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On the Road: New Britain Museum of American Art

http://cptv.vo.llnwd.net/o2/ypmwebcontent/mackattack/20110315%20New%20Britain%20Museum%20.mp3The New Britain Museum of American Art's founding in 1903…

Something’s Brewing

Beer connoisseurs believe that the United States is currently in a craft brewing renaissance. The number of microbreweries is at an all-time high and some…

Stay Cool In The Summer Heat

http://cptv.vo.llnwd.net/o2/ypmwebcontent/Commodore%20Skahill/CMS071411.mp3I'm not opposed to air conditioning. I'm opposed to its ubiquity and misuse.The…

Garden Gives City Kids A Taste For Veggies

City kids learn a lot of valuable tools for survival, like how to ride subways and push the buttons on elevators. But a lot of city kids think that green is just the color of a streetlight. Not Annie and Veda, two 5-year-old girls living in Washington, D.C., who now know that fresh vegetables don't just come from the market.

S-C Today

Linda talks with NPR's Elizabeth Arnold about tomorrow's primary in South Carolina and the primaries coming up on Tuesday. They also talk about the new Republican party developing in the south, and the party as it exists in New England.

Mexican presidential candidate Enrique Pena Nieto is heavily favored in Sunday's election.

Mexicans Lukewarm About Presidential Election

Unlike the two most recent presidential elections, this one has not caught the imagination of voters or stirred passions. After a lackluster campaign, Mexico's PRI party looks likely to win back the presidency Sunday.

Deirdre Guyton, the school's director of alumni affairs, is proud of Bluefield State College's history and wants to preserve it. Here, she holds up a photo of the school's football team from 1927 to 1928, when it was the best black college team.

The Whitest Historically Black College In America

Bluefield State College in Bluefield, W.Va., is 90 percent white. Its alumni association is all black, and it still gets federal money as a historically black institution.

Outgoing FBI Executive Assistant Director Shawn Henry.

FBI's Outgoing Cyber Cop Says Americans Don't See Size Of Threat

As he retires and heads into the private sector, Shawn Henry looks back at the growth in the cybercrime problem.

Mapping The Road 'From The Closet To The Altar'

Michael Klarman, a Harvard law professor and former clerk for Ruth Bader Ginsburg, traces the judicial history of gay marriage in America from WWII to the present. According to Klarman, the "handwriting on the wall" indicates the imminent legalization of same-sex marriage.

<p>In 1968, a year after the release of the film <em>Guess Who's Coming To Dinner,</em> a Gallup Poll revealed that just 20 percent of Americans thought it was OK for a white person to marry a black person. According to a recent 2011 Gallup Poll, 96 percent of African-Americans and 84 percent of whites accept the idea.</p>

The Changing Face Of Seeing Race

Blacks and whites in America both widely approve of interracial marriage, according to a recent Gallup Poll. And in practice, all racial and ethnic groups are marrying each other more than ever. Still, it hasn't been that long since most Americans strongly opposed such marriages.

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