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Great war photographers bring a tremendous sense of mission to their work.  Most of them believe the right image seen by enough people at the right time can change the world.  Maybe not right away – but in time.  Over the past 30 years, the photographer James Nachtwey has covered just about every major armed conflict in the world.  He's been shot and wounded more than once, and nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize ten times.  We talked with him when he had just put together an exhibition of photos he took in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the place those wars began - Ground Zero on 9/11.

 

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After nearly three decades together, Brian Kaufman and Martin Swinger recently got hitched on the first day gay marriage became legal in the state of Maine.

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Jad and Robert.  You probably know them by now.  They're the hosts of the hit pubradio program, RadioLab.  Steve talks with them about radio, science, and a whole lot more..

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Poet Rochelle Hurt is from Youngstown, Ohio. Now that she's moved away, she misses home. And the rust. 

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Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson tells the story of America's Great Migration in her book, "The Warmth of Other Suns."

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James McManus got his editor to pay for the Executive Physical at the Mayo Clinic. He tells Jim Fleming what it was like.

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Storyteller Hugh Lupton tells Jim about the ancient Celtic tradition related to our Halloween rituals, and tells him a story.  Lupton is the author of “Freaky Tales from Here and There.”

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Recent medical breakthroughs mean we can sometimes halt and even reverse death. This has led science into a domain traditionally relegated to theology and philosophy. Steve Paulson hosts a panel discussion on the difficult questions that come up during medical crises.

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