Thirty-five people were arrested last night in San Francisco, after a gathering to protest the shooting death of a Muni fare evader turned violent....
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- Added: Aug 03, 2011
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Take a stroll through the Tenderloin District in San Francisco – or the Mission, or the Western Addition – and you’ll pass at least one single room...
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UNICEF Radio moderator Amy Costello speaks with Nafisa Shah and Shahnaz Wazir Ali about the challenge of achieving quality education for all in the...
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Sometimes stories are told in the privacy of a booth, like the StoryCorps booth in the Contemporary Jewish Museum. And sometimes they’re told on st...
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About a century ago, thousands of immigrants coming to America from the Far East made their first stop at Angel Island. The way station for newcome...
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Police have a prominent role in society – the good, the bad, and the sometimes ugly. And one group of law enforcement officers also have a lot of p...
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Gun control is a loaded issue around the country. Here in San Francisco, the laws are pretty strict: If you own a gun, you must keep it locked up. ...
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When Oscar Grant was shot and killed by BART policeman Johannes Mehserle two-and-a-half years ago, the BART police force was heavily scrutinized an...
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We’re three-and-a-half years into the Great Recession, and nearly a quarter of recent college graduates are unemployed in the United States. And 40...
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As recent graduates struggle to find jobs, they do so with an alarming amount of student debt. Education debt has now surpassed the nation’s credit...
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Jonathon Keats is a writer, a philosopher, and an artist – a conceptual artist, who plays with people’s sense of time, money, and yes, space. Those...
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Art can be extraordinary. It can convey beauty ... imagination ... and wonder. For some artists, it can literally communicate what their words can...
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Remember when your parents told you to look both ways before crossing the street? It’s good advice – and not just for kids. In San Francisco, cross...
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San Francisco is a notoriously bike-friendly town. The famous critical mass ride began right here in 1992. Now, on any given day or night you can f...
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Imagine living in one of the quietest places possible, a place where you can hear a pin drop. A place where no one else is living but you. A mortua...
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Dealing with death on a daily basis can be draining, but when the death affects your own family, well, that’s a different story altogether. Jillian...
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In this edition of Points North, Shawn describes the savory ways to harvest then eat the local fungi, chanterelles.
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San Francisco, as we all know, is densely populated. So the possibility of finding any open space for a new, and substantial, “wilderness trail” is...
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For the past five years there’s been a phenomenon of disappearing worker bees called Colony Collapse Disorder. This has many scientists wanting to ...
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Snapping turtles, blueberry mania and more up on the Gunflint Trail. In this edition of Wildersmith, Fred describes the different activities happen...
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Art conservators work behind the scenes at museums. Though they’re sometimes confused with curators, who acquire works for a collection, conservato...
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A conversation with science blogger Danielle Lee about the ways she’s using hip hop songs and backyard wildlife to reach out to young people in und...
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A retired history professor from Montana reflects on a childhood during the Depression, and on the nature of poverty...and happiness.
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- Added: Aug 03, 2011
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A conversation with science blogger Danielle Lee about the ways she’s using hip hop songs and backyard wildlife to reach out to young people in und...
- Added: Aug 03, 2011
- Length: 03:41
A youngster mocks a disabled elder;
When their daughter needs money for school her drunken parents sluff off their responsibilities onto grandmoth...
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