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1998
1998x88
88 - Numbers
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1998x89
89 - Sibling Rivalry
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1998x90
90 - Telephone
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1998x91
91 - Escape the Box
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1998x92
92 - Leave the Mask On
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1998x93
93 - Valentine’s Day ’98
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1998x94
94 - How To
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1998x95
95 - Monogamy
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1998x96
96 - Pinned by History
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1998x97
97 - Death to Wacky
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1998x98
98 - Throwing the First Punch
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Stories about what it means to be a person who throws the first punch, and how hard it is to give up.
1998x99
99 - I Enjoy Being A Girl, Sort Of
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Variations on what it means to be a girl and what it means to be a woman.
1998x100
100 - Radio
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A radio show about what makes radio so great, and what makes it so terrible.
1998x101
101 - Niagara
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The story of a town that started with something huge—the falls—and built nothing lasting from it.
1998x102
102 - Road Trip!
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With so many songs, movies, and books about the joy of the open road, it's hard to take just a normal road trip without huge expectations.
1998x103
103 - Scenes from A Transplant
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An NPR reporter leaves her three-year-old son and heads to Omaha—for cancer treatment, and a last chance to save her life.
1998x104
104 - Music Lessons
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David Sedaris and Sarah Vowell on what's frustrating about music lessons, what's miraculous about them, and what they actually teach us.
1998x105
105 - Take A Negro Home
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Two stories of people who try to cross the color line, and why it's still so hard.
1998x106
106 - Father’s Day ‘98
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Stories in which fathers and their kids sit down and try to have an honest moment together.
1998x107
107 - Trail of Tears
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Sarah Vowell re-traces the route her Cherokee ancestors took when expelled from their own land by President Andrew Jackson.
1998x108
108 - Truth and Lies at Age Ten
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A woman who'd been diagnosed with cystic fibrosis talks about the lies she told herself as a child.
1998x109
109 - Notes on Camp
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We attempt to bridge the gap of misunderstanding between camp people and non-camp people.
1998x110
110 - Mapping
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The world redrawn by the five senses.
1998x111
111 - Adventures in the Simple Life
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I thought this was supposed to be easy.
1998x112
112 - Ladies and Germs
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How irrational fear of germs means that you aren't going to get good apple cider in your local supermarket this fall.
1998x113
113 - Windfall
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What happens when you suddenly strike it rich?
1998x114
114 - Last Words
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Stories of people's last words before death.
1998x115
115 - First Day
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A rookie cop and a squirrel, and other stories of first days on the job.
1998x116
116 - Poultry Slam 1998
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Our annual program about turkeys, chickens, and fowl of all types.
1998x117
117 - You Gonna Eat That?
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The family table is stage on which many family dramas are played out.
1998x118
118 - What You Lookin’ At?
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Stories about seeing and being seen, taped before a live audience in Town Hall in New York City.