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American RadioWorks - Campaign '68
The 1968 presidential election was a watershed in American politics. After dominating the political landscape for more than a generation, the Democratic Party crumbled. Richard M. Nixon was elected president and a new era of Republican conservatism was born. On the eve of another historic election, we look back 40 years to the dramatic story of Campaign '68....

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[ Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:00:00 EST ]


American RadioWorks - After the Projects
Chicago is demolishing the public housing projects and moving residents to mixed-income neighborhoods. But there won't be room for everyone, and a new home may not mean an escape from poverty....

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[ Fri, 18 Oct 2008 15:00:00 EST ]


American RadioWorks - What Killed Sergeant Gray
Sergeant Adam Gray made it home from Iraq only to die in his barracks. Investigating his death, American RadioWorks pieces together a story of soldiers suffering psychological scars -- because they abused Iraqi prisoners....

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[ Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:00:00 EST ]


American RadioWorks - Sparking the Brain Out of Depression
For many people with depression, there are modern medications that have made the illness manageable. But at least ten percent of those who take anti-depressants don't get better. Psychiatrists say that for them, electro-shock therapy remains the most effective treatment. Electro-convulsive therapy, as it's now called, is more than 70 years old and is more widely used than ever. Researchers are experimenting with other ways to use electricity to spark the brain out of depression....

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[ Mon, 20 Feb 2006 15:00:00 EST ]


American RadioWorks - Ghosts of the Orphanage
Last year, more than 7,000 Chinese children were adopted by families in the United States. China is a popular country for adoptive parents because of the availability of infants, almost always baby girls. But some children are adopted when they are a little older, and time spent in an orphanage can delay a child's development. As the years go by in an adoptive family, the child and the parents discover what early experiences can be undone, relearned or accepted....

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[ Mon, 6 Feb 2006 15:00:00 EST ]


American RadioWorks - Whites Remember Jim Crow
American race relations are deeply marked by an era called Jim Crow, a system of legal segregation in the South that lasted from 1890 well into the 1960s. Named after a minstrel character, Jim Crow meant blacks attended separate schools, sat in colored-only train cars and were intimidated out of voting. But Jim Crow is remembered quite differently by whites who lived through the period. Anthropologist Kate Ellis spent a year interviewing whites in southwestern Louisiana about segregation....

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[ Mon, 23 Jan 2006 15:00:00 EST ]


American RadioWorks - Blacks Remember Jim Crow
For much of the 20th century, blacks in the South were barred from the voting booths, sent to the back of the bus and denied many of the rights enjoyed by other American citizens. It was called Jim Crow, named for a minstrel character that became shorthand for a system of segregation. In this segment, producer Stephen Smith used oral histories and interviews with scholars to show what life was like for blacks behind the veil of segregation....

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[ Mon, 9 Jan 2006 15:00:00 EST ]


American RadioWorks - Finding Home in Two Worlds
Twenty thousand children are adopted from abroad into U.S. families each year. It's a number that has tripled in the past decade. These children come from places like China, Russia and Guatemala, and research shows that they do better when they have a connection to their birth culture. Many adoptive families go to culture camp and ethnic restaurants, but Laurie Stern and her husband Dan Luke feel their son Diego needs more....

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[ Mon, 26 Dec 2005 15:00:00 EST ]


American RadioWorks - The Army Wife
The United States is making huge demands on its military people - the toughest since the Vietnam War. But most soldiers during Vietnam were young, single men. Today, in the all-volunteer military, about half of all service people are married with children, so the burdens of fighting these wars are shared back home....

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[ Mon, 12 Dec 2005 15:00:00 EST ]


American RadioWorks - Outsourcing Compassion
In recent decades, violent and traumatic events in the United States have given rise to a new industry: trauma counseling. In the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks, thousands of workplaces brought in these counseling teams in to help employees talk about their experiences. It turns out many of these "debriefing" sessions were based on limited science....

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[ Mon, 28 Nov 2005 15:00:00 EST ]


American RadioWorks - The Last Days of Kitty Shenay
Each year, about 2.5 million people die in the United States. Three in ten get hospice care in their last days. Hospice is specialized care for terminally ill patients with less than six months to live. This report follows one hospice patient through her last two months of life....

