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The Story with Dick Gordon brings the news home - through passionate points of view and personal experiences. The program brings together ordinary and extraordinary people to provide perspective on the issues which affect us all. Our goal is to inspire co Primary Format : Language : Unknown Also Listed as: City : Unknown State/Province : Unknown User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: View this Podcast on a Google Map. Podcast iTunes Link Text Only listing of APM: The Story Podcasts Methings.com listings of APM: The Story Podcasts If you like this podcast, you might also like:

Love and Foreclosure A couple becomes closer while facing foreclosure. Also, a scuba diver is left by his boat in the open ocean. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Meeting Abdi Introducing a new regular guest from the most dangerous city in the world: Mogadishu, Somalia. Also: The Cathedral of Junk. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Affair(s) Dick talks with Angela, a woman who has had several affairs. Also: poems about a losing season. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A New Research Question A cancer specialist is using her own experience with the disease to change her research. Also: Ahmed Fadaam's new statue unveiled at Elon University. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Midnight Teacher Teaching English at midnight. Also: an attachment to Ethiopia. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Off The Streets A teen prostitute tells her story. Also: confessions of a Leslie Cheung fan. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Growing the Medicine A legal marijuana grower. Also: When it's a relief to lose a job. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Beijing Blues A musician plays the Blues in China. Also, a woman returns to the secret garden of her childhood. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Opening Up at Fort Hood Shannon Meehan wrote a book about his service in Iraq. He thought sharing that book with Army psychiatrists might help others. That's how Shannon ended up strangely connected to Maj. Nidal M. Hasan, the officer accused of last week's shooting at Fort Hood. Also: Over 80 and just married. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Original WASPs On Veteran's Day, a Woman's Air Force Service Pilot shares her memories of flying for her country. Also: a survivor of the sinking of the Rohna. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Ahmed's Diary - Just Another Day in Baghdad Ahmed's Diary - and how two Iraq vets are contributing to the green economy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Behind the Wall Birgit Lindemann grew up in East Germany and remembers the day the wall came down. Also: more than a stint in retail. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Give My Poor Heart Ease Bill Ferris shares stories and music from his work to document the roots of the Mississippi blues. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Combat Bunny How a pet bunny helped a soldier through the war. Also, a mother and son go running every single day. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Dispute Over Solar A neighborhood battle and a talk with two children of a solar energy pioneer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Since the Election One year after the election of President Obama, an African American architect reflects on race in the workplace. Also: Margo Marver and "your story." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Difficult Defense Looking back at another war crimes trial - with a lawyer for Slobodan Milosevic. Also: an earlier vaccine. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Nurturing Monet's Garden Elizabeth Murray gave up everything to work in the artist's garden in France. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Caring for Aunt Mary Sue Perna is caring for her 105-year-old aunt. Also: A Halloween love story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | One Broken American Dream A Chinese immigrant debates whether to wait out the tough job market or head back to his home country. Also: the original Balloon Boy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Place to Belong Seth Best spent a Michigan winter in a tent city for homeless people. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Paying for Health in the U.S. Two views on what's wrong with the health care system. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Listening for Amelia On the day the movie Amelia opens in theaters, Dick Gordon has the real-life story of a woman who believes she heard Amelia Earhart's last words. An historic airplane recovery group believes she might be right. Also: the 35th anniversary of NY restaurant Le Cirque Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Travel by Train Audrey Hunter spent years hitchhiking and train hopping. Also: Herbie Hancock and a synthesizer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Love and Race Relations A black reporter falls for a white teach accused of racism. Also, a builder's industry is booming as he rehabs foreclosed homes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Terror in Lahore - Again Last week in Lahore, Ahmed's Diary, and an original roller derby girl. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Some Good News Buying a newspaper - in this economy. Also: losing a business and a name. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Through the Fire A burn patient and an occupational therapist form a friendship which inspires them both. Also, a couple builds their dream house from the ground-up, creating a community along the way. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Deep Undercover Detective April Leatherwood went undercover as a drug addict for nearly a year. Also: Sammi DeAngelis on waitressing and the economy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | From Ships to Windmills The view from the top of a wind turbine. Also, a BBQ delivery for U2. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Nuclear Ambitions Ehsan Samei talks with Dick about his home country's nuclear ambitions. Also: Beth Finke on being the breadwinner through the recession. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | More Troops for Afghanistan Army Capt. James Kingfisher just returned from a long deployment in Afghanistan. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | One Yankee fan...and his son The unofficial mascot of the New York Yankees reunites with his son. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Looking Back to Look Forward Terrol Johnson got his Tohono O'odham Nation to go back to traditional foods, in order to fight diabetes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | I Thought I had Insurance Greg and Heather Mroz got dropped by their insurance company after they had twins. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | I Thought I had Insurance Greg and Heather Mroz got dropped by their insurance company after they had twins. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Risky Beauty Business Two manicurists share their concerns about the toxicity of their profession. Also: one good insurance story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The High Cost of Being a Foodie The recession causes a slow-food restaurant to close. Also: Counting the vote in Minnesota and Afghanistan. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Unexpected Honeymoon Dana and Patricia James recall the kindness of a stranger that made their honeymoon one for the storybooks. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Romeo and Tuyet A Vietnamese woman and an American soldier find each other and fall in love all over again. Also, memories from the 1952 Helsinki Olympics. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | After the Reunion A birth mother, adoptive mother and their son find common ground. Also: A skydive pilot and one big mistake. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Becoming Fluff Chance Eric Gaskins came out as a sharp fashion blogger as his business failed. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Another Look at 'Clean' Energy Josh Fox traveled the country to make a film about the environmental effects of natural gas. Also: Trying out for Ms. Senior America. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Memories of '48 Memories from either side of the Arab-Israeli conflict of 1948. Also, a friend's death inspires a one-man play. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Enslaved in L.A. Mimin came to the U.S. from Indonesia to work and was kept as a virtual slave. Also: one Olympic hopeful. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A "Lost Boy" No More A Lost Boy of Sudan reconsiders a return to his homeland. Also: the one gift that changed a woman's life. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Witness to Animal Abuse Dick talks to an undercover animal rights investigator. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Health Care South of the Border An American moves to Mexico for health care. Also, remembering a father who literally fought for his family. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | One Moment on the Court A foster child finds strength playing basketball. Also, a Chicago hat shop thrives. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Shoot-Out in New Buffalo How Barry Schroder became a police cadet, and learned what he really wanted to be when he grew up. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Mom Seeks Health Care Reform A woman seeks health insurance reform in memory of her daughter. Also, a mother loses her job and her insurance. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | New Father, New Life A former gang member reaches out to his fellow young fathers. Also, a seamstress stays busy during college football season. