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Caption: jacket Cover, Credit: design by Kirk DouPonce
Hugh Sinclair traveled to several continents while working for numerous banks, agencies and institutions, and saw microfinance from the ground up. ...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 28:59
Caption: Bernice Osborne Pollard and her 74-year-old mother, Mary Osborne, who is in the late stages of Alzheimer's disease, Credit: Deb Becker/WBUR
Alzheimer’s is the incurable disease that destroys memory, speech and function. Scientists say the number of Americans with Alzheimer's may triple...

Bought by WNYC, KQED, KZYX, and Maine Public Broadcasting Network


  • Added: Nov 18, 2011
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: A U.S. soldier smokes a cigarette in Afghanistan. Members of the armed forces are one-and-a-half times more likely to smoke than civilians. , Credit: JOEL SAGET/AFP/Getty Images
The military has failed to comply with its own tobacco pricing restrictions, selling millions of dollars of tobacco-based products to service membe...

Bought by KUT, Public Radio Remix, WRST-FM Oshkosh, HowSound, KUOW and more


  • Added: Jul 26, 2011
  • Length: 06:24
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Fight Tuberculosis, Credit: Works Progress Administration, 1941
Recent fights about health care reform have landed several people in the hospital. So who foots the bill? Historically, what's been the government'...

Bought by WCQS, WTIP, KSJD, Marfa Public Radio, WRIR and more


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  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 12
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A report from the front lines of global warming...timely in December during the U.N. Cimate Change Conference in Copenhagen

Bought by WTIP, KLCC, WCAI / WNAN, North Country Public Radio, KWIT and more


  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
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Each year, more people visit zoos than all major sporting events combined. But while top zoos say they're at the forefront of wildlife education a...

Bought by Northstate Public Radio, KGOU, WNYC, KUT-HD, KWIT and more


  • Added: May 14, 2009
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
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A special documentary program from the Stanley Foundation, KQED Public Radio and KUT Austin.

Bought by KWIT, WCAI / WNAN, WGBH Radio Boston, WYSO, WBEZ and more


  • Added: Mar 16, 2009
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 15
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In Western media today, the term "Islam" or "Muslim" often is linked inextricably with the word "terrorist." At the same time, Al-Jazeera and other...

Bought by KZYX, WCAI / WNAN, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, and WPSU-FM


  • Added: Apr 17, 2008
  • Length: 59:28
  • Purchases: 4
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There are no specific standards in a college environment and everyone can be successful

Bought by KRUA and WXLV-FM


  • Added: Jul 23, 2007
  • Length: 04:22
  • Purchases: 2
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The campaign for Vermont's open seat in the U.S. Senate turned into the most expensive election per capita in the country. It provides a jumping of...

Bought by KXOT Public Radio, KWCW, and WCAI / WNAN


  • Added: Nov 02, 2006
  • Length: 58:29
  • Purchases: 3
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We begin a series to better understand the challenges facing all high schools by looking closely at one school: Western Guilford High School in Gre...

Bought by Red River Radio Network and WAMC


  • Added: Sep 05, 2006
  • Length: 08:13
  • Purchases: 2
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More students drop out in the 9th grade than any other year of school. At Western Guilford High School in Greensboro, North Carolina, school leader...

Bought by Red River Radio Network and WAMC


  • Added: Sep 05, 2006
  • Length: 08:16
  • Purchases: 2
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A ball game at Western Guilford High School was once the "only" place to be on a Friday night. Western was the heart of a tight-knit community that...

Bought by Red River Radio Network and WAMC


  • Added: Sep 05, 2006
  • Length: 07:59
  • Purchases: 2
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Do you remember what you learned in high school? Much of what is taught stays the same, year after year, from generation to generation. Homer's Ody...

Bought by Red River Radio Network, Moab Public Radio, and WAMC


  • Added: Sep 05, 2006
  • Length: 08:07
  • Purchases: 3
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In Greensboro, North Carolina the textile and manufacturing industries once provided good jobs to generations of people with little or no education...

Bought by Red River Radio Network and WAMC


  • Added: Sep 05, 2006
  • Length: 08:02
  • Purchases: 2
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There has been a dramatic change in education and it?s all about numbers. State and federal laws now require schools to measure just about everythi...

Bought by Red River Radio Network, WAMC, and KPFT


  • Added: Sep 05, 2006
  • Length: 07:54
  • Purchases: 3
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In the past five years, at Western and high schools around the country, there's been a big push to increase the number of students taking higher le...

Bought by Red River Radio Network, 90.5 WSNC, and WAMC


  • Added: Sep 05, 2006
  • Length: 07:35
  • Purchases: 3
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Schools across the country are scrambling to fill a teacher shortage. In Greensboro, North Carolina, the school system is offering new teachers fre...

Bought by Red River Radio Network, WAMC, and KQAT


  • Added: Sep 05, 2006
  • Length: 08:03
  • Purchases: 3
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We conclude our series from Western Guilford High School in Greensboro. A team of reporters visited Western over the course of six months?. gettin...

Bought by Red River Radio Network and WAMC


  • Added: Sep 05, 2006
  • Length: 07:54
  • Purchases: 2
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Every year, hundreds of thousands of teenagers in the United States drop out of school. The reasons are many and each story is unique. Today, as ...

Bought by WVAS, Red River Radio Network, SpiritHouse Inc/Youth Noise Network, and WAMC


  • Added: Sep 05, 2006
  • Length: 08:09
  • Purchases: 4