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PRI's The World The rise in "Danger Tourism." Lonely Planet helps The World sort it out...
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More and more tourists, it seems, are winding up in places they shouldn't be. Some travel to war zones or countries their government has warned them not to visit.
PRI's The World Jeb Sharp's weekly history podcast: what else, but the anniversary of the fall of the wall.
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Stories commemorating the events of 1989 including what happened to the wall itself, life on the border today, what Germany's youth learns about the Wall now.
PRI's The World Just a reminder -- if you have a mobile device, we have a mobile website. Just point your mobile browser to www.theworld.org. Feedback appreciated from users of all platforms.
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Andrew Rowe Thanks for pointing out the PRI science podcast. How about an update on the OLPC and Uragay?
PRI's The World The World's Jason Margolis with his Global Economy Podcast. This episode: what exactly is GDP, and is it a good measure of economic health?
PRI's The World Patrick Cox with his weekly World in Words Podcast...
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PRI's The World Jeb Sharp with her weekly history podcast. This...is...good...stuff...
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The Soviet women who flew combat missions over Germany during WWII, revisiting the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis and understanding Pakistan's history.
PRI's The World Can technological ingenuity fix the problems of developing countries?
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Reporter Eliza Barclay reports from Nicaragua how two American brothers tried a technological fix to alleviate poverty in that Central American country, and our Science Forum invites you discuss aid projects with an environmental engineer online.
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PRI's The World The amazing tale of the Soviet women who served as fighter and bomber pilots during World War II. I can't believe no ones made an English language movie of this yet...
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The Soviet Union had three regiments of female pilots that flew combat missions during World War II. The BBC's Lucy Ash caught up with some of the women who were known as The Night Witches.
PRI's The World Laura Lynch revisits the Hungarian-Austrian border...
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Before the Berlin Wall fell in November 1989, Hungary tore down its barbed wire. Hungary's prime minister didn't ask permission in Moscow. He just told Soviet President Gorbachev it was a done deal. Hundreds would escape to the West in a single day. ...
PRI's The World Prospects dim for global climate treaty...
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Negotiators from around the world are meeting in Barcelona this week in the last round of climate treaty talks before a global summit next month in Copenhagen. The Copenhagen meeting was supposed to produce a new treaty to address the rising threats from global climate change.
PRI's The World
Patrick Cox and Carol Hills look back on the big language stories over the past month. To wit: Among them: Some birds develop distinct dialects based on the decibel levels of their habitats; Companies doing business in Glasgow are offered interpreters to translate the local dialect; The French government reforms foreig...n language teaching; And Chinese expats do battle over which script U.S. schools should use to teach Chinese - traditional characters, favored in Taiwan and Hong Kong, or simplified characters, used in mainland China.Read More
PRI's The World What German students learn...and don't learn...about the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, young Germans don't give a lot of thought to what was once known as the GDR or East Germany. Few know much about a state that ceased to exist before they were even born.
PRI's The World Alan Lomax and Haitian folk musicians. Must be the Global Hit....
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Alan Lomax made an impressive career out of recording folk music all over the world; bringing it to American audiences, and preserving it for posterity. But few people heard the recordings that Lomax made in Haiti in the 1930's. ...
