Comments: 0 - Date: April 30th, 2008 - Categories: Uncategorized
A bill that would ban employers and insurance companies from using genetic information to make hiring and coverage decisions passed in the Senate 95-0 on Thursday. Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY), the bill's main sponsor, talks about genetic discrimination — she first proposed the legislation 13 years ago.
Comments: 0 - Date: April 30th, 2008 - Categories: Uncategorized
Web sites such as Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes are creating serious competition for professional critics. The sites distill and aggregate professional reviews and provide a forum for users to submit their own comments and ratings. Guests discuss how online reviews are redefining the role of the critic.
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In this week's edition of the Political Junkie, NPR's political editor Ken Rudin talks about the upcoming primaries in North Carolina and Indiana. Also, superdelegates discuss the impact of racially-charged remarks made by Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama's former pastor.
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Comments: 0 - Date: April 29th, 2008 - Categories: Uncategorized
A new documentary features the stories of four boys in their senior year of high school in Baghdad. The students — one Kurdish, one Christian, one Shia and one mixed Sunni and Shia — shot footage of their families, friends and teachers to craft the documentary, a portrait of adolescence in a time of war.
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A recent Vanity Fair photograph is making headlines — it shows a bare-backed, teenage Miley Cyrus, best known for her role as Hannah Montana. Is this the defining point where Cyrus crosses the line into more mature territory? Guests talk about the road into — and out of — teenage stardom.