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Archive for March, 2011
A nation’s psyche in the wake of disaster
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The World’s Jason Margolis examines how last week’s tsunami and earthquake in Japan have affected the country’s national psyche. Download MP3
British town gets royal title
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For the first time in more than a century a British town is getting a royal title. So for our Geo Quiz, we’d like you to name it. The name change was approved by the Queen in appreciation for what’s become a tradition in the town. Download MP3A voice from Bahrain
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Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with a member of an international human right’s group, who’s in Bahrain’s capital, Manama, about the escalating violence there. Download MP3
More refugees flee Libya’s violence
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People fleeing the fighting in Libya continue to head for the nation’s borders with Egypt and Tunisia. Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with Michel Gabaudan, of Refugees International, who is at a refugee camp on the Tunisian side of the border. Download MP3
Italy’s stake in Libya
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Megan Williams reports on how Italy’s oil and business interests in Libya have caused the government of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to be extra cautious when it comes to responding to the rebellion against Gaddafi. Download MP3
CIA contractor freed in Pakistan
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Pakistanis are in an uproar over the release today of CIA contractor Raymond Davis. He was freed after paying two million dollars in “blood money” to the families of two men he shot and killed in January. He maintains the men were trying to rob him. The blood money is a provision commonly used under Islamic sharia law. Download MP3
PRI’s The World(03/16/2011: Japan, Bushmeat)
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The latest from Japan including the anxiety in Tokyo over possible radiation exposure; Also, how illegal bushmeat from West Africa gets to restaurants in Paris; Plus, an Iranian-American lawyer who’s helping to launch the careers of young Persian-language bands in the US. Download MP3
The Italian Occupation of Libya
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The World’s Marco Werman interviews historian Ronald Bruce St John about the Italian occupation of Libya in the first half of the 20th century and its ramifications today. St John is the author of Libya: From Colony to Independence and Libya: Continuity and Change. Download MP3
The vocoder, the linguistic robot and the Dead Rabbit
In this week’s World in Words, writer Dave Tompkins on how the sound-distorting vocoder morphed from a wartime security device into one of Hip Hop’s favorite toys. Also, English teachers in South Korea don’t come cheap. One Korean school is trying an alternative: a robot. Plus, new limits for foreign reporters in China, and the man who brought Jägermeister out of the forests of Saxony onto campus parties everywhere [...]
Nations look so pretty from afar
Berber activists in Morocco see in the country’s current political upheaval a chance to press for their own demands: the use of the Berber language in more public schools; official recognition of the Berbers in the Moroccan constitution; and the repatriation of the remains of one of their heroes, Abd El-Krim. Abd El-Krim expelled the Spanish from Northern Morocco in 1921, then presided over his “Rif Republic” for five years – the time it took Europe to drive that gadfly into exile in Egypt, where he died and still rests [...]
Japan seeks to allay nuclear fears
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The operators of the Japanese nuclear plant damaged in Friday’s earthquake and tsunami, say essential cooling functions are being restored following a number of explosions and a fire which released dangerous levels of radiation. Anchor Marco Werman speaks with David Brenner who directs the Center for Radiological Research at Columbia University. Download MP3
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Japan’s nuclear crisis and Europe
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The World’s Clark Boyd reports that Japan’s troubles with its quake-damaged nuclear reactors are prompting European leaders to reassess the safety of their own reactors, and Europe’s reliance on nuclear energy in the future. Download MP3Palestinian demonstration in West Bank
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Thousands of Palestinians demonstrated in the West Bank in Gaza today. They called for unity between rival political factions, Hamas and Fatah. The World’s Matthew Bell reports from Ramallah. Download MP3
Bushmeat market in Ecuador rainforest
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Daniel Grossman reports on how illegal commercial hunting is threatening the animal diversity and rainforest ecosystem of the Yasuni National Park in Ecuador. Download MP3
Israeli singer Yasmin Levy’s flamenco twist
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Israeli singer Yasmin Levy follows in the footsteps of her father, the singer Yitzhak Levy. She sings songs from the Ladino culture, the Judeo-Spanish music of Spain. But Yasmin Levy does something her father wouldn’t do – add a twist of flamenco. Anchor Marco Werman speaks to Yasmin about following the footsteps of her father ad creating her new path. Download MP3
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