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(Rebroadcast) The near poor are defined as those 57 million Americans with household incomes of between $20,000-$40,000 per year. S ...
Air Date: January 21, 2008
Last week, the Olympic Table Tennis Trials took place at Drexel University in Philadelphia. We talk about this sport, what it takes to c ...
Air Date: January 18, 2008
Will race become a major issue in the Presidential election?
Weekly discussion on American Politics: Today will race become an issue in the 2008 Presidential Election? On Saturday South Carolina hol ...
Air Date: January 18, 2008
The future of the music industry.
The future of the music industry. 2007 was a bad year for record labels with CD sales dropping 15% over the year. But this month, three o ...
Air Date: January 17, 2008
In his new book, “How We Missed the Story: Osama Bin Laden, the Taliban and the Hijacking of Afghanistan,” journalist ROY GU ...
Air Date: January 17, 2008
How evolution explains our complicated relationship with money and business
In his new book The Mind of the Market author MICHAEL SHERMER uses evolution and evolutionary society to explain our complex relationship ...
Air Date: January 16, 2008
Kenya continues to recover from unrest following its recent presidential election. We get an update on the situation, learn more about K ...
Air Date: January 16, 2008
The debate over milk labeling in Pennsylvania
The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture recently ruled that dairies that do not inject their cattle with synthetic growth hormone can ...
Air Date: January 15, 2008
What reporters should ask the candidates with Todd Gitlin.
TODD GITLIN has written three articles for the Columbia Journalism review in which he lists eight questions reporters should ask the pres ...
Air Date: January 15, 2008
What’s new in technology, gadgets and electronics
There was something for everyone at last week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas where some 20,000 new gadgets – large ...
Air Date: January 14, 2008
Anthony Lewis on the First Amendment
Pulitzer Prize winning columnist and author ANTHONY LEWIS’ new book is titled “Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biogra ...
Air Date: January 14, 2008
A conversation with author GERALDINE BROOKS
Pulitzer Prize winning author GERALDINE BROOKS visits Marty to talk about her new novel, “People of the Book,” which tells th ...
Air Date: January 11, 2008