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538: Is This Working?
Oct 17, 2014Stories of schools struggling with what to do with misbehaving kids. There's no general agreement about what teachers should do to discipline kids. And there's evidence that some of the most popular punishments actually may harm kids.
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509: It Says So Right Here
Oct 24, 2014Everyone knows you can't always believe what you read, but sometimes even official documents aren't a path to the truth. This week we have stories of people whose lives are altered when seemingly boring documents like birth certificates and petitions are used against them. And a family wrestles with a medical record that has a very clear, but complicated diagnosis.Share
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246: My Pen Pal
Oct 31, 2014Stories of very unusual pen pals, people whose relationship could not exist without the help of the postal service.Share
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Jan 2, 1998Numbers lie. Numbers cover over complicated feelings and ambiguous situations. In this week's show, stories of people trying to use numbers to describe things that should not be quantified.
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