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Rob Gifford spend 6 years as NPR's Beijing correspondent. In 2004, he traveled all 3,000 miles of a highway traversing China from the Shanghai to the border of Kazakhstan. He writes about his journey and about the future of China.
Robert Gifford, NPR's London correspondent, previously NPR's China correspondent from 1999 to 2005.
Tomorrow marks the eightieth anniversary of the execution of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. Their trial was one of the most controversial in American history. And their case made them famous the world over. A fresh look at the two Italian immigrants known as the 'good shoemaker' and the 'poor fish peddler.'
Bruce Watson, an award-winning journalist whose articles have appeared in the "Los Angeles Times," "The Boston Globe," and "Smithsonian," magazine and author of "Bread & Roses" and "The Man Who Changed How Boys and Toys Were Made."