Archives: Episodes
As the U.S. concludes its fifth year in Iraq, we take a look at the war through the eyes of the men in the National Guard’s Alpha c
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Air Date: March 13, 2008
In 2004, German-born teacher SABRIYE TENBERKEN, herself blind, and six of her blind Tibetan students climbed 21,000 feet up Mt. Everest,
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Air Date: March 12, 2008
The economic cost of the war in Iraq
LINDA BILMES, and her co-author, Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, estimate the Iraq war is costing close to 1 trillion doll
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Air Date: March 12, 2008
Philly makes its case as the country’s best beer city
Is Philadelphia the best beer-drinking city in the U.S.? We talk with CRAIG LaBAN, restaurant critic for the Philadelphia Inquirer and D
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Air Date: March 11, 2008
What should be done to insure better accuracy of memoirs? Our guests are DANIEL MENAKER, former Executive Editor-In-Chief of Random Hous
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Air Date: March 11, 2008
For many Americans the forty-hour week is a myth, for others it is a reality. What are the rewards for employees who work overtime and ar
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Air Date: March 10, 2008
A conversation with Jan Egeland about the world’s humanitarian needs
A conversation with JAN EGELAND, former UN Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs about our responsibility to help end suffering
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Air Date: March 10, 2008
We discuss the recent recall of 143 million pounds of beef with WAYNE PACELLE,President and Chief Executive Officer of The Humane Society
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Air Date: March 7, 2008
PA Primary campaign strategies
We continue with our regular Friday series on National Politics. Today PA Primary campaign strategies. If you were advising Barack Obama
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Air Date: March 7, 2008
Oh, our aching backs and pains in our necks
An recent article in the Journal of the American Medical Association reported that Americans are spending more money than ever to ease th
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Air Date: March 6, 2008
The worsening situation in Afghanistan
By all accounts the situation in Afghanistan is worsening day-by-day. We get an update from JAMES TOWNSEND of the Atlantic Council of No
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Air Date: March 6, 2008
Election 2008 coverage continued. In this second hour we’ll turn our focus to “delegate math.” In America’s compl
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Air Date: March 5, 2008
Texas & Ohio election results.
Analysis of the Texas & Ohio election results. We’ll first hear from WAYNE SLATER the Senior Political Writer for The Dallas Mo
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Air Date: March 5, 2008
Spring is just around the corner, so our attention is turning to our gardens. DOUG TALLAMY professor of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology
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Air Date: March 4, 2008
The dumbing-down of America with writer Susan Jacoby.
In her new book, The Age of American Unreason, writer SUSAN JACOBY argues that Americans have grown increasingly uninterested and uninfor
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Air Date: March 4, 2008