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Essay: When is Bigger Big Enough?

By Lois Shea on Thursday, July 3, 2003.
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Dick Gephardt

By Laura Knoy on Thursday, July 3, 2003.

The Democratic Congressman from Missouri has served for more than twenty years in the U.S. House. We?ll find out more about what makes him tick and why he?s now setting his sights on the Presidency.

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Creating Non-Lethal Weapons of the Future

By John Walters on Thursday, July 3, 2003.

Glenn Shwaery is director of the Non-Lethal Technology Innovation Center at the University of New Hampshire. NTIC is doing research on ways to subdue people, without causing injury or death. Today, it?s tear gas and rubber bullets. Tomorrow, it might be force fields, synthetic spider webs, or super-slippery goop.

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A Ride on the Oldest Floating Post Office

By Shannon Mullen on Thursday, July 3, 2003.

Lake Winnipesaukee is home to America's oldest floating US post office. The 60 year-old Sophie C is the latest in the line of mail boats serving island residents since 1892.

She delivers mail to islands on the lake's north end. But that's not the only cargo the island residents look forward to.

New Hampshire Public Radio's Shannon Mullen went along on Sophie C's Saturday morning mail route and has this story.

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