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Marilyn Johnson on "The Dead Beat"

Marilyn Johnson tells Anne Strainchamps why obituaries are the best stories in the paper.

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Patricia Pearson on Procrastination Anxiety

Patricia Person confesses she is a procrastinator in this audio essay.

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Robert Baer on Suicide Bombers

Robert Baer, CIA agent turned novelist is also a film-maker.  His documentary is called "The Cult of the Suicide Bomber" and it's scarier than anything Hollywood is producing.

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Peggy Orenstein on Raw Food

Journalist Peggy Orenstein tells Jim Fleming about the raw food movement. She explains why they think food should never be heated above 118 degrees.

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Linda Greenlaw on Lobstering

Linda Greenlaw tells Anne Strainchamps that fishing for lobsters is mostly a matter of hard work and persistence, and that for the fishermen, lobster is cheap eating.

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Jim Wight on His Father, James Herriot

Jim Fleming talks with Jim Wight, a vet himself, and the son of the man known to the world as James Herriot. Like his father, Jim Wight’s turned to writing.

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Karen Armstrong on "Buddha"

Karen Armstrong tries to explain where the Buddha came from and how Prince Siddharta could be a compassionate man yet abandon his family to become the Buddha.

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Louise Brown on "The Dancing Girls of Lahore"

Louise Brown tells Anne Strainchamps that the traditional culture of prostitution is related to the performing arts in Pakistan but that it is being replaced by a sex industry.

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