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Wonder The holidays give Jeremy Sherman a special reason to wonder about 'wonder.' Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Happy Robot Day Kevin Fisher-Paulson tries to keep up with innumerable holiday demands. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Above the Street Augustus Vargas hustled life on the streets until he decided it was time to get a life. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Healing Michael Ellis says sometimes only a mystery explains the unexplainable. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Small Clarence Wong is living large by supporting small business. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Read To Me Susan Dix Lyons' son is 15, becoming a man, but still her child and she will read him a story. 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Youth Radio's Bianca Yarborough has had her own turbulent history — but her determination to overcome never fades. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Guide to Old Folks Stan Goldberg lists 10 things you need to understand about old people. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Teamwork Athletics are under the budget axe in Castro Valley, as elsewhere. Teacher Matt Johansen remembers what track taught him as a teenager, and mourns what today's kids will lose. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Respect Authority flows from the top down in medicine, but Peggy Hansen says that without respect and civility for coworkers no hierarchy functions well. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Leks What do young men in '57 Chevys and deer with antlers have in common? That's a question only Michael Ellis could answer. 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For high school senior Adrian Ferrari, coming out at an early age has taught him how to adapt to life, whether it's getting a prom picture or planning for a family. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Child of Divorce Divorce, it is said, is hardest on children. But Sarah Buckley is among the children of divorce who don't consider themselves the victims of a parental breakup. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Two Moms and a Donor It wasn't easy for Abigail Bian Lim-Kimberg to understand the difference between a father and donor when she was just five years old. But now that she's 12, she couldn't be happier with her unusual family. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Two Moms and a Donor It wasn't easy for Abigail Bian Lim-Kimberg to understand the difference between a father and donor when she was just five years old. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Our Politics, Our Selves Anger at politics and politicians is at an all-time high, according to many polls. But who's really to blame for our state of dysfunction? Paul Staley says we can all find part of the answer in the mirror. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Do You Want To Put Your Arms Around Me? For high school senior Adrian Ferrari, coming out at an early age has taught him how to adapt to life, whether it's getting a prom picture or planning for a family. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Credit Cards and Band Aids A new federal law to curb the credit card industry's abusive targeting of young people takes effect this week, but Youth Radio's Asha Richardson wonders whether the act is a band aid answer to a superglue problem. 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