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Monday, January 18, 2010
A woman cries as she sings at the Haitian Church of the Nazarene in Boston yesterday (Andrew Phelps/WBUR)

Massachusetts Senate Race, Scrambling for Health Care Reform, Is the Fairness Doctrine Ancient History, Haitians Wait for Word in Boston, Positive Outlook Among Black Americans, Hurt Locker

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Monday, December 21, 2009

Health Care Reform Passes in the Senate, Searching for Balance in Religion, The Trial Of Major Hasan, Feliz Navidad in Barcelona, Cookbooks for The Cooks on Your List

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Monday, November 30, 2009

David Leonhardt on What’s Missing in the Health Care Debate, Cyber Monday, Toy Makers, A Film Score without the Film

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Thursday, November 19, 2009

Holy War with Health Care?, Teaching Hope, Texas Execution, Another Army Murder Spree, Filmmaker Frederick Wiseman

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Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Fort Hood Update, Buying and Selling Carbon Offsets, Last Words, Health Care & Abortion, Woman Saved in Subway Station, The Man Behind the Bird

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Thursday, November 5, 2009

Healthcare in Congress, Journalist Michael Goldfarb, Japan’s Lost Generation, Medical Marijuana Business Booming in CA, The Prisoner Returns

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Friday, October 30, 2009

9/11-Linked Passport Discovered in Pakistan, Rosanne Cash and ‘The List’, Afghanistan, Biotech Companies and Health Care Reform, Letters, The Death of Edgar Allen Poe

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Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Afghanistan, A Medicare Primer, World Series, Civil Commitment, The Tree That Time Built

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Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Wellness Programs and Health Care Reform, Credit Cards, Palo Alto Teen Suicides, Civil Commitment, The Salem-India Story

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Monday, October 26, 2009

Healthcare and Too Big To Fail, Plain English Campaign, Back to Srebrenica, Governor’s Races in New Jersey and Virginia, Patrick Watson and the Wooden Arms

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Thursday, May 23, 2013
First lady Michelle Obama, second from right, hands out diplomas at the graduation ceremony for Martin Luther King, Jr. Academic Magnet High School on Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Nashville, Tenn. (Mark Humphrey/AP)

A professor from Howard University has some advice on what African American high school graduates need to hear when they receive diplomas over the next few weeks.

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Thursday, May 23, 2013
Foam peanuts. (HidingInABunker/Flickr)

What if you could replace styrofoam with something that biodegrades and doesn’t contain petroleum? That’s what one start-up is trying to do — with mushrooms.

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Wednesday, May 22, 2013
1989 photo of singer, musician and entertainer, "Prince." (AP)

Prince is a brilliant musician, a mesmerizing performer and — according to cultural commentator Touré — a Generation X icon. Touré says Prince played a wise older brother to the latchkey kids of Gen X.

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