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1 ) California's Same-Sex Marriage Ban Declared Unconstitutional (Listening time = 30 - 38 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed) 2) Future of Same-Sex Marriage May Depend On Supreme Court (Listening time =5 - 6 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
3) Three Members of an Afghan Family Guilty of Murder - Deaths Called 'Honor Killings' (Listening time = 5 - 6 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
4) Home Births Grow More Popular In U.S. (Listening time = 31 - 39 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed) 5) A Look At Egypt, One Year After Its Revolution (Listening time = 8 - 10 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
6) The CIA's Drone Campaign in Pakistan (Listening time = 12 - 15 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed) 7) A Look Back at 2011 (Listening time = 56 - 71 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
8) Defiant Syrians Speaking Out About 1982 Killings (Listening time = 4 - 5 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
9) Syrian Activist Speaks from Hiding: The Bloodshed Continues (Listening time = 8 - 9 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
1) Michelle And Barack Obama: A Powerful Partnership (Listening time = 38 - 47 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed) 2) Cyberbattle: Israeli Versus Arab Hackers (Listening time =4 - 5 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
3) Risking The Danger Of Defection In North Korea (Listening time = 5 - 6 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
4) Should The West Intervene In Syria? (Listening time = 12 - 14 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed) 5) In the Movie 'Miss Bala,' Bullets And Beauty Pageants Collide (Listening time = 4 - 5 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
6) The Secret Document That Transformed China (Listening time = 8 - 10 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed) 7) The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes: SHOSCOMBE OLD PLACE
Part 1 (Listening time = 17 - 21 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
Part 2 (Listening time = 18 - 22 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
1) Dewey Bozella - After spending 26 years in prison for a murder he didn't commit, Dewey Bozella made his professional boxing debut (Listening time = 9 - 11 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed) 2) Tracking Down Money Stolen By Arab Dictators (Listening time =4 - 6 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
3) Physics Of The Future': How We'll Live In 2100 (Listening time = 20 - 24 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
4) The Technology Helping Repressive Regimes Spy (Listening time = 31 - 39 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed) 5) U.S. Navy Ship Saves Iranians From Pirates (Listening time = 4 - 5 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
6) A Foreign Correspondent Reflects On The Arab Spring (Listening time = 38 - 47 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed) 7) How A Computer Scientist Tried To Save Greece (Listening time = 4 - 6 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
1) Five Little Stories of Adventure (Listening time = 26 - 32 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed) 2) A Look Back: The Beginning Of The War In Iraq (Listening time =11 - 14 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
3) What Happens To Iraq After U.S. Soldiers Leave? (Listening time = 21 - 26 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
4) Hillary Clinton Speaks About Internet Freedom (Listening time = 27 - 32 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed) 5) Road Rage: A Symptom Of Much More Than Bad Traffic? (Listening time = 4 - 6 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
1) How Dogs Became 'Our Best Friends' (Listening time = 20 - 25 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed) 2) The Dolphin in the Mirror - Are Dolphins Self-Aware? (Listening time = 12 - 15 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
3) Addiction: When You Fear 'It's Just A Matter Of Time' (Listening time = 30 - 36 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
4) 'The Perils of Indifference' (Listening time = 21 - 23 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
1) Global Day of Rage: Hundreds of Thousands March Against Inequity & Big Banks, as Occupy Movement Grows (Listening time = 20 - 25 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed) 2) Will India's $35 Tablet Bridge The Digital Divide? (Listening time = 7 - 8 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
3) Thugs in Mexico (Listening time = 7 - 8 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
4) Thugs in Egypt (Listening time = 18 - 22 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed) 5) Thug on Death Row (Listening time = 30 - 36 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
--Previous Listenings--
One
1) Obese Children 2)
Just How Fattening is That Cupcake? 3)
Obesity Spreads Through Friends & Family 4)
From Pho to Fast Food, an Immigrant's Tale 5)
Food 911
(Total listening time = 36 to 45 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
Two
1) Immigrants Have Changed and Invigorated the United States 2)
The DREAM Act 3)
Immigrants Reshape California 4)
Guest Workers 5) Across the Border
(Total listening time = 45 to 55 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
Three
Reports from a Warming Planet
(Total listening time = 49 to 60 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
Four
1) Global Warming: Some Unexpected Consequences 2)
The Heat Over Global Warming 3)
American History: Supreme Court Ruling Decides the 2000 Presidential Election
(Total listening time = 43 to 53 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
Five
1) This American Life : Habeas Corpus - Part 1 2) This American Life : Habeas Corpus - Part 2 3) This American Life : Habeas Corpus - Part 3
(Total listening time = 59 to 68 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
Six
Japan's Pop Power
(Total listening time = 50 to 60 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
Seven
1) Hearing America: A Century of Music on the Radio - Part 1 2) Hearing America: A Century of Music on the Radio - Part 2 3) Hearing America: A Century of Music on the Radio - Part 3
(Total listening time = 51 - 62 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
Eight
1) Is Wal-Mart Good for America? 2)
