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Download MP3Israeli President Shimon Peres celebrated his 86th birthday a week ago. He’s been in Israeli politics for more than half a century. Turns out, that whole time, he’s also been writing poems. And some of those poems have now been set to music. Daniel Estrin has today’s Global Hit.
We’re going to the Caribbean for today’s Geo Quiz. Our focus today is a little piece of the Netherlands, located in the southern Caribbean Sea. It’s an island — one of several Dutch territories in the Caribbean. The capital is Willemstad.
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Download MP3A List of Music Featured Between our reports for August 24, 2009
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Health problems that afflict the world’s poor have received unprecedented attention in recent years. Governments and foundations alike are pouring billion of dollars into the fights against diseases such as HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis. But medical workers who focus on lesser known diseases say their efforts remain as difficult as ever. Reporter Odette Yousef traveled to Ethiopia to follow the struggles of one American organization that’s fighting trachoma, a leading cause of blindness in Africa.
