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Thursday November 29, 2007

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Helping the Homeless

by Sarah Handel

November 29, 2007 • How do you live without a home?

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Diplomacy by Chavez

by Barrie Hardymon

November 29, 2007 • Relations between Venezuela and Colombia get even more complicated.

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Reading Has Fallen on Hard Times

by Ashley Grashaw

November 29, 2007 • A National Endowment for the Arts report shows that reading is on the decline in America.

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$188 Laptop

November 29, 2007 • An inexpensive laptop, finally, but few buyers....

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November 29th Show

November 29, 2007 • On today's show, an end to homelessness? Bernardo Alvarez, To Read or Not to Read? and $100 laptop.

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Beautiful CliffsNotes

by Barrie Hardymon

November 29, 2007 • Snob alert: movies vs. books.

Wednesday November 28, 2007

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Mike "Frontrunner" Huckabee

November 28, 2007 • Gov. Mike Huckabee's star is still on the rise....

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A Hostage Situation

by Ashley Grashaw

November 28, 2007 • Efforts to release American hostages from the FARC prison base in Colombia have stalled... yet again.

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Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road? (To Escape the Bourgeois Middle-Class Struggle.)

by Barrie Hardymon

November 28, 2007 • Das Kapital the "opium of the academics."

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Remembering Sean Taylor

by Sarah Handel

November 28, 2007 • Washington Redskins safety Sean Taylor's death leaves a lot of questions in the minds of fans.

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November 28th Show

by Gwen Outen

November 28, 2007 • On today's show, Big Political Junkie, Bungle in the Jungle, "Das Kapital".

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Phones Free at Last?

by Scott Cameron

November 28, 2007 • What does an open wireless network mean for people like you and me?

Tuesday November 27, 2007

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Educator Sex Abuse, Part Two

by Ashley Grashaw

November 27, 2007 • Educator sexual misconduct is a serious problem in the nation's schools. Today we talk about the warning signs of abuse and the emotional impact on students.

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Internet Naming -- and Shaming

by Barrie Hardymon

November 27, 2007 • The internet becomes a frenzy of fury...

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Gastroanomalies

November 27, 2007 • Do you miss culinary creations from the 1940s and 1950s?

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