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#234 - 14 March 2003
Does talking about it really help? Stories where it does, and stories where it doesn't, including Michael Bernard Loggins, who tried to battle his fears by listing them. He ended up with a list 183 items long.
#233 - 7 March 2003
Stories of people starting over, sometimes because they want to, other times because they have to.
#232 - 14 February 2003
It's been said that truth is the first casualty of war. In this week's show, we try to get the real stories from three very different wars.
#231 - 7 February 2003
Stories of people trying to save the world one person at a time, and stories of sudden truths delivered by complete strangers.
#230 - 31 January 2003
In January 2002, the President of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, spoke at Georgetown University. There he urged Afghan-Americans, especially young ones, to move back to Afghanistan.
#229 - 10 January 2003
Stories of some of the secrets our government keeps: of imprisonment, deportation, and spying, and how those secrets affect us.
#228 - 3 January 2003
Two stories about love, and what people mean when they use the word love. Or, looked at differently, two modern-day reinterpretations of the Frog Prince story. One concerns a pretty man falling in love with an unlikely woman. And an unlikely woman falling in love with a pretty bird.
#227 - 20 December 2002
Stories about why we should go to war versus stories of why we shouldn't.
#226 - 6 December 2002
Stories of people stuck in their own personal reruns—moments or episodes that they revisit over and over again. You can watch an animated version of Robert Krulwich's Jackie O story from this episode.
#225 - 8 November 2002
Home movies are often all the same—kids on the beach, people getting married, birthday parties—so why do we make and watch so many of them? Maybe it's because the story they show and the story they tell are different. In this show, we bring you five stories that all start with a fairly typical home movie but go on to tell a unique story.
