Feb 8th, 2006 · Ever since their smash debut CD Voices From Heaven, the Soweto Gospel Choir have spent years touring the world with their exhilarating brand of vocal fireworks. The group returns with a new collection of songs sung in English and some of the 10 other "official" languages of South Africa.
Jul 31st, 2005 · Many churches offer blessings for pets on St. Francis of Assisi Day each October. But one congregation just outside Washington, D.C., offers regular worship services for pets and their people.
Jun 23rd, 2005 · For years Iran's clerical rulers frowned upon things like make-up and nail polish. But even amid the country's intense political climate, some youth have turned from politics to consumerism, with the blessings of the clerical rulers.
Jun 22nd, 2005 · Tourism is having a big impact on the Uros Indians, a tribe of fishermen who live on islands in the middle of Lake Titicaca, high in the Andes Mountains between Bolivia and Peru. The indigenous people are finding the increased tourism to their unique, man-made islands both a curse and a blessing. Producer Reese Erlich reports.
Apr 26th, 2005 · Poor people lose out when America's city centers go from urban blight to neighborhood chic -- or so goes much conventional wisdom. But new research challenges that idea, and suggests that everybody wins. We examine the costs and benefits of gentrification.
Feb 4th, 2005 · The trek of millions of Monarch butterflies from their breeding grounds in North America to central Mexico is one of nature's great mysteries, scientists say. But many in the area taken over from November to March see it as a mixed blessing.
Jan 6th, 2005 · Gift cards were a big retail success over the holiday season. Slate columnist Dan Gross explains how the cards are both a blessing and a curse for retailers and consumers.
Dec 25th, 2004 · Foreign aid can be a mixed blessing. For a while, in one small Nigerian town, the money flowed. Five years later assistance came to an end, and that left thousands of orphans to fend for themselves. NPR’s Brenda Wilson reports.