The Wal-Mart / China "Joint Venture" 3)
Life Without Goods Made in China: a Challenge 4)
Corporate Compassion 5)
Trapped in Kmart Court
(Total listening time = 44 to 54 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
Nine
1) Home at Last? 2)
Homeless Attacks 3)
Feeding the Homeless in Sin City 4)
Escape from Skid Row
(Total listening time = 42 to 52 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
Ten
Las Vegas - An Unconventional History
(Total listening time = 48 to 60 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
Eleven
1) Fixing America's Health Care Crisis 2) Moore Movie Takes Aim at American Health Care 3) Prescriptions for the U.S. Health Care System
(Total listening time = 46 to 54 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
Twelve
1) ‘Sicko’ Paints Bleak Picture of U.S. Health Care 2) Medical Tourism
(Total listening time = 47 to 58 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
Thirteen
Child Brides - Stolen Lives
(Total listening time = 50 to 58 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
Fourteen
1) Gender and Education Miles to Go (21 - 27 minutes long) Jon Stewart: Commencement Address
(Total listening time = 47 - 60 minutes depending on chosen listening speed
Fifteen
1) John Edwards' War on Poverty Are You Being Sarcastic? Fighting Child Prostitution
(Total listening time = 51 - 63 minutes depending on chosen listening speed
Sixteen
Gangster Confidential
(Total listening time = 52 to 67 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
Seventeen
Women, Power and Politics
(Total listening time = 53 to 65 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
Eighteen
Obama Wins; The World Responds (Total listening time = 48 to 60 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
Nineteen
1) Steve Ricks Takes us to Iran (17 to 21 minutes long) 2) The Last Lynching (30 to 38 minutes long)
(Total listening time = 47 to 59 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
Twenty
Pueblo, USA
(Total listening time = 51 to 64 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
Twenty-One
1) Jailing Kids for Cash (Total listening time = 5 to 6 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed) (Total listening time = 4 1/2 to 5 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
3) Who Killed Sister Dorothy? (Total listening time = 20 to 25 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed) (Total listening time = 14 to 17 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
Twenty-Two
1) Authors Explore American Immigrant Experience (Total listening time = 10 to 12 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed) Motherland : A Chat and Songs - with Natalie Merchant(Total listening time = 18 to 19 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
3) “We Didn’t Create a Paradise in Iraq; We Created a Hell” (Total listening time = 16 to 21 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
Twenty-Three
1) Calling For an End to the Culture Wars (Total listening time = 30 to 37 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed) (Total listening time = 23 to 28 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
Twenty-Four
1) Are Anti-Abortion Attacks Domestic Terrorism ? (Total listening time = 23 to 29 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed) (Total listening time = 23 to 29 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
Twenty-Five
President Obama's Speech to the United Nations Septembers 23, 2009Part 1 (Total listening time = 38 to 47 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
Twenty-Six
1) Michelle Obama's Roots - from slavery to the Whitehouse (Total listening time = 5 to 6 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed) (Total listening time = 8 to 10 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
3) A Black Author's Journey into American 'Whitopia' (Total listening time = 30 to 38 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
Twenty-Seven
The Importance of Being Earnest A Play by Oscar Wilde (1895)
Twenty-Eight
Who Killed Zebedee? A "little novel" by Wilkie Collins Part One (Listening time = 27 to 32 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed) Part Two (Listening time = 29 to 34 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
Twenty-Nine
Courting Attention: Covering California's Gay Marriage Trial
(Total listening time = 38 to 48 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
Thirty
The Magic Shop A short story by H.G. Wells (Listening time = 22 to 26 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
Saving Haiti's Mothers (Listening time = 23 to 29 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
Thirty-One
1) Is The Bible More Violent Than The Quran? (Total listening time = 7 to 9 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed) (Total listening time = 12 to 15 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
3) Inside the World of Childhood Schizophrenia (Total listening time = 10 to 12 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed) (Total listening time = 21 to 26 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
Thirty-Two
The History of White People (Listening time = 30 to 38 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
The Speckled Band A short story by Arthur Conan Doyle (Listening time = 16 to 20 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
Thirty-Three
1) My Granfather's Execution (Total listening time = 23 to 28 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed) (Total listening time = 12 to 15 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
3) Food, Inc. (Total listening time = 10 to 12 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
Thirty-Four
1) Dark Secrets - The Brains of Psychopaths Part 2 Part 3 (Total listening time = 22 to 28 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed) (Total listening time = 12 to 15 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
3) Human-Animal Hybrids (Total listening time = 7 to 9 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed) In the Avu Observatory Total listening time = 14 to 16 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
Thirty-Five 1) Doc Holliday : Dentist, Gambler, Gunfighter (Listening time = 14 to 16 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed) Equality is Still Elusive for the World's Women (Listening time = 30 to 38 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
3) DOVEKIE Part Two - The Case Of The Mysterious Puppy, Solved! (Sort Of) (Listening time = 12 to 15 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
