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Shows From 2008 December

Last Call

Originally aired on Thursday, December 11th, 2008

This week is our final show of the semester. We’ll revisit Stan, the man who just can’t stay out of the ER. We’ll go back to Glide Memorial Church, for a story about homelessness. We’ll look once more at the lawns of the future. We’ll take you back to election season, when Virginia was still a swing state. And we’ll follow along a bunch of actors as they reenact the last general strike in United States history.

 
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Risk

Originally aired on Thursday, December 4th, 2008

This week’s show is about Risk. We have a report on local entrepreneurs who brave bad economic conditions to open their businesses. We’ll seek out opponents to play “Risk.” We’ll meet a professional gambler who plays poker online. We’ll travel to Beijing, where an illegal migrant has started a thriving trash collection business despite the risks involved. We’ll have a conversation with an economist about what risk actually is.

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