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Negotiation Behind the News A negotiator helps secure the release of U.S. contractors overseas. Then, one man's passion for soda pop. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Tuning Out Fear The legacy of 9/11 to a teacher in Dearborn, Michigan. Also, a war-time experience inspires courage in a photographer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Fighting the Station Fire Dick talks to a firefighter who battled California's Station Fire and a resident who refused to leave. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Fighting the Station Fire Dick talks to a firefighter who battled California's Station Fire and a resident who refused to leave. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Career-Ending Vote Former Rep. Marjorie Margolies Mezvinsky remembers an equally rancorous health care and budget debate. Also, a director makes his mark on YouTube. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Her Own Bank One of the few African-American women to own a bank avoids the mortgage crisis. Also, a window washer shares his adventures. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Labor Day Special Labor Day Special: a firefighter shares music about his struggling hometown. Also, a photographer revisits his walk across America, and the images of working people he captured. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Life on the Line Emma Pender and Rita Perry worked on chicken processing plant lines for years. They've helped document the dangers and stress of the work for a study. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Surviving the Fire A smokejumper recalls the fire that almost took his life 60 years ago. Also, a 14 year old sings the blues. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Leaving the Sorority Greek life was not what Rachel Santer thought it would be. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reporting the Drug War A journalist tells Dick what made him leave Mexico. Also: Gabriel gets his bike back. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Pursuit of Education A father wants no man to be better than him, except his son. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Korean Democracy Former Korean leader Kim Dae Jung's legacy. Also, an artist's encounter with Andrew Wyeth shapes his career. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Cove Free divers take risks capturing the slaughtering of dolphins off the coast of Japan. Also, memories of Senator Ted Kennedy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Cleaning Up Jerome Boykin hit it big when he started a parking lot cleaning business after Katrina. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Running for the Wounded Two war veterans - one from Vietnam and one from Iraq - support each other in running and in life. Also, a Korean American gains new respect for his heritage. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A New Place Called Home A man who lost his job in the dot-com bust hires a man who lost everything in Hurricane Katrina. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Last Road Trip A father and daughter take one final road trip, so he can die where he felt at home. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Old Tunes for Hard Times Depression-era tunes lift spirits and one couple's paychecks. Also, the magic words that got one man an autograph out of Joe DiMaggio. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Moving Midway An old mansion makes 2 men - one black, one white - understand their personal connection to slavery. Also, a layoff leads a rock-n-roll mom to start a new business. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Learning to Read A grandmother and granddaughter learn to read together. Also, an airport run-in with a celebrity. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Facebook Friends (and Enemies) Facebook reconnects Reuben Appelman with his high school bully. Also, a woman shares the ups and downs of running a teleprompter in Hollywood. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Deyanira's American Dream An illegal immigrant hits dead ends in the university system. Also, a waitress receives a $40,000 tip. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Feeding Woodstock Memories of Woodstock, from celebrity run-ins to money-making bagel ventures. Also, a mortgage broker looks for work. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | David to Darlene A woman finally finds her true self after gender reassignment surgery. Also, a 91 year old broker looks back at The Great Depression. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Whale Savior A young man helps free a humpback whale caught in fishing line and lives to tell about it. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 14 Cows for America A gift from a Kenyan village after 9/11 inspires a children's book. Also, one woman's run in with Charles Keating during the Savings & Loan crisis. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Ahmed's Diary - Back in Baghdad An update from contributor Ahmed Faadam. And Warka Hamoud on running a business in Baghdad. Also, revisiting out Bankers, Brokers and Bandits financial series. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | No Crying in Her Coffee A layoff allows a woman to pursue her dream of being a professional runner, but she now works her training schedule around a new job. Also, keeping a president safe. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Urban Farmer An urban farmer gets dirt under her fingernails in Oakland, California. Also, two White House interns reflect on their time in Washington and 35 years of marriage. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Consumerism as Art A photographer captures the beauty of an empty mall. Also, the first black quarterback in the National Football League. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Poems for Jamaica Poetry about resilience and hope in the face of Jamaica's HIV crisis. also: listening back to the special inauguration series. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Rights Beyond Marriage A woman is denied visitation as her partner lay dying in the hospital. Now she's fighting back. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Feminism and Fashion Rachel Weeks is balancing feminism and fashion by opening an ethical trade clothing company. Also, a fifth-generation barbecue sauce brings a father and daughter closer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Leaving For Health Care An ill woman tries to move to Belgium for health coverage. And a small business owner grapples with health insurance for his employees. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | From the Streets to Yosemite Mauricio Escobar discovered the woods, and left L.A. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Swimming for the Rivers Christopher Swain swims through nuclear waste, fish spills, and sewage. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Fight to Farm Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin says discrimination keeps him and many other Latinos from owning farms. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Humble Pie An unemployed food writer turns to dish washing for both a paycheck and reinvention. Also, a woman recounts her first trip to the food bank once her job could no longer cover the daily costs of her family. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Goodbye New York, Hello Las Vegas Leila Day never expected to be selling pretzels in Las Vegas. Also, an iPhone app designer shares his love of creating programs. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Still Dancing at 89 Susan Gittler has lived a long life in dance and has no intention of stopping. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Try Looking on MySpace Crystal Riportella-Crose found her birth mother on a social networking site. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Over the Moon For the anniversary of the moon landing we're talking to five people about what it meant to them. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Finding Father A woman makes sense of her father's life, years after his death. Also, weathering the economy in a yurt. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Spend Thrift A woman overcomes her aversion to thrift stores and remodels her life. Also: the allure of online games. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | James On His Own James Morrow should be in high school or perhaps in foster care, but he's learning skills as a baker. Also: protecting the kids. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Good Risk A woman leaves her job as a nurse to become an artisan baker. Also: the wedding DJ. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Facing the Senate Two women talk about the pressure of undergoing a Senate confirmation hearing. Also: losing the most important thing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Escaping the Magazine Crew Olivia Helmig looks back at a sketchy summer job. Also: the end of a school. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Meeting Salinger Jim Sadwith set out to meet J.D. Salinger. Also: a day to remember at the racetrack. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Dung Sisters Two women create a support group to deal with the stress of unemployment. Also, living on a boat while trying to sell the house. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Surviving the Fire A former smokejumper recalls a deadly blaze in Montana in 1949. Also, an entrepreneur gets into textiles. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Jerry's Ark A man builds his own boat and sets sail for Norway. Also, a carriage driver from the streets of Chicago shares the joys and perils of her job. