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• Istanbul struggles with gentrification

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 612
  Download audio file (1109097.mp3) Download MP3 Some of Istanbul’s old neighborhoods are struggling to modernize. The Turkish government is razing buildings to make way for new homes. But in the process, some argue, the original character of the neighborhoods is being destroyed, along with the fabric of the ...
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• How Happy is the Economy?

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 612
  Download audio file (gloecon35.mp3) Download MP3 On October 29 th , the US Commerce Department announced that the nation’s Gross Domestic Product, or GDP , grew by an annual rate of 3.5 percent in the quarter that ended in September. So by one measure, technically we are out of recession. But it sure doesn’t ...
  3 days ago

• WGBH plans to stay unique by doing the same thing as other stations

  
  Universal Hub - All Boston, all the time — Authority: 632
  WGBH tells the Globe that when the purchase of WCRB goes through, it will eliminate folk and blues programs because there are other outlets for that in Boston (so good news for WUMB, Bostons other other public radio station) and it wants to keep its programming "unique." And by unique, it means adding news and ...
  3 days ago

• Understanding Chinese, birds and Glaswegians

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 612
  Download audio file (WIWnews5.mp3) For the latest newsy pod, Carol Hills and Clark Boyd from the Big Show help me pick our top five language-related stories from the past month: 5. Some birds develop distinct dialects based on the decibel levels of their habitats. Dialect here is a term of art. It does ...
  3 days ago

• Night Witches

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 612
  Download audio file (1105099.mp3) Download MP3 We take you back to World War II for today’s Geography Quiz. We’re looking for the first nation to put female pilots into combat. This nation had three regiments of female pilots, and during the war they flew more than 30,000 missions. Their enemies called them ...
  4 days ago

• Remembering East Germany

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 612
  Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, young people in Germany don’t give a lot of thought to what was once known as the GDR or East Germany. The communist state once carved out a large portion of their homeland, dividing it not just geographically, but also ideologically. But now few know much about a ...
  6 days ago

• Ghana’s first skier off to the Olympics

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 612
  Kwame Nkrumah-Acheampong may have been born in the Scottish city of Glasgow, but he grew up in the Accra, Ghana. But that never stopped him from dreaming of becoming a professional skier. He honed his skills on an artificial slope in Britain. And now, the “snow leopard” as he’s known will be Ghana’s one-man ...
  6 days ago

• A return to the East German border

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 612
  Next week marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. In Berlin, only a tiny stretch of the wall remains as a memorial. From 1961 to 1989, 89 people were killed trying to escape over it. Such attempts are well documented. But a less talked about Cold War border was even deadlier. We’re referring to ...
  1 week ago

• Zen archers take aim in Manhattan

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 612
  Before there was Zen in the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance , there was the original: Zen in the Art of Archery . The 1953 book chronicled the story of Eugen Herrigel, a German who traveled to Japan to learn Kyudo, the way of the bow. But you don’t have to go that far. The World’s Alex Gallafent visits a zen ...
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• Visiting Colombia’s national parks

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 612
  Despite the country’s dangerous reputation, the tourist business is booming in Colombia. The capital Bogotá and port city of Cartagena have both noted upticks in tourism. But some of the country’s most spectacular sights, like the Caño Cristales River, are located in former war zones and are still struggling ...
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• Tech Podcast 265: “Internet’s” birthday, 40 years of modulated anarchy

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 612
  Download audio file (WTPpodcast265.mp3) Download MP3 Wow. It’s not often the Technology Podcast gets to celebrate the very reason, figuratively and literally, for its existence. But this week, the Internet celebrated its 40th anniversary/birthday/whatever you want to call it. That’s UCLA’s Leonard ...
  1 week ago

• One Spanish town’s recession

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 612
  Download audio file (1029097.mp3) Download MP3 In Spain the economic crisis is hitting small towns particularly hard. Many villages got rich during the country’s housing boom. And they assumed they’d keep getting richer. So they borrowed lots of money. But then real estate went bust and their collateral, ...
  1 week ago

• The Economics of Renewable Energy

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 612
  Download audio file (gloecon34.mp3) Download MP3 Could jatropha solve Indias energy problems? (All pictures copyright D1 Oils plc) The next gold rush is gearing up: renewable energy is hot. You can find solar panels everywhere these days, from the Mojave Desert to to roofs of Midieval castles . Nuclear ...
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• Global Hit: France’s Nouvelle Vague

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 612
  Download audio file (10292009.mp3) Download MP3 On their new CD, French band Nouvelle Vague cover the Sex Pistols, The Police and other bands from the 1970s and 80s. With the help of young female singers who often don’t know the originals, Nouvelle Vague offer bossa nova, reggae and folk reinterpretations of ...
  1 week ago

• Facebook at Work? Of Course!

  
  Media Metamorphosis — Authority: 120
  The Boston Herald today kickstarted a local discussion about social networking at work. In usual tabloid fashion the Herald created a sensational story about the fact that some city employees, like Amy Derjue are updating their Facebook status from city-owned computers, some even going so far as *gasp* playing ...
  1 week ago

• Owning a piece of the Berlin Wall

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 612
  Twenty years ago, the wall that divided East and West Berlin for decades came down in dramatic fashion. Since that time, the Berlin Wall has been broken up and distributed around the world. Now, there are pieces everywhere, including the chunk pictured here, in downtown Manhattan. The World’s Alex Gallafent reports ...
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• Global Hit: The Soldiers

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 612
  Lieutenant Corporal Ryan Idzi, Sergeant Major Gary Chilton, and Sergeant Richie Maddocks are all currently serving in the British Army. They’ve never fought together on the battlefields of Iraq or Afghanistan, but they have made an album together. They call themselves, unsurprisingly, The Soldiers, and they’ve ...
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• Best of the BBC: Maternal mortality worldwide

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 612
  As part of a BBC World Service mini-series on maternal mortality, BBC reporter Jill McGivering travels to Pakistan. Every year, as many as 30,000 women die in childbirth in Pakistan. That’s about one child dying every half-hour. In her report, McGivering goes to rural areas of Sindh Province, and meets with ...
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• Frontline: The Warning

  
  The Mediavore — Authority: 482
  We won’t let all of last week’s public radio fundraising crowd out this episode of Frontline , which continues the series’ tradition of some of the finest reporting on the economic crisis you’ll find anywhere. The Warning features the first television interview with Brooksley Born, who campaigned to ...
  1 week ago

• Istanbul struggles with gentrification

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 612
  Some of Istanbul’s old neighborhoods are struggling to modernize. The Turkish government is razing buildings to make way for new homes. But in the process, some argue, the original character of the neighborhoods is being destroyed, along with the fabric of the communities that live there. Aaron Schachter reports ...
  1 week ago

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