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ONE IN A MILLON
ESP, Telekinesis, Other Pseudoscience Author: Freeman J. Dyson
Topic: Science and Technology
Publication: © Unlisted
Read By: Richard Wilson
Length: 24 minutes
More Information | OUR FIRST TELEPHONE
we want privacy and still we want to listen in. Author: Leslie Leyland Fields
Topic: Regional and Travel
Publication: © The Atlantic Monthly
Read By: Paulette Banks
Length: 17 minutes
More Information | OUT OF AFRICA AGAIN...AND AGAIN
Africa is the birthplace of humanity. But how many human species evolved there? And when did they emigrate? Author: Ian Tattersall
Topic: Science and Technology
Publication: © Scientific American
Read By: Steve Easter
Length: 28 minutes
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P.A.M. DIRAC AND THE BEAUTY OF PHYSICS
He preferred the beautiful theory to the fact-buttressed ugly one because, as he noted, facts change. He proved his point by predicting the existence of antimatter. Author: Hovis and Helge Kragh
Topic: Science and Technology
Publication: © Scientific American
Read By: Richard Wilson
Length: 29 minutes
More Information | PAYDAY
Everybody's getting rich, except the city Author: Jeffrey Toobin
Topic: Political and Public Issues
Publication: © The New Yorker
Read By: Adele Roy
Length: 31 minutes
More Information | PHILLIS WHEATLEY ON TRIAL
In 1772, a slave girl had to prove she was a poet. She's had to do so ever since. Author: Louis Gates, Jr.
Topic: History and Biography
Publication: © The New Yorker
Read By: Ann Moln
Length: 29 minutes
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PIECEWORK
Medicine's money problem. Author: Atul Gawande
Topic: Health and Medicine
Publication: © The New Yorker
Read By: Steve Easter
Length: 29 minutes
More Information | POST-PRESIDENT FOR LIFE
Clinton is the youngest ex-President since Teddy Roosevelt--and he is still the most skillful politician in the Democratic Party. What he does with the rest of his life will set a precedent for the growing number of vigorous and long-lived ex-Presidents to come. Author: James Fallows
Topic: History and Biography
Publication: © The Atlantic Monthly
Read By: Richard Wilson
Length: 53 minutes
More Information | SALT CHIC
Do different salts taste different? Author: Steingarten
Topic: Popular Culture
Publication: © Unlisted
Read By: Paulette Banks
Length: 20 minutes
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SCHOOL FOR SURVIVAL
Just how vulnerable is a reporter covering a war? Author: Elizabeth Rubin
Topic: Political and Public Issues
Publication: © The New Yorker
Read By: Mary Beth Carroll
Length: 22 minutes
More Information | SHOOT TO KILL
In the post-Columbine world, police departments all over America are adopting new, no-nonsense SWAT-team tactics. Author: Harper
Topic: Political and Public Issues
Publication: © The Atlantic Monthly
Read By: Linda Wilkins
Length: 18 minutes
More Information | SINGLE MOTHERS AND WELFARE
For the first time since the Great Depression, large numbers of families are homeless. Recent welfare revisions will put even more women and children on the streets. Author: Ellen L. Bassuk, Angela Browne and John C. Buckner
Topic: Political and Public Issues
Publication: © Scientific American
Read By: Melissa Stewart
Length: 26 minutes
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SOMETHING HAPPENED
A journey to the source of HIV and AIDS. Author: Helen Epstein
Topic: Science and Technology
Publication: © Unlisted
Read By: Melissa Stewart
Length: 30 minutes
More Information | SPY FEVER
McCarthyism in Twentieth-Century America Author: Thomas Powers
Topic: History and Biography
Publication: © Unlisted
Read By: Clelia Steele
Length: 31 minutes
More Information | SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS
Ambitious and self-absorbed, ex pat Andrew Sullivan has made a career out of his personal and political contradictions and pissing people off. Author: Michael Wolff
Topic: History and Biography
Publication: © Unlisted
Read By: Mary Beth Carroll
Length: 13 minutes
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