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#270 - 6 August 2004
How, one might wonder, could a simple hunk of cheese drive a wedge between an aging aunt and her devoted niece? Sure, every family has its share of grudges, secrets and bad behavior.
#269 - 16 July 2004
Letting someone else take care of you can change everything. Three stories of couples in which one partner is trying to take care of the other, sometimes with more resistance, sometimes with less.
#268 - 25 June 2004
Three stories about people who decide to try out a new life—the kind of life their parents never wanted for them.
#267 - 11 June 2004
Perhaps there was a time when the rules of polite society were clear. No longer. This week, we bring you stories of people forced to try to figure out how to maintain their dignity—and decency—in some very unsettling situations.
#266 - 4 June 2004
Today's show is devoted to just one story. Contributing editor Nancy Updike went to Iraq to try to figure out what it's like to be a private citizen working in the middle of a war zone.
#265 - 21 May 2004
Stories of people trying to drag science where it doesn't belong.
#264 - 7 May 2004
We love it when we get it, but is it ever really fair? A defense of special treatment, by people who receive it and people who give it.
#263 - 16 April 2004
Stories of people stuck in unfixable situations who try desperate measures. Sometimes these are inventive, sometimes they're ingenious, sometimes they even work.
#262 - 2 April 2004
People looking for miracle cures, some from above, others from abroad. A son tries to help his mom in a faraway place defy the laws of medical science. A daughter tries to help her dad by going to a faraway place to defy the laws of the United States of America.
#261 - 26 March 2004
Stories trying to understand what actually happens in marriages during this time when the definition of marriage is up in the air. Music throughout the hour by a real wedding band, a good one: The Doug Lawrence Orchestra.
