Datei Datum Inhalt Dauer 306 2006-01-13 Seemed Like A Good Idea at the Time A girl signs up for a class. A couple hires an accountant. A group of co-workers decides to pool their money and buy a couple of lottery tickets. In the beginning, they're full of hope and optimism...and then something turns. Stories of good ideas gone bad. 00:59:04 307 2006-02-03 In the Shadow of the City Stories that take place on the edge of civilization, just out of sight. 00:58:59 308 2006-02-10 Star-Crossed Love In honor of Valentine's Day, This American Life brings you stories of how love blossoms, even when (perhaps) it shouldn't. 00:58:57 309 2006-02-24 Cat and Mouse Stories about the kinds of chase games that just never end. From the high California desert to a high-end furniture showroom. 00:59:04 310 2006-03-10 Habeas Schmabeas Winner of a 2006 Peabody Award. We've also broadcast an updated version of this episode, "Habeas Schmabeas 2007." Listen to a special, uncut version. 00:59:58 311 2006-04-14 A Better Mousetrap Stories about people trying to find new solutions to age-old problems—solutions that sometimes cause problems of their own. 00:59:17 312 2006-05-12 How We Talked Back Then In this show we return to two radio programs originally broadcast in 1996 and 1997. In one show, listeners came onstage with their letters, which they read aloud. In another, listeners from around the country talked about all the brand new sorts of experiences they were having with this new technology that had entered everyone's lives, the Internet. Each show, in its way, is a kind of time capsule. 00:59:00 313 2006-05-19 Parental Guidance Suggested Stories about kids who actually want their parents looking out for them. 00:59:00 314 2006-06-23 It's Never Over A grown man tries to get to the bottom of why his schoolmates threw him in a lake 20 years earlier. And a woman buys a house on the cheap, with the understanding that the seller will soon vacate. Ten years later, she's still waiting. 00:59:00 315 2006-06-21 The Parrot and the Potbellied Pig Original stories from David Sedaris, Jonathan Goldstein, and others, on two animals who don't even seem like they should know each other, much less appear on the same radio show. 00:59:05 316 2006-08-18 The Cat Came Back True stories that follow the plotline of the old kid's song "The Cat Came Back." It's the simplest plot in the world: Something you thought was gone forever keeps returning, against all odds. 00:59:06 317 2006-09-15 Unconditional Love Can love be taught? A family uses a controversial therapy to train their son to love them. And other stories about the hard and sometimes painful work of loving other people. 00:59:00 318 2006-10-06 With Great Power A family wishes for years that they could do something to stop their neighbor's shocking behavior. Suddenly they get the power to decisively change things forever...and they have to decide whether they will. This, and other stories of everyday people who get saddled with great power—and the great sense of responsibility that goes with it. 00:58:40 319 2006-10-27 And the Call Was Coming from the Basement For the week leading up to Halloween, scary stories that are all true. Kidnappings, zombie raccoons, haunted houses—real haunted houses!—and things that go "EEEEK!!!" in the night. Plus a story by David Sedaris, in which he walks among the dead. 00:57:48 320 2006-11-03 What's In A Number? — 2006 Edition Recently, the British medical journal The Lancet published an study which updated their estimate of the number of Iraqis who've died since the U.S. invasion. 00:59:04 321 2006-12-01 Sink or Swim Stories of people who are in over their heads and trying to stay afloat. 00:59:04 322 2006-12-15 Shouting Across the Divide A Muslim woman persuades her husband that their family would be happier if they left the West Bank and moved to America. They do, and things are good...until September 11. After that, the elementary school their daughter goes to begins using a textbook that says Muslims want to kill Christians. 00:59:04