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Archive for July 7th, 2009
Michael Jackson in Liberia
For today’s Global Hit, we hear from Emmanuel Gardiner, whose family left Liberia for the United States after a coup in 1980. Among his most treasured possessions was Michael Jackson’s album “Off the Wall.” Listen
“No star” hotel
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In the Geo Quiz, we’re looking for the country with the world’s highest ratio of nuclear fallout shelter space to national population. Now, tourists can experience what life is like inside one of those nuclear shelters.
Ethnic tensions still high in western China
The World’s Mary Kay Magistad has the latest on escalating ethnic tensions between Uighurs and Han Chinese in China’s western Xinjiang region.
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China’s media strategy
Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with Xiao Qiang director of the University of California, Berkeley’s China Internet Project, about China’s strategy for handling media coverage of the protests in western China. He says the Chinese government is allowing international journalists to cover the unrest, while cracking down on press coverage.
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Helping Iranians bypass web censorship
Correspondent Cyrus Farivar reports on how technology activists around the globe are working to help Iranians bypass their government’s Internet censorship.
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Music Heard on Air for July 7, 2009
A List of Music Featured Between our reports for July 7, 2009
Emotions and politics
Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with philosopher Dominique Moisi about his new book “The Geopolitics of Emotion: How Cultures of Fear, Humiliation and Hope are Reshaping the World.”
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US-Russian relations hard to reset
Correspondent Jessica Golloher examines some of the challenges for Russia and the United States as leaders of both countries tout a message of cooperation following President Obama’s visit to Moscow.
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Obama, Russia, and the G8
The World’s Gerry Hadden reports on European reaction to President Obama’s visit to Moscow. Obama headed straight to the G8 summit in Italy after his meeting with Russian President Medvedev.
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US military recruiting immigrants
The US military has launched a pilot project to recruit immigrants to serve in the armed forces. The military wants their language skills. As Jason Strother reports, many of those who’ve answered the call are native Korean speakers.
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Geo Quiz Answer
Today’s Geo Quiz asked you to name the country with the most nuclear fallout shelter space per citizen. The answer is Switzerland. Now tourists can get a taste of life inside one of these shelters in the form of the the Null Stern Hotel. Anchor Lisa Mullins finds out more from the man behind the idea: Daniel Charbonnier.
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Global Hit: Michael Jackson in Liberia
For today’s Global Hit, we hear from Emmanuel Gardiner, whose family left Liberia for the United States after a coup in 1980. Among his most treasured possessions was Michael Jackson’s album “Off the Wall.”
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Robert S. McNamara
Former U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara was an architect of the Vietnam War who came to regret it later in life. He was a towering, complicated, enigmatic figure. This week’s How We Got Here podcast tackles his legacy. Listen
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