PRI's The World Apr 24, 2013
by The World
Boston's Boylston street reopens for the first time since the marathon bombings. Also, we hear about the different ways young immigrants handle the process of assimilation in the US. Plus, how one town in Australia turns hot, smelly water into a life-giving resource.
Episodes
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Australia’s Great Artesian Basin: A Life-Giving Resource in the Unforgiving Outback
Beneath much of Australia is an underground reservoir called the Great Artesian Basin, which provides drinking water to many communities in the Outback. This water comes to the surface nearly boiling and stinking of rotten eggs, yet it is a life-giving resource in an unforgiving environment.
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Syrian Electronic Army Hacks for Attention
A group calling itself the Syrian Electronic Army may sound like an obscure group, but it's grabbed the world's attention by hacking news media websites to draw support for the Syrian government.
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Anti-Terror Chief in Europe Warns that Volunteers in Syria Could Come Home as Terrorists
Growing numbers of foreigners are going to Syria to fight alongside the rebels. Western intelligence officials are concerned that at least some of them will come back radicalized and brutalized and could become terrorists.
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Assimilating to American Culture as a Young Immigrant
The Tsarnaev brothers came to the US as young immigrants with their parents, and both were educated here. But what we now know about the two Boston bombing suspects raises questions about the different ways young immigrants assimilate to life in America.
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Yemeni Tells Senate Committee about Drone Attack on his Village
Yemeni journalist and activist Farea al-Muslimi, tells The World's Marco Werman about a drone strike on his village, and why he thinks the US program of targeted drone strikes is confusing Yemenis about US intentions.
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Jihadi Magazine Inspire, Reaches Niche Market in the West
Brian Fishman, a counterterrorism research fellow at the New America Foundation, talks with anchor Marco Werman about Inspire, an online magazine that published a recipe for a pressure cooker bomb like the ones used at the Boston Marathon bombings.
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Boylston Street in Boston: 'Back to Normal' After Marathon Bombing
The last stretch of the Boston Marathon course will never feel the same. But today, those few blocks of Boylston Street in Boston re-opened to the public for the first time since the blasts on April 15th.
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PRI's The World Latest Edition Apr 24, 2013
Boston's Boylston street reopens for the first time since the marathon bombings. Also, we hear about the different ways young immigrants handle the process of assimilation in the US. Plus, how one town in Australia turns hot, smelly water into a life-giving resource.
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Hiatus Kaiyote: Future Soul from Melbourne
The landscapes of the central Australian region and the culture of the Aboriginal people who live there have inspired a new sound. More at The World
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Boston's Boylston street reopens for the first time since the marathon bombings. Also, we hear about the different ways young immigrants handle the process of assimilation in the US. Plus, how one town in Australia turns hot, smelly water into a life-giving resource.
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