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  1. From #Florence, Nancy Greenleese tells us how not to eat like a tourist in #Italy tinyurl.com/6shf4e2 #slowfood #locavore 9 minutes ago via Tweet Button
  2. Rick talks to #TOStar's @Jesse_McLean about his first foreign assignment and the future of being in the field tinyurl.com/d2gl5m7 13 minutes ago via Tweet Button
  3. From #Uganda Dennis Porter tells us about the struggle to reform marriage laws. tinyurl.com/7lutyzc #womensrights #africa #marriage 16 minutes ago via Tweet Button
  4. Rick's invu w journo Sarah Stillman about the invisible army that serves America's real one tinyurl.com/buwg54k #iraq #afghanistan #usarmy 20 minutes ago via Tweet Button
  5. This week's #cbcdispatches show from #Florence, #Uganda, #Seychelles and #Iraq tinyurl.com/bqjc9gp 26 minutes ago via Tweet Button
  6. Our last Dispatch airs June 21. What do you want to hear on @CBCDispatches finale? Email dispatches@cbc.ca, tweet or facebook us! 7:24 PM May 18th via Twitter for iPad
  7. Rick intvw's Alexandra Fuller on her memoir of #Rhodesian family life Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfullness tinyurl.com/6wqa93w 1:35 PM May 17th via Tweet Button
  8. Hear @nermanatnight's doc Visions of Joanna - the story of a picture that sent a man in China on a 12-year quest tinyurl.com/7lfrnh8 1:30 PM May 17th via Tweet Button
  9. Hear Saroja Coelho report on #Ukraine's new #feminist movement tinyurl.com/brlwhvb 1:18 PM May 17th via Tweet Button
  10. Rick's invu with #Newzealand journo @RobinNHammond - just released from a #Zimbabwe jail and expelled from the country tinyurl.com/bmc79px 12:58 PM May 17th via Tweet Button
  11. This week: @RobinNHammond on his time in a #Zimbabwe jail, Feminism laid bare in #ukraine, and lost photos in #china bit.ly/JVNU3J 10:40 AM May 17th via Seesmic
  12. Coming up on @cbcdispatches: stories from #Zimbabwe, #Ukraine and #China. Tune in Thursday @ 1 pm, 1:30 pm NT 7:33 AM May 17th via web
  13. This week's @cbcdispatches show is online: bit.ly/JiIH2s with stories from #Damascus #Amsterdam #SaoPaulo #Munich #Alabama 12:53 PM May 10th via web
  14. From #Amsterdam a recessionary repast. Anik See ( @asrnw ) takes us to a resto where you BYOF tinyurl.com/757hngr 11:54 AM May 10th via Tweet Button
  15. From #Haiti @trentondaniel tells Rick about a Red Cross hotel in Haiti tinyurl.com/7aaoscb 10:18 AM May 10th via Tweet Button
  16. Rick's intvw with journo Paul Reyes on the complexities of self-deportation in Alabama tinyurl.com/7e5uvjs #immigration #deportation 10:12 AM May 10th via Tweet Button
  17. From #Saopaulo a story abt making the best of what you've got. In this case instruments from garbage @lisa_hale reports tinyurl.com/6t5e9bs 10:02 AM May 10th via Tweet Button
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