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How many people does it take to make radio?

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Kai Ryssdal
Jan 14, 2006
So it occurs to me…as we’re wait to check in for our flight to Chongqing…that you might not be aware of who’s here actually helping the show get on...
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Mexican activists call for change in U.S. gun industry

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Jeff Tyler
Sep 10, 2012
Relatives of victims murdered in Mexico travel the U.S. to persuade gun dealers to stop selling assault weapons.
Posted In: Mexico, guns, cartels
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The downside of exam-based education in China

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Rob Schmitz
Jun 7, 2011
Students in China are taking a key exam that will determine their future. But focusing on the exam, the gao kao, may rob students of creativity.
Posted In: China
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CA court nixes zip code collection at the register

Feb 11, 2011
If you live in California, cashiers can no longer ask for your zip code at the register, the state Supreme Court ruled this week. But that means the end of a big business for retailers.
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Weekly Wrap: U.S. banks, Chinese trade relations

Jan 21, 2011
Kai talks to Megan McArdle of The Atlantic and our very own New York bureau chief Heidi Moore about U.S.-China trade relations, the health of American banks
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Mixed feelings over Harlem's gentrification

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Janet Babin
Jan 11, 2011
The most recent sign of the New York City neighborhood's gentrification is a new brand name hotel. Marketplace's Janet Babin reports.
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Calculating the value of college football coaches

Dec 28, 2010
Coach Nick Saban of the University of Alabama's Crimson Tide football team makes $5 million a year -- a salary which is hard to justify from a public university. But if coaches and football teams bring revenue to universities, are the benefits of a football team and expensive coaching staff worth the cost?
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Georgraphy influences thoughts on immigration

Sep 20, 2010
Marketplace's Bob Moon talks to Dowell Myers, a professor of demography and urban planning at USC, about politics and the immigration debate.
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For richer or poorer...

Sep 10, 2010
Tess Vigeland went around the Marketplace office to see how the married staffers and their better halves deal with the household finances.
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'We have a very distorted economy,' Greenspan says

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Bob Moon
Aug 2, 2010
Marketplace's Bob Moon talks to other economists about how well former Fed chairman Alan Greenspan's thoughts on the economy match up to reality.

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