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Smoking Can Cause Droopy Cigarette
From: The humble Farmer
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Smoking causes stroke, heart attack and droopy cigarette

  • Added: Jul 28, 2008
  • Length: 06:32
Surviving on the Duwamish
From: Seattle Globalist
Series: Life on the Duwamish: Rediscovering Seattle's Dirty South
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Life on the Duwamish, Segment 5

  • Added: Jul 04, 2008
  • Length: 08:53
Every Color is Somebody's Gang Color
From: Curie Youth Radio
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Tan pants? Black shirt? You must be in a gang.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 25, 2008
  • Length: 02:25
  • Purchases: 1
What Would Happen if Tomatoes Killed 400,000 Americans Every Year
From: The humble Farmer
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145 people got sick and tomatoes were pulled from store shelves

Bought by Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920


  • Added: Jun 11, 2008
  • Length: 01:14
  • Purchases: 1
Air Pollution On the Move
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: June 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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When it comes to air pollution, every little particulate has a green card. It can just board the next wind current and take a ride to greener pastu...

  • Added: May 30, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
A Crisis of Care: A System on Life Support (Part III)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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In the last of our three-part series, A Crisis of Care: A System on Life Support, we?ll hear from experts offering an insiders view on the continui...

  • Added: May 23, 2008
  • Length: 29:00
The Fundamentals of Impairment-Part 1
From: KUOW
Series: Troubled Doctors: Addiction and Depression in Medicine
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The story of an addicted doctor

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and NPR Station Showcase with PRX


  • Added: May 01, 2008
  • Length: 06:01
  • Purchases: 2
Commuting Commuter Pollution
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: May 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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If you're stuck in traffic, here's something you might be interested in knowing. A University of Southern California research group reports that ne...

  • Added: Apr 30, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
A Crisis of Care: Gina's Story (1 hour Special)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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One mother's fight to save her daughter's life from a dysfunctional and inhumane health care system in California's prisons.

  • Added: Apr 22, 2008
  • Length: 59:00
A Crisis of Care: Gina's Story (Part II)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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This is the second of a three-part series, 'A Crisis of Care,' a look inside California's prison health care system. We'll hear how a state-sancti...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2008
  • Length: 29:00
Effects of Binge Drinking
From: The humble Farmer
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Young people who binge could be risking serious damage to their brains

Bought by Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920 and Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920


  • Added: Mar 16, 2008
  • Length: 01:06
  • Purchases: 2
A Crisis of Care: Gina's Story (Part I)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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This is the first of a three-part series, "A Crisis of Care," a look inside California's prison health care system. In this first show, "Gina's Sto...

  • Added: Mar 14, 2008
  • Length: 29:00
DOE opens high-containmment biolab in Livermore, CA
From: Kellia Ramares
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short news story

  • Added: Jan 30, 2008
  • Length: 02:50
Sex Toy Safety
From: The Environment Report
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Some sex toy retailers are concerned about chemicals used to make the toys.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 25, 2007
  • Length: 07:08
  • Purchases: 1
Elderly and gambling
From: Next Generation Radio
Series: NPR's Next Generation Radio
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Retirees move to Las Vegas and become addicted to gambling

  • Added: Aug 28, 2007
  • Length: 05:15
NeedleExchangeSouthBronx,NY, USA
From: Anton Foek
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Hopeful Future Needle Exchange

  • Added: Aug 04, 2007
  • Length: 13:32
Nanotech Nervousness
From: The Environment Report
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Nanotechnology is being used in all kinds of products with little government regulation.

Bought by KUOW and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 18, 2007
  • Length: 04:01
  • Purchases: 2
My Dinner With Menopause
From: Karen Michel
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8 women at dinner talk about fears and realities of oncoming menopause

Bought by KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Feb 05, 2007
  • Length: 32:32
  • Purchases: 1
Texas Park Has Bad Air Day
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: February 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Big Bend National Park has some of the most spectacular scenery in the United States. It's in the boonies of southwest Texas, yet it has the smoggi...

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Jan 12, 2007
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
This I Believe - Quique Aviles
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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Poet and performance artist Quique Aviles believes his work can help save him from his addiction.

Bought by WEZU, WEZU, KJZZ, and KUOW


  • Added: Oct 06, 2006
  • Length: 03:32
  • Purchases: 4
Douglas Webb, AIDS advisor in Africa reports on orphans and vulnerable children
From: UNICEF
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This story is free! UNICEF's AIDS Advisor on Eastern and Southern Africa, Douglas Webb, gives a full report on UNICEF's new publication on Orphans ...

Bought by AIFM


  • Added: Aug 15, 2006
  • Length: 03:50
  • Purchases: 1
Playing "Advergames" with Kids' Health
From: Dick Meister
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This is a commentary noting that the Internet has become a major tool for selling easily exploited kids the junk food that has helped make childhoo...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2006
  • Length: 03:11
I'll Quit Cutting When You Quit Smoking
From: Curie Youth Radio
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Excerpts from the diary of a girl who insists that self-mutilation is saving her life.

Bought by WBEZ


  • Added: Jul 27, 2006
  • Length: 03:26
  • Purchases: 1
Heroin
From: Radio Rookies
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Janesse reports on her father's herion addiction.

Bought by WITF, New Hampshire Public Radio, SALTcast Podcast, KXOT Public Radio, and WUAL


  • Added: Jun 01, 2006
  • Length: 08:10
  • Purchases: 5
Part Two: LATINA WOMEN AT INCREASING RISK of HIV
From: Francesca Rheannon
Series: Voices of HIV
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why Latina women are more at risk, and one woman?s story.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WJAB, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 12, 2006
  • Length: 05:33
  • Purchases: 3