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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

We meet Pete Daly, an engineer with recurrent melanoma who talks about living with cancer.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Mark Jacobson and his wife took their three children on a 90-day trip around the world. They've written a book called "12,000 Miles in the Nick of Time: A Semi-Dysfunctional Family Circumnavigates the Globe."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Leonard Zwilling tells Jim Fleming about boxing’s impact on the English language.  It’s yielded such words and phrases as fan, throw in the towel, and up to scratch.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

As a child, Michael Ondaatje took a long ocean voyage from Sri Lanka to England.  This is the seed of his novel "The Cat's Table."  He talks with Jim Fleming about the fine line between fiction and memoir.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Suppose you drank too much at that party last night and some embarrassing pictures of you got posted on Facebook. Do you have a right to delete them? In Europe, you now have that legal right. But Georgetown University's Meg Jones says Americans are still sorting out conflicting demands for privacy and free speech in the digital age.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Luis Alberto Urrea tells Jim Fleming about the business of smuggling illegal aliens across the Arizona desert and the tremendous mortality rate of this dangerous passage.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

In this UNCUT interview, Pico Iyer tells Jim Fleming about his obsession with novelist Graham Greene. That obsession is also the subject of Iyer's new book, "The Man Within My Head".

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

A commentary on terrorism from poet Naomi Shihab Nye.

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