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[description] The restaurant industry employs more than 300,000 people in Massachusetts, that is more than 9% of the state workforce. The bulk of many restaurant workers income is tips, but there has been a wave of legal action over how the gratuities are shared. How should restaurant workers be paid ? Does the system need to change?

[description] Late on heating bills, twenty-thousand Massachusetts households are at risk of having their energy cut off today.

[description] Michelle Interviews Writer and Reporter Pete Hamill about Robert Kennedy and The Election Of 2008

[description] LEBANON: Sectarian clashes reminiscent of Lebanon's bloody 15 year civil war continue in Beirut today. Hezbollah gunmen seized control of several neighborhoods from Sunni foes loyal to the US-backed government. Borzou Daragahi, Middle East correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, joins us from Beirut. HAITI FOOD CRISIS: The head of the U.N. World Food Program said this week that high food prices have caused a "global hunger emergency." There have been riots across the world, including in Haiti, where more than half the population lives on less than $1 a day. We speak with Dr. Evan Lyon, a resident at Brigham and Women's Hospital who works in Haiti with Paul Farmer's Partners in Health clinics. TIPS: The lawyer for skycaps at Logan International Airport in Boston is asking a judge to overturn an American Airlines ban on tipping. The ban was instituted after the porters won a $325,000 class action lawsuit last month against the airlines. The skycaps claim American's two dollar cu

[description] In the most far-reaching crackdown on credit card issuers in years, federal regulators are expected to approve new rules today that would ban some of the worst practices in the credit card industry, such as retroactive and arbitrary interest rate hikes. We speak with Kathy Kristof, reporter for the Los Angeles Times. Exorcism of demons, mesmerism, Freudian therapy, biofeedback: Yhe mind's connection to health has a rich history both within and outside of the scientific community. We speak with Anne Harrington, a professor at Harvard University about her new book, "The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine". A recent report by the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University predicts that this summer teen unemployment will reach an all-time high. We speak with Joseph McLaughlin, a co-author of the study, and Mark Isenberg, of Action for Boston Community Development. Congressman Walter Jones (R-NC) is the man who brought "Freedom Fries" to the Washingto

[description] New research shows picking and choosing your child's activities could help reduce the chance that they will get involved in "risky behavior."

[description] Jack Levin is an author and a professor at Northeastern University. He speaks with WBZ's Laurie Kirby.

[description] (NECN) - The polls were right this time -- Hillary Clinton took the Pennsylvania primary, beating Barack Obama by 10 points. Both candidates are now looking towards Indiana and North Carolina. With a look at how the results in Pennsylvania may ...

[description] How do some student go from scholar athlete to scholarship athlete? What kind of recruiting tactics are colleges using? And is it a good idea for students to make verbal commitments to colleges as early as their sophmore year?

[description] More than 10-thousand Shiites take to the streets in Basra to protest the government crackdown on militias. Shiites there, loyal to Muktada al-Sadr are calling for Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to step down. The uprisings are a test for the Iraqi security forces, who are securing the area without international help. Tina Sussman of the Los Angeles Times joins us. Dith Pran, the Cambodian journalist whose story was made into the movie, "The Killing Fields," is deathly ill with cancer. We speak with Sydney Schanberg, formerly of the New York Times, about his friend and colleague. How can you tell if recession has hit your town? Here and Now producer Barbara Howard visited one Massachusetts town where the number of foreclosures has tripled over the last year. Instead of finding a boarded-up downtown, she discovered that the signs of an economic downturn are not always that easy to see. The host of NPR's Only a Game joins us to talk about March Madness, the start of the M