Reporter Ann Hepperman examines the impact Starbucks has had on Flagstaff, Arizona. It’s the homogenization of American culture vs. reliably good coffee!
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Andrea di Robilant is an Italian journalist from an old Venetian family who's made a novel out of the story contained in some letters from his family's attic.
Commentator Anne Schaffer remembers making Divinity - a puffy, gooey confection that was her mother’s Christmas speciality.
For two years, medical anthropologist Seth Holmes followed and worked alongside migrant farm laborers all along the west coast. As part of his research, he even snuck in to the U.S. from Mexico, all in order to find out what life is like for an agricultural worker.
Adam Frank is an atheist with a spiritual bent. As an astrophysicist, his yearning for the sacred is rooted in science. It's an impulse going back to his childhood.
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.
Amitav Ghosh tells Jim Fleming that English has been a global language for 200 years and cites some of the many Asian words that have long been in the Oxford English Dictionary.
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