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The true costs of our purchases, and ideas for becoming a more thoughtful consumer.

What we can learn from survivors of perilous situations

Favorite holiday movies

This week: The owner of the Pilgrim Nuclear plant gets a reprimand from the Feds. A cardiologist is suing Cape Cod Healthcare, saying he was fired for blowing the whistle on dangerous medical shortcuts. And: we take a trip to a Vermont shooting range with members of the Massachusetts National Guard.

Oceanographer Mary Sears' critical contributions to the U.S. Navy during WWII

Stories of Black veterans and war heroes.

For this month's books program on The Point, the theme is hotels.

This week: Pilgrim Nuclear Plant owner Holtec continues to hold out the possibility of discharging radioactive water into Cape Cod Bay. And a second suspect is arrested in the armed bank robbery on Martha’s Vineyard. Also: a tragic ending after a half-dozen pilot whales stranded in Eastham and rescuers struggled to save them.

This Sunday on Arts & Ideas: a debate over whether race-conscious college admissions are unfair to Asian Americans, how Jazz singers use their interpretive powers to express the delight and anguish of love, and expanding the origin story of the U.S..