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State School Board to Propose Differential Pay

By John Milne on Monday, March 29, 2004.

New Hampshire's teacher shortage is reaching a danger point.

Hundreds of teachers are eligible to retire. School districts are having trouble finding qualified replacements.

The new chairman of the state board of education has a controversial solution - higher paychecks for some teachers.

New Hampshire Public Radio correspondent John Milne has the story:

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Self-Portrait with Turtles

By John Walters on Monday, March 29, 2004.

David M. Carroll is a writer, artist, and naturalist who has been studying turtles near his Warner home for over 30 years. He wrote a series of three books about turtles and their wetland habitats that is known as the Wet Sneaker Trilogy, but now he’s turned his powers of observation inward. David’s memoir, Self-Portrait with Turtles, just came out this month. He talks about his first, life-defining encounter with a turtle at the age of eight, his college years, and what the future may hold for him and the turtles that are living on ever shrinking land.

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Coming Home from War

By Mike Arnold on Monday, March 29, 2004.

It's been over a year since the beginning of the Iraq war and almost a year and a half since fighting started in Afghanistan and the first of New Hampshire's men and women are returning from combat. We'll take a close look at the psychology of coming home from war from combat trauma and PTSD to the war protests and adaptation to civilian life. Mike's guests are Dr. Jonathan Shay, Staff psychiatrist for the Department of Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic in Boston and author of "Odysseus in America- Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming" and Al Porche, a readjustment counselor for the Vets Center in Manchester, New Hampshire.

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