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Retro Report’s Josh Fisher: “Fly Wars: Battling the Medfly”

March 21, 2014 admin All Conversations, Science, Uncategorized

Remember the medfly? All bugs are pesky, of course, but the Mediterrean Fruit Fly might have been the peskiest. And a little bit scary. The

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Retro Report’s Barbara Dury: “McMartin Preschool: Anatomy of a Panic”

March 16, 2014 admin All Conversations, Culture, Uncategorized

Few stories were more disturbing. Systematic child molestation in our nation’s preschools. It started, of course, with the McMartin Preschool in Manhattan Beach, CA in

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Retro Report’s Drew Magratten: “When a Bridge Falls”

March 9, 2014 admin All Conversations, Public Policy, Uncategorized

Often the only positive to come out of a disaster is the promise that it won’t happen again. That certainly was the case in 2007,

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Retro Report’s Scott Michels: “Exxon Valdez: In the Wake of Disaster”

December 12, 2013 admin All Conversations, Public Policy, Science, Uncategorized

It was one of the worst oil spills in US history. The Exxon Valdez hit a reef off the Alaska coast in March 1989, spilling

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Retro Report’s Karen Sughrue: “Crime and Punishment: Three Strikes and You’re Out”

December 10, 2013 admin All Conversations, Culture, Uncategorized

It used to be simply a baseball a baseball term – Three strikes and your out. But in the early 90s, the phrase took on

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Retro Report’s JP Olsen: “Love Canal: A Legacy of Doubt”

December 3, 2013 admin All Conversations, Science, Uncategorized

Few words did more to raise fears of environmental disaster over a generation than “Love Canal.” The small neighborhood outside Niagara Falls became big news

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Retro Report’s Jill Rosenbaum: “The Long War on Cancer”

November 4, 2013 admin All Conversations, Science, Uncategorized

Virtually all of us have dreams for a cure to cancer. But in December, 1971, the hope for a cure couldn’t have been higher. President

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Retro Report’s Bonnie Bertram: “Liebeck v. McDonald’s: The Big Burn”

October 21, 2013 admin All Conversations, Business & Economics, Culture, Public Policy, Uncategorized

It was the poster child for a legal system gone haywire. In 1994, an Albuquerque, NM jury gave $2.9 million dollars to a local grandmother

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Retro Report’s Matthew Spolar: “Dolly the Sheep”

October 16, 2013 admin All Conversations, Science, Uncategorized

It was a scientific feat for the ages. A result so exciting and scary, that one reporter wondered , “Should we be applauding a mind-boggling

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Retro Report’s Olsen & Michels: “Richard Jewell: The Wrong Man”

October 8, 2013 admin All Conversations, Culture, Uncategorized

We hear it nearly every time news breaks. The Boston Bombing. Newtown, CT. Even the recent Navy Yard Shootings. Speculation on who did it. Speculation

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Retro Report’s Kit Roane: “The Shadow of Thalidomide”

September 27, 2013 admin All Conversations, Public Policy, Science, Uncategorized

Virtually no legal drug in American history carries as much fear as Thalidomide. A wonder drug, imported from Germany in the late 50s, that would

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Retro Report’s Josh Fisher: “Freeing Willy”

September 18, 2013 admin All Conversations, Science, Uncategorized

Some 20 years ago, the surprise hit film “Free Willy” followed a boy’s fictional quest to free a dancing, swimming, performing whale named Willy. While

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