Sally Herships
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, 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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