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118: What You Lookin' At? 12.18.98
Stories about seeing and being seen. Taped before a live audience in Town Hall in New York City in December 1998, this was a co-production with WNYC New York, featuring live music by the pop band...- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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117: You Gonna Eat That? 12.11.98
The family table is stage on which many family dramas are played out. We hear three stories...of three families...at three meals.- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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116: Poultry Slam 1998 11.27.98
For Thanksgiving, the time of year when poultry consumption is highest, it's our annual program about turkeys, chickens, and fowl of all types.- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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115: First Day 11.13.98
Stories of the first day on the job, the first day in a relationship, the first day in school. On the first day, any first day, we're expected to live by the rules and customs of the culture we're...- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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114: Last Words 10.23.98
Stories of people's last words before death. Their one last shot at figuring things out, summing things up. One last moment of asserting the fact of our existence, at the moment of our annihilation.- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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113: Windfall 10.16.98
What happens when you suddenly strike it rich. And the power money has over our lives, for good and bad.- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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112: Ladies and Germs 10.2.98
Germs, and how they make us leave the world of rational thinking.- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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111: Adventures in the Simple Life 9.11.98
I thought this was supposed to be easy. Tales from the simple life.- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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110: Mapping 9.4.98
Five ways of mapping the world. One story about people who make maps the traditional way — by drawing things we can see. And other stories about people who map the world using smell, sound, touch,...- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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109: Notes on Camp 8.28.98
Stories of summer camp. People who love camp say that non-camp people simply don't understand what's so amazing about camp. In this program, we attempt to bridge the gap of misunderstanding between...- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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108: Truth and Lies at Age Ten 8.7.98
Two stories of children lying to themselves and others. A woman who'd been diagnosed with cystic fibrosis talks about the lies she told herself as a child. And Dan Gediman tells the story of how he...- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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107: Trail of Tears 7.3.98
For the July 4th holiday weekend, writer Sarah Vowell and her twin sister re-trace the "Trail of Tears" — the route their Cherokee ancestors took when expelled from their own land by President Andrew...- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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106: Father's Day '98 6.19.98
For this Father's Day, stories in which fathers and their kids sit down and try to have an honest moment together. And stories about fathers who aren't close with their kids.- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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105: Take A Negro Home 6.12.98
Two stories of people who try to cross the color line — and why it's still so hard. We hear the story of a failed interracial marriage and the story of a teenager from a poor inner city neighborhood...- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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104: Music Lessons 6.5.98
What's frustrating about music lessons, what's miraculous about them, and what they actually teach us. This show was recorded in front of a live audience at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San...- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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103: Scenes from A Transplant 5.29.98
An NPR reporter leaves her three-year-old son and heads to Omaha—for cancer treatment—a last chance to save her life. After years of covering stories about medicine, Rebecca Perl enters the hospital...- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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102: Road Trip! 5.22.98
With all the American movies and songs and books about the joy of the open road, it's hard for an American to take just a normal road trip without huge expectations.- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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101: Niagara 5.1.98
During this hour, a special edition of our show: Stories about Niagara Falls, half of them from documentary producer Alix Spiegel, who went to the Falls and interviewed people living there; and half...- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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100: Radio 4.24.98
For the 100th episode of This American Life, a radio show about the pleasures of radio. About what makes radio so great ... and what makes it so terrible.- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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99: I Enjoy Being A Girl, Sort Of 4.10.98
Variations on what it means to be a girl and what it means to be a woman.- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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98: Throwing the First Punch 3.27.98
Stories about what it means to be a person who throws the first punch ... and how hard it is to give up.- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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97: Death to Wacky 3.20.98
An assault on the idea of wackiness. And then, an appreciation of wackiness, and an analysis of wackiness in American culture. Thirteen ways to describe wackiness.- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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96: Pinned by History 3.13.98
People who left their private lives and were seized by some huge historical moment.- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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95: Monogamy 3.6.98
How should we react to people who are in non-monogamous relationships? What should we think of these struggles with monogamy?- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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94: How To 2.27.98
What happens during a "how-to," and what our how-to's say about us. Most how-to's promise that you'll not only learn skills, you'll be transformed.- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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93: Valentine's Day '98 2.13.98
Stories about couples that all take place decades after that moment their eyes first meet.- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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92: Leave the Mask On 2.6.98
Stories about those moments when someone tries to tell you a little bit more about themselves than you'd really rather know.- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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91: Escape the Box 1.30.98
Stories of people trying to escape the box of their own lives, and create new lives.- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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90: Telephone 1.16.98
Stories of who we are on the phone, of things we learn on the phone, and of things that happen on the phone that don't happen anywhere else.- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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89: Sibling Rivalry 1.9.98
Stories about people who are destined to fight: brothers and sisters.- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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88: Numbers 1.2.98
Numbers lie. Numbers cover over complicated feelings and ambiguous situations. In this week's show, stories of people trying to use numbers to describe things that should not be quantified.
