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Loners are misunderstood, eccentric, and hopelessly divided. Many of them, like Sir Isaac Newton, Anne Rice, and Barry Bonds, excel in their field and and receive public acclaim. Othe... (episode)
Advertising execs are often scoffed at, and legendary ad critic Bob Garfield says their critics are justified. His new book, And Now A Few Words From Me, describes a glut of "advertro... (episode)
European and Middle Eastern TV viewers learned of American prisoners of war hours before audiences here did. The Arab-language sattelite news network Al Jazeera has been criticized fo... (episode)
Brooklyn-born Yvette Jarvis has been dubbed the "Black Gazelle" and "Chocolate Aphrodite" in her adopted home of Greece. A former model, actress, and pro basketball player, Jarvis was... (episode)
The United States Agency for International Development is expected to begin allocating contracts for the rebuilding of Iraq's infrastructure and institutions later this week. In some ... (episode)
Former theology student Chris Hedges discovered war fifteen years ago and quickly became addicted. As a journalist working in Central America, the former Yugoslavia, and the Middle Ea... (episode)
The Chemical Weapons Convention (or CWC) forbids the use of riot control agents like pepper spray in war. But the United States, which signed the CWC in 1997, has announced its intere... (episode)
After months of anticipation, the war against Iraq is now underway. How is it being felt in neighboring countries? And how will the war affect the ability of radical Islamic groups to... (episode)
The stage version of Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children debuts at the Apollo next week. For years, the dramatic adaptation of Rushdie's fable on the partition of India in 1947 was h... (episode)
Fluent in five languages and an accomplished athlete, Valdas Admakus is a true renaissance man. Born in Lithuania in 1926, he joined the youth resistance movement after the Nazis inva... (episode)