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    The cost of stress in the police force
    Sally Herships
    • May 8, 2016
    • 1 min

    The cost of stress in the police force

    When it comes to what stresses police officers out, it's not the car chases, or the threat of getting shot at, or even killed. Ask Cherie...
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    Japan's population is plunging, so where are the babies?
    Sally Herships
    • Apr 20, 2016
    • 1 min

    Japan's population is plunging, so where are the babies?

    If you think you work long hours, meet Kumi Matsumoto. “It’s very normal for us to stay until midnight,” said Matsumoto, who works for...
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    Japan's long-term care dilemma: Immigrants or robots?
    Sally Herships
    • Mar 8, 2016
    • 1 min

    Japan's long-term care dilemma: Immigrants or robots?

    #Healthcare #Japan #Aging #Immigration
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    Sally Herships
    • Sep 21, 2015
    • 5 min

    Come on Japan, get with the program

    Founding a startup today has become the stuff of TV and movies around the world. There's even a startup podcast about, you guessed it,...
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    Etiquette and rituals rule in Japan's business culture
    Sally Herships
    • Aug 11, 2015
    • 5 min

    Etiquette and rituals rule in Japan's business culture

    At a dinner meeting in Tokyo recently, where a lot of business happens over meals, two Japanese professors, Ryo Sahashi, an associate...
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    Sally Herships
    • Jul 28, 2015
    • 1 min

    When Will This End?

    One evening in 2013 the radio producer Sally Herships was on her way home from work when she received a short email from her husband...
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    A toilet for all technies
    Sally Herships
    • Jun 29, 2015
    • 1 min

    A toilet for all technies

    There's really no other way to describe them: The toilets of Japan are fabulous. "Let's say you don't want to lift up the lid yourself...
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    We’ll Be Here All Night
    Sally Herships
    • Mar 28, 2015
    • 1 min

    We’ll Be Here All Night

    Co-host Jonathan Goldstein speaks with writer and filmmaker Etgar Keret about the narrative strengths and weaknesses of the Passover...
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    'Fifty Shades' of merchandising
    Sally Herships
    • Feb 13, 2015
    • 1 min

    'Fifty Shades' of merchandising

    For a movie about a salacious, secretive, and to some, potentially shameful subject such as S&M, it sure feels like "Fifty Shades of...
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    The Thrill of the Hunt for Discount Prices
    Sally Herships
    • Nov 18, 2014
    • 1 min

    The Thrill of the Hunt for Discount Prices

    The Internet can tell us how long it takes to walk the length of the Great Wall of China (10 months), how many girlfriends George Clooney...
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    Solution for Bankrupt Casinos in Atlantic City - More Casinos
    Sally Herships
    • Sep 24, 2014
    • 1 min

    Solution for Bankrupt Casinos in Atlantic City - More Casinos

    Atlantic City Casinos are shutting down, some even filing for bankruptcy, but that’s not stopping a push for a new casino in Jersey City....
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    Good Cop, Bad Cop: How Infighting Is Costing New Jersey Taxpayers
    Sally Herships
    • Jul 18, 2014
    • 6 min

    Good Cop, Bad Cop: How Infighting Is Costing New Jersey Taxpayers

    The day Cassandra Smith was promoted to captain in the Camden Police Department, she went outside to check out the unmarked car that...
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    FIVE YEARS LATER, MADOFF SCANDAL ECHOES THROUGH THE JEWISH COMMUNITY, AND BEYOND
    Sally Herships
    • Dec 7, 2013
    • 1 min

    FIVE YEARS LATER, MADOFF SCANDAL ECHOES THROUGH THE JEWISH COMMUNITY, AND BEYOND

    Five years after the Madoff debacle, most of the individual investors who lost their life savings do not want to talk about it. However,...
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    Insects, Cheese and Gastronauts of the World
    Sally Herships
    • Oct 10, 2012
    • 4 min

    Insects, Cheese and Gastronauts of the World

    There are picky eaters and then there are the Gastronauts of the world. "What's the oddest thing, by American standards, you've ever...
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    Office fun is serious business
    Sally Herships
    • Aug 17, 2012
    • 1 min

    Office fun is serious business

    Here's an idea. Work doesn't have to suck. Read more... Here's an idea. Work doesn't have to suck. #Workplace
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    Sally Herships
    • Jul 20, 2012
    • 2 min

    Watches thrive even in the smartphone age

    Sally Herships: I’m about to play a joke on someone. Benjamin Clymer. Here’s what you need to know -- he’s editor of an upscale watch...
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    Sally Herships
    • Dec 20, 2011
    • 1 min

    New York City Takes on Silicon Valley

    Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced Monday that Cornell University, with its partner the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, has...
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    Sally Herships
    • Nov 4, 2011
    • 1 min

    Making Memories with a Microchip

    Ted Berger is trying to build a microchip that can remember things for us. He teaches biomedical engineering at the University of...
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    The Five Percent Rule on HowSound
    Sally Herships
    • Aug 24, 2011
    • 1 min

    The Five Percent Rule on HowSound

    The amount of effort Sally Herships put into her first investigative journalism piece….. well, it’s enough to drive you to smoke! “The...
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    Sally Herships
    • Jul 13, 2011
    • 1 min

    Military tobacco - a follow up to our investigation

    Last month on Marketplace, I published a report from my year-long investigation about how Army, Air Force and Coast Guard bases in more...
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