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“Where’s My Wand: One Boy’s Magical Triumph Over Shag Carpeting”

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A young boy hopes that he might have the ability to wiggle his nose and make a stressful family situation turn TV picture-perfect.

Brazil’s Charismatic Catholics Use Evangelical Methods to Inspire

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Slipping in out of foreign tongues with Sherard Cowper-Coles and Yang Ying

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Forecasting fall TV season

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Speaking in Tongues

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Ethnicity in Kenya

The violence in Kenya is drawn along ethnic lines and that’s got Kenyans from all backgrounds re-examining their own ethnic identity, as Anchor Lisa Mullins finds out more from Kenyan journalist and author Binyavanga Wainaina.

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