Thirty-Six
1) The Battle Of The Volga Lives in Memory (Total listening time = 6 to 8 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed) 2) Does Birth Order Shape Our Lives? (Total listening time = 5 to 6 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
3) Life, Music and Art of American Indians (Total listening time = 15 to 17 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed) 4) A Kind of Love - A short-story (Total listening time = 22 to 25 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
Thirty-Seven
1) Cold Case: Mystery Of Frank Morris (Total listening time = 13 to 16 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed) (Total listening time = 16 to 18 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
3) Prisons for Profit (Total listening time = 23 to 28 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
Thirty-Eight
1) Twiiter, Facebook, YouTube, and Revolution (Total listening time = 13 to 16 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed) 2) Social Media and The Tunisian Overthrow (Total listening time = 5 to 6 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
3) Rising Seas: Paradise Lost (Total listening time = 23 to 28 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed) 4) New Fossil From The Dawn Of Dinosaurs (Total listening time = 22 to 25 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
5) 'The Last Leaf' by O. Henry (Total listening time = 13 to 16 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
Thirty-Nine
Japan Faces a Nuclear Catastrophe (Total listening time = 21 to 26 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed) Part 2 Total listening time = 25 to 31 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
Forty
1) 'Asians in The Library' - Racism and Reaction Part 1 - The Rant Part 2 - The Response Part 3 - The Song (Total listening time = 11to 13 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed) 2) Egyptian Women and The Vote Part 1 - Egyptian Women Lead the Education Effort Part 2 - Voters Pass Historic Changes To Egypt's Constitution (Total listening time = 10 to 12 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
3) Western Diets Are Making The World Sick (Total listening time = 13 to 16 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed) 4) American Muslims at The Border (Total listening time = 7 to 9 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
5) A Warning to The World (Total listening time = 6 to 7 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed) 6) How About An Invisibility Cloak? (Total listening time = 7 to 9 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
7) Arab Uprisings - Delight or Disappoint Al Qaida? (Total listening time = 4 to 5 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
Forty-One
1) For Prostitutes, An Alternative To The Streets (Total listening time = 12 -15 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed) 2) Relapse And Recovery: A Tale Of Two Prostitutes (Total listening time = 8 - 9 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
3) How The Spies Found Bin Laden (Total listening time = 4 - 5 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed) 4) In A Land Of Few Rights, Saudi Women Fight To Vote (Total listening time = 7 - 9 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
5) 'The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: A Case of Identity' by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 (Total listening time = 40 - 48 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
Forty-Two
1) Don't Believe Facebook (Total listening time = 6 -7 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed) 2) A Divided Italy Prepares For Unification Anniversary (Total listening time = 4 - 5 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
3) Youth Protests Sweep Spain (Total listening time = 4 - 5 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed) 4) "A Country of Dark Corners": Freed Journalist Dorothy Parvaz on Her Syrian Detention and the Assad Regime Crackdown (Total listening time = 17 - 20 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
5) Boy's Brutal Death Becomes Rallying Cry For Syrians (Total listening time = 5 - 6 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
6) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: 'The Red-headed League' by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 (Total listening time = 56 - 67 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
Forty-Three
1) What Does A 'Post-American World' Look Like? Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 (Total listening time = 44 to 54 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
2) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: 'A Scandal in Bohemia' Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 (Total listening time = 51 to 62 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
Forty-Four
1) Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (Listening time = 14 - 17 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed) 2) New Poll: "If God exists, do you approve or disapprove of its performance?" (Listening time = 3 - 4 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
3) Arab Women Seek More Rights After The Revolution (Listening time = 5 - 7 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed) 4) Argentina's Jewish Villages Keep Traditions Alive (Listening time = 6 - 7 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
5) Drone Planes: Who and What Will We Watch Next? (Listening time = 10 - 12 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
6) "All Quiet on the Western Front" - Two Excerpts (Listening time = 6 - 8 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
Forty-Five
1) Fear, Inc.: The Islamophobia Network in America (Listening time = 13 - 17 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed) 2) Inside Occupy Wall Street: A Tour of the Activist Encampment (Listening time = 12 - 15 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
3) The Greedy Battle For Iraq's 'Hearts And Minds' (Listening time = 39 - 49 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
4) How Psychology Solved A WWII Shipwreck Mystery (Listening time = 9 - 11 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed) 5) Bunker Buster Bombs for Israel (Listening time = 4 - 5 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
6) Sherlock Holmes : The Sussex Vampire Part 1 Part 2 (Listening time = 35 - 45 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
