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DAVID GREENE, HOST: The artist Kerry James Marshall has a remarkable history. He was born in Birmingham, Ala., and was a little boy when Martin Luther King Jr. was in jail there. Later, his family moved to Los Angeles not long before the Watts riots.

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By George Lewinski Washington 01 June 2007 On June 5th, 1947, U.S. Secretary of State George C. Marshall told the graduating class at Harvard University that Europe and the world were in a perilous state. World War II had devastated the continent and

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Mr. President, Dr. Conant, members of the Board of Overseers, Ladies and Gentlemen: I am profoundly grateful, touched by the great distinction and honor and great compliment accorded me by the authorities of Harvard this morning. I am overwhelmed, as

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By Greg Flakus New Orleans, LA 27 April 2007 Nearly two years after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, the city is showing signs of recovery and drawing visitors back to traditional events, like the annual Jazz and Heritage Festival. It runs o

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MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: And finally, we have one more film to tell you about that opened Friday. It focuses on a little-known moment in the career of the late civil rights icon Thurgood Marshall. Long before Marshall became the first African-American to

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KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: It is a big week for movie biographies. Opening today are fact-based films about a Supreme Court justice, two semi-famous authors, an infamous artist and a man who refused to let polio defeat him. Critic Bob Mondello says that Ho

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LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Alaska's Prudhoe Bay Oil Field started production 40 years ago this month. Twelve billion barrels of oil later, it's completely reshaped Alaska. Finding Prudhoe Bay led to a major economic boom and also to the Exxon Valdez

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During its magnetic cycle, the Sun undergoes periodic changes in activity. Every 11 years, it enters solar maximum. This 11 years cycle of solar activity has peaks where theres lots of solar storms. And right now where the sun is taking a little napp

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Six years later, they come to believe these light flashes are the results of high energy, heavy cosmic rays penetrating the spacecraft and the crew members' eyes. These/ protons or electrons, just very, very high energy, ripped / part of atoms, sprin

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If we could flip a switch and just turn off the Earth's magnetic field, it will take about 15,000 years to disappear, based on the rate of decay of the field that we've seen over the last 150 years. It's currently decaying at a rate that would see an

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Easily confused by this idea, there has a big thawed iron inner core, so that I think it's just the bar magnet, just permanent magnet frozen in nad, and that's where causes all the magnetic field. But it's too hot inside the Earth, that can't happen

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As the vast sphere reaches / maximum speed, something incredible happens. Huge lines of magnetism arc in and out of the model core. Well, we can't see the magnetic field coming out of the experiment, we can measure them, we can put many different mag

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Larry Newitt from the Geological Survey of Canada charts the movement of the magnetic North Pole as it wanders the icy reaches of northern Canada. To determine where the magnetic pole / is, we can't rely on one single observation. What I try to do is