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May 2003

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• Copps and Robbers May 31, 2003

  In one of the most publicized decisions of the Federal Communications Commission, the board is expected to relax regulations that limit media ownership. But consumer advocates have pu... (episode)

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  • Copps and Robbers May 30, 2003

  • Powell To the People May 30, 2003

  • GLAAD to be Alive May 30, 2003

  • You Say Aristotle and I Say Confucius May 30, 2003

  • Open Phones May 30, 2003

• ResQ Me! May 29, 2003

  Since September 11, 2001, inventors have been trying to figure out better ways to evacuate tall buildings. Former Police Commissioner Howard Safir is touting the ResQline, which uses ... (episode)

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  • Persian Tug May 29, 2003

  • ResQ Me! May 29, 2003

  • SARS in Their Eyes May 29, 2003

  • Open Phones May 29, 2003

• American Dreaming May 29, 2003

  Read the transcript of Chris Hedges' address here The American dream is a concept that has changed a lot over the years. Historian Jim Cullen explains how the aspirations of a small g... (episode)

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  • The Balancing Act May 28, 2003

  • Money Grows in Manhattan May 28, 2003

  • Before You Throw Your Mortarboards In The Air… May 28, 2003

  • Two Cars In The Driveway and The Pursuit Of Happiness May 28, 2003

  • The Loan Ranger May 28, 2003

  • Open Phones May 28, 2003

• Classifed Information May 28, 2003

  By most standards, adulthood is getting later. Many kids rely on their parents through age eighteen, which leads some parents to ask, why can't they know their children's college grad... (episode)

• Jarheaded Memories May 27, 2003

  Americans went to Iraq and expected a quick and relatively bloodless win. But that wasn't the experience of former Marine, Anthony Swofford, a veteran of Desert Storm: "Men who go to ... (episode)

• Getting Graphic May 24, 2003

  Eleven years after "Maus" won a Pulitzer Prize, the graphic novel industry is finally making good on its promise. Today a new generation of artist-scribes is taking on teen angst, rac... (episode)

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  • Why Terror Works (And What We Can Do About It) May 23, 2003

  • Music Is The Language Of Diplomacy May 23, 2003

  • Nuclear Fallout May 23, 2003

  • Open Phones May 23, 2003

  • Graphic Novelists May 23, 2003

• The Feminist Formula May 23, 2003

  The Muslim women shown in American media usually wear the traditional burqa or headscarf. But this belies the growing freedom of expression Arab women have found in the pop music scen... (episode)

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  • Writing Off Into The Sunset May 22, 2003

  • Whit's End May 22, 2003

  • Desert Island Discs May 22, 2003

  • The House of Strauss May 22, 2003

  • Open Phones May 22, 2003

• Taxing Matters May 22, 2003

  Over two million jobs have been lost since President Bush took office in January 2001. Bush says tax cuts are the way to restart the economy, and today his chief labor economist, Dian... (episode)

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  • Showdown at the AK-47 Corral May 21, 2003

  • What's Your Beef? May 21, 2003

  • The Youth Fairy May 21, 2003

  • Counting Your Chickens.... May 21, 2003

  • Saving Private Lyin' May 21, 2003

• The Black and the Blue May 21, 2003

  Author-attorney Heather MacDonald is a noted contrarian on policing. Racism, she writes, is not the problem black often leaders make it out to be. She's also argued that anti-war prot... (episode)

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  • Trial and Terror May 20, 2003

  • Son of Sam May 20, 2003

  • Black and Blue May 20, 2003

  • Open Phones May 20, 2003

• Shul of Hard Knocks May 20, 2003

  "For many Jews today, religion is a closed book," writes media ecologist Douglas Rushkoff. "Most Jewish institutions offer little more than the calcified shell that once protected the... (episode)

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  • Bedouin, Baath and Beyond May 19, 2003

  • Broken Proms May 19, 2003

  • The Bete Noir Of The Jewish Establishment May 19, 2003

  • Open Phones May 19, 2003