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Dance Lessons from Michael Joanne Spencer only realized the profound influence of Michael Jackson after he died. Also: moving a small baseball team. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Two Teachers, One Out of Work Connie and Steve Rice were both laid off from their teaching jobs in Oregon. Also: another installment of our summer job series. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Hubble Repairman John Grunsfeld is just back from a mission repairing the Hubble Space Telescope. Also: repaying a debt of kindness. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Remembering a Revolution Wolfgang Kleinwachter recalls his experience in East Germany's Peaceful Revolution when he watches what's going on in Iran. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Patents on the Body Genae Girard thinks the breast cancer gene should not be patented. Also: victory at weight loss camp. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Very Long Road to Florence Jason Arkles got lost with a band of street performers until he found his calling as a sculptor. Also: proven in the skies. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Thinking Big Jeremy Lee graduated from high school in prison. Now he's in college, and struggling to pay. Also: who owns the beach? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Beyond Reconciliation in Liberia Emmanuel Dolo went through the war in Liberia and now works towards reconciliation. Also: checking toes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Hope in Stem Cells Rusty Leech is paralyzed and thinks he's regaining sensation. Also: first gentleman of Michigan. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Back from Afghanistan Dick talks with a Marine just back from Afghanistan. Also, summer job: "sauerkraut runner." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Son, a Dad, and a Treasured Friend A father of eleven reunites with the man who helped him settle and gain citizenship in the States. Also, the restoration of an old building brings life back to a father-son relationship. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Two Women, One Big Job Dick speaks with two women who designed, proposed and now share a job. Also: health care from the bottom up. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Nursing By Cell Phone An engineer-turned-nurse helps her patients through their cellphones. Also, a physician assistant begins her own primary care practice. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Not At Home in Mexico Albert Becerril was recently deported to Mexico. Also: inheriting a prayer hotline. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Same Skills, New Industry A skilled automotive worker makes a career switch to medical manufacturing. Also, a new business in Michigan. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Vasco's Heart A journalist helped a young African boy get heart surgery. Also, a Vietnam veteran makes his way home. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Fight for the Mountain Tops Maria Gunnoe successfully fought surface mining in her part of West Virginia. Also: an enlightening summer job. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Dealing with a Bankrupt Chrysler Two brothers lose their Chrysler dealerships after twenty profitable years. Also: a professional fan. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Almost Silencing the Music A South African musician and the security officer who ruined his career become friends. Also: finishing high school at 87. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | At Home in Kabul Hassina Sherjan returned to her hometown in Afghanistan to help ordinary people. Also, a man is elected the first black mayor of a famous Southern town. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Memory of Loss Sean Nevin explores Alzheimer's through poetry. Also, an actor remembers his roots in community theater. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | After Tiananmen Shen Tong was a student leader at Tiananmen Square. Now he's working to bring technology to China. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Lives of the Prisoners II In light of the controversy over what to do with those detained at Gitmo, a woman talks about her experience as a prisoner of war in Argentina. Also: when lightning strikes a plane. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Lives of the Prisoners Guantanamo Bay lawyer Candace Gorman talks about her latest trip. Also: One man remembers German detainees during WWII. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Rehabbing Homes and Lives Converting foreclosed houses into homes for people who need them. Also: preserving a language through music. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Unexpected Honeymoon Dana and Patricia James recall the kindness of a stranger that made their honeymoon one for the story books. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Recession: The Smallest Victims LaWnda Tanniehill is homeless. She talks about her search for a home. Also: a woman talks about her childhood friendship with a priest - a relationship that would never be allowed today. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Health in Haiti Two doctors work to improve health care in Haiti. Also: Two businesses under one roof, one failing, the other thriving. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Hard Time for the Funny Pages A newly syndicated cartoonist reflects on a declining industry. Also: tracing the source of a mysterious illness. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | For Memorial Day: A Special Reunion A Holocaust survivor and liberator share their memories. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | One True Conversation Rupa Marya learned how to be both a doctor and a musician. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Graduating Right on Time A 92-year-old man finally gets his college degree. Also: Jane Goodall's advice saved a man's life. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Defending the Arts in Lahore Pakistani artist Faizaan Peerzada fears that the arts will succumb to Islamic extremism. Also: an IBM job in India. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Making the Transition Brian Iglesias is an Iraq vet making a documentary about Korean War veterans. Also: An Iraqi refugee sees her son for the first time in two years. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Ahmed Goes Home Iraqi artist and journalist Ahmed Fadaam is going home. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Family Practice Father-daughter doctors give up on the insurance system. Also: who donated the money? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Just Back from Sri Lanka Nimmi Gowrinathan works with refugees in Sri Lanka. Also: a new use for foreclosed land. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Hedging Bets with the Swine Flu Dr. Edwin Kilbourne developed a swine flu vaccine in 1976 and found himself in a national controversy over immunization. Also: meeting Jocelyn. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teamwork in the Trailer Park Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Old Tunes for Hard Times Alison Donahue and Mike Wilhelm are a cellist and guitarist who are reinventing themselves in hard times. Also: A woman catches a serial rapist. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Old Tunes for Hard Times Alison Donahue and Mike Wilhelm are a cellist and guitarist who are reinventing themselves in hard times. Also: A woman catches a serial rapist. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | When Can My Wife Come Home? John Adams finds himself in the midst of the nation's immigration debate. Also: A man gets the gift of a house. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Turning It Around Doug Rodriguez is a Miami principal charged with saving a failing school. Also: the new film Shooting Beauty Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Lessons from SARS A memory of the last major outbreak. Also: an update from Mexico City. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Swan Song for the Baltimore Opera The Baltimore Opera Company closed earlier this year. Season ticket holder Grant Striegel talks about his special relationship with soprano Rosa Ponselle. Also: Interviewing a person a day for a year. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Remembering Cuba Teresa Simon Noble's dream of returning to Cuba may now come true. Also: A wedding cake disaster. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Credit Coach Kenneth Shandy has been deep in debt. He now advises others. Also: lessons learned from a difficult summer job. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Swine Flu: Too Close for Comfort A artist visiting Mexico City has to change her approach now that swine flu has arrived. Also: a survivor of the flu - in 1918. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Paul Guest's Body of Poetry Paul Guest is a successful poet. He's only recently begun to write directly about the fact that he's in a wheelchair. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Sunny Side Up A couple recovers from the housing bust by investing themselves in solar panels. Also: boom and bust in Second Life. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Baseball Recyclers Dawn Vieyra and Jorge Lopez pay for their Dodger tickets by recycling at games. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Thanks for the Layoff Two women who re-invented themselves after a layoff: One became a CEO, the other, a Web site designer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Back from the Border Jack Keen spent a year along the Iraq/Iran border and saw Iraqi border guards make some real strides. Also: An archeologist trains the military. