Hour 1 It’s been a month and a half since the Occupy Wall Street protests started in New York’s Zuccotti Park. Since then, anti-Wall Street demonstrations have spread to cities around the country and world, drawing attention to the issues of corporate greed, political corruption and the widening wealth gap. But some worry that the [...]

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Hour 2 NPR’s Morning Edition co-host, STEVE INSKEEP, says we are living in the age if the “instant city” when metropolitan areas’ growth are unprecedented. Karachi, Pakistan the most heightened example if this as its population has grown from 400,000 in the 1940s to more than 13 million people today.  With all the development there [...]

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Hour 1 In this week’s news roundup, we take a look at three important national stories. First, a new study by the Congressional Budget Office on income inequality in America shows the incomes of the wealthiest 1 percent grew by 275 percent from 1979-2007 compared to middle income households, which only grew 40 percent, and low-income [...]

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Hour 2 AMOS OZ is one of Israel's most acclaimed authors.  He is the author of thirteen novels and collections of short fiction and numerous works of non-fiction that have been published in book form and in commentary.   His most recent book, Scenes from Village Life ,which he calls a novel in stories, is set [...]

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Hour 1 In his provocative new book, Political Evil:  What It Is and How to Combat It, Boston College political scientist ALAN WOLFE challenges the way we think about genocide, humanitarian intervention and the use of force to combat evil and in the process he's managed to raise the ire of both liberals and conservatives.  [...]

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Hour 2 In the last decade the number of juvenile offenders in jail has dropped about 25 percent — welcome news since research and experience show that young people who serve time are more likely to become more dangerous criminals than those who are supervised in the community.  One of the more innovative and successful [...]

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Hour 1 The October 15th discovery in a dirt-floored sub-basement in the Tacony neighborhood of Philadelphia sickened and chilled the spines of even hardened cops and reporters: four intellectually disabled adults under blankets, one chained to a boiler, all locked in, malnourished, abused and filthy. Linda Ann Weston has been charged as the ringleader of [...]

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Hour 2 For the past two years, European leaders have been confronting a debt crisis that, if not resolved, could spell disaster for the 17 countries that use the Euro, the 27 member states of the European Union, and perhaps the U.S. and the  global economy at large. Europe has already bailed out Greece, Ireland and [...]

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Hour 1 In 1900 there were just 1.6 billion people living on Earth but by the end of this month, our numbers will reach seven billion.  And by 2100, the U.N. projects that the world’s population will reach 10.1 billion.  Can the planet handle all of these people?  Is there enough food, water, living space?  [...]

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Hour 2 Menhaden has been called “the most important fish in the sea,” but the bony little fish barely registers on most people’s consciousness. And, some fishermen and scientists say that the fish, also known as bunker, is barely registering on fish sonar or in their nets, at least compared to its historical abundance — [...]

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