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Episode Category: military


Zoe Strauss: Capturing Philadelphia on film; then, Tuskegee Airman Maj. John L. Harrison

Thursday, January 26th, 2012

Hour 2 Philadelphia artist ZOE STRAUSS pays attention to the joy and the pain that comes with the city’s neighborhoods – the poverty, substance addiction, segregation and cultural diversity – and captures scenes many of us would never notice. Strauss was known in the art world the last decade for her annual one-day shows featuring [...]

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Issues around bans on hiring smokers

Wednesday, January 25th, 2012

Hour 2 Pennsylvania's Geisinger Health System recently announced that starting in February it would no longer hire smokers and will screen for nicotine use among new employees. Pennsylvania is one of 20 states that allow bans on hiring smokers. Around the country more and more organizations, particularly hospitals, are embracing non-nicotine hiring policies as a [...]

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Cullen Murphy on The Inquisition & its modern legacy

Tuesday, January 24th, 2012

Hour 1 Vanity Fair editor-at-large CULLEN MURPHY believes there is nothing new under the sun about interrogation. He says ingredients for a modern day inquisition are here today as bureaucracies, information technology, and surveillance keep expanding; and there are still religions and totalitarian regimes fixed on an idea, forcing everyone else to tow the line. [...]

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Iraq update, including the fate of refugees

Tuesday, January 10th, 2012

Hour 1 Last week bomb attacks targeting Shiites in Iraq killed more than 72 people. Since the American troop withdrawal last month, there’s been growing concern about the increase in sectarian violence and political turmoil in Iraq. This hour, we’ll get an update on the attacks and evolving political crisis from NPR foreign correspondent KELLY [...]

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Hazing, bullying and how to stop them

Thursday, January 5th, 2012

Hour 2 A number of hazing-related deaths have made headlines in recent months. Florida A&M University drum major Robert Champion died within an hour of a hazing ritual, according to the state medical examiner, that involved “multiple blunt trauma blows to the body.” And eight soldiers in Afghanistan have been charged with involvement in the [...]

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Congress, the President, the 2012 Election & the Rest of the World

Tuesday, December 27th, 2011

Hour 1 In Washington, lawmakers spent weeks battling over the extension of the payroll tax cut.  Democrats didn't budge and, under pressure, Republicans conceded.  Meanwhile, the President came up the winner in a new Washington Post-ABC News poll, which found that while Americans are still disappointed with his handling of the economy and unemployment, they [...]

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Doctors under fire amid 'Arab Spring' revolutions

Tuesday, November 29th, 2011

Hour 1 As the revolutions collectively known as “the Arab Spring” have rocked the Middle East and North Africa, medical professionals have often been caught in the crossfire. Dictators like Bashar Al-Assad in Syria and the late Moammar Gadhafi in Libya have threatened, imprisoned, tortured and killed doctors who dared treat the protesters and rebels [...]

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Assessing the war in Afghanistan & NATO

Friday, November 11th, 2011

Hour 1 On Veterans Day, we take stock of the Afghanistan war, now in its 10th year and winding down, but still bloody and rife with uncertainty. President Obama met with the head of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) this week, discussing transition plans in advance of the upcoming end of the surge of [...]

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PTSD: A Mafia mole & NBA ref blows whistle on recovery

Friday, November 4th, 2011

Hour 1 BOB DELANEY’s life has already brought him deep inside worlds most of us can only dream about. In his first act, he spent three years infiltrating the Mafia as a young New Jersey state trooper. Then he spent 25 years running up and down professional basketball courts as a referee in the NBA. [...]

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The Palestinians, Israel & the United Nations

Monday, September 19th, 2011

Hour 1 All indications are that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will go to the U.N. later this week to make a bid for statehood status. The Palestinians have several alternatives: to do nothing, to ask the Security Council to vote on full membership status or to seek recognition by the General Assembly as a non-voting [...]

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