Conflict & Justice
PRI's The World
June 13, 2014
Even before the first detainee arrived at the US base in Guantanamo, Cuba, Miami Herald reporter Carol Rosenberg was on the story. After 13 years on the job, Rosenberg reflects on how the detention center came to be, snapshots of life there, and what Guantanmo was like for the five Taliban leaders recently swapped for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl.
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Arts, Culture & Media
Some Japanese will pay $4,500 for an old Missouri prisoner uniform. Me, I collect Japanese 'boro'
PRI's The World
June 26, 2014
Why Japanese love America's castoff workwear and why some Americans feel the same way about Japanese wear.
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Politics
How Donald Trump ended up at a Bollywood-themed Hindu rally in New Jersey
PRI's The World
October 20, 2016
It’s not that Indian Americans favor Trump. It’s that Trump reminds many of his Hindu supporters of a political movement in India.
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Lifestyle & Belief
Enough already with the cinnamon this holiday season
PRI's The World
November 25, 2013
Americans assume two things about cinnamon: that it's wholesome and that everyone loves it. Not true!
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Lifestyle & Belief
Pilgrims recall their first days in America as immigrants
PRI's The World
November 28, 2013
As we continue our series about immigrants' first days in America, we interview William and Alice Bradford, religious refugees from England. They risked their lives on an ocean crossing to start afresh in what they refer to as "the new world."
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Arts, Culture & Media
Art about love: 14 pieces that inspire
PRI's The World
February 06, 2015
Updated
It's almost Valentine's Day which got us thinking about how love has been depicted by artists. So we contacted Boston's Museum of Fine Art , which mined 500,000 artworks for these 14 definitions of love.
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Lifestyle & Belief
What happens when you mix three food legends and stir gently? Big change
PRI's The World
January 08, 2014
It turns out that the late fall and winter of 1970 was a turning point in America's culinary world. Three cooking legends met in the south of France by accident, and helped define a new American food scene.
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Arts, Culture & Media
New Recording Surfaces of Jimi Hendrix Gig in London
PRI's The World
February 18, 2013
Jimi Hendrix continues to inspire fans more than forty years after his death. New recordings of the guitar great seem to surface all the time. But none can quite compare to the one The World's Clark Boyd got to hear recently.
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Health & Medicine
Brazil's effective HIV prevention strategies
January 11, 2010
Exploring the effective and controversial strategies that have reduced the spread of HIV in Brazil in the last decade.
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Lifestyle & Belief
A Taiwanese immigrant’s first days in America were about getting by
January 24, 2014
Shwuling Shieh came to the United States from Taiwan in 1984. "We didn’t get scholarships, but we came and worked. So as soon as I got off the plane, I started working," she said.
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Conflict & Justice
Nine things we've learned from Carol Rosenberg's 13 years covering Guantanamo
PRI's The World
June 13, 2014
Even before the first detainee arrived at the US base in Guantanamo, Cuba, Miami Herald reporter Carol Rosenberg was on the story. After 13 years on the job, Rosenberg reflects on how the detention center came to be, snapshots of life there, and what Guantanmo was like for the five Taliban leaders recently swapped for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl.