The World: The Global Race for Stem Cell Therapies, Part Four: Israel
Religious views play a role in Israel's stem cell program. The World's Aaron Schachter concludes the series by examining how the Judaic duty to care for the sick trumps ethical concerns over the rights...
View ArticleThe World: The Global Race for Stem Cell Therapies, Part Three: China
China's stem cell program, like the Chinese economy, is moving ahead rapidly. The World's Mary Kay Magistad reports that Chinese research has strong support and heavy investment from the government,...
View ArticleThe World: The Global Race for Stem Cell Therapies, Part Two: Britain
For many years now in Britain, a governmental body has strictly regulated all work involving embryos. Clark Boyd turns his attention to Britain's Human Fertility and Embryology Authority, which some...
View ArticleThe World: The Global Race for Stem Cell Therapies, Part One: Primer on Stem...
The World's technology correspondent Clark Boyd delivers a primer on stem cell research, chronicling its history in the United States. Since 2001, the Federal government has funded embryonic stem cell...
View ArticlePRI's The World: The Tony Blair Decade
Tony Blair's last day as prime minister will be June 27, 2007. Ten years at 10 Downing Street is enough, Blair said, for him and for the country. This special half-hour podcast takes a look at the...
View ArticleThe World: China - Shifting Influences Podcast, Part IV
President Bush met with President Roh Mu Hyun in South Korea today. The two leaders said they won't tolerate a nuclear-armed North Korea. But they don't agree on how to prevent that. South Korea is...
View ArticleThe World: China - Shifting Influences Podcast, Part III
President Bush is in South Korea for the second leg of his East Asia tour. Earlier today, he delivered a speech in Japan, urging China to embrace democracy, just as Japan and Taiwan have done. It's a...
View ArticleThe World: China - Shifting Influences Podcast, Part II
For the past century, the Philippines has maintained strong ties with the United States. But recently, it's been drawing closer to the growing superpower in East Asia -- China. In the second part of...
View ArticleThe World: China - Shifting Influences Podcast, Part I
President Bush heads to Japan today. It's the first leg of his 8-day trip to East Asia. The United States has been the dominant power in the region for more than 50 years economically, culturally, and...
View ArticlePRI's The World: China's Environment: Paying for Prosperity
China, the world's largest nation with one of the fastest growing economies, has a world-class pollution problem. In a four-part series, correspondent Mary Kay Magistad examines China's growing...
View ArticlePRI's The World: Cities of the Poor - A Four Part Series
Favelas - Shanty towns - Squatter camps - Bidonvilles. They go by different names in different places, but the vast slums of the developing world share many traits - grinding poverty, rampant disease,...
View ArticlePRI's The World: Congo civil war
The civil war in Congo officially ended in 2003 but despite the peace deal fighting has continued. One of the most gruesome features of the conflict is the widespread use of rape as a weapon. Jeb Sharp...
View ArticleThe World: Cuba Stories Part III - Life and Music
Elizabeth Ross visits a vintage 1940's recording studio in Havana and Lisa Mullins checks out Cuba's classic cars. Then it's a night at the ballet where Cuban aficionados of the pas-de-deux are just...
View ArticleThe World: Cuba Stories Part II - The politics of Cuba
U.S. relations with Cuba have been strained since Fidel Castro seized control in 1959. For more than 45 years Washington has imposed a trade embargo against Cuba. Lisa Mullins speaks with reporter...
View ArticleThe World: Cuba Stories Part I - Hemingway's Cuban Home
Lisa Mullins visits Finca Vigia, the decaying former estate of writer Ernest Hemingway. The American author spent two decades of his life on this farm just outside of Havana. You can still find folks...
View ArticleThe World: Hiroshima's Survivors: The Last Generation, Part III and IV
We conclude our look at survivors of the atomic bomb blast that destroyed the Japanese city of Hiroshima 60 years ago this week. The World's Patrick Cox travels to Los Angeles to talk to survivors who...
View ArticleThe World: Hiroshima's Survivors: The Last Generation, Part I and II
Part One and Part Two of a special series from The World. Sixty years ago a U.S. warplane dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Three days later, Nagasaki was also hit. In less than...
View ArticlePRI's The World: The United States and Iran Series
There are a number of countries at the top of America's list of foreign policy concerns. Iraq is obviously one of them. Another one is Iraq's next-door neighbor, Iran. Right now the United States is...
View ArticlePRI's The World: Liberia Series
One year after Africa's first elected female head of state, President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, started the massive job of rebuilding war-shattered Liberia, her government has made a good start but still...
View ArticleThe World: Myanmar's Hidden AIDS Epidemic - A Two Part Series
The AIDS virus thrives on ignorance and powerlessness. People who don't know how to protect themselves... or don't have the means to do so... often fall victim to HIV. What's true for individuals is...
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