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346: Home Alone 12.21.07
A 79-year-old woman, Mary Ann, dies in Los Angeles. She's lived alone for decades. No one knows her—or her next of kin. There's a body to be buried, a house full of stuff to get rid of.- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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345: Ties That Bind 12.14.07
A young girl named Sarah receives a heart transplant from a boy her age, and her mother sets off to find out more about the kid who saved her daughter's life. But years later, Sarah's not sure she...- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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344: The Competition 11.30.07
Stories of the unintended consequences of market forces.- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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343: Poultry Slam 2007 11.23.07
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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342: How to Rest in Peace 11.2.07
There are umpteen TV shows about solving murders, endless whodunits in bookstores. But what happens to the people left behind after the detectives close the case? Three stories about children trying...- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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341: How to Talk to Kids 10.5.07
Stories of adults taking very different approaches to communicating with children.- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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340: The Devil in Me 9.7.07
Stories of people trying to exorcize their inner demons.- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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339: Break-Up 8.24.07
Writer Starlee Kine on what makes the perfect break-up song and whether really sad music can actually make you feel better. Plus, an eight-year-old author of a book about divorce, and other stories...- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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338: The Spokesman 8.10.07
Attention listeners. In the Internet version of Act One of this show, we have left one curse word un-bleeped at a critical moment.Stories of what can happen when you go from being a private person to...- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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337: Man vs. History 7.27.07
Stories about people taking history into their own hands. We hear from two men in two different wars. One is trying to make a difference in the current war in Iraq. The other is with the CIA at the...- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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336: Who Can You Save? 7.6.07
Stories about the pitfalls of trying to do the right thing.- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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335: Big Wide World 6.15.07
When he was a teenager, Haider worked in the Iraqi Ministry of Information. He was specially trained to talk to visiting dignitaries and foreign reporters, and he loved his job. It was exciting, and...- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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334: Duty Calls 6.1.07
Josh's mother and younger brother were a mess. His mother drank too much. His brother got arrested a lot. Josh hadn't lived with them since he was nine, and they didn't play much of a role in his...- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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333: The Center for Lessons Learned 5.25.07
Four years into the Iraq War, what have we learned? Soldiers, civilians, Iraqis, and Americans talk—and sometimes yell—about what they've learned in the last few years...including how to stay alive...- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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332: The Ten Commandments 5.4.07
Stories of people struggling to follow the Ten Commandments from the book of Exodus.- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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331: Habeas Schmabeas 2007 4.27.07
An updated version of our episode "Habeas Schmabeas," which won a 2006 Peabody Award.Listen to a special, uncut version.Download a transcript.- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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330: My Reputation 4.13.07
Stories of people trying to recover from damage to their reputations—sometimes caused by others, sometimes self-inflicted.- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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329: Nice Work If You Can Get It 4.6.07
Stories of sudden fame, quick riches, and the downside of the dream job.- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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328: What I Learned from Television 3.16.07
Stories recorded during our 2007 live tour. Sarah Vowell, David Rakoff, Dan Savage, and other favorite contributors went on the road with us to New York, Boston, Minneapolis, Chicago, Seattle, and...- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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327: By Proxy 3.9.07
Stories of proxy fights, proxy arguments, and proxy situations of all kinds.- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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326: Quiz Show 2.16.07
A man with social anxiety goes through a transformation on a TV game show, a young woman with high ideals has them dashed by a TV game show, and teams compete to solve some of the hardest puzzles in...- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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325: Houses of Ill Repute 2.2.07
An old man in Brooklyn invites some homeless prostitutes into his house on a cold winter night. They never leave. Plus other stories about houses, such as the United States Congress, where the...- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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324: My Brilliant Plan 1.26.07
An American reporter in Iraq decides to rent a house in a residential Baghdad neighborhood rather than live in a hotel and be an easy target for insurgents. And an eleven-year-old boy figures out an...- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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323: The Super 1.5.07
In 1980's New York City, rent is rising: it seems out of control, and residents struggle to keep up. So Jack Hitt helps organize tenants, and threatens a rent strike. This does not go over so well...
