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Saturday November 30, 2002

Videotaping Illness

November 30, 2002 • Doctors are struggling to treat two diseases that have reached epidemic proportions in American children: asthma and obesity. Physicians at Boston's Children's Hopsital have given cameras to their young patients to document what goes on outside the doctor's office. And as Madge Kaplan reports, the tapes are revealing a side of kids' lives doctors rarely see, but probably should.

Videotaping Illness

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Friday November 29, 2002

Mardy Murie

November 29, 2002 • Republican leaders promise to make oil exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge a key part of the national energy policy debate next year. Conservationists promise to fight the proposal -- and some wish they could call on Mardy Murie for help. NPR's Howard Berkes profiles one of the nation's greatest champions of wild areas, now 100 years old. View a photo galley and video of highlights from Murie's life.

Mardy Murie

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Wednesday November 27, 2002

Claritin Over the Counter

November 27, 2002 • The Food and Drug Administration approves over-the-counter sales of the popular allergy medicine, Claritin.

Claritin Over the Counter

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Monday November 25, 2002

Drug Costs Compared Online

November 25, 2002 • The state of Oregon and the AARP are trying to make it easier for patients to obtain the proper prescriptions at the best prices. The state and the senior citizen group are providing an online comparison of four different types of drugs: for pain, blood pressure, cholesterol and arthritis. Kristian Foden-Vencil reports.

Drug Costs Compared Online

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Wednesday November 20, 2002

Geography Quiz

November 20, 2002 • A truly global economy and the ever-expanding reach of the Internet are compelling us all to "think globally." Yet the results of a new National Geographic-Roper study reveals young people aged 18 to 24 remain woefully ignorant about geography and world affairs. In fact, 83 percent of Americans quizzed couldn't find Afghanistan on a map. All Things Considered guest host Lynn Neary talks with National Geographic Society President John Fahey about the quiz results -- test your knowledge, and take the quiz online.

Geography Quiz

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Radio Expeditions

Orangutan Metropolis Uncovered

November 20, 2002 • Rare good news about orangutans: Scientists have found a previously unknown population of the great ape, living in the dense rainforest of Borneo. The discovery is a boost to orangutan conservation. NPR's Christopher Joyce reports for Radio Expeditions.

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Tuesday November 19, 2002

Report Gives Poor Marks on Care for the Dying

November 19, 2002 • A new state-by-state report gives the nation mediocre marks when it comes to providing good end-of-life care for the terminally ill. The report was compiled by Last Acts, a campaign by more than 1,000 medical groups and others seeking to improve care for the dying. NPR's Joseph Shapiro reports.

Tuesday November 12, 2002

Lame-Duck Congress Faces Medicare Glitch

November 12, 2002 • Congress returns Tuesday for a lame-duck session with several must-pass items on the agenda, ranging from spending bills to the new Department of Homeland Security. Also on the list is fixing a glitch in Medicare that's cutting fees to doctors. For Morning Edition, NPR's Julie Rovner reports.

Lame-Duck Congress Faces Medicare Glitch

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Friday November 1, 2002

Radio Expeditions

Listening to Elephants, Part 2

November 1, 2002 • In the second of a two part, NPR and National Geographic Expeditions story, Host Alex Chadwick reports on Cornell researcher Kathy Payne, who uses sound recorders to track African elephants. Her elephant listening project may revolutionize the study of wildlife in remote places.

Listening to Elephants, Part 2

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Mussel Deaths Tied to Climate Change

November 1, 2002 • Researchers studying California blue mussels are learning more about how plants and animals react as the Earth warms up. They've focused on a mussel die-off in Washington and Oregon.

Mussel Deaths Tied to Climate Change

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Thursday October 31, 2002

Radio Expeditions

Listening to Elephants

October 31, 2002 • At a rare forest clearing in central Africa, elephants gather to munch on mineral-rich soil. And researchers gather there to learn more about the social lives of the threatened animals — and how to save them. For Morning Edition, NPR's Alex Chadwick reports. (8:07)

Listening to Elephants

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Letters from the Field: Mya Thompson

October 31, 2002 • Mya Thompson's letters home from the Elephant bai.

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Letters from the Field: Melissa Groo

October 31, 2002 • Melissa Groo's observations while researching elephants.

Thursday September 5, 2002

Radio Expeditions

The Frog Man of the Sonoran Desert

September 5, 2002 • One of America's most arid regions, the great Sonoran Desert, turns into an amphibian wonderland during the brief summer rainy season. For Morning Edition and Radio Expeditions, NPR's John Burnett follows biologist Cecil Schwalbe on his annual trek to observe the frenzied courtship of native frogs and toads.

The Frog Man of the Sonoran Desert

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Friday January 29, 1999

Lost & Found Sound

Thomas Alva Edison, Part I

January 29, 1999 • Thomas Alva Edison founded recorded sound. He invented the repeating telegraph and the phonograph, among others. He was known as "The Wizard of Menlo Park," his hometown in New Jersey.

Thomas Alva Edison, Part I

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