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On today’s show: Andrew Blackwell provides a guide for tourist interested in traveling to some of the world’s most polluted places. We’ll take a look at the long and complicated relationship between Jewish Americans and alcohol during the Prohibition years. Janet Groth describes her two decades working as a receptionist at The New Yorker. Plus, on Backstory we’ll a get comprehensive history of campaign finance in the United States.

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Reports about Governor Romney’s offshore banking have made it a central campaign issue this week – but when is having a Swiss bank account a good idea? Then, why Seventeen magazine ha...

JPMorgan and Wells Fargo earnings reports | New report concludes that Native Americans traveled to North America in at least three waves | Saudi Arabia sends women to Olympics for the first time | Movie Date: "Ice Age" and "Red Lights" | Follow Friday: Romney and Biden Address NAACP, Obamacare repeal vote, and tensions over the Texas Voting Rights Act | Walls Fargo to pay a $175 million settlement in a discrimination lawsuit | A look back at the week in politics with Todd Zwillich | Historic CIA kidnapping case is back in the limelight | Exploring "Why does the world exist?"

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