By Greg Flakus Austin, Texas 21 July 2007 Classroom scene from Chalk The world of public schools has been portrayed many times in motion pictures, but usually the school setting is used to either tell a sentimental story or a bleak dramatic story abo...
By Liu Enming Lancaster County, Pennsylvania 19 July 2007 Not far from the hustle and bustle of city life live the Amish of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. These deeply religious people shun the conveniences of modern society to live a simpler life w...
Welcome to This I Believe and NPR series presenting the personal philosophies of remarkable men and women from all walks of life. I believe in figuring out my own way to do things. I believe in the power of numbers. I believe in Barbeque. Well, I be...
Time again for StoryCorps. This project has been recording conversations between Americans across the country. Today we are listening to Johnnie Tyson and her niece Sandra Fleming. The two of them sat down together during a StoryCorps stop in Little...
On Fridays we talk about your money, today Mortgage Before Marriage. The vast majority of home buyers are married couples. But in the past ten years, there has been a 50% increase in the number of unmarried couples and friends living together who own...
Commentator Jill Vaughan has a small farm in upstate New York. And right now, that means she's hiring teenagers who aren't afraid of really working at their summer jobs. We still need peasants in our corner of the country. On our farm, we make hay...
On Fridays we bring you interviews between family and friends at StoryCorp. The Traveling Oral History Project lets participants guide their own conversations. Few need notes or outlines. Today, a father tells his daughter a story that has stayed wit...
No matter what the wages might be for a typical job after college, commentator Dana Goldman has decided they are not enough. --------------------------------- I used to wake up in the middle of the night from nightmares about mowing my boss's lawn ....
If you're heading to Oslo, be prepared to shell out lots of krone. It's now the most expensive city in the world. That according to the Economist Intelligence Unit's bi-annual Worldwide Cost of Living Survey, Oslo has dethroned Tokyo, which held the...
Today we are going to wrap up our series A Nation of Individuals. All week weve been examining the rise of individualism in China. We've heard about an Internet entrepreneur, an AIDS activist, a village leader and an evangelical Christian. In this fi...