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SKorea: NKorea submits nuclear list to China
[description] (NECN/ABC) - President Bush said today he will remove North Korea from the U.S. terrorism blacklist. It is a sharp reversal of policy towards a country he once branded part of the "axis of evil." Mr. Bush acted after North Korea agreed t...
Here and Now for Monday, June 23, 2008
[description] The opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai is seeking refuge at the Dutch Embassy in the capital, Harare, after a police raid on his party's headquarters. Tsvangirai withdrew earlier from Friday's upcoming run-off election, saying government violence and harassment makes fair balloting impossible. We'll speak with Scott Baldauf, Africa correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor. What is the case for and against impeachment of President George W. Bush, now that articles of impeachment have been formally filed? We speak with David Barron, Professor of Law at Harvard University Law School, and Elizabeth Holtzman, former New York congresswoman who has written "The Impeachment of George W. Bush." The debate over "singularity." This is the belief that computers are advancing so quickly that convergence between humans and machines will soon be possible; the debate has reached such a pitch in the technology community that IEEE Spectrum magazine devoted its entire June issue to the
Podcast of the Day 061608
[description] Today we start the show talking about our trip to Maine. Then by request we play 50 ways to kill a Plover. As always we have the Men from Maine and Employee of the Day. We have Bill Lee and Bob Ryan today, we talk about Father's Day, and a Wallyology about what men do that annoys women.
Ed O'Reilly 6-9-08
[description] We will speak with Ed O'Reilly about his challenge to the junior senator.
Here and Now for Wednesday, Ma7 28, 2008
[description] Former White House press secretary and Bush loyalist Scott McClellan writes in a new memoir that President Bush sold an "unnecessary" war in Iraq to the American people using a political propaganda campaign, in a way that was not open and forthright. We speak with Mike Allen, chief political correspondent for Politico. The number of homes entering foreclosure spiked 65 percent last month over the same period last year for a total of 243,000 properties. And now realtors are saying that foreclosed properties that sit empty are beginning to attract squatters. We speak to Marc Charney, a real estate broker from the Boston area, who says he finds squatters in 25% of the foreclosed properties he handles. We also look at the impact of foreclosures on children. We speak to private investigator Bill Beitler of the Chicago area, who says schools are hiring him to make sure students aren't going to school in their old neighborhood, after they've been forced to move from their home. The
Here and Now for Friday, May 2, 2008
[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
Here and Now for Thursday, May 1, 2008
[description] The latest government statistics on the economy show jobless claims up more than expected and consumer spending rising faster than expected — but this is mostly due to soaring prices for gas and food. So what do these numbers add up to? Peter Coy, economic editor for Business Week, joins us with some answers. Why do so many young men from a small town in Libya wind up as suicide bombers in Iraq? Well, for one thing, they recall their ancestors fighting US Marines on the shores of Tripoli, the first battle fought by the young United States. We'll speak with Newsweek's Kevin Peraino, who traveled to Darnah, Libya, and sat down to talk with the people the young jihadis left behind. Saturday's Kentucky Derby is the first jewel in horseracing's Triple Crown and a new book collects some of the best writing about the horses, jockeys, and characters that make the sport so appealing. Joe Drape, who covers horseracing for the New York Times, edited the book and joins us from Louisv
White House: Syria has some explaining to do
[description] ABC's Pam Coulter discusses the nuclear issues between Syria and North Korea with WBZ's Laurie Kirby.
Here and Now for Thursday, April 24, 2008
[description] Today the CIA is showing members of Congress what it claims are videotaped images of North Koreans working inside a Syrian nuclear site, before the site was bombed and destroyed by Israel last year. We speak with Washington Post diplomatic correspondent, Robin Wright, about why the images are surfacing now. For the first time since the Spanish Influenza of 1918, life expectancy has fallen for nearly one in five American women. The drop is due largely to obesity, diabetes, and smoking-related diseases, and was found primarily in counties in Appalachia, the lower Midwest, and the Deep South. We speak with study co-author, Dr. Majid Ezzati of Harvard's School of Public Health and nurse practitioner, Helen Robinson, of the Free Clinic of the New River Valley in Christiansburg, Virginia. The State Department recently renewed its contract with the private security firm Blackwater, despite an ongoing FBI probe into the company's actions in Iraq. An article in this month's Mother Jo







