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New Hampshire's Youngest Newspaper

By John Walters on Wednesday, January 23, 2002.

The Hippo Press is a weekly paper published in Manchester and it's just celebrated its first anniversary. In its first year, it's made some waves with its news coverage and helped raise the profile of the city's arts community. Publisher Jody Reese and editor Dan Szczesny talk about the past and future of of their paper and the issues facing their hometown. www.hippopress.com

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Predictions for the Future

By Laura Knoy on Wednesday, January 23, 2002.

From escape pods in skyscrapers to robots on the moon, futurists say our daily lives will soon be revolutionized like never before. Laura takes a look into the next decade and beyond with David Pearce Snyder, consulting futurist www.the-futurist.com and contributing editor to The Futurist magazine www.wfs.org

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The Evolution of Civil Rights- Part 3

By Dan Gorenstein on Wednesday, January 23, 2002.

All this week, in commemoration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., NHPR looks at civil rights law. Sit-ins, speeches at the Lincoln Memorial, fire hoses, and dogs are all familiar images of the struggle for civil rights. Today, people still are looking for equal protection in housing discrimination, equal access, and same sex marriages. In part three of our series, NHPR?s Dan Gorenstein looks at what civil rights means to gays and lesbians.

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NH Attorney General Meets witth EPA's Whitman on Clean Air

By Mark Bevis on Wednesday, January 23, 2002.

Attorney General Phillip McLaughlin was back in Washington DC today. He and 7 other regional AGs met with EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman. The subject of the meeting was proposed Bush ADministration changes to the Clean Air Act that opponents say could mean dirtier air for New England. Attorney General McLaughlin called NHPR's Mark Bevis from the road right after the meeting with Whitman.

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