Sat, 30 August 2008
This Labor Day weekend, we look at an event that was a catalyst for both
labor organizing and factory safety improvements, and the worst
workplace disaster until September 11, 2001: The Triangle Shirtwaist
Factory fire of 1911.
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Sat, 23 August 2008
What inspires you to travel? Fun, adventure, maybe a desire to learn
something about someplace different? This week on the show, we look at
what it takes to do research in exotic locales, with Fordham biologist
Alan Clark--he's just returned from the Costa Rican rainforest.
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Sat, 16 August 2008
When we think of the internet, our vision is often of something of an
e-utopia of personal freedom, albeit one marred by annoying pop-up ads.
But is the internet actually making us less free, at least from our
past indiscretions?
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Sat, 9 August 2008
Maybe in the last few years, you've noticed more Mexican restaurants
around and tortillas for sale in the supermarket, or seen people playing
a different kind of music in the subway...They're all part of the
explosion in New York's Mexican population that's been occurring in the
last two decades. We talk with CUNY's David Badillo about this newer
wave of immigration and how Mexicans are making New York theirs.
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Sat, 2 August 2008
Dispatches from foreign lands: We talk with
reporter and author Bryan Mealer about his time in Congo--His book "All
Things Must Fight To Live: Stories of War and Deliverance in Congo" is
out from Bloomsbury--and we hear from filmmakers Doug Carr and Eddie
Boyce. They traveled with Fordham Law School’s Crowley Scholars on their
2007 mission to Malawi to study the effects of AIDS on women there...and
they reported back with the 2007 film "The Face of AIDS".
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