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[ Mon, 14 Nov 2005 15:00:00 EST ]


American RadioWorks - Pombo in the Gray
Tax law prohibits members of Congress from taking international trips paid for by private foundations. But American RadioWorks reporter Steve Henn and Bob Williams from the Center for Public Integrity have learned California Republican Richard Pombo may have done just that....

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[ Mon, 31 Oct 2005 15:00:00 EST ]


American RadioWorks - Trauma and the Brain
In the wake of hurricane Katrina, the Red Cross reported more than half a million survivors have used its mental health services. After the attacks on the World Trade Towers, mental health and neuroscience researchers in New York quickly organized efforts to help, and study the city's trauma victims. They are learning how trauma affects the brain and what can be done to heal it....

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[ Mon, 17 Oct 2005 15:00:00 EST ]


American RadioWorks - No Place for a Woman
In the 1970s, women untied their aprons and joined the work force as never before. They took jobs as truck drivers, lawyers, and steelworkers. Some women found the workplace was hostile territory. In the iron mines of Minnesota, women were groped, threatened, and assaulted. A handful of women fought back. They filed the first class-action sexual harassment suit in the country, paving the way for big judgments against companies across the country....

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[ Mon, 3 Oct 2005 15:00:00 EST ]


American RadioWorks - After Welfare
The landmark 1996 welfare reform law had an explicit social goal: to help save the nuclear family. Many Americans believed the old welfare system, AFDC, damaged marriages by giving mothers an incentive to stay single. The 1996 law was aimed at removing that incentive, and the law encouraged states to promote marriage in order to lift single-parent families out of poverty. More than any other state, Oklahoma took up the challenge. It's not clear that the Oklahoma Marriage Initiative can make a di...

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[ Mon, 22 May 2006 15:00:00 EST ]


American RadioWorks - Bankrupt: Maxed Out in America
A record two million Americans filed for personal bankruptcy last year. The reason? Bankruptcies have soared over the past two decades, so Congress passed a tough new law designed to crack down on filings. The new law went into effect last October, and many raced to beat the deadline. Filings plunged after October, but in recent months the number of bankruptcies has crept back up. Many Congressional legislators assumed that eroding morality, a decline in traditional stigma, made it easy for Amer...

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[ Mon, 8 May 2006 15:00:00 EST ]


American RadioWorks - Gang Members Break Free - Part 2
Some of this nation's most dangerous convicts are housed in what are called "supermax" prisons. At Pelican Bay Prison in California, the men in the supermax are isolated in windowless cells for 23 hours a day with almost no direct contact with other inmates or staff. Officials allege most of the inmates here are members of prison gangs. Despite the isolation, gangs remain active at Pelican Bay and once a prisoner is in a gang it can be tough - even deadly - to try to get out....

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[ Mon, 24 Apr 2006 15:00:00 EST ]


American RadioWorks - Locked Down: Gangs in the Supermax - Part 1
The "supermax" prison is designed to incapacitate dangerous convicts by locking them down in stark isolation, sometimes for years on end. But some supermaxes have become headquarters to America's biggest and most violent prison gangs. American RadioWorks correspondent Michael Montgomery spent six months following inmates and staff at one of the nation's biggest supermaxes, California's Pelican Bay State Prison. Experts say some gang leaders inside Pelican Bay control crime far outside prison wal...

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[ Mon, 10 Apr 2006 15:00:00 EST ]


American RadioWorks - Prosecuting Charles Taylor for War Crimes
Charles Taylor is only the second head of state indicted for international war crimes while in office. Prosecutors allege that as president of Liberia, Taylor was a central figure in a criminal network that controlled rebels fighting a decade-long civil war in neighboring Sierra Leone. The rebels are accused of murder, enslavement, rape and forcing children into combat. In 2003, American RadioWorks correspondent Michael Montgomery and producer Deborah George were given unique access to war crim...

