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President Kennedy's legacy in Berlin
From: Dan Tritle
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President Kennedy remembered in Berlin 45 years after assassination.

Bought by KCPW Salt Lake City


  • Added: Nov 10, 2008
  • Length: 04:45
  • Purchases: 1
Rethinking Air Conditioning
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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Why your central AC unit sucks way more juice than it should

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WABE


  • Added: Sep 17, 2008
  • Length: 05:30
  • Purchases: 2
Rural Issues: Rural Entrepreneurship
From: WILL
Series:
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How small-town entrepreneurs are trying to establish themselves, and what presidential campaigns want to do to help them

Bought by KOSU, KRZA, KBIA, NPR Station Showcase with PRX, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 05, 2008
  • Length: 44:09
  • Purchases: 5
Brazil: Beyond The Girl from Impanema
From: The Stanley Foundation
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David Brown explains Brazilian music's love/hate relationship with the global stage.

  • Added: Jun 19, 2008
  • Length: 05:06
Brazil Tackles Old Challenges with New Responses
From: The Stanley Foundation
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Kristin McHugh examines programs designed to reduce crime and poverty in some of the poorest neighborhoods of Sao Paulo, Brazil.

  • Added: Jun 19, 2008
  • Length: 07:37
Brazil: From Sugar Cane to Chevrolets
From: The Stanley Foundation
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Keith Porter examines Brazil's ethanol industry.

Bought by KVMR


  • Added: Jun 19, 2008
  • Length: 08:36
  • Purchases: 1
Brazil Takes Off
From: The Stanley Foundation
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Simon Marks travels to the headquarters of Embraer, one of Brazil's most successful businesses, to get a first-hand look at how Brazil's taking off...

Bought by Wyoming Public Radio and KUT


  • Added: Jun 19, 2008
  • Length: 08:36
  • Purchases: 2
Bike to Work!
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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How hard is it to trade in four wheels for two?

Bought by WRVO Public Media and NPR Station Showcase with PRX


  • Added: Jun 18, 2008
  • Length: 04:28
  • Purchases: 2
How Do You Move an Aquarium?
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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It's moving day for a shark, penguins, and millions of scientific specimens

  • Added: Jun 18, 2008
  • Length: 05:16
The Secrets of Dog Genetics
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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What can dogs tell us about our own agressive tendencies?

Bought by WABE and KGOU


  • Added: Jun 18, 2008
  • Length: 05:14
  • Purchases: 2
Obama Heads: Obama's Traveling T-Shirt Vendors
From: PRX
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WFDD's LeShea Agnew was outside North Carolina's Lawrence Joel Veterans Coliseum hanging with supporters before an Obama event. She met some polit...

  • Added: May 01, 2008
  • Length: 03:14
Tree Rings Reveal Worse Droughts are Due
From: Addie Goss
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Ancient trees reveal the West has over-allocated its water. Climate change could only make things worse.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and KZYX


  • Added: Apr 21, 2008
  • Length: 04:53
  • Purchases: 3
Sewage Happens
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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Think your city has a sewage problem? You haven't seen the half ot it.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 26, 2008
  • Length: 05:04
  • Purchases: 1
March to Tibet: The Forgotten Story
From: The Tibet Connection
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100 Tibetan monks try to walk back to their homeland

  • Added: Mar 26, 2008
  • Length: 10:19
A California Story: Redwood Trees vs Solar Panels
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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When it comes to solar planels, is tree planting a crime?

Bought by NPR Station Showcase with PRX


  • Added: Mar 03, 2008
  • Length: 05:06
  • Purchases: 1
Oil Spill Cleanup: From Hazmat to Hairmat
From: Catherine Girardeau
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Eco-minded volunteers clean up after SF Bay oil spill using mats made of human hair.

Bought by KXOT Public Radio and WBHM


  • Added: Jan 21, 2008
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 2
How to Make Your Own Supernova
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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Will the world's largest laser be strong enough to create nuclear fusion in a can?

Bought by Marfa Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, and WBEZ


  • Added: Jan 18, 2008
  • Length: 05:06
  • Purchases: 3
QUEST The New Clean Tech
From: KQED
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Who will be the Googles and Yahoos of clean tech?

Bought by KLCC


  • Added: Jan 07, 2008
  • Length: 05:04
  • Purchases: 1
The Traffic Tax
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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Would you be willing to pay a fee to drive downtown?

Bought by KVMR


  • Added: Nov 30, 2007
  • Length: 05:11
  • Purchases: 1
QUEST_How Do You Clean Up An Oil Spill?
From: KQED
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Why San Francisco's recent oil spill will be so hard to clean up.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 16, 2007
  • Length: 04:54
  • Purchases: 1
WWOZ Street Talk-First Book
From: David Weinberg
Series: WWOZ- Street Talk
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At a recent event put on by first book hundreds of kids were given books as part of the 5 million books project.

  • Added: Sep 27, 2007
  • Length: 09:11
Saving the Arapaho Language
From: Kristin Espeland Gourlay
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The number of speakers of native languages is dwindling, despite programs designed to help save them.

Bought by KWIS 88.3 FM, KVMR, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 30, 2007
  • Length: 07:41
  • Purchases: 3
Grand Experiment in Wildlife Management
From: Northwest News Network (N3)
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Scientists Attempt to Move Massive Commorant Colony from mouth of Columbia River

  • Added: Jul 17, 2007
  • Length: 04:13
Philip Johnson's Glass House Revealed
From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
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Tour of the famous "Glass House" of architect Philip Johnson.

Bought by NPR Station Showcase with PRX


  • Added: Jun 28, 2007
  • Length: 07:56
  • Purchases: 1
QUEST Legacy of Hunters Point
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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Quest explores Hunters Point's dramatic military history -- and the task of preparing it for its next act.

  • Added: Jun 19, 2007
  • Length: 05:47