Nobody's Family Is Going to Change

#166 - 11 August 2000

Three stories that consider the question: Does anyone's family ever change?

Americans In Paris

#165 - 28 July 2000

Many Americans have dreamy and romantic ideas about Paris, notions which probably trace back to the 1920s vision of Paris created by the expatriate Americans there. But what's it actually like in Paris if you're an American, without rose-colored glasses?

Crime Scene

#164 - 7 July 2000

Every crime scene hides a story. In this week's show, we hear about crime scenes and the stories they tell.

Can You Fight City Hall…If You Are City Hall?

#163 - 30 June 2000

Stories of a typically American kind of hero: The person who decides to fight city hall, who stands up alone for what's right, and damn the consequences.

Moving

#162 - 23 June 2000

Stories of people who did not want to move but circumstance forced their hands, and so they tried to move without really moving.

Million Bubbles

#161 - 2 June 2000

Imagine that you could somehow look down from above, onto all the streets and avenues and country roads and highways of this nation...each car below its own tiny subculture on wheels...glass and steel worlds rolling down the street alongside each other. We hear what's going on inside some of these cars.

Character Assassination

#160 - 19 May 2000

In context of the Presidential contest between George W. Bush and Al Gore, we hear stories of character assassination...political and non-political.

Mother's Day

#159 - 12 May 2000

Stories of moms: How they treat us, how we treat them.

Mob Mentality

#158 - 5 May 2000

The pleasure of being in a rampaging, angry mob...and the terror of being in a rampaging, angry mob.

Secret Life of Daytime

#157 - 14 April 2000

All those people you see in the middle of the workday, in coffee shops and bookstores? Who are they? Why aren't they at work?