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Finding Family Through Song Leopold Szneer and Debbie Katchko thought most of their relatives had died in the Holocaust - then they found one another. Also: An island affair leads to a lasting marriage. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Three Cheers for Detroit A new currency is making the rounds of Detroit businesses. It's called "Cheers". Also: the special series "What's Working, Who's Working" profiles an urban beekeeping operation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Against All Odds A Hungarian Jew and the daughter of a Nazi officer find love. Also: Brush with Fame - baseball great Tony Oliva. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Next Chapter A bookstore closes due to the recession and reopens thanks to federal stimulus money. Also: filing taxes when you're a same-sex married couple. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Back to School Rebecca Rose overcame her fear of math to earn her GED. Now she is helping others do the same by teaching the course herself. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Urban Explorer Jim Griffioen explores Detroit's abandoned buildings and tries to reclaim what's been left behind. Also: No clotheslines allowed. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Back Home... Again Moving back in with parents to get through the recession. Also: a novel idea for getting a nursing job. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Healing Scores Angelina Rios uses music from movie soundtracks as therapy for her five children with autism. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Last Road Trip A daughter helps her father make it to California before he dies. Also: recession lessons from Alaska. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A New Life After the War The personal cost of being a female journalist in Iraq. Also: free barbecue? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Hearing for Veterans Paul Haggerty turned his life around in a special court for veterans. Also: losing faith in Big Pharma. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | If You Want a Job... Work for IBM - in a developing country? Also: a foreign worker hopes to stay. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Different Hoop Dream Basketball shoes for Nigeria. Also: is it gentrification? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Working Through It Bobby Jenkins found success in work, but his real reward came in making peace with his mother. Also: the end of a two-room school. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Peacemaker Meeting a rebel leader. Also: a flooded restaurant reopens. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | An Inheritance of Loss Lynn Gazley thinks her own experience with breast cancer saved her mother's life. Also: shot in the subway. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The End of the News Two views from the last days of the Rocky Mountain News. Also: two years as a mole inside an Islamist cell. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Knock Out Therapy How boxing helps Stacy Nakell in her personal and professional life. Also: tales of driving a horse-drawn carriage in Chicago. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Remembering Dr. Franklin Dr. John Hope Franklin has passed away. We hear some of the stories from his long and distinguished life. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Come in From the Cold This winter, five churches and a community center came up with their own solution to homelessness. Also: A son introduces his dad to wrestling. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A View from the Temps A temp worker at Microsoft protests a pay cut. Also: one of the first women police officers in Boston. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Gift of Hands Julie Mullin's passion was intricate sewing - then she lost the use of her hands. She found friendship, and business help, from an immigrant named Jum. Also: Love in New Orleans. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Brink of Success Mack Cleveland missed his own chance to make it big in basketball, so he now helps young prospects like Ivan Johnson reach their basketball goals. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Look on the Bright Side 91-year-old Jack Mullowney says it was optimism that got us through the Great Depression, and we need a little more of that now. Also: one "green job" that changed a woman's life. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Changes at Guantanamo Bay Candace Gorman, a lawyer who represents two detainees at Guantanamo, says some things are improving. Also: another reason to sign up. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Bearing Witness in Congo Anneke Von Woundenberg investigates human rights abuses in Congo and remains hopeful about the nation's future. Also: Student by day, bathroom attendant by night. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Payback Former lawyer Humberto Aguilar laundered money for drug dealers and eventually got caught. Also: the other side of the Facebook story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Jerry's Ark Jerry Solom, who grew up far from the coast, had a crazy dream to build a boat and sail it to Norway. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Christmas Past Children's author Tomie DePaola remembers Christmases past in his first book for adults. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Call From Iraq Bobby Allen is a teacher - and a soldier in Iraq. Dick Gordon talks with Bobby and two of the people who miss him. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Bill's Music As Bill Myers neared death, he began recording songs he wrote as a young man. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Business Class "Terrorist" Mo Fikry flying has become quite an ordeal for him since 911. Also: A young woman gets sucked into the world of home shopping TV. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Helping Coach Craig Dudnick quit his job to care for the woman who cooked for his fraternity. Also: A man fed up with high gas prices makes his own fuel. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Feeling the Pinch Lobsterman Clive Farrin is finding it hard to make a living after lobster prices fell dramatically this fall. Also: A man takes us inside a mortgage customer call center - and the focus on sales, not service. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Politics of Temptation When Tennessee politician Randy McNally was offered a bribe, he went to the FBI and ended up undercover. Also: A mother and son tell why their family's favorite Santa story has extra meaning this year. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Lamborghini in the Basement Ken Imhoff spent 18 years building a replica of the fancy car he had to have. Also: The son of the man who invented the Heisman Trophy puts autographed footballs to special use. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Christmas After Ike Dana Bethune talks about rebuilding her home after Hurricane Ike. Also: What's it like to attend a back room political deal making session? Ask Kelly Hicks. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Lessons From a Dropout Gerrin Hayes' life in a crack house made high school impossible, but he hopes to earn his diploma someday. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Losing Gordie Jack Gilles didn't suspect a fatal overdose of alcohol when he saw his friend Gordie passed out at a fraternity party. Also: A man puts his life on hold and goes on a long walk to rediscover himself. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Out of the Garage Geoffrey and Mike Howe built a small tank in their garage - and landed an Army contract. Also: how a surgeon, far from Iraq, helped a wounded soldier. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Tourist and Terrorists Rich Preyer in 1970 narrowly escaped after terrorists hijacked his plane. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Latinos and HIV Joe Zamora was an activist until he learned some people were actively seeking the HIV virus to take advantage of social services. Also: A man in Texas is trying to prove he was born in America. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Jazz Drummer The most famous drummer you've never heard of - Ron Free. He was a major player in the jazz scene in the late 50's. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Paper Dolls Today - two stories of Thanksgiving. Carolyn Parkes felt guilty about her mistakes as a mother - until one daughter gave her a special gift. Also, Leon Prochnik and his story of the moment his mother saved his life. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | One Lost Job Ramier Shaikh may leave the U.S., where his dreams came true, because he's lost his job. Also: A man's fight against a pre-paid funeral scam. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Car Dealer's Loss Joseph Pfeffer had survived nearly everything in his 66 years in the car business, but he's had to close down his business this year because of the credit crisis. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Kenyan Connection Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | First to Reach Three Stars The first African American to be promoted to general in the Marine Corps talks about barriers he overcame and the lessons he learned about leadership. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A First on the Football Field Marlin Briscoe made history as the first black quarterback in the NFL - though he only played the position for one season. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Incredible Journey Dawa Drolma has found a connection to her home through Tibetan music. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Rethinking Hydropower Fred Ayer has been on both sides of the debate over dams. Also: Josh Greene reconsiders the religion he grew up with. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | What's Ahead for Guantanamo Bay Attorney Candace Gorman tells Dick Gordon about her recent visit to the U.S. detention center. Also: A bike messenger tells all. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Greatest Heart Dr. David Miller lost his daughter in a car accident and had to decide whether to donate her heart to someone who needed it. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Fears for Congo Kambale Musavuli watched rebels overtake Kinshasa, and he's afraid it will happen again. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Eloisa's New Wall Eloisa Tamez fights the Department of Homeland Security's plan to put a border wall on her ancestral land in Texas. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Kennedy's Casket Sorrell Schwartz managed the chaos when President John F. Kennedy's casket arrived at Bethesda. Also: a teenager plays the blues. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Her First Vote Aredelia Edmondson has voted for the first time at 95 years old. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | To Walk or Not Diana and Richard Herrera made different decisions about participating in a 1968 high school walk out - an event that came to define both of their lives. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Faith Versus Duty Andrew Callahan is a High Priest in the Mormon church and has taken a public stand against the church's position to support the ban on gay marriage. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Lessons from an African Entrepreneur Eva Muraya is a successful business woman in Kenya. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Home in a Vacant Lot Adrian Moreno decided to move his family to the far outskirts of San Diego, into a vacant lot, where he built his own house. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Head Over Heels in Debt Dan and Mary Hass broke up over a mess in their personal finances. After they got their budget in order, they realized they were ready to give the relationship another try. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Bankers, Brokers and Bandits: Laid Off and Better Off Jim Piccollo was laid off from his job as a Bank VP - he doesn't miss it. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Bankers, Brokers and Bandits: Trader by Day, Drummer by Night Bankers, Brokers and Bandits continues: Chris Stewart is a trader watching the stock market plunge. He relieves stress by playing the drums in a rock band. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Iraqi Health Now Haider Alsaedy is an Iraqi immigrant to the U.S. He now helps provide medical supplies to people in Iraq. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Meaning of Profit Hal Taussig created a million-dollar company, but he donates the profits to charity. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Cleaning Up Foreclosure Mimi Norris cleans up what's left behind after families hastily move out of foreclosed homes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Home in Angola Daniel Henrique was born in Angola and grew up as a refugee. He has chosen to live his life in the U.S. - his father has chosen to go back. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | God and War Joshua Casteel served as an interrogator at Abu Graib. His experience was also a spiritual awakening and he ended up a conscientious objector. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Writing on the Wall Henry Ehrlich was the speechwriter for the man who led negotiations during the foreign debt crisis of the 1980s. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Pushing Drugs Pharmaceutical representative Shahram Ahari admits he manipulated doctors to write prescriptions for the drugs he sold. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Wheelchair Dancer Cornelia Kip Lee had polio and was discouraged from dancing as a girl. Last night she performed with the world-renowned mixed-ability dance company Candoco at the closing ceremony of the Paralympics. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Joblessness William D. Lewis lost his job and watched his life spin out of control. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Leaving Zim Musician Chiwoniso Maraire has finally decided to leave Zimbabwe. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Perfect Industry Amy Crooks is a former mortgage broker and wholesale lender - she has lost her job. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Moving Midway Robert Hinton and Godfrey Cheshire are descended from families that once lived and worked on a Southern plantation - one as owners, the other as slaves. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Relative Rabbis Rabbi Rebecca Schorr and Rabbi Stephen Einstein think they are the first father-daughter rabbi duo to work at the same synagogue. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Classified Ad Dad Alison Keenan found a father for her boys and husband for herself through a newspaper ad. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Deyanira's American Dream Deyanira Chavez's family illegally immigrated to the U.S. when she was 12. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Bill's Music Bill Myers is recording some of the old songs he's written in his life, since the day he went to the hospital and nearly didn't come home. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Breaking the Code of Silence Army Specialist Kymberlea L. Durant was sexually assaulted by a fellow soldier during the Gulf War - and has only recently begun to speak out. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Dad and Dean Andy Shapero had a political awakening after an argument with his father, and joined the army of young people campaigning for Howard Dean in the 2004 election. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Aging with HIV Larry Gibson and Dennis Golay were diagnosed with HIV in 1987. They have outlived over 60 of their friends, but HIV drugs are starting to take a toll on them. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Poet and Soldier Fran Richey's poetry helped repair a rift in her relationship with her son, Ben, after he joined the military and served in Iraq. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Long Walk to a Better Life Jonathan Nkala made a dangerous crossing of the Zimbabwe-South Africa border in pursuit of a long-held dream. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Who Am I? Dr. Georgia Dunston's childhood in a segregated world sparked her interest in the study of the human genome. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Painting Faces When artist Beverly McIver learned she had to care for her disabled sister, the news changed her life and her art. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | USS Stark Tim Gable swam 11 hours after surviving a missile attack on his ship, the USS Stark. 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Then one daughter gave her a gift that changed her perspective. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | High Cost of Dying Claudia Windal has gone from nun to priest to funeral director. She's committed to helping members of the Native American community to which she belongs get affordable and respectful funerals. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Phoning Home The death toll in Burma is rising quickly after a major cyclone. Dick Gordon talks with two Burmese in the U.S. who have been trying anxiously to call home. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Medical Errors Julia Hallisy spent years caring for a young daughter with cancer, and she learned a lot about how hospital mistakes get made. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Better Weapons Anh Duong grew up in Vietnam during the war. Now she develops weapons for the United States. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Office Babies Francine Gemperle and Angela Huey are two mothers who took advantage of their company's policy allowing parents to bring their babies to work. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Business Class "Terrorist" Mohamed Fikry stopped flying American Airlines because he felt his Middle Eastern heritage unfairly targeted him. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Executive Restructuring Guy Sansone is a Chief Restructuring Officer. It's his job to figure out how and where a company can do things more efficiently. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Back to School Rebecca Rose overcame her fear of math to earn her GED. Now she is helping others do the same by teaching the course herself. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Early Release Shaun Hudson is determined to reclaim his life after being released from prison earlier this month for a crack cocaine offense. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Weight Loss Surgery Katy St. Clair decided to have weight loss surgery. She talks to Dick Gordon about how she came to that decision. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Military Skinheads A new report out this week details the increased number of felons recruited for military service. TJ Leyden tells Dick Gordon about his time as a Marine who followed neo-Nazi principles. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ADHD and Me Blake Taylor talks about learning to live with ADHD. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Permanent House Swap Sherry Crosslin and Jerry Stussman beat a declining housing market by permanently swapping their homes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | BOYCOTTS AND BIRDS Decathlete Floyd Scholz's competitive dreams were dashed when the U.S. boycotted the 1980 Olympics, but now he's preparing for a new kind of competition: the World Wildfowl Carving Championship. