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“Factory Girls” by Leslie Chang (excerpt)
Friday, October 10, 2008 at 10:36 am

EXCERPT FROM “FACTORY GIRLS: FROM VILLAGE TO CITY IN A CHANGING CHINA” BY LESLIE T. CHANG

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Excerpt from “Trick or Treatment”
Tuesday, September 9, 2008 at 2:52 pm

How Do You Determine the Truth?
‘Truth exists – only lies are invented.’ – Georges Braque
THIS BOOK IS ABOUT ESTABLISHING THE TRUTH IN RELATION TO
alternative medicine. Which therapies work and which ones are useless?
Which therapies are safe and which ones are dangerous?
These are questions that doctors have asked themselves for
millennia in relation to all forms of [...]

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Last week, host Tom Ashbrook was on stage with Google CEO Eric Schmidt, asking him about some of the biggest technology and business issues of our time.

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California, here we come! And we need your questions!

On Point is headed west!
No, no. Not for good. Only for one show. But it’s a very special show!  The NPR station in Thousand Oaks, California – KCLU – is celebrating their 15th anniversary. We’re lucky to have been on their airwaves for nearly seven years, and they invited us out west to host a live [...]

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