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11 Great Quotations From Maurice Sendak

Posted 05.08.2012

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Maurice Sendak, the legendary author and illustrator, passed away on Tuesday at 83. While he was the author and/or illustrator of more than 50 book...

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Give the Best Mother's Day Gift Ever: A Real Spring Cleaning

Amy Ziff | Posted 05.07.2012

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Amy Ziff

By conducting a health check-up this (and every) Mother's Day we can help our moms, ourselves, and all of our loved ones breathe easier. All you have to do is follow these easy tips to have fresh air impact.

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WATCH: NPR's Terry Gross Jokes About Bill O'Reily With Stephen Colbert

Posted 03.27.2012

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NPR's Terry Gross appeared on Wednesday's "Colbert Report" to celebrate the 25th anniversary of her show "Fresh Air." Gross talked about her beginn...

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How The Godfather Set Us Straight

Barbara & Shannon Kelley | Posted 02.15.2012

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Barbara & Shannon Kelley

"If you're a young woman, I would say, don't get married, because then you have this guy who's trying to get you to do everything for his career."

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7 Cultural Radio Shows You Should Be Listening To

The Huffington Post | Gazelle Emami | Posted 09.19.2011

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New media has done a lot for us, but has it made us happier? According to a new study, radio makes Britons happier than TV and the web, and we're thin...

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Artist Who Sold Her Soul On Craigslist On James Franco's Non-Visible Art

The Huffington Post | Sydney Edelist | Posted 09.17.2011

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Last month we told you about James Franco's new art project, the Museum of Non-Visible Art (MONA). People questioned whether the project was an elabor...

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How Diane Ravitch Became My Intellectual Hero

John Thompson | Posted 07.04.2011

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John Thompson

Before I started teaching, I thought Diane Ravitch was wrong. But I quickly learned she was right, and we can not build the bricks of conceptual understanding without the straw of knowledge.

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Trymaine Lee

Former Prisoner Receives Polk Award

HuffingtonPost.com | Trymaine Lee | Posted 06.15.2011

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At a podium inside the Roosevelt Hotel last week, Wilbert Rideau, 69, stood before an audience of academics and journalists, as he prepared to deliver...

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NPR's Surprisingly Firm Financial Footing

Daily Finance | JONATHAN BERR | Posted 05.25.2011

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For more than two decades, public-radio listeners have grown accustomed to the erudite questioning style of Fresh Air host Terry Gross. What many peop...

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Should Terry Gross Go The Way of Juan Williams?

Bakari Kitwana | Posted 05.25.2011

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Bakari Kitwana

Let's begin with the premise that no people, culture, religious, racial or ethnic group is by definition immoral. Not acknowledging this, at the core,...

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My Walk With Glenn Beck, 21st Century Con Man

Megan Doherty | Posted 05.25.2011

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Megan Doherty

On June 23 I spent two hours with Glenn Beck, walking him and his (very nice) staff through the history of Manhattan. He's mentioned the experience at least three times since then.

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WATCH: Hilarious Commercial Sells 'Fresh Air' In A Can As Pollution Remedy

Posted 05.25.2011

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Hong Kong's Clean Air Network has decided to ditch the frighteningly serious approach to raising awareness about the health concerns of air pollution,...

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Jason Linkins

Mississippi Public Broadcasting Drops 'Fresh Air', Citing 'Inappropriate Content' [UPDATE]

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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[UPDATED, below.] ---------- If you happen to live in Mississippi and like to listen to the deeply non-controversial offerings of "Fresh Air" with T...

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When It Comes to Exercise, Go Native, Not Neurotic!

Natalia Rose | Posted 11.17.2011

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Natalia Rose

This morning, I took my first exercise class in roughly a decade. My beloved childhood friend, bless her heart, suggested we try it. Even in the winte...

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Interviewing Terry Gross

John Hood | Posted 05.25.2011

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John Hood

There may be no better interviewer working today than Fresh Air host Terry Gross.

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Screwing Over Private Contractors

David Isenberg | Posted 05.25.2011

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David Isenberg

In an interview on Fresh Air, T. Christian Miller explained that most of the private contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan are "ordinary, everyday folks who are doing things like delivering mail."

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He Showed the World Through Teachers' Eyes: Thank You, Frank McCourt

Dan Brown | Posted 05.25.2011

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Dan Brown

Occasionally, a teacher can cross over from the all-consuming teaching sphere to tell the tale to the masses. No one in recent memory did this more successfully than Frank McCourt.

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Exclusive Interview With Geoffrey Nunberg, On The Years Of Talking Dangerously

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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Chris Weigant

Epithets like "socialist" and "fascist" enable people on the right to bond with each other and -- though they may not acknowledge it -- to alienate everybody else.

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Jason Linkins

PRI's 'Fair Game' Brings You The McLaughlin Group Mashup

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Something I've learned from the talkback I've received from the Sunday Morning LiveBlogs is that a lot of you love some McLaughlin Group. And it's ea...

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