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[ Mon, 3 Apr 2006 15:00:00 EST ]


American RadioWorks - Rebuilding in Biloxi
Since Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast, families in Biloxi, Mississippi have struggled to rebuild their homes, businesses and their lives. In this podcast, we meet Ethel Curry, who survived Katrina's flood waters by floating in her refrigerator, and Vin Tai, a Vietnamese shrimp boat owner. The storm left his livelihood in ruins. But first, as casino jobs and federal assistance trickle back to the Gulf Coast, one question remains: how long will it be before Biloxi residents can finally...

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[ Mon, 20 Mar 2006 15:00:00 EST ]


American RadioWorks - Preying on Parents
In the past decade, the number of foreign children adopted by Americans has nearly tripled. Americans adopted nearly 23,000 children from abroad last year. The U.S. State department reports most international adoptions happen without major complications, but it warns the growing demand for adoptable children is leading to some dangerous outcomes; both for children and parents. Some cases of abuse are linked to adoption groups operating in the United States and overseas without a license....

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[ Mon, 6 Mar 2006 15:00:00 EST ]


American RadioWorks - Unmasking Stalin: A Speech That Changed the World
On February 25, 1956, former Kremlin leader Nikita Khrushchev revealed and denounced, for the first time in the history of the Soviet Union, the crimes of his predecessor, Joseph Stalin, dramatically shifting Soviet Russia's course, stirring a human rights movement, and opening the door to the eventual collapse of the USSR....

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[ Mon, 9 Apr 2007 15:00:00 EST ]


American RadioWorks - New York Works
New York Works is an audio portrait of a vanishing city. From a knife sharpener who still makes house calls to one of Brooklyn's last commercial fisherman, New York Works tells the stories of those who keep the city's past alive....

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[ Mon, 26 Mar 2007 15:00:00 EST ]


American RadioWorks - The Hospice Experiment
The '60s were a time of social movements and big changes, but a quieter revolution was underway too - one led by a few middle-aged women who wanted to change our way of death. They were the founders of the hospice movement....

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[ Mon, 12 Mar 2007 15:00:00 EST ]


American RadioWorks - A Mind of Their Own
Most children can be volatile at some point in their development, with no particular cause for worry. But at what point do irritability, mood swings, and tantrums constitute a mental illness? Up to half a million children are believed to have bipolar illness. This is the story of three of those children, their families, and the professionals who work with them....

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[ Mon, 26 Feb 2007 15:00:00 EST ]


American RadioWorks - Mandela: An Audio History
A decade ago, Nelson Mandela became president in South Africa's first multi-racial democratic election. Mandela's journey, from freedom fighter to president, capped a dramatic half-century long struggle against white rule and the institution of apartheid....

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[ Mon, 12 Feb 2007 15:00:00 EST ]


American RadioWorks - Thurgood Marshall Before the Court
In 1967, Thurgood Marshall became the first African American appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court. But Marshall had already earned a place in history - as the leader of the legal campaign against racial segregation, which culminated in the landmark Brown v. Board decision. ...

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[ Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:00:00 EST ]


American RadioWorks - Imperial Washington
Members of Congress face many temptations, such as special interests who want to take them on free trips golfing or fishing, to Bermuda or Wimbledon. But voters are demanding reform. In this podcast, we look at how the perks lawmakers enjoy make it tough to clean up government. And what happens when newcomers try to play the lobbying game....

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[ Mon, 15 Jan 2007 15:00:00 EST ]


American RadioWorks - The President Calling
Three of America's most compelling presidents - Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon - bugged their White House offices and tapped their telephones. They left behind thousands of secretly recorded conversations, from momentous to mundane. In this documentary project, American RadioWorks eavesdrops on presidential telephone calls to hear how each man used one-on-one politics to shape history....

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[ Mon, 1 Jan 2007 15:00:00 EST ]


American RadioWorks - Urban Shakespeare
Los Angeles is perhaps the nation's capital of "wannabe" artists, filled with aspiring actors, directors and screenwriters who are waiting tables, parking cars and brewing coffee. All have hopes of someday escaping the drudgery of these day jobs for the golden opportunity when their art might become their full-time work. But a few teens in Los Angeles have been earning their first pay as working artists: studying Shakespeare and writing their own poetry and music, all while earning minimum wage....

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[ Mon, 25 Dec 2006 15:00:00 EST ]

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