Adam Hirsch

Web Producer

Adam Hirsch appears in the following:

Food: Prioritizing Your Thanksgiving Grocery List

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

For every Thanksgiving Day grocery shopper procrastinator who hasn't picked up the essentials, Melissa Clark, our food contributor and food writer for The New York Times, offers us wi...

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After-Air: DJ Spooky and Keith Shocklee on 30 Years of 'Rapper's Delight'

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

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Celeste Headlee sits down for an after-air conversation about the first mass-market rap single, "Rapper's Delight," which was released by The Sugarhill Gang 30 years a...
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How to Spot a Winner: The Ms. Senior America 2009 Pageant

Friday, October 09, 2009

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The Ms. Senior America Pageant is not exactly your grandmother’s pageant ... because your grandmother could be in it!  For 38 years the pageant has been promoting the idea that senior...
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Practical Economics: Dogs, Cats, & Shoes

Friday, August 07, 2009

Unemployment numbers are due out this morning and economic analyst Lakshman Achuthan, Managing Director of the Economic Cycle Research Institute, joins us with his predictions. In Apr...

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Everything Sounds Better with AutoTune

Monday, June 22, 2009

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Let's say you're a musician and a news junkie, and you want to combine the two. If you were really talented, you might end up with something like the work of musical brothers Evan and...
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Everything Sounds Better with AutoTune

Monday, June 22, 2009

Let's say you're a musician and a news junkie, and you want to combine the two. If you were really talented, you might end up with something like the work of musical brothers Evan and...

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Smooth as B-U-T-T-E-R Milk!

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

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If the food you served on your kitchen table were to star in a film, the cast would probably not be all that surprising. Steak: lean, dark and juicy- obviously the romantic l...
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Should You Get Off the Hook? The Ethics of Eating Fish

Monday, June 08, 2009

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Food writer Mark Bittman's first book, "Fish: The Complete Guide to Buying and Cooking," explored the glory of piscine cuisine. But when offered the opportunity to revise the book, he...
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A new, strikingly accurate polling method: Shortbread cookie sales

Thursday, October 30, 2008

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I spoke with Gregg Forrest, who owns and runs Layers Bakery with his wife Jeanne in Henderson, Nevada. Early voting started on October 18, but Forrest has been running an unoffic...
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Unconventional polls

Thursday, October 30, 2008

The most accurate polls around might be a little on the unconventional side: Halloween mask sales, schoolchildren, coffee cups, and cookies. Mary Beth Williams hits the streets o...

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What Ohio's voter-matching verdict means for the election

Thursday, October 16, 2008

A recent ruling in Ohio by a federal appeals court has ruled in favor of the Republican Party. Thousands of new voter registrations now need to be reviewed to prevent voter fraud. Cri...

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Muslim comics take stand-up routines to movie screens in "Allah Made Me Funny"

Friday, October 03, 2008

In 2004, Muslim comics Preacher Moss and Azhar Usman formed "Allah Made Me Funny," a comedy tour based around the American-Muslim experience. Friday, an independent movie based on th...

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Denver: Watching Senator Clinton’s speech at “The PUMA Den”

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

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DENVER — Senator Hillary Clinton gave a rousing speech tonight, though her requests for her supporters to vote for Senator Obama fell on at least a few determin...
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Road trip to the political conventions: Day Four recap

Thursday, August 21, 2008

Guest: Andrea Bernstein, Takeaway Political Director

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Road trip to the political conventions: Day Three recap

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Guest: Andrea Bernstein, Takeaway Political Director

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Road trip to the political conventions: Day Two starts in Pennsylvania

Monday, August 18, 2008

Guest: Takeaway Political Director Andrea Bernstein

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Audio timeline: An anthrax scare in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks

Monday, August 04, 2008

Anthrax timeline:

Late September, 2001
First signs
Envelopes containing threatening letters and a grainy brown substance arrive in the offices of ABC, CBS, NBC, and the New York Post.

October 5th, 2001
A fatality
Robert Stevens, a photo editor for the Florida-based ...

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Hero Reports: The hugging saint comes to New York

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

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Trouble viewing this video? Check out the YouTube version (click "watch in high quality" for best quality).
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Tracking the evolution of the Supreme Court

Thursday, June 26, 2008

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It's a matter of timing, politics and, in some cases, luck.

President George W. Bush won two and lost two. Richard Nixon got four of his six picks through. Ronald Reagan nominated five and only lost one. And Jimmy Carter didn't get a chance to ...

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