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PRI's The World Jun 10, 2013
by The World
Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden: what two men who leaked sensitive national security documents have in common. Also, we explore the culture of contractors doing the government's national security work. Plus, novelist and travel writer Pico Iyer picks three summer reads that will transport you to Asia.
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Armchair Traveler: Pico Iyer Takes Us to Asia Through Books
As part of an ongoing series this summer, we're asking writers to take listeners on vacation without ever leaving their armchairs -- through books. Anchor Marco Werman speaks with writer Pico Iyer about four books he recommends that will take listeners to Asia. His latest book is 'The Man Within…
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Demand for British Butlers on the Rise in Middle East and China
Demand for British butlers is up. But they are not getting jobs in stately English manors and are likely to be working abroad in China and the Middle East.
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Medici Children Suffered from Malnutrition During Italian Renaissance
Italian paleopathologist Valentina Giuffra has been studying the skeletons of nine children born to the Medici family in Florence during the Renaissance. She tells anchor Marco Werman that their bones showed signs of rickets -- they apparently suffered from a deficiency of Vitamin.
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BBC Syrian Reporter Bids an Emotional Farewell to Her Hometown of Damascus
BBC Syrian reporter Lina Sinjab bids an emotional farewell to her hometown of Damascus after having covered the conflict there for over two years. She produced a documentary "Damascus Diary" which is a collection of her personal observations in Syria for the past two years.
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No-Waste Lunch: China's "Clean Your Plate" Campaign
Agriculture is the third-largest emitter of global greenhouse gas pollution. Yet roughly one-third of what we grow is never eaten. Cutting down on waste is a challenge in China, where ordering more than you can eat is seen as a status symbol among the newly wealthy. But a new grassroots "Clean…
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Washington's Reliance on Contractors for Surveillance
Contractors do much of our government's national security and surveillance work. The man who leaked documents revealing the government's surveillance of phone and Internet communications was a contractor with access to sensitive information.
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Comparing the Manning and Snowden Cases
Army Private Bradley Manning is on trial for a massive leak of classified documents to the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks. Edward Snowden is the former CIA employee who's in the news now for admitting he leaked documents revealing the government's surveillance of phone and Internet records.
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Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden: what two men who leaked sensitive national security documents have in common. Also, we explore the culture of contractors doing the government's national security work. Plus, novelist and travel writer Pico Iyer picks three summer reads that will transport you to Asia.
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