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    MARCH 4, 1995 HOST: SCOTT SIMON NEWS: MICHAEL LENAND, LAURA KNOY
  • How one woman moved from a domestic violence shelter to a home of her own
    In our second installment of our moving series, Katie Laura found a new apartment in Milwaukee for herself and her children after spending a month in a domestic violence shelter.
  • Texas Couple Props Up Head Start While Government Is Closed
    Laura and John Arnold of Houston have pledged up to $10 million to keep the Head Start program running in six states. The preschool program for children from low-income families abruptly closed in some areas last Friday because of a lack of funding.
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    The American Dialect Society deemed "hashtag" the word of the year. NPR digital culture correspondent Laura Sydell and NPR senior strategist Andy Carvin explain how the social media tool works and why some get so popular.
  • Violence Targets Women In Mexico, Central America
    Violence against women in Mexico, Honduras, and Guatemala has reached crisis proportions, according to a report by the Nobel Women's Initiative. The group's delegation spent ten days documenting homicides, disappearances, and attacks of sexual violence. Laura Carlsen wrote the report and discusses the findings with guest host Viviana Hurtado.
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    Audie Cornish and Laura Sydell discuss the tech week ahead. They cover the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.
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    Mass Incarceration and Mental Illness
    Dr. Christine Montross has spent her career treating the most severely ill psychiatric patients. Several years ago, she set out to investigate why so many of her patients got caught up in the legal system when discharged from her care--and what happened to them therein.
  • Debra Messing in Roundabout Theatre Company's production of Noah Haidle's Birthday Candles (dir. Vivienne Benesch)
    Roundabout Theatre Company presents "Birthday Candles" on Broadway - interviews with actor Debra Messing and playwright Noah Haidle
    The new play “Birthday Candles,” written by Noah Haidle and directed by Vivienne Benesch is currently in previews on Broadway, produced by Roundabout Theatre Company and running at The American Airlines Theatre. Opening night is April 10. Debra Messing stars as Ernestine Ashworth, a woman on the cusp of adulthood as the play begins, she ages 90 years onstage, from 17 to 107. Each scene finds her on another birthday assessing her life and choices. Interviews with Debra Messing and Noah Haidle.
  • Artists in the residency program at Autodesk are given access to production-quality equipment in workshops, allowing them space to create at-will.
    Artists In Residence Give High-Tech Projects A Human Touch
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    New Jersey was the first state in the country to mandate climate change be taught across all grade levels and in most subjects.
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