A Young Hitchhiker's Guide To The Road: Smile

May. 9, 2011
I'm not in the habit of picking up hitchhikers, but the one I approached on Interstate 10 in west Texas not long ago looked different.

In A Land Of Few Rights, Saudi Women Fight To Vote

May. 4, 2011
It was pretty sobering to hear a group of Saudi women I met recently tell me they feel they have the least freedom or rights of any women in the world.They have no right to vote in the rare, countrywide elections Saudi officials hold or to drive on the kingdom's roads.

Backpacking Through The Revolutions Of North Africa

Apr. 8, 2011
For much of Moammar Gadhafi's 42-year dictatorship, Libya has largely been terra incognita. Few Western tourists traveled around the country. And now, amid the ongoing conflict between Gadhafi's forces and rebels, there are almost none.

NPR Libya Producer Told: 'This Is Your Punishment'

Apr. 4, 2011
While waiting at the Tunisian/Libyan border with my colleague Lourdes Garcia-Navarro and about 12 other Western journalists headed to Tripoli, one reporter from the Ukranian television channel TVI turned to me and said: "For all the mistakes you've made in life, this is your punishment."

In Libya, The Truth Is Often Tough To Pin Down

Mar. 27, 2011
The uprising in Libya has become something very different than what took place in neighboring Egypt and Tunisia. Moammar Gadhafi's regime is using all its weapons — guns, tanks and propaganda — so far preventing a nationwide movement for change.

In Reporting Nuclear Crisis, Fears Of Exposure

Mar. 17, 2011
In Japan's Fukushima prefecture, home to the quake-damaged nuclear plant that has been leaking radioactive materials, some 10,000 people have been checked for exposure to radiation.I was concerned about my own safety reporting in the area, so I visit the Jusendo Clinic in Koriyama City. Dr.

As Tide Turns, Rebels' Dream Of 'Free Libya' Dims

Mar. 16, 2011
NPR correspondent Lourdes Garcia-Navarro recently left Libya after reporting on the revolt against leader Moammar Gadhafi. We arrived in eastern Libya, scant days after the uprising began last month, to a triumphant welcome.

Once A Mexican Tourist Town, Now No Man's Land

Dec. 29, 2010
Every day, the U.S. border patrol deports thousands of men, women and children who crossed into the U.S. illegally. Already this year, the U.S.

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