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Behind the Counter: What Labor Really Looks Like
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
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See what Labor looks like and does at your local convenience store.

  • Added: Apr 02, 2011
  • Length: :57
the wraparound: The New Meaning of Nuclear
From: TurnStyle
Series: the wraparound
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Host Noah Nelson and reporter Robyn Gee discuss Robyn’s interview with Dr. Bo Jacobs of the Hiroshima Peace Institute. Dr. Jacobs says that most yo...

Bought by KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm


  • Added: Apr 01, 2011
  • Length: 12:59
  • Purchases: 1
Dr Helen Caldicott: NO safe levels of radiation, NO safe levels of food radionuclides
From: Claudia Cragg
Caption: Nuclear Sponges for Radiation , Credit: Greenpeace
THIS IS AN UPDATE dated 1 April 2011 from Dr. Helen Caldicott, physician, paediatrician, and author of 'Nuclear Is Not The Answer' on the current ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 01, 2011
  • Length: 13:09
  • Purchases: 1
Foreign Affairs
From: War News Radio
Caption: Chinese President Hu Jintao and Afghan President Hamit Karzai at a 2010 state visit., Credit: Photo by Feng Li/Getty Images AsiaPac
News and features on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

  • Added: Apr 01, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
The Johnson Family
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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As you just heard, Dadaab has become the near permanent residence for hundreds of thousands of refugees. Many of them will never see their homes in...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Apr 01, 2011
  • Length: 05:06
  • Purchases: 1
Railroad Workers
From: World Vision Report
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Mexico's Copper Canyon Railway carves its way through the northern state of Chihuahua. It's a marvel of engineering and a huge tourist attraction. ...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 01, 2011
  • Length: 04:14
  • Purchases: 1
Big Power
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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Bolivia is often called the poorest nation in South America. And in Bolivia’s indigenous culture, if you do happen to have money, it’s generally c...

Bought by WBEZ


  • Added: Apr 01, 2011
  • Length: 04:34
  • Purchases: 1
Surgeon Shortage
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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Uganda desperately needs surgeons. In a country of 32 million people, there are only about a hundred specialist surgeons. As a result, accident vi...

Bought by WBEZ and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 01, 2011
  • Length: 06:19
  • Purchases: 2
Waiting in Dadaab
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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The unrest in the Middle East is causing a huge refugee crisis. How this will play out in the long term is anyone’s guess. But history tells us re...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 01, 2011
  • Length: 03:59
  • Purchases: 1
Nuclear Power's Future
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Green Ethics
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Due to the high demand of energy, competitive costs, and environmental concerns, nuclear power seemed like a reasonable option. The earthquake and ...

Bought by WRFA-LP and WEKU


  • Added: Apr 01, 2011
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 2
WVR - Show 377 (Half Hour) - Help Portraits and Mamou Playboys
From: World Vision Report
Series: World Vision Report - Weekly Half Hour
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This week the World Vision Report focuses on those little events in life that often times matter most to people. For instance, professional photog...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2011
  • Length: 28:00
WVR - Show 377 (One Hour) - Help Portraits and Mamou Playboys
From: World Vision Report
Series: World Vision Report - Weekly One Hour
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This week the World Vision Report focuses on those little events in life that often times matter most to people. For instance, professional photog...

Bought by WDSE


  • Added: Mar 31, 2011
  • Length: 01:50:25
  • Purchases: 1
Computer Talk Radio (April 2, 2011 - April 8, 2011)
From: Benjamin Rockwell
Series: Computer Talk Radio (54 Minute)
Caption: Computer Talk Radio
Computer Talk Radio weekly broadcast for the week starting April 2, 2011. This weeks program covers computer and technology news, computer fonts, t...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2011
  • Length: 54:00
A New Era of Health Information Technology
From: CHC Radio
Series: Conversations on Health Care
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Dr. Paul Tang, Chief Innovation and Technology Officer for the Palo Alto Medical Foundation, joins us in conversation this week.

  • Added: Mar 31, 2011
  • Length: 25:35
The Dulles Airport Metrorail Project -- overview of an important new transit link
From: The Infrastructure Show
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The 25th segment of The Infrastructure Show podcast series; 3-11

  • Added: Mar 30, 2011
  • Length: 34:02
Prison Doulas-Supporting Pregnant Women Behind Bars
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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For most women, the way their pregnancy, labor, and recuperation is handled by the correctional system has a lot to be desired. But there are some...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and KUOW


  • Added: Mar 30, 2011
  • Length: 09:35
  • Purchases: 2
KUNM Youth Radio New Mexico Speaks Blog
From: KUNM
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Youth Radio has a new blog! We are excited to offer a space where youth, ages 12-30, can have a voice on important topics and issues of interest. W...

  • Added: Mar 26, 2011
  • Length: 07:59
Documenting War
From: War News Radio
Caption: Image stills from the documentary Shepherds of Helmand, Credit: Gary Mortensen
News and features on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

  • Added: Mar 25, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Acts of Kindness
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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During the last four decades, foreign journalists were more or less banned from reporting from Libya. And inside the country, Moammar Gaddafi’s g...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2011
  • Length: 03:13
Benghazi Newspaper Editor
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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After the Libyan revolutionary movement began in Benghazi, journalists from the city, who had not been able to report freely before, suddenly were ...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2011
  • Length: 02:10
Leiderman Ortiz
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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In Colombia, security has improved since the government began demobilizing paramilitary groups seven years ago. But the country is still one of the...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WBEZ, and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Mar 25, 2011
  • Length: 05:41
  • Purchases: 3
Exiled Somali Journalists
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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Somalia is one of the most dangerous countries in the world for journalists. Eleven reporters have been killed in the last two years alone and man...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2011
  • Length: 05:37
Bloggers in Tunis
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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This year the organization “Reporters Without Borders” gave its special Netizen award to a group of Tunisian bloggers. The award – sponsored by Go...

Bought by WBEZ


  • Added: Mar 25, 2011
  • Length: 05:53
  • Purchases: 1
WVR - Show 376 (Half Hour) - Media Freedom
From: World Vision Report
Series: World Vision Report - Weekly Half Hour
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Modern communications is changing the world of journalism. So-called “citizen journalists” have kept the world informed on the revolutions spreadi...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Mar 25, 2011
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Black Swan of Cairo - Mark Blyth
From: Open Source
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Open Source "Shorties" are 7-8 minute cuts of our best evergreen material. Today: Mark Blyth on the political economy of uncertainty in Japan, Egyp...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Mar 25, 2011
  • Length: 07:47
  • Purchases: 1

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