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On Point Today
Hour 2
Randy Pausch’s ‘Last Lecture’
Thursday, August 7, 2008 Randy Pausch

When professor Randy Pausch learned he had pancreatic cancer, he gave a life-affirming “last lecture” that became a YouTube sensation and a bestselling book…

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Hour 1
Olympic Head Games
Thursday, August 7, 2008 Dara Torres2

With the Beijing Olympics set to begin, we talk with a top sports psychologist, herself a world class athlete, about what it takes.

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Prisoners’ Tales
Wednesday, August 6, 2008 The Castle

We talk with three ex-convicts who tell the stories of their lives, in and out of prison, in a provocative new play, “The Castle.”

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Oil and Justice in the Amazon
Wednesday, August 6, 2008 Texaco- Ecuador

Ecuadorean Indians, and American trial lawyers, say Chevron is liable for a huge toxic oil dump, an “Amazon Chernobyl.” The fight reaches from a jungle courthouse to Washington, DC.

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On Point Blog
24 / Babel / Love
By Tom Ashbrook

She’d been shot, on a bus, between jungle and mountains, and we had to get her home.
Nothing like having a loved one take a bullet to start a vacation off hot. To collapse the gap between news and life. Not that you asked, but here are my first 24 hours away from the microphone…
It [...]

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Hello, and hold the phone…
By Tom Ashbrook

Wow, I’m loving this new site already! Thanks for all the comments. Plenty to consider there. (What do we call half black and half white in America? Well, right or wrong, in our culture, we tend to say black. Which is telling and relevant in itself…  And may not satisfy you, contributor David…)
And [...]

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On Point Web 2.0
By Wen Stephenson

If you landed at onpointradio.org and wondered what had happened — well, don’t worry, you’ve got the right address. We’ve just replaced the old edifice with something a little more, shall we say, architecturally ambitious. Call it our own small version of Web 2.0…
When we set out to redesign On Point’s website, roughly six months [...]

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