrie, “I Ain’t Got No Home” performed by Billy Bragg
Billy Bragg, “Tomorrow is Going to Be a Better Day”

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Monday, June 17, 2013
Cancer patient Lynne Lobel, 47, watches a television program as she gets chemotherapy treatment at Nevada Cancer Institute in Las Vegas, September 2005. (Jae C. Hong/AP)

The sequester budget cuts mean lower reimbursements for chemotherapy drugs for Medicare patients — a change that’s forcing some cancer clinics to turn away patients, in order to make ends meet.

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Friday, June 14, 2013
Paul Eisenstein is publisher of "The Detroit Bureau."

We usually talk to reporter Paul Eisenstein about cars, but when he mentioned he’d recently had a brush with death, we wanted to know more.

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Thursday, June 13, 2013
The sun sets behind the Jeffrey Energy Center coal power plant in Emmett, Kan. in December 2012. (Charlie Riedel/AP)

The International Energy Agency is warning that unless nations take urgent action to reduce carbon dioxide levels, average temperatures on the earth could rise by more than nine degrees Fahrenheit.

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