Hour 1 As the Tuesday, August 2, deadline to raise the debt ceiling approaches, and the U.S. edges ever nearer to defaulting on its loans, Americans are growing increasingly frustrated over the bickering in Congress and the inability of legislators to reach some sort of deal.  Recent polling indicates that voters are fed up with [...]

Filed under: economy, politics, world |

Hour 2 Our coverage of the debate in Washington over raising the debt ceiling continues.  We'll start off this hour getting a reading on the opinion of American voters when it comes to the stalemate in Congress from Matt Cooper of the National Journal, whose  poll last week found Americans expressing more faith in the [...]

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Hour 1 The attacks in Norway on Friday killed 76 people, most of them teens and young adults slaughtered at an island camp for young political leaders in training. Early on, speculation about the murderers focused on Al Qaeda terrorists, but the lone Norwegian man arrested in the case, Anders Behring Breivik, published a 1500-page [...]

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Hour 2 It’s summer in Philadelphia. Therefore it’s very hot and humid, and putting on a pair of closed-toe shoes or a tie is the last thing you want to do going out the door to work in the morning. Not all corporate environments mandate a tie for men and a conservative hemline for women, [...]

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Hour 1 In the next few years, dozens of the world’s top-selling drugs will go off patent, drugs like Lipitor and Plavix, which millions of people take daily.  Generic versions of these popular medications will finally be available at considerably lower costs.  But while this is good news for consumers and health insurers, what will [...]

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Hour 2 Do you look at a spider web for secret messages? No? Then you probably never read the 1952 classic, “Charlotte’s Web, ” about the farm pig whose impending slaughter is put off by the high-praising messages spun in the dazzling webs of his friend, Charlotte, the spider. “Charlotte’s Web” still charms children and [...]

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Hour 2 REBROADCAST: In his recent book The Bond: Our Kinship with Animals, Our Call to Defend Them, WAYNE PACELLE, the president of the Humane Society of the United States, speaks to the deep connection he sees between humans and animals, as well as the numerous ways that humans have betrayed this bond through widespread [...]

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Hour 2 REBROADCAST: Harry Gold, a low-key South Philadelphia industrial chemist, son of Russian Jewish immigrants, hand-delivered U.S. atomic bomb classified information to the Soviets between 1935 – 1950. He was so under the radar, his obituary wasn’t published until two years after his death. The FBI launched the biggest public manhunt for Gold, who [...]

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Hour 1 When the U.S. went to war in Iraq it relied heavily on local Iraqis to help interpret the language, explain local customs, provide intelligence tips and make contact with others who could be helpful to the U.S. mission. In doing so, they took enormous risks — perhaps thousands were killed — and in [...]

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Hour 2 There’s nothing like the perfect pizza – crispy crust, gooey cheese, just the right amount of sauce bubbling through.  We all have our own idea of the perfect pie.  Some people love thin crust while others favor deep dish or Greek-style, some like a few toppings while others eat it fully loaded.  A [...]

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