In 1992, Alexander Blakeley graduated from college and headed for the newly capitalist Siberia. He tells Anne Strainchamps he found a wilderness of greed, theft and exploitation.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Anthony Bourdain, executive chef at Brasserie Les Halles and author of "Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly," tells Steve Paulson some restaurant secrets.
Plum Kettle weighs 300 pounds and would do anything to lose weight. But then something unexpected happens. She gets angry. Very angry. Hear an excerpt from Sarai Walker's new novel, "Dietland."
Al Franken and Katherine Lanpher present "The Audio Crawl."
Imagine being a 15-year old boy on vacation in Pakistan, kidnapped and transported to Guantanamo Bay. Anna Perera's debut young adult novel focuses on the darker aspects of the war on terror.
Do you think your memory is like a video camera, storing every experience you've ever had? Historian Alison Winter says we tend to use technology metaphors to think about memory.
Do banks really have to rule the world? Not if we use alternative currencies. Bernard Lietaer and Jacqui Dunne say thousands of these different exchange systems already exist to meet people's real needs.
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