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Kite Gang Patrick McGrann has seen what children of refugee camps facea world full of unhappiness. So he decided to give them toysthe one thing that so many have forgotten how to do is to play. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Waiting on Mugabe Dewa Mavhinga visited his family last month in Zimbabwe and says conditions are worse than they've ever been. He and his family are hoping the president will release the results of last month's election, and step down. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Soldier's Parent Steve Wright learned to reconcile his opposition to the war in Iraq with his son's dream to serve in the U.S. Army there. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Destroyed By The War Byron Hancock, a former police officer and Marine sniper, has been struggling with PTSD ever since he came back from Iraq. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Healing Scores Angelina Rios uses music from movie soundtracks as therapy for her five children with autism. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reluctant Landlord Anne Truebeck's view of achieving the American Dream through home ownership changed after she became a landlord. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | New Military Training Mike Cabrey served in Iraq and is now teaching the next generation of officers at Fort Leavenworth. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Brink of Success Mack Cleveland missed his own chance to make it to the NBA, so now Mack helps young prospects like Ivan Johnson reach their basketball goals. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Princeton Boys Dick Gordon talks to two young men with an unlikely friendship: Dukens Falaise has been in and out of juvenile detention programs; Gregory Ellison worked in those same centers as an aspiring minister. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Healing Power of Dance Vincent Mantsoe grew up drumming in his family and became one of South Africa's most successful dancers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Singing Revolution Artur Talvik is a filmmaker in Estonia who took part in what Estonians call "The Singing Revolution." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Options at the End Timothy Quill is a palliative care doctor who helped his own father die. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Fighting to Survive Phal Sum fled the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia and began his own kickboxing studio in the United States. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Thriller! Rashod Ollison remembers Thriller fondly because it helped him through a hard time and helped propel his career as a music critic. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Computer Love Scam Linda Kelso was looking for love online, but instead nearly fell prey to an Internet dating scam. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Credit Crunch Danny Paris was on the brink of financial ruin, so he decided to take matters into his own hands. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Silver Star Army Spc. Monica Brown is the second woman to be awarded the Silver Star for heroism since World War II. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Homeless with Children Angela Angelle was a homeless mom - with nine children. Now she's director of the shelter that helped her get on her feet. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Women at War Dick talks with three women who have served in the Iraq War. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A New Life in a Foreclosed Home Rmega Tafari and her family live in a vacant, foreclosed home in Florida. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Waiting for Justice Ahmed Abdullah reveals just how deeply the Sunni-Shia divide goes. Even going to the hospital can get you killed if you find yourself on the wrong side of the divide. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Defending Tibet Sherab Lama supports a strong, but nonviolent reaction to the current Chinese crackdown on Tibet because of what he once learned from the Dalai Lama. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Recovering from The Storm My-The survived Hurricane Katrina by riding out the storm on her family's shrimp boat. Then she found the courage to ask for help. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Living History Photo collector Craig James visited the plantation where his great-great-great grandmother was a slave to learn about the past--he ended up learning about himself. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Queen for a Day JoAnne Rushton and Debra Cotich's mother, Evelyn Stuart, was a guest on one of America's first reality television shows, Queen for a Day. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Pushing Drugs Pharmaceutical representative Shahram Ahari admits he manipulated doctors to write prescriptions for the drugs he sold. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Building Her Business Allison Wright, who has Down syndrome, started a micro-business with her dad, Edward. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Healing Raspberri Rose After DeVondia Roseborough found out she was HIV-positive in December of 2003, she began work educating young women in her community about the dangers of HIV/AIDS. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Jazz Drummer The most famous drummer you've never heard of - Ron Free. He was a major player in the jazz scene in the late 50's. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Choosing to Stay Despite losing two brothers to hate crimes in the wake of Sept. 11, 2001, Harjit Sodhi chose to stay in America rather than return to his native India. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Doctoring in the Congo Dr. Kasereka "Jo" Lusi risks his life to perform operations in remote areas of Congo. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Cleaning Up Foreclosure Mimi Norris cleans up what's left behind after families hastily move out of foreclosed homes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Selling Electric Wayne Goldman built a plug-in electric car in the 70s that he believes is still perfect for today, if only consumers and car companies could accept a different kind of car. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The "Manny" Andrea Nakayama needed help caring for her son while her husband was sick. The nanny - a man - stepped in and helped her family in ways she never expected. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | To Catch A Thief What would you do if you came face-to-face with someone who had stolen your identity? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Immigrating to the U.S. Rodolfo Acevedo immigrated to the U.S. from Argentina as a young man. Now he is the lead architect on four new U.S. Citizenship & Immigration buildings under construction in south Florida. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Split Estate Marjorie West lives on a ranch in Wyoming that has been transformed by coal bed methane extraction. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Brave Painting Joan Snyder paints her way through pain and pleasure. Last year she was awarded a $500,000 fellowship from the MacArthur Foundation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Secret of Scent One of France's top experts in the design and marketing of perfume talks about the first time he was seduced by a scent. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Wakenya Pamoja Tony Gakuo and Moses Odhiambo are great friends - they also were born into tribes on opposite sides of the recent tribal violence in Kenya. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Give Us Your Sick When John Wilberding first arrived in the U.S., he was quarantined in the hospital on Ellis Island. Now, the huge hospital complex that held so many immigrants is being restored. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Born in Prison Deborah Jiang Stein discovered in her early teens--at about the same time as she began running afoul of the law--that she was born in a prison. She turned her life around and now works with mothers who are incarcerated. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Wheelchair Dancer Decades after having polio as a child, Cornelia Kip Lee is a professional dancer both in and out of her wheelchair. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | War and Peace on the Wall Two muralists in Northern Ireland - one the son of a famous loyalist, the other a former member of the Irish Republican Army - find common ground through art and the preservation of murals. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Health Care Rescinded After being diagnosed and treated for breast cancer, Patsy Bates had her health insurance rescinded retroactively - leaving her with nearly $200,000 in unpaid medical bills. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Payday Lending Lisa Engelkins and Alba Onofrio are women with two different perspectives on payday loans. Lisa struggled for nearly two years to pay off a payday loan she took out in 1998. 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Moez Masoud never would have thought he would end up speaking to millions of young people around the world about their faith. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Invisible Wall Harry Bernstein was born in a segregated English mill town before World War I. Christians lived on one side of his street, Jews on the other. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Taking a Different Route Dick Gordon talks to Thomas Warren, a recovering addict who counsels his ex-drug buddies on the job. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Combat Artist When Michael Fay goes into combat, he brings along his weapon - and his sketch pad. