Restricting yourself to eight or nine words can be far more complex than you would expect.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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James Twitchell tells Jim Fleming that for the first time is history, ordinary people can sample real luxury and we can’t get enough of it.
Buddhist Chaplain Steve Spiro shares some resources for preparing to die consciously, and to help others do the same. It includes the Advance Directive for Conscious Dying and a guided meditation on death.
James Bamford has written two books about the National Security Agency. The new one is “Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency.”
Howie MIller uses humor to change the stereotypes of Native Americans.
The Arab Spring caught a lot of people by surprise, but not a group called Global Voices...
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.
Writer Leslie Jamison believes critics are too quick to dismiss sentimentality in fiction. She tells producer Sara Nics how even trashy movies can offer a route to better self-understanding.
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