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    The Taliban

    Sep 15, 2001 04:00 AM EST

    ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: Afghanistan is emerging as a likely first target of American retaliation for this week's terrorist attacks. The country's vast landscape of mountains, deserts, and isolated villages has served as a base of operations for Osama bin Laden, the suspected mastermind of several assaults on the United ...

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    Congressional Action

    Sep 14, 2001 04:00 AM EST

    ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: Senator Graham, how is it unlike the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which many people who voted for it later came to believe was too general? I notice there is the word harbored - it authorizes force not only against nations or persons who planned, authorized, committed, or aided the ...

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    Airport Security

    Sep 12, 2001 04:00 AM EST

    ... what happened today enough? ISAAC YEFFET: They wouldn't be able to go based on the FAA procedures with a knife to the aircraft. ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: I'm sorry, Mr. Yeffet; I'm asking Mr. Douglas Laird now. ISAAC YEFFET: Oh, I'm sorry. ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: That's okay. DOUGLAS ...

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    Structural Questions

    Sep 11, 2001 04:00 AM EST

    ... as Ron mentioned, and they were really designed well. But unfortunately they could not tolerate that intense fire due to the jet fuel perhaps. ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: Could any building designed in the future in a different way-- I'm really asking what needs to be done in the future-- have ...

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    A Feast for the Eyes: Wayne Thiebaud

    Sep 03, 2001 04:00 AM EST

    ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: And the cityscapes, you've been painting them for a long time. Do you see them changing? And if so, how? WAYNE THIEBAUD: I think just setting different problems because you don't want to repeat yourself. You try if you're working on too many parallel streets ...

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    Sweet Art: Wayne Thiebaud

    Sep 03, 2001 04:00 AM EST

    ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: And the cityscapes, you've been painting them for a long time. Do you see them changing? And if so, how? WAYNE THIEBAUD: I think just setting different problems because you don't want to repeat yourself. You try if you're working on too many parallel streets ...

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    Delicious Revolution

    Aug 29, 2001 04:00 AM EST

    ... day. So there's a kind of aliveness about the food. And that's... That's very important. It makes food sort of irresistible. ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: Irresistible food is by its very nature political in Waters' view. ALICE WATERS: I have to get some of that. VENDOR: Okay. ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH ...

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    Three Strikes

    Aug 23, 2001 04:00 AM EST

    ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: Let me interrupt you there. What about the charge in your report that there is disproportionate sentencing? One of the examples given is of a man who had two prior convictions for residential burglary, but who was then sentenced for 25 to life for stealing a pair of ...

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    High-Tech Casualty

    Aug 20, 2001 04:00 AM EST

    Explaining the demise of the Industry Standard, the latest victim of the dotcom collapse.

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    Conversation with Jimmy Santiago Baca

    Aug 09, 2001 04:00 AM EST

    Elizabeth Farnsworth talks with author and poet Jimmy Santiago Baca about two new books, "Healing Earthquakes" and "A Place to Stand."