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the Legend of Sarah Winchester

Sarah Winchester (born 1840) was the heiress to the Winchester Estate with a 50% holding of the Winchester Repeating Rifle Company. She used her vast fortune to construct a mansion for 38 consecutive years.

Popular legend held that she was cursed by all those who were killed by Winchester rifles. The only way to alleviate her suffering was to continue to add on to her mansion, filling it with strange sealed rooms and staircases and corridors leading nowhere. Pamela Haag tells her tale and gives it some meaning beyond a mere ghost story.

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Shirley Cunningham on Feminine Divine

Shirley Cunningham is a former nun and the author of “Chasing God.”  She tells Steve Paulson about her spiritual quest for feminine images of the Divine, including the Black Madonna.

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Zadie Smith on Multicultural London

Zadie Smith portrays London as it really is with people from many races and cultures living together and spillinng over into each other’s lives.

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Sonic Sidebar: Ice Bowl Remembered

The 1967 Ice Bowl is one of football's legendary showdowns, when the wind chill dipped to 50 below zero.  Commentator Bill Povletich remembers this historic game.

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Tom Shimura as Lyrics Born

Charle Monroe Kane talks with Japanese-American rapper Tom Shimura, a.k.a. Lyrics Born, who’s the founder of Quannum Records.

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Stephen LaBerge on "Lucid Dreaming"

Stephen LaBerge pioneered the field of lucid dreaming research at Stanford University.  He says that anyone can learn how to become aware while dreaming and use lucid dreaming as a therapeutic tool.

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Wally Williams on Jingles

Wally Williams is Chief Executive Officer of Tequila Mockingbird and Sound Design in Austin, Texas, a successful commercial production facility. 

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When Should We Prolong Life? [Video]

How should we decide when to stop life-prolonging treatments for people with severe brain damage and terminal illness? Are live organ donors always out of the question? As medicine makes it possible for us to prolong life, when should we just let - or help - someone die?

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