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2003
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228 - You Are So Beautiful…To Me
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Two modern-day reinterpretations of the Frog Prince story.
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229 - Secret Government
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Stories of some of the secrets our government keeps: of imprisonment, deportation, and spying.
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230 - Come Back to Afghanistan
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A California teenager returns to the home country he's never known.
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231 - Time to Save the World
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Stories of sudden truths delivered by complete strangers.
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232 - The Real Story
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Real stories from three very different wars.
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233 - Starting From Scratch
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A man in retirement tries to start over in a new life with a new venture: a cable channel, with lots of puppies.
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234 - Say Anything
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Does talking about it really help?
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235 - The Balloon Goes Up
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Stories from the beginnings of the war in Iraq, and how it compares with wars in our country's past.
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236 - My Two Cents
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We try to figure out the paradox of the current economy, where Americans are simultaneously both losing jobs and buying new homes and cars.
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237 - Regime Change
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Stories of regime change in everyday life.
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238 - Lost in Translation
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Jonathan Goldstein and Starlee Kine go to a karaoke club that has, along with all the songs, comedy routines for people to perform.
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239 - Lost in America
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Stories of people who are lost, histories that are lost, and things that are lost.
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240 - I’m In Charge Now
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There is a ominous information gap between the U.S. officials running the country and the Iraqi people being governed.
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241 - 20 Acts in 60 Minutes
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All kinds of little stories that we ordinarily can't use on the radio show because they are just too short.
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242 - Enemy Camp
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The story of a fixer for the Catholic Church and how he came to sympathize with the people that he was sent to deceive.
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243 - Later That Same Day
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Stories about what the passage of time can do to someone.
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244 - MacGyver
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Four real stories in which real people invent amazingly clever solutions to their problems.
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245 - Allure of the Mean Friend
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They treat us badly, they don't call us back, they cancel plans at the last minute, and yet we come back for more.
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246 - My Pen Pal
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Stories of very unusual pen pals, people whose relationship could not exist without the help of the postal service.
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247 - What Is This Thing?
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What is this thing called love? For answers, we explore the romance novel industry, a $1.5 billion empire run almost entirely by and for women.
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248 - Like It or Not
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David Rakoff guest hosts.
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249 - Garbage
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We follow the trash from the sanitation men on the street, to the mob guys who controlled the hauling business, to the people who actually live in dumps.
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250 - The Annoying Gap Between Theory...and Practice
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Why is it always harder than you think it'll be?
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251 - Brother’s Keeper
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In his ongoing effort to write his own version of the Bible, Jonathan Goldstein retells the story of Cain and Abel.
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252 - Poultry Slam 2003
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Jack Hitt reports on an opera about Chicken Little that makes grown men cry. And other stories of fowl of all kinds.
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253 - The Middle of Nowhere
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The tiny island of Nauru is at the center of several of the decade's biggest global events.
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254 - Teenage Embed, Part Two
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Hyder returns to Afghanistan.
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255 - This American Life’s Holiday Gift-Giving Guide
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The vexing difficulty of finding the perfect gift.