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Polar Explorer Will Steger had retired from an adventurous life as a polar explorer. Then the Larsen Ice Shelf collapsed, and Will realized he had to go back into the world - this time to teach about global warming. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Attachment to Oil The price of oil has hit $100 a barrel in recent weeks, but it is more than just "black gold" to some. Garry and Tug Eiden are a father and son from Wyoming, who have an attachment to the oil fields going back three generations. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Dad's Secrets Charlotte Dennett's father died in a plane crash when she was a baby, and now she is on a decades-long quest to uncover the truth about his life as an American spy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Cartooning on the Body Issa Nyaphaga was a political cartoonist in Cameroon until he was arrested after a contested election and a government crackdown on journalists. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Combatants for Peace The Middle East conflict sometimes seems like an endless loop of blame from each side. But recently there have been fighters, both Israeli and Palestinian, who are refusing to take up weapons against each other. They have begun an organization called Combatants for Peace. Two founding members tell their stories to Dick Gordon. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Calling Home Maryanne Kamau has a large, extended family in Kenya where some of the worst violence broke out. She's far away in the U.S., but doing everything she can to help. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Commodifying Race Hank Willis Thomas' cousin, Songha, was shot for a decorative chain. That loss has transformed Hank's work as an artist. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Summer with the King Family Gurdon Brewster witnessed the Civil Rights movement while living with Martin Luther King, Jr.'s father, Daddy King and volunteering at the Ebenezer Baptist Church. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Lost Sounds Tim Brooks has combed through old records to document the birth of the recording industry. Back in the 1890s, not long after the end of slavery, some of the biggest stars were black. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Studying Darfur Before Al-banan left his home in Sudan, he worked for the African Union, documenting some of the atrocities committed against his own people. Now he's studying in the U.S., hoping to return home someday and help bring about peace. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Technical Camelot Jean Bartik loved math in the 1940s, so she took a job crunching numbers for the military. She helped to program one of the world's first computers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Grieving through Tattoos When Garrett "G" Sample lost his friend and teenage brother to violence in Philadelphia, he dealt with his sadness by getting tattoos. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Far From Home Sarmad Ali grew up dreaming of living in the U.S. His decision to move to to the U.S. from Baghdad has become a painful one, though. In 2006, his father disappeared, and there is little Sarmad can do to help his family in Iraq. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Detained at Guantanamo Bay Adnan Farhan Abdul Latif is on a hunger strike at the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay. Dick talks to Adnan's lawyer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Scammed Daniel Giddens tried out one of those check cashing deals. He sent money to Nigeria and made a bit of money himself, before he realized he'd been scammed. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Rocket Science Steven and Georg grew up in the time of SPUTNIK, and they were fascinated by rocket science. They spent most of their adolescence focused on launching rockets and the first non-governmental satellite. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Karachi after Bhutto Munizeh Sanai is a young radio on-air host at a pop music station in Karachi, and the night Benazir Bhutto was killed she stopped playing music and later watched as a bur burned in front of her office building. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Disappearing Mandaens Walaa Wini is Iraqi and Mandaen - a religion that can be traced back 2000 years. He and his family have been persecuted in Iraq, and fear their religion may disappear. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Answering Dr. Kinsey Today marks the 60th anniversary of the first Kinsey Report on Human Sexual Behavior. While the identity of many of the participants remains a secret, one woman shares her story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Aging In Prison The number of inmates over 50 is increasing rapidly. Dick traveled to a prison to speak with several inmates who are sentenced to life. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | MAKING A CHANGE Cali Lovett got into a fatal car accident that changed her life. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | You're Not Listening Dick Gordon talks to the husband and wife team who published a study dubbed "The Nagging Study". Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Life Unplugged Steve DeJoseph won't be watching tonight's New Year's revelry on television. He threw his TV out more than 20 years ago, and he has never looked back. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Turtle Tales When David Carroll was 8, his family moved to a neighborhood not far from a swamp. There, he met a spotted turtle that would change his life. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Pen Pal Love Story Vic and Marianne Anderson began a 12 year pen pal relationship during the dark days of World War II. It became a 52 year love affair, and an enduring family legend. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Remembering the Chief Darryl Montana is the son of Big Chief Allison "Tootie" Montana, a legendary Mardi Gras Indian in New Orleans. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Struggle for Liberation Anita Isaacs fought for the liberation of Namibia from apartheid rule. Now she's fighting to liberate Namibian women from the spread of HIV/AIDS. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Two Baghdads Ahmed Abdullah says the streets of Baghdad are calmer these days. What terrifies residents now is the night. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Healing Power of Dance Vincent Mantsoe, a dancer and choreographer, performs all over the world, drawing on the healing ceremonies he learned as a child in South Africa. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Rachel in the World Jane Bernstein thought raising a developmentally disabled child would be hard, but then her daughter Rachel became an adult, and Jane had to learn when - and how - to let her go. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Farm Crisis Hotline During the farming crisis of the 1980s, Arlie Sholes lost the farm. Now he helps other farmers make their way through financial troubles. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Listening to Nazis Henry Kolm interrogated Nazis after World War II. He found casual, friendly conversation worked better than harsh tactics. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Different Kind of Juvenile Justice Gary Yohe is a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the agency that won the Nobel Peace Prize along with Al Gore. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Disappearing America David Plowden photographed America for 50 years, but he feels the America that so captured his imagination and admiration is disappearing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Home in the Mall Michael Townsend did what many people dream of - he found a way to live inside a mall. Part of APM's "Consumed" series. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Atomic Veteran Bob Greenwald was one of 400,000 service members who witnessed the U.S. military test atomic weapons after WWII. Though he kept the stories to himself for years, he feels ready to talk about it now. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Living Through Fire 15 years ago, writer Wilton Barnhardt watched flames approach his home in California. He had time to gather just a few things - one of which, thankfully, was his unfinished novel. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | To Hang a Noose Charles Hickman was the only African American at his workplace. First his coworkers tried to intimidate him by hanging a noose. Then they put one over his neck. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Remembering the Crash This month marks the anniversaries of two major stock market crashes - at a time when current financial markets are shaky. Dick talks with people who remember 1987 and 1929. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Check Engine Anthony Beaver is the one who delivers the news - how much it's going to cost you to get your car fixed. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Attending to Birth Ruth Lubic created the first free-standing birthing clinic in the U.S. - and she has been fighting for the health of mothers and babies ever since. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | No Time to Waste Architect William McDonough wants to see farms on rooftops and recyclable sneakers - he says both are possible and imperative as environmental problems increase. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Heir to Sitting Bull Ernie LaPointe used to keep it a secret he was the great-grandson of Sitting Bull. Now the Smithsonian has deemed him the rightful owner of some of Sitting Bull's effects. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 41-Year-Old Recruit Kristi Jo Newland jumped at the opportunity when the Army raised the age for enlistment from 35 to 42. