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"Published Aug 31, 2008 - Two American travelers reveal the hidden sub-cultures in the Muslim World of the Middle East and North Africa. Looking behind the veil, our guests are an American Muslim who spent a year on her own getting acquainted with the region and a gay travel writer who was surprised by what he encountered in Afghanistan and Iraq. For more information on Travel with Rick Steves - including episode descriptions, program archives and related details - visit www.ricksteves.com." "Jackie Robinson broke the color line in Major League Baseball. The new movie “42” tells the story. The director is with us. "Think a job interview is all about answering questions? Most people do. And that's why they don't get hired says business consultant Rami Sethi." "Letters are dead. E-mail outdated. Text messages so passé. What’s going on with how we communicate? "“BioShock Infinite”. The latest, biggest, brainiest video game of all. We’ll talk to the creator and ask where games are going. "Jobs and new graduates. We look at personal and national strategies for putting our young to work. "The Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe, one of the giants of African literature, has died. He was 82. Among his many admirers - Nelson Mandela, who said that, in the company of Chinua Achebe's novels, prison walls fell down. Novelist Caryl Phillips described the impact that he had had to Newshour's James Coomarasamy. " "Malawian president Joyce Banda talks to the BBC's Gavin Esler about her approach to aid from the west compared with what is offered by China. " "Drones on top of drones. New, commercial drones take off. Some say our skies will be dark with privately-owned drones. " Who is tech? It's a question we're asking all this week as we explore the role of women in the tech industry. Jessica Lawrence is the director of NY Tech Meet Up, which brings together techies on a regular basis to share ideas and network. Lawrence joined Marketplace Tech host David Brancaccio to discuss the tech community in New York and whether or not the tech world is a boy's club. " Complaints are rife that the video game industry treats female employees and female players as outsiders or worse. But it wasn't always that way. Laine Nooney, a doctoral candidate at Stony Brook University, has been looking at the contributions of Roberta Williams, who in the early 1980s co-founded one of the early video game companies, Sierra Online. "[Williams] was actually the designer of the first home computer adventure game with graphics," says Nooney. The game was called Mystery House and was a murder mystery set in an abandoned Victorian house. As adventure games took off in the early ‘80s, Sierra Online became one of the largest independent producers of home software in the country. According to Nooney, at the time, developers and players did not see gaming as stictly a "guy's thing." "[Williams] had a passion project about encouraging families to play together," says Nooney, who notes that Williams railed against the couch-potato stereotype of gamers. To hear more about Roberta Williams and the early days of video games, click on the audio player above.
Have things gotten better? Is racism more covert today
? Heard of color-blind racism or the color blind ideology?
