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July 31, 2008 10:36 AM EDT --
By Wen Stephenson, Senior Producer of On Point:
Dear On Point fans:
If you landed at onpointradio.org and wondered what had happened — well, don’t worry, you’ve got the right address. We’ve just . . .
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July 30, 2008 10:53 AM EDT --
Never mind raising cool kids, plugged-in kids, hip kids. Marybeth Hicks wants just the opposite: uncool kids, unplugged, unhip. She wants to raise GEEKS, and says you should too.
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July 30, 2008 09:53 AM EDT --
Last year, Nancy Pelosi broke the marble ceiling when she became the first female Speaker of the House in U.S. history.
There wasn’t much time to rest on her laurels. She had one portrait snapped, . . .
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July 29, 2008 11:19 AM EDT --
Have you heard of nagflation? Of a seagull manager? How about cockroach theory, jumping the shark, boiling the frog, running up the flagpole?
A new book by Gregory Bergman sets out to share some choice . . .
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July 28, 2008 10:36 AM EDT --
In August 1974, high-wire artist Philippe Petit stunned the world when he literally danced across a cable strung between the newly-erected World Trade Center towers. For the young Frenchman, the dream . . .
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July 28, 2008 10:03 AM EDT --
The Beijing Olympics are less than two weeks away.
For activists, the Olympics were a chance, when China was at its most sensitive, to push the country on Darfur, Tibet, human rights.
But where . . .
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July 25, 2008 10:02 AM EDT --
Nearly half of all marriages in the US end in divorce. But that doesn’t seem to stop us from looking for that perfect someone, that life partner, the one with whom we’ll grow old.
In a new book, psychologist . . .
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July 24, 2008 10:42 AM EDT --
Kay Ryan, our new Poet Laureate, has a question for you: "Who would be a turtle who could help it? A barely mobile hard roll, a four-oared helmet?"
Actually, she has lots of questions, big . . .
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July 24, 2008 10:14 AM EDT --
Russia's once richest oligarch is rotting away in a Siberian prison. Mikhail Khodorkovsky made billions playing fastball with Russian oil and gas in the post-Soviet 1990s, but lost it all when . . .
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July 23, 2008 11:38 AM EDT --
The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have become some of the longest conflicts in U.S. history. That has meant historic challenges in filling the ranks for an all-volunteer Army.
Filling the ranks for . . .
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July 23, 2008 10:20 AM EDT --
With over $4-a-gallon gasoline and a floundering economy, the Big Three American auto companies are struggling to stay afloat.
Tomorrow Ford will announce big changes. They’re moving away from big . . .
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July 22, 2008 11:02 AM EDT --
If you've got a lawn or a neighbor with a lawn, a lawn mower is probably your weekend soundtrack. A small price to pay, along with the $45 billion a year Americans spend on landscaping, to keep . . .
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July 22, 2008 10:20 AM EDT --
Senator Obama's message to the American voter is clear: He’s out on the hustings, and the hustings include the world. Right now, he's in that tough patch of the world from Israel to Pakistan . . .
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July 21, 2008 10:38 AM EDT --
Read the newspapers, and it looks like most issues facing the U.S. today have major scientific dimensions. Iran is enriching uranium. China is blamed for increasing carbon dioxide emissions. . . .
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July 21, 2008 09:39 AM EDT --
Budweiser Beer – the Great American Lager – is Belgian now.
In Europe, Asia and the Middle East, foreign companies are going global. And with the dollar so weak, US companies look . . .
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July 18, 2008 11:27 AM EDT --
We think we know the story of Genghis Khan. He was a ruthless barbarian who looted and pillaged his way to conquering the largest empire in recorded history.
With that in mind, the man at the . . .
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July 17, 2008 11:45 AM EDT --
In 1985, New York punk rockers The Beastie Boys moved from the post-punk music underground to sign with Def Jam Records. In 1986, they hit it big with "Licensed to Ill," and became the first . . .
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July 17, 2008 11:14 AM EDT --
The FBI's top brass is lined up in Washington this morning to celebrate the Bureau's 100th anniversary. This is history that's the stuff of legend and white hot controversy.
That . . .
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July 14, 2008 11:12 AM EDT --
The headline writers loved it. Hotel and real estate heiress Leona Helmsley left a pittance to her family and billions to the dogs: $12 million for her Maltese and maybe $8 billion for the dogs of New . . .
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July 14, 2008 10:56 AM EDT --
With frightening stakes for the U.S. economy, the U.S. Treasury and Federal Reserve are stepping in with a plan to rescue Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the backers of nearly half of American mortgage debt. . . .
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