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Hunger and Dance The Khmer Rouge nearly wiped out classical dance in Cambodia. Sophiline Cheam is carrying on the tradition. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Sputnik Kids Tom Ward and Alexander Rimski-Korsakov grew up in the era of Sputnik, and dreamed of working in their countries' space programs. Now the American and Russian scientists are working together. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Don't Drink the Water Residents of DeBerry, Texas have been drinking, cooking and bathing with bottled water for two years because of environmental contamination. Rev. David Hudson is fighting for clean water on their behalf. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | No Word from Burma Min Min Htun and Tin Lay Nwei are Burmese refugees living in the U.S. Neither has heard from their families since the government cut phone and internet access to Myanmar. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Bee Truth Wayne Esaias says he has learned something important from caring for his honeybees - the nectar is flowing earlier, suggesting the climate is heating up. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Princeton Boys Dick Gordon talks to two young men with an unlikely friendship - Dukens Falaise has been in and out of juvenile detention programs. Gregory Ellison worked in those same centers as an aspiring minister. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Soldier of the Year Scott Smiley was just out of West Point and newly married when he went to Iraq. He came home blinded, but more committed than ever to his career in the Army. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Painting Post-Katrina Willie Birch lives and paints in New Orleans. He talks to Dick Gordon about life and art before and after the disaster. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Before the World Knew Mohamed Yahya learned about the conflict in Darfur 10 years before most people did - in a letter from his mother saying his village had been attacked and 21 of his family members killed. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Recovery Pamela Campbell knows what it's like to wait in vain for coal miners to be rescued. She lost a brother-in-law in the Sago Mine. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | After Loss, Forgiveness Mary Viehland's son Josh was murdered by his high school classmates. Mary tells Dick how she came to terms with the crime. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Stories of the War Nyagatare Valens always wondered what happened to his family during the Rwandan war. This spring, his mother visited him in the U.S. and he heard her stories for the first time. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Standing Up 50 years ago this summer, Virginia Williams took part in one of the nation's first sit-ins, in Durham, N.C. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Civil Disobedience Father Michael Doyle was arrested for destroying draft documents during the Vietnam War. During his trial, he learned just how closely the FBI had been involved. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Closing Shop Doug Haas Bennett's famous costume shop did more than clothe people - it helped them get ahead in life. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Madness in his Method Fifth grade teacher Rafe Esquith teaches Shakespeare to his students - even though some of them still aren't fluent in English. Dick Gordon talks to Rafe about his love of teaching and The Bard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Glimpsing the Light John Horne nearly died in a horrific head on collision - a common occurrence in the U.S. More than 100 Americans die in car crashes every day. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Staying Out Bill Shipley served more than 20 years in the Navy. He never told anyone he was gay - until his gay son began to contemplate a career in the military. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | After the Offense Tom Coles helps rehabilitate sex offenders out of his own home. He believes that they have the capacity to become decent people. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Cotton Blues Zack Killegrew farms cotton in the Mississippi Delta - and loves it. But the Farm Bill under consideration could change his way of life. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Good Fit Megan Summerville is going against the trend - she's running a successful American bra company at a time when the textile industry is tanking. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Prayers of a Bullied Boy 12-year-old Terrance knows all too well what it is like to be bullied. Very smart, and small for his age, Terrance tells Dick what really happens when the school doors close behind him. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Family Secrets After his mother died, Doug Block found out she had not been as happy in her marriage as he always thought she was. His documentary film explores the secrets he has since uncovered in his parents' relationship. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Gift of a Loan Demetria Williamson had to leave her job because of an injury - but she began a new career with the help of microcredit. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Remembering the Chief New Orleans lost a legendary Mardi Gras Indian three years ago today. Dick talks with Darryl, the son of Big Chief Allison "Tootie" Montana. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Father George's Vows After his beloved wife died, George Wilkinson pursued another passion - he became a priest. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Caring for Luke Luke Ashley was diagnosed with bipolar disorder at a time when the U.S. mental health care system was changing. He ended up in jail. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Stay-at-Home Dad Greg Barbera is a stay-at-home dad. It's a life of private hilarity and surprising loneliness. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Table in Heaven Sirio Maccioni runs the famed restaurant, Le Cirque. It's been closed, reopened, and adored by sparkling clientele. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Kidnapped Dick Gordon talks with Tom Sutherland, who was held hostage for six and a half years in Beirut. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Gitmo Attorney Update An outspoken attorney representing two Guantanamo detainees talks about her latest trip to Cuba and the new rules the government is trying to impose. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Invisible Wall Harry Bernstein was born in a segregated English mill town before World War I. Christians lived on one side of his street, Jews on the other. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Hurricane Hunters Jeffrey Masters spent four years flying through the most extraordinary weather on the planet. He tells Dick what it's like to be inside a hurricane. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Two Moms Catherine and Kathleen are having a baby. The hard part now is explaining it to other people. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Dancing through Revolution Dick Gordon talks to Leili Pritschet. Leili grew up in Iran and trained as a classical dancer, but had to flee the country after being tortured following the Islamic Revolution in 1979. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | To Have a Friend... Friendster was the first online social network to spectacularly succeed - and then fail. Find out what new project founder Jonathan Abrams has a new project up his sleeve. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Service and Remembrance Stephen Leonard's family has a history of military service. Their sacrifices inspires him to embrace their ideals and yet question authority. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Of Mules and Men Meet Ray Lum - his storytelling and auctioneering made him a legend. Not only could he size up the worth of an animal in seconds, he could hold his listeners spellbound with stories. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Healing Power of Dance Vincent Mantsoe, a dancer and choreographer, performs all over the world, drawing on the healing ceremonies he learned as a child in South Africa. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Congress v. The President Senator George McGovern - and what history reveals when Congress and the White House clash over an unpopular war. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Where are the bees? Where are the honeybees? Billions have disappeared and no one knows why. Dick talks to a beekeeper and a scientist about the mystery. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Unschooling Revisited Dick talks to the mother who "unschooled" her child at home - and to a former teacher who is critical of "unschooling." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Mom, when did you...? What's the right answer when a 14-year-old daughter asks her mom: "How old were you when you first had sex?" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Painting Faces When artist Beverly McIver learned she had to care for her disabled sister, the news changed her life and her art. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Switching Roles Stuart Bloom was on the verge of his big break as an actor. Then his father got stomach cancer. He's now Dr. Stuart Bloom, oncologist. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Silent Journalist "Mohammed" works as a journalist in Iraq, but when news of violence breaks, he often can't cover it as he'd be killed. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Drying Up Two perspectives on California's water crisis: a farmer and a fisherman. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |