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  • The ruins of Taxila, Pakistan, date back thousands of years -- but the city is full of young people whose future prospects are very much determined by their present circumstances. Near the end of his journey along the Grand Trunk Road, Steve Inskeep talks with three young people with decidedly different prospects.
  • As summer winds down and the recession lingers, San Diego's stages are full of comic diversions. The Old Globe, the La Jolla Playhouse, Cygnet Theater and New Village Arts are all running comic plays.
  • Soldiers targeted mourners who were part of a funeral procession moving toward a central square in the capital, which was the scene of a bloody crackdown the day before. Protesters at Friday prayers chanted against the king as recent violence has shifted public anger toward the nation's highest authorities.
  • Airs Wednesday, May 12, 2010 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV
  • Airs Tuesday, August 3, 2010 at 9:30 p.m. on KPBS TV
  • The California Senate and Assembly can't agree on the best way to reduce overcrowding and cut costs in the state prison system. Each house of state government has passed its own plan for fixing the prison crisis.
  • Last Sunday, a 32-year-old bullfighter named Lupita Lopez appeared in Mexico City's Plaza Mexico — the largest bullring in the world — and was inducted into the tiny sorority of matadoras, or professional female bullfighters. Lopez has wanted to be a bullfighter since she was 11.
  • Japan's Worst Air Disaster Provides Basis for FIlm
  • House of the Sleeping Beauties is based on a perverse novella by Japanese novelist Yasunari Kawabata and is the second attempt to bring it to the screen.…
  • New job search sites use improved search technology to pair job seekers with opportunities that match their skills and goals. But perfected online tools can only do so much in the face of a dismal job market.
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