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Waiting for California's High Speed Rail
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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Getting from San Francisco to LA in two-and-a-half hours -- and a $10 billion ticket price

  • Added: Oct 14, 2008
  • Length: 08:08
Drugs in the Drinking Water
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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Many of us drink tiny doses of drugs like ibuprofen and birth control pills with each glass of tap. Should we care?

Bought by WABE, New Hampshire Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and KRUA


  • Added: Oct 14, 2008
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 4
Bridging the Shores: The Hmong-American Experience
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
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Sound-rich documentary about Hmong-Americans living in the U.S.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WESM 91.3 FM, KWIT, KHEN-LP, KUNM and more


  • Added: Sep 10, 2008
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10
Does the Internet Have A Carbon Footprint?
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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Server farms drive the Internet -- and global warming. How do we clean them up?

Bought by WABE, KUOW, New Hampshire Public Radio, WRVO Public Media, and KGOU


  • Added: Jun 19, 2008
  • Length: 04:52
  • Purchases: 5
Designer Biofuels
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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How do you make fuel from plants?

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 26, 2008
  • Length: 05:02
  • Purchases: 2
It's Not Easy Going Green
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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It's one thing for a city to set environmental goals -- another thing entirely to meet them.

  • Added: Mar 26, 2008
  • Length: 04:54
Stamping Out the Light Brown Apple Moth
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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How should we be of the light brown apple moth?

  • Added: Mar 26, 2008
  • Length: 05:15
When Asteroids (almost) Attack
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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What if that Mars-bound asteroid had set its sights on Earth instead?

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Jan 18, 2008
  • Length: 04:59
  • Purchases: 1
Pollsters & Pundits: "Complete Freakin' Imbeciles"
From: Dick Meister
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The mainstream media invariably claim it's someone else's fault when their pre-election predictions prove to be wrong. But don't you believe it.

  • Added: Jan 10, 2008
  • Length: 02:24
Paper or Plastic?
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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What's better for the environment?

Bought by KZYX and KLCC


  • Added: Dec 18, 2007
  • Length: 05:26
  • Purchases: 2
Quest_The Return of the Canal
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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Is California's most controversial water proposal making a comeback?

  • Added: Oct 26, 2007
  • Length: 04:48
One Step Beyond: Liberian Voices
From: BSR Radio
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The role of radio for Liberian immigrants -- and a new voice on the air.

Bought by NPR Station Showcase with PRX and WXLV-FM


  • Added: May 07, 2007
  • Length: 06:03
  • Purchases: 2
Politics of the HPV Vaccine
From: BSR Radio
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A look into the politics of the HPV vaccine in Rhode Island and nationwide.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUNM, and WXLV-FM


  • Added: Apr 04, 2007
  • Length: 07:16
  • Purchases: 3
Movements
From: Emily Howard
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A news magazine devoted to reporting, learning from, and analyzing social movements.

  • Added: Feb 02, 2007
  • Length: 28:00
Students' Rights: Then and Now
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
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In 1969 the Supreme Court found that students "do not shed their constitutional rights...at the schoolhouse gate." Today, most schools retain the r...

Bought by KUOW, WXLV-FM, KOOP, WXLV-FM, and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 21, 2006
  • Length: 03:45
  • Purchases: 5
Want More Money? Join a Union
From: Dick Meister
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Although well in the minority, unionized workers do much better financially and otherwise than their non-union counterparts

  • Added: Mar 15, 2006
  • Length: 02:25
Keeping Poverty on the Front Page
From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
Series: Janensch on the Media
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Commentary on poverty issues

Bought by 90.5 WSNC, WMNF, and WMNF


  • Added: Sep 30, 2005
  • Length: 02:21
  • Purchases: 3
A Cook's Notebook: Elvis & Haggis
From: Ali Berlow
Series: A Cook's Notebook
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Is the little town of Lonmay, Scotland ready for hoards of Elvis fans?

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and Jennifer Cecil Moore


  • Added: Jul 13, 2004
  • Length: 03:15
  • Purchases: 2
"Being Photographed"
From: Jake Warga
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A radio story about being photographed

Bought by PRX Remix, KUOW, KGOU, KTNA, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Oct 02, 2003
  • Length: 05:17
  • Purchases: 5