Gbowee Talks About Winning Nobel Peace Prize

This year's Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to three women for their leadership roles in various non-violent struggles for the safety of women and women's rights. Melissa Block speaks with one of those women: Leymah Gbowee of Liberia. Gbowee mobilized women from disparate ethnic and religious groups to participate in fasting, prayer and even sex strikes, in an effort to bring an end to war in their country.

Source: http://www.npr.org/2011/10/07/141162208/gbowee-talks-about-winning-nobel-peace-prize?ft=1&f=1004

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Is Human Violence On The Wane?

Considering the Norway shootings, drug wars in Mexico and ongoing conflicts in the Middle East, this era may seem as violent as any. But as Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker argues in his book The Better Angels of Our Nature, this may actually be the most peaceable period in human history.

Source: http://www.npr.org/2011/10/07/141156404/is-human-violence-on-the-wane?ft=1&f=1014

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The Multimillionaire Helping Republicans Win N.C.

Businessman Art Pope poured millions of dollars into state legislative campaigns during the 2010 campaign. Republicans went on to win 18 of the 22 campaign seats Pope and his organizations targeted. New Yorker writer Jane Mayer talks about Pope's growing power ? and how his money may influence the 2012 presidential election.

Source: http://www.npr.org/2011/10/06/141078608/the-multimillionaire-helping-republicans-win-n-c?ft=1&f=1014

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Chinese Apple Users Mourn Steve Job's Death

Apple has just opened another store in Shanghai. Between April and the end of June, Apple sold nearly $4 billion worth of products in China. That's a six-fold increase from the year before. One customer said Jobs and his inventions have had a major impact on digital life in China.

Source: http://www.npr.org/2011/10/06/141102788/chinese-apple-users-mourn-steve-jobs-death?ft=1&f=1004

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