The Story

Sheldon Kennedy played for the NHL for years, but he’s better known for standing up and talking publically about what he went through as a victim of child abuse by one of his coaches. He now works to prevent the abuse of young people through a group he founded to train people to recognize the signs of abuse.

Orion Magazine writer Jeremy Miller explores the exact center of the U.S. population, and finds that its movement has paralleled the country's westward expansion and development.

Lesly Manzanarez grew up in Honduras - and like his older brother, he was flashing gang signs and fighting from the time he was a kid. He took that fighting spirit with him when his family moved to New York City. This summer, Lesly had a chance to turn things around.  He spent six weeks in a poor village in Nicaragua, as a part of a project called Global Potential. As he tells Dick Gordon, Lesly thinks he's changed for good.Also: Estevan Arrellano is a farmer from New Mexico. Water is a precious resource there, and it reaches Estevan’s farm by one of the many ancient irrigation ditches still in use today called acequias.

For months, Karen Lodrick had been looking at the coat and glasses in an ATM photo while the woman wearing them was looting Karen's bank accounts. So when she actually saw the woman standing in a Starbucks line, she gave chase. For 45 minutes, she followed the culprit through the streets of San Francisco, all the while giving a play-by-play to a 911 operator on her cell phone. Also in this episode, Karen Brandt heard some of our "I met a celebrity" stories—Ted Danson, Richard Simmons, Nelson Mandela—and she wrote to tell us hers. Karen was a flight attendant in the 60s, and one night, Judy Garland boarded her flight from Las Vegas to New York.