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    In Japan, working mothers battle overwork culture
    Sally Herships
    • Aug 24, 2018
    • 1 min

    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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    Japan's Ninja Shortage
    Sally Herships
    • Jul 16, 2018
    • 1 min

    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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    Positively 23rd Street
    Sally Herships
    • Jun 11, 2018
    • 1 min

    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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    American Icons: The Muppets
    Sally Herships
    • May 24, 2018
    • 1 min

    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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    Failing College
    Sally Herships
    • May 10, 2018
    • 1 min

    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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    Inherited Fear
    Sally Herships
    • Apr 17, 2018
    • 1 min

    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, 2018
    • 1 min

    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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    The problem with McFlurry machines
    Sally Herships
    • Dec 28, 2017
    • 1 min

    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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    Why female entrepreneurs get less funding than men
    Sally Herships
    • Oct 26, 2017
    • 1 min

    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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    The American Bar Association is trying to address a shortage of trial lawyers
    Sally Herships
    • Aug 4, 2017
    • 4 min

    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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    You've heard of co-working; now there's co-retailing
    Sally Herships
    • Jun 24, 2017
    • 1 min

    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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    Employers struggle to make H-1B visas work
    Sally Herships
    • Mar 24, 2017
    • 1 min

    Employers struggle to make H-1B visas work

    here #Government #Labor #H1B #Immigration
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    Sally Herships
    • Jan 26, 2017
    • 1 min

    Indians worry about U.S. degree prospects under Trump

    #India #Education #Law #Immigration #H1B #Politics
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    The resale market for sneakers is red hot
    Sally Herships
    • Jan 10, 2017
    • 1 min

    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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    Inside the booming collectible market for sneakers
    Sally Herships
    • Dec 16, 2016
    • 1 min

    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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    As Many Leaves
    Sally Herships
    • Nov 25, 2016
    • 2 min

    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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    The Art Of The Pre-Interview
    Sally Herships
    • Oct 25, 2016
    • 1 min

    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, 2016
    • 1 min

    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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    A veggie burger that 'bleeds' might convince some carnivores to eat green
    Sally Herships
    • Sep 23, 2016
    • 5 min

    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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    There are more adult diapers sold in Japan than baby diapers
    Sally Herships
    • Aug 29, 2016
    • 1 min

    There are more adult diapers sold in Japan than baby diapers

    Read the full story here... #Aging #Japan
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