In Trump's Trade War, Americans Will Be Asked To Show Economic Patriotism
Bob Best enthusiastically supports President Trump's tough policies against China and other countries. "I'm not a big tariff guy. I'm a free trade guy," says Best, who manages a heating and air conditioning company in Kennesaw, Ga. "But sometimes when the bully just doesn't listen, you've got to punch him in the mouth. And that's what he's doing." Best supports the president's actions even though they affect him directly. The price of the heating and air conditioning units that his company...
JPR Live Sessions Presented By Sierra Nevada Brewing Company: Frances Cone
Timing matters. With or without you the train is departing; the second hand doesn’t really stop when you won’t wind your watch; inspiration strikes in an instant but its reckoning can take an eternity. In the world of music, the concept of time doesn’t just pertain to cues to come in or a 4/4 beat - it is also equally about patience and the space an artist must allow themselves to create.
Greens Gone Wild: Food From The Sidewalk
Food comes to us from a lot of places on the planet. But we assume most of those places are actually in the business of agriculture, not, say, the sidewalks of Oakland, California. But Oakland is exactly one of the places where researchers found edible greens growing wild. And even though some of the surroundings--residential and industrial--were a bit bleak, the plants didn't seem to care. Even plants grown in soil with potential contaminants could be washed and safely eaten.
'Daring To Dream': Battling An Incurable Brain Cancer
The sound of toes prancing and the sight of tutus fluttering filled the studio on a frigid February afternoon at Columbia Gorge Dance Academy in Hood River. Dancers in little pink ballet shoes lined up one after another as teacher Nancy Clement began her Tuesday class for 4-year-olds. Vivian Rose Weaver strolled in late. The blonde haired and blue-eyed girl put up a fit when her parents tried to get her dressed before class. Vivian has difficulty walking and it had worsened within the last...
How The Brain Shapes Pain And Links Ouch With Emotion
When Sterling Witt was a teenager in Missouri, he was diagnosed with scoliosis. Before long, the curvature of his spine started causing chronic pain. It was "this low-grade kind of menacing pain that ran through my spine and mostly my lower back and my upper right shoulder blade and then even into my neck a little bit," Witt says. The pain was bad. But the feeling of helplessness it produced in him was even worse. "I felt like I was being attacked by this invisible enemy," Witt says. "It was...
