Geo Quiz

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Our daily geography puzzler.

Geo answer

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Producer Mariana Schroeder sent us an audio postcard from Jamaica — the answer to our Geo Quiz. She stopped in for lunch at roadside stand manned by a 26-year-old cook named Omar. His specialty is Jerk.

Entire program – October 30, 2009

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Today on The World: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton takes on the stalled Mideast peace process this weekend; Also, what’s behind a new agreement that expands the US military presence in Colombia, And why Japan has so many different flavors of Kit Kat bars.

Podcast: New Peace Lobby for Israel

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On this week’s American Influence podcast, J Street has its coming out party in Washington. The new pro-Israel, pro-peace lobby group creates a stir. And US-funded Palestinian security forces in the West Bank. Join The World’s Matthew Bell for his weekly in-depth look at US foreign policy and its effects across the globe. Download MP3

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Orchid Ensemble

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We hear music from Canadian-based trio, Orchid Ensemble. Its latest CD is inspired in part by the Uyghur music of northwestern China. The title of “Road to Kashgar.” And the Uyghur city of Kashgar is the answer to our Geo Quiz today.

Entire program – October 29, 2009

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Today on The World: Why the new US defense bill includes funds to pay Taliban members, An Egyptian comedian tackles taboo subjects with his own version of Da Ali G. Show, and Spain’s economic woes forces small towns to sweep their own streets.

Twitter freedom, a zeitgeisty Chinese word, and Lakota immersion

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Question: what happens when a court gags a newspaper? Answer: The gag sags, 140 characters at a time. That’s what happened this month when microbloggers tweeted what The Guardian couldn’t report. Also, a group of Beijing and expat artists discover a Chinese word that seems to convey the state of China today; and the near-death – and possible rebirth – of the native American Lakota language, with an assist from a German rock star.

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“Win in China”

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Entrepreneurship is no longer a dirty word in China. Select businessmen, and a handful of women are now held up as powerful icons. In China’s major cities these days, highway billboards featuring real estate and tech moguls who emerged from poverty have replaced many of the massive tributes to Chairman Mao and heroic workers. Filmmaker Ole Schell traveled to the city of Weifang in Shandong province, to profile an up-and-coming lingerie baron and a member of a new generation of high-profile Chinese entrepreneurs. Photo: Ole Schell Download MP3

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Bilingual metaphors, place name changes, and interpreting for the Dodgers

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In this week’s World in Words podcast, Nobel literature prize winner Herta Mueller dreamed up metaphors in a mix of her native German and the Romanian she learned at school. Try translating that into English. Also, a conversation with the author of “Whatever Happened to Tanganika? The Place Names that History Left Behind.” And a profile of the man the Los Angeles Dodgers hired to interpret for the team’s Japanese players.

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Global Hit

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We close out our program with reporter Daniel Brown’s visit to the international Jazz festival in Fez, Morocco.

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Gaddafi’s translator and Nazi slogans in English

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In the latest World in Words podcast, the top five language-related stories from the past month. Among them: the sad tale of Muammar Gaddafi’s translator at the United Nations; the quixotic tale of the real estate mogul who is trying to export Korean Hangul script to Indonesia; and a German court’s decision to permit Nazi hate speech, so long as it’s not in German.

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Entire program – October 9, 2009

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Today on The World: International reaction to President Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize; Also, how city living could help the world’s honeybees make a comeback; And the plight of those people around the globe who are displaced from their land in the name of conservation.

Mid East on peace prize announcement

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Reaction to President Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize is mixed in the Middle East. The World’s Aaron Schachter reports.

The Obama peace prize

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Anchor Katy Clark speaks with Helge Pharo, an advisor to the Nobel Peace Prize Committee, about the committee’s thinking in awarding this year’s prize to President Obama.

The cost of getting lost in Catalonia

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The government in Spain’s northwest region of Catalonia says it spends about 3-million dollars a year rescuing ill-prepared hikers from the region’s mountains…but no more. Now it’s charging reckless hikers for their rescues. The World’s Gerry Hadden explains.