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Meg Gaines on Fighting Cancer and Healthcare

Meg Gaines is an attorney who was diagnosed in 1994 with terminal, inoperable ovarian cancer. She is now cancer free.

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Naomi Klein on "Brand Name Bullies"

Canadian journalist Naomi Klein, author of “No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Name Bullies,” talks about the day brand names were left for dead on Wall Street.

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John Matthews on "The Winter Solstice"

John Matthews talks with Anne Strainchamps about the sacred pre-Christian origins of many of our secular Christmas traditions.

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Richard Powers Reading from "Orfeo"

Richard Powers reads an excerpt from his novel, "Orfeo," inspired by the music of Mahler and set to Mahler's "Kindertotenlieder."

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Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop Per Child

One Laptop Per Child seeks to change the world by giving laptops to kids in places too remote to have electricity.

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Occupy Wall Street vox

Listen to some of the voices from the Occupy Wall Street protest at 60 Wall Street in New York.

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Jonathan Kaplan on "The Dressing Station"

Jonathan Kaplan is a surgeon who specializes in emergency field treatment. “Groups like “Doctors without Borders” send him to war zones all over the world. His memoir is called “The Dressing Station: A Surgeon’s Chronicle of War and Medicine.”

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Orville Vernon Burton on "The Age of Lincoln"

Historian Orville Vernon Burton tells Jim Fleming about the parallels between Abraham Lincoln and Barack Obama.

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