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    Embracing Difference: Telling Other People's Stories Well

    Apr 05, 2013 11:43 AM EDT

    ... because someone else had opened them. I just had to walk through. This is what I have now found on the other side. Journalism is at a crossroads. We have stories to tell, but many of our audiences have stopped listening to us because they can tell we're not ...

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    As Farmers Age, Japan Rethinks Relationship With Food, Fields

    Jun 12, 2012 10:29 PM EDT

    ... is done by hand on small plots of land that have been cultivated by the same families, sometimes for centuries.  But,today, Japanese agriculture is at a crossroads.  Japan's farmers, like 71-year-old Yurinori Mori and his wife, Fukiko, are getting old.  And their children and grandchildren are ...

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    In Ohio, How 2 Counties' Economic Paths Diverged Over 30 Years

    Mar 15, 2011 11:53 PM EDT

    ... I really am. (LAUGHTER) PAUL SOLMAN: Neff was born in the days depicted in this mural in Bucyrus, Crawford's county seat, when it was at a crossroads between an agricultural past and industrial future. Just a few miles south sits Delaware County. In 1980, incomes there were roughly the ...

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    Shooting of Rep. Giffords Pauses Partisan Rhetoric in Washington

    Jan 10, 2011 01:30 PM EDT

    ... all wondering what the president will say next. In Monday's edition of POLITICO, Glenn Thrush and Carol E. Lee write that the shooting presents "a critical opportunity to a president at a crossroads, a chance for Obama to elevate the debased tenor of politics, much as President Bill Clinton ...

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    Papal Visit Prompts Reflection on U.S. Catholic Identity

    Apr 15, 2008 10:25 PM EDT

    ... success of my visit, that there may be a time of spiritual renewal for all Americans.JEFFREY BROWN: The pope will find an American church at a crossroads. There are about 65 million Catholics in the U.S. today, about one-quarter of the nation's population.AMERICAN CATHOLIC: At ...

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    FCC Commissioner Michael J. Copps

    Jun 02, 2003 07:52 PM EDT

    ... Elite with unacceptable levels of influence over the ideas and information upon which our society and our democracy so heavily depend. This morning we are at a crossroads - for television, radio and newspapers and for the American people. The decision we five make today will recast our entire media landscape ...

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    Syria at the Crossroads

    May 02, 2003 04:00 AM EDT

    And then there are the things that the Syrian government is less keen for us to emphasize. This remains a tightly controlled country, a virtual one-party state that continues to jail journalists, academics and political opponents. This weekend, Secretary of State Colin Powell, who arrived in Damascus this afternoon ...

  • A twice-yearly shot could help end AIDS, but only if it can get to everyone who needs it

    A twice-yearly shot could help end AIDS, but only if it can get to everyone who needs it

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    A twice-yearly shot has shown to be 100 percent effective in preventing HIV infections in a study of women, and published results show it worked nearly as well in men. Now, the drugmaker Gilead has said it will allow cheap, generic versions to be sold in 120 poor countries with high HIV rates.

  • How Trump’s assassination attempt compares to the attempt on Reagan in 1981

    How Trump’s assassination attempt compares to the attempt on Reagan in 1981

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    Saturday’s attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump brought immediate comparisons to the 1981 attempt on President Ronald Reagan’s life. Judy Woodruff was there that day as NBC’s White House correspondent. She joins John Yang to reflect on how these two moments compare and on the historical context of today’s political volatility.

  • Why the U.S. is rethinking its approach to poverty

    Why the U.S. is rethinking its approach to poverty

    Mar 19, 2021 10:00 AM EDT

    At the end of 2020, more than 50 million people were facing hunger, up 15 million from the year before, according to data from Feeding America, an anti-hunger organization. The pandemic, and the associated stimulus payments and rescue plan are changing how politicians are thinking about fighting poverty.