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PRI's The World May 10, 2013
by The World
A survivor is pulled from the rubble 17 days after the factory collapse in Bangladesh. Also, Elmhurst Hospital in Queens and its melting pot of international patients and diseases. Plus, analyzing Sigmund Freud's famous couch.
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Re-upholstering Sigmund Freud's Couch and Remembering One Poet Who Made a Dent in it
The Freud Museum in London made an appeal to have the couch of Sigmund Freud re-upholstered for his 157th birthday. One of Freud's many patients was American Poet Hilda Doolittle, also known as H.D.
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Searching for a Female Mangarahara Cichlid
The London Zoo has two of the last three males left of the Mangarahara cichlid tropical fish species. Now they're looking for a female in order to avoid the species going into extinction. The species takes its name from the Mangarahara River. For our Geo Quiz: Name the African country where the...
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Elmhurst Hospital in Queens New York: A Medical Melting Pot
Elmhurst Hospital in Queens, New York provides care for nearly 2 million patients a year, and delivers medical care in more than 150 different languages. The international diversity of patients there, including many immigrants, makes the hospital a medical melting pot.
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New York City Councilman Daniel Dromm Promotes the Right to Vote for Legal Immigrants
A New York City Council hearing reviewed a proposal that would give legal immigrants the right to vote. New York City Councilman Daniel Dromm sponsored the bill. He is a democrat, and represents District 25 in the city, including the immigrant-rich neighborhoods of Jackson Heights and Elmhurst.
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Pakistan's Election Symbols
When voters go to the polls, their ballots will not have the names of any contesting parties printed on them, but rather graphic symbols representing the candidates. Using symbols on ballots has been standard procedure in Pakistani elections for decades, because over 40 percent of adult…
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Maasai the Brand: Firm Helping Indigenous People Claim Ownership of Their Cultural Property
Marco speaks with Ron Layton of Light Years IP about helping indigenous people gaining the legal rights to their cultural property.
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US State Department Weighs in on 3-D Printable Firearms
An online project called Defense Distributed recently succeeded in producing, and testing, a 3-D printed handgun. Now, the US State Department has asked Cody Wilson, the University of Texas law student who runs the organization responsible, to take down the designs from the web.
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An Undocumented Immigrant Evaluates the Tone of the Congressional Debate
When Ecuador-born Gaby Pacheco was in 8th grade in Miami, she realized she and her sisters weren't US citizens and didn't have all the rights conferred upon that status. But instead of hiding, Pacheco became an activist and at 28, she's still fighting to get immigration reform through Congress so...
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11 Million and Growing: Breaking Down the Number of Undocumented Immigrants in the US
There’s one number in the news quite a bit recently—11 million. It’s the estimated number of immigrants living in the US illegally—and it’s the most cited statistic in the immigration reform debate. But how did we even get to that figure? Who are the 11 million? Is it even the best number to use?...
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Survivor Found in Collapsed Bangladesh Building After 17 Days
Over two weeks after an eight-story building collapsed in Dhaka, Bangladesh, a survivor was pulled from the rubble. It was a miraculous moment set against the horror of the more than 1,000 bodies recovered so far from the former garment factory. The BBC's Salman Saeed witnessed the moment when...
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A survivor is pulled from the rubble 17 days after the factory collapse in Bangladesh. Also, Elmhurst Hospital in Queens and its melting pot of international patients and diseases. Plus, analyzing Sigmund Freud's famous couch.
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A survivor is pulled from the rubble 17 days after the factory collapse in Bangladesh. Also, Elmhurst Hospital in Queens and its melting pot of international patients and diseases. Plus, analyzing Sigmund Freud's famous couch.
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