HR 2 Pulitzer Prize-winning author BUZZ BISSINGER takes a road trip with his 24 year old son to get to know him better. This is not your usual father-and-son bonding story – Bissenger’s sons, Gerry and Zach are twins, but they live in very different worlds. Gerry, three minutes older, is attending graduate school at [...]

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Hour 2 What is in your chicken?  A new study found that chickens were eating feed containing a banned antibiotic and the active ingredients for pain relievers, antihistamines, and antidepressants. There’s been growing concern over the use antibiotics in animal farming. Close to three-fourths of all antibiotics are used for farm animals and this overuse, [...]

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Hour 2 Do you take your lunch break when you’re at work – leave your desk, walk to a restaurant or maybe brown bag it in the park? Turns out, more and more American workers are eating at their desks, plugging away on their computers while sandwich crumbs lodge in their keyboard.  While the two [...]

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Hour 1 For the poorest Americans, these are the worst times since the Great Depression. On the heels of the 2008 recession, lingering unemployment, foreclosures and now a new wave of cuts to last-resort government aid programs, how are our poorest fellow citizens surviving? And what is being done to help or hinder their survival? [...]

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Hour 1 In hundreds of U.S. neighborhoods, including several in Philadelphia and the surrounding area, the soil that children play in is contaminated by lead and other toxic metal particles once spewed into the air by factories that smelted lead. A 14-month investigation by USA TODAY’s investigative reporters, including our guest ALISON YOUNG, titled “Ghost [...]

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Hour 1 The shocking death of 6-year-old Khalil Wimes, who was allegedly starved and beaten to death by his parents, has outraged and confused many Philadelphians. Why was this young boy removed from a safe foster home and returned to his unstable family? Why did a Department of Human Services worker not report the abuse [...]

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Hour 2 March 18, 1997 began like any normal day in the working class suburb of Warminster in southeastern Pennsylvania. But JIMMY MILEY didn’t take his older brother Buddy to the scheduled eye doctor appointment. Instead, Jimmy and Buddy, who had been paralyzed since a 1973 football game for William Tennent High School, drove to [...]

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Hour 2 What do you do for exercise? Go for a run or a walk with the dog?  How about a game of tennis or golf?  Maybe you garden, do yoga or a Zumba class?  Most of us know that exercise is good for us and that we should do some each day but our [...]

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Hour 1 You don’t want to know what writer FLETCHER WORTMANN is thinking. For many of his 25 years he was consumed by thoughts of intrusive, taboo, abhorrent acts so perverse he became suicidal out of his concern about acting on them. Wortmann was diagnosed with the anxiety disorder Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) in 2007, [...]

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Hour 1 Nine physician specialty societies are banning together with leading consumer groups to draw attention to the over-use of certain medical tests and procedures.  The “Choosing Wisely” initiative, launched by the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation and Consumer Reports, is warning doctors and patients of 45 commonly prescribed but often unnecessary tests and [...]

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