Archive for September 25th, 2009


Geo Quiz / geo answer

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Today’s Geo Quiz seeks an Italian town famous for baseball. The answer is Nettuno, a coastal city about 40 miles south of Rome, where local residents picked up the sport from American GIs during World War Two. Right now… Nettuno is hosting the annual Baseball World Cup. Reporter Nancy Greenleese takes us there.

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Global Hit: Kseniya Simonova

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Anchor Marco Werman tells us about the dynamic art of sand animation artist Kseniya Simonova, winner of this year’s Ukraine’s Got Talent contest.

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The Nuclear Disarmament Movement

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_46439031_-16It was striking this week–with all the talk at the United Nations of getting rid of nuclear weapons–that the rhetoric was coming from the mouths of world leaders rather than the megaphones of demonstrators. It got us wondering what ever happened to the nuclear disarmament movement? Jonathan Schell and Lawrence Wittner have some answers.

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Kseniya Simonova

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sandWe don’t normally focus on the visual on this radio program. But something caught our eye this past week that’s almost entirely visual. And yet, it’s so beautiful and breathtaking that we want to tell you about it. Download MP3. Watch the video:

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Tech Podcast 260: Promising AIDS vaccine, Embrace thermoregulator, and Scottish worms

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EmbraceThe highlight of this week’s podcast is a segment suggested by one of you, the tech podcast faithful. It’s about the Embrace, a low-cost incubator that may help save the lives of premature and low birth weight babies in the developing world. Also, you’ll hear about a promising AIDS vaccine trial. We end with Scottish earthworms, and a Mumbai cell phone symphony.

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Global Political Cartoons: Sep 19-25, 2009

gc33-150The Iranian president becomes the Joe Wilson of the UN General Assembly meeting. The real ‘Mad Men’? They’re in the Middle East. And nuclear weapons — the actual weapons — find the idea of disarming, well, disarming.

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Bereaved parents seek peace in the Middle East

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Israeli Rami Elhanan and Palestinian Bassam Aramin have both lost daughters in the conflict between their peoples. But instead of demanding revenge, they are working together for peace and reconciliation. Rami and Bassam are part of a 500 strong group called The Circle of Bereaved Parents. Their stories are told in a book called “Nine Lives.” On the BBC’s Outlook program, Matthew Bannister talks to both men about their inspiring journey.Download MP3

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