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Sally Herships
Aug 24, 20181 min read
In Japan, working mothers battle overwork culture
Japan's business culture expects workers to stay late. But working mothers who also have to shoulder more childcare responsibilities...
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Sally Herships
Jul 16, 20181 min read
Japan's Ninja Shortage
Iga, a small Japanese city and the birthplace of the ninja, is facing a serious problem. Today on the show, Sally Herships goes to Iga to...
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Sally Herships
Jun 11, 20181 min read
Positively 23rd Street
Radio reporter Sally Herships, a native New Yorker and longtime friend of the show, has been obsessed with a particular block in midtown...
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Sally Herships
May 24, 20181 min read
American Icons: The Muppets
Jim Henson started making television programs starring his distinctive googly-eyed creations — part puppet, part marionette — in the...
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Sally Herships
May 10, 20181 min read
Failing College
Colleges have a problem: fewer people are applying every year. Universities are competing like crazy for any edge they can get. Some are...
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Sally Herships
Apr 17, 20181 min read
Inherited Fear
The American journalist Sally Herships has long felt she carries within herself a sense of the trauma suffered by her grandmother a...
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Sally Herships
Jan 23, 20181 min read
The Scramble for Amazon
Cities across America are competing to host Amazon's second headquarters. Will it be worth it? Sally Herships reports from Newark, New...
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Sally Herships
Dec 28, 20171 min read
The problem with McFlurry machines
Listener Brian Stieler had this question: Why is the ice cream machine at McDonald's always broken? Full story, . #Consumers #Retail #Food
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Sally Herships
Oct 26, 20171 min read
Why female entrepreneurs get less funding than men
When entrepreneur Kim Taylor began pitching her online education startup to investors, just like the fictional character Alice, she felt...
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Sally Herships
Aug 4, 20174 min read
The American Bar Association is trying to address a shortage of trial lawyers
It’s safe to say the last thing anyone wants when they’re headed into a courtroom is a lawyer who’s never tried a case before...
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Sally Herships
Jun 24, 20171 min read
You've heard of co-working; now there's co-retailing
Shopping in Soho is full of mysteries. Like blanket or unusually large scarf? Heaped on a table in a Wooster Street store is a pile of...
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Sally Herships
Mar 24, 20171 min read
Employers struggle to make H-1B visas work
here #Government #Labor #H1B #Immigration
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Sally Herships
Jan 26, 20171 min read
Indians worry about U.S. degree prospects under Trump
#India #Education #Law #Immigration #H1B #Politics
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Sally Herships
Jan 10, 20171 min read
The resale market for sneakers is red hot
Chris Burns used to be a college English professor. Then, in 2011 he opened his Amazon store, Arch-USA, selling limited edition sneakers....
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Sally Herships
Dec 16, 20161 min read
Inside the booming collectible market for sneakers
When twenty eight year old Robbie Williams of the Bronx talks about sneakers, his face gets a soft, besotted look, like he’s talking...
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Sally Herships
Nov 25, 20162 min read
As Many Leaves
"I didn't realise how physical a process grief was - like being hit by a car." One evening in the autumn of 2013, the American...
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Sally Herships
Oct 25, 20161 min read
The Art Of The Pre-Interview
A pre-interview is not an interview. Instead it’s a tricky dance. You’ve told your subject that you want to find out all about them, or...
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Sally Herships
Oct 17, 20161 min read
3 simple ways to find story ideas
Over the summer, Sally did a callout on social media asking where public media journalists get their story ideas. The responses were...
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Sally Herships
Sep 23, 20165 min read
A veggie burger that 'bleeds' might convince some carnivores to eat green
Humans have been eating meat since, well, before we were human. But there are so many of us now eating so much meat that raising all...
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Sally Herships
Aug 29, 20161 min read
There are more adult diapers sold in Japan than baby diapers
Read the full story here... #Aging #Japan
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