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Under the Microscope
3:21 pm
Thu December 1, 2011

Getting stuck in a food desert

Credit Sylvia Maria Gross / Harvest Public Media
Onega's business district was left without a grocery store when its old market burned down in December 2010.

Rural America is losing its grocery stores. Many parts of the United States, and large swaths of rural Missouri, are now classified as ‘food deserts’, areas where residents lack access to affordable food.

But as Harvest Public Media's Sylvia Maria Gross reports, some small towns are finding creative ways deal with the problem.

Plus: Nancy Sutley is President Obama’s principal environmental advisor and the Chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality.

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Science, Health and Technology
9:10 am
Thu September 8, 2011

Under the Microscope: September 8, 2011

Credit Kathleen Masterson / Harvest Public Media
The Toxic Teens readjust their robot.

This week, we hear from a Washington University virologist whose made it his mission to combat bio-terrorism. Plus: robots!

Hosted by Kyle Deas.

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