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WBUR: Here and Now

Produced by WBUR FM in Boston and PRI, Here and Now features fast breaking news, more leisurely analysis, and human interest stories. We also cover the arts: film, theater, music and much much more.

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Here and Now for Thursday, April 24, 2008

Date: 04/24/2008
Length: 00:43:56

Today the CIA is showing members of Congress what it claims are videotaped images of North Koreans working inside a Syrian nuclear site, before the site was bombed and destroyed by Israel last year. We speak with Washington Post diplomatic correspondent, Robin Wright, about why the images are surfacing now. For the first time since the Spanish Influenza of 1918, life expectancy has fallen for nearly one in five American women. The drop is due largely to obesity, diabetes, and smoking-related diseases, and was found primarily in counties in Appalachia, the lower Midwest, and the Deep South. We speak with study co-author, Dr. Majid Ezzati of Harvard's School of Public Health and nurse practitioner, Helen Robinson, of the Free Clinic of the New River Valley in Christiansburg, Virginia. The State Department recently renewed its contract with the private security firm Blackwater, despite an ongoing FBI probe into the company's actions in Iraq. An article in this month's Mother Jo

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