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• David Shipley on getting better with (rather than dumping) email

  Published: July 13, 2007, 8:37 pm

  Tags: Productivity, Email, David Shipley, Npr

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• NPR Broadcasts "Adoption in America" Series

  Published: July 26, 2007, 11:13 pm

  Tags: News Issues And Commentary, Adoption, Adoption Blogs, Adoption In America Series, Laura Christianson, Npr

  Public Radio (NPR) is running an in-depth, four-part series called "Adoption in America." Here are links to each of the stories in the series:Transracial adoption insights from a mother and son (July 23, 2007) The dark side of international adoption (July 24, 2007) Korean-American reflects on life as an adoptee (July 25,

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• In Brief: "Bob Butler was just on NPR's Day to Day, ...

  Published: August 1, 2007, 2:38 pm

  Tags: From The Mailbag, Npr, Robert Butler

  "Bob Butler was just on NPR's Day to Day, discussing the email he wrote to his graduate students regarding his divorce and that email's subsequent appearance on Gawker. He was pompous and...

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• Every Mile an Obligation

  Published: August 10, 2007, 11:00 pm

  Tags: Infrastructure, Taxes, Conservatism, Tim Bedore, Npr

  Tim Bedore's commentary from NPR's "Marketplace" is worth a listen.  And a rousing "Amen!"  From Minneapolis to New Orleans, the results of cheating our nation and enriching those who get sweetheart contracts is leaving deadly scars on the landscape. Now is indeed the time to point fingers and give a failing grade to a political

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• Why Should Seoul Care?

  Published: August 7, 2007, 7:09 pm

  Tags: Religion, Central Asia, East Asia, Politics, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Korea, Mike Pocock, Missionaries, Npr, Politics, Rok, South Korea, South Korean Hostages, Taliban

  NPR presents yet another interesting angle on the South Korean hostage crisis in Afghanistan: Mike Pocock who discusses missionary work. And, TMH provides good reason to doubt the value of South Korean reporting (TMH) on the hostage crisis. Pocock’s opinions raise an issue I, as one who does not observe any organized religious rules, have

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• What's your favorite food memoir?

  Published: August 13, 2007, 2:36 pm

  Tags: Book Recommendations, Food Memoirs, Foodmemoirs, Laurie Colwin, Npr, Ruth Reichl

  great segment that aired on NPR's Morning Edition back in June. In it Steve Inskeep spoke with Ruth Reichl about her favorite food memoirs. In the segment she spoke about several books, but then also furnished NPR with a more complete list of gastronomical memoirs for posting on the website. Okay Slashfoodies, what are your favorite food

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• Public or Private?

  Published: August 15, 2007, 12:11 pm

  Tags: Education, Asd, Aspergers, Autism, Children, Family, Health, Npr, Pdd Nos, Private, Public, Radio, Schools

  NPR has a story on autism education and on public schools preparing themselves to educate kids with autism. The Boston-area May Institute is profiled along with public school programs in Newton, Massaschusetts. My son Charlie has been in both private and public school placements and both have their pros and cons. I like that Charlie

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• All Options On The Table Dept.: Mike Huckabee Defeats Effete Liberal Media

  Published: August 17, 2007, 2:10 pm

  Tags: All Options On The Table Dept, Clips, Mike Huckabee, Npr, Sports

  Mike Huckabee stopped by NPR in New York yesterday, and went on “The Bryant Park Project” to talk about, uh, how he lost a bunch of weight a while back. Because that’s all he ever talks about. Also, he played ping-pong! And won. Because Mike Huckabee is an unstoppable force of health and winning things, or at least coming in

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• NPR Broadcasts "Adoption in America" Series

  Published: July 26, 2007, 11:13 pm

  Tags: News Issues Commentary, Adoption, Adoption Blogs, Adoption In America Series, Laura Christianson, Npr

  Public Radio (NPR) is running an in-depth, four-part series called "Adoption in America." Here are links to each of the stories in the series:Transracial adoption insights from a mother and son (July 23, 2007) The dark side of international adoption (July 24, 2007) Korean-American reflects on life as an adoptee (July 25,

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• NPR's Cornish reinforces myth of Thompson as Watergate hero

  Published: September 4, 2007, 12:24 pm

  Tags: Npr, 2008 Elections, Fred Thompson, Government Elections

  National Public Radio's (NPR) Audie Cornish left out a significant admission by Thompson himself that tarnishes what Cornish described as the "renown[]" Thompson acquired for his role as Republican counsel on the Senate Watergate committee. Cornish reported: CORNISH: When Al Gore gave up his Senate seat in 1992 after being elected

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• Lies, Damn Lies, and...

  Published: September 6, 2007, 6:47 pm

  Tags: Npr, Iraq, Escalation

  NPR's Guy Raz did a dandy job this morning of blowing the fog away from the statistics being used to forward the pro-escalation agenda.  He points out that this has been going on from the beginning. Sometime around February 2004, a top military official in Iraq estimated that there were about 15,000 total insurgents. About a year later,

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• Myths and falsehoods about progress in Iraq

  Published: September 9, 2007, 2:15 pm

  Tags: Abc, Cbs, Cnn, Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox News Channel, Investor S Business Daily, Nbc, Npr, New York Daily News, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, U S News Amp World Report, National Security Foreign Policy, War In Iraq

  On the July 31 edition of NPR's Morning Edition, NPR Pentagon correspondent Tom Bowman asserted that Navy Adm. Michael Mullen, Bush's nominee for Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, "will not be calling for, like the Democrats are, for any precipitous withdrawal of U.S. troops" from Iraq during his testimony before the Congress.

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• Bozell Column: Opposing 9/11 Remembrance

  Published: September 11, 2007, 10:54 am

  Tags: 9 11, New York Times, Npr, Talk Of The Nation

  As America headed into the weekend before the sixth anniversary of the horrific September 11 terrorist attacks, the latest purported video from Osama bin Laden reminded the country that the war on terrorism is still a real and persistent battle. But some people despise the whole war-on-terror concept. They believe that commemorating 9-11 is

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• Quakes rattleing islands...

  Published: September 13, 2007, 12:41 am

  Tags: Disaster, The Age, Tradgedy, Npr, Natural Disaster, Sirenized, Indonesia

  This is getting really serious... First the 8.4 and now a close-by 7.9What is up with this area? I guess it isnt like everyone is going to leave but shit --- I would gtfo. I feel horrible for these people living on restless crust over there. It is a terrible unfolding of events! Thankfully the death toll has been relatively low. A massive

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• On NPR, Wash. Post's Wright claimed Webb's Iraq amendment was "defeated decisively"

  Published: September 24, 2007, 3:08 pm

  Tags: Npr, Weekend Edition Saturday, National Security Foreign Policy, War In Iraq

  National Public Radio's (NPR) Weekend Edition Saturday, Washington Post diplomatic correspondent Robin Wright characterized the Senate Republicans' blocking of an amendment sponsored by Sen. Jim Webb (D-VA), which would require that U.S. troops receive home leave time equal to their most recent combat deployment, as having

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