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Monday, Dec. 30, 2002 |
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 Nuclear proliferation and US foreign policy
North Korea announced that it is reactivating a laboratory the United States believes can produce weapons-grade plutonium. Nuclear proliferation experts are looking at new ways to control the trafficking of weapons.
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Guests:
Henry D. Sokolski, executive director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center in Washington D.C. and author of Best of Intentions: America's Campaign Against Strategic Weapons.
Related Links:
 Web Resource: Nonproliferation Policy Education Center
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| Hour 2 (10 a.m.) |
Subsidizing early childhood development
Studies suggest as many as 40% of kids enter kindergarten unprepared - many of them never catch up. Some economists argue that reaching out to those kids by subsidizing early childhood education makes economic sense.
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Guests:
Art Rolnick, director of research at the Federal Reserve Bank in Minneapolis.
Related Links:
Web Resource: Ready 4K Web site
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Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2002 |
| Hour 1 (9 a.m.) |
Nukes in the North
Conflict with North Korea over nuclear weapons and protests against the U.S. in the South create new problems for America's foreign policy in the region. Northeast Asia experts say the Korean peninsula could determine nuclear and economic stability in the entire region.
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Guests:
David Steinberg, director of Asian studies at the School of Foreign Service of Georgetown University. He's the author of The Republic of Korea. Economic Transformation and Social Change.
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| Hour 2 (10 a.m.) |
Universal theories
There are two basic questions today's physicists are trying to solve: "What is the universe made of?" and "How does the universe work?" . The answers scientists are coming up with seem crazy today but may end up as scientific truths tomorrow.
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Guests:
Tom Siegfried, author of Strange Matters: Undiscovered Ideas at the Frontiers of Space and Time and the science editor at the Dallas Morning News.
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Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2003 |
| Hour 1 (9 a.m.) |
Roots of the Mideast conflict
A special NPR News presentation that explores the roots of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to bring context and perspective to the story, and to help listeners understand the complex situation in the Mideast, the history, and the consequences of the confrontation. Diplomatic correspondent Mike Shuster revisits the significant events and gives both Palestinian and Israeli historians an opportunity to explain how they see the past differently.
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Related Links:
Web Resource: NPR Web site - The Mideast: A Century of Conflict
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| Hour 2 (10 a.m.) |
RadioExtra rebroadcast
In an encore of MPR's call-in cabaret experiment, RadioExtra, host Katherine Lanpher talks with comic Lizz Winstead about feminism. (This program originally aired on August 13th, 2002.)
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Thursday, Jan. 2, 2003 |
| Hour 1 (9 a.m.) |
Airport security
Now that all bags are to be examined and federal security screeners have been in place for a couple of months, we take a look at how holiday travel season went at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. Also, how airport security is affecting travellers and the airlines.
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Guests:
Kenneth Kasprisin, federal security director at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. Richard Gritta, professor of business and transportation at the University of Portland in Oregon. He's a contributor on the business and security of airlines for Marketplace and NPR.
Related Links:
"Federal Screeners Take Over at Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport"
Web Resource: Transportation Security Administration's advice for travellers
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| Hour 2 (10 a.m.) |
SUVs and safety
The safety of sport utility vehicles has long been a sore point between those who love their big cars and drivers who don't like sharing the road with them. But the author of a book about SUVs says they're much more dangerous than people realize.
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Guests:
Keith Bradsher, author of High and Mighty. SUVs: The World's Most Dangerous Vehicles and How They Got That Way. For several years, he was the Detroit bureau chief for The New York Times.
Related Links:
Web Resource: National Highway Traffic Safety
Web Resource: Insurance Institute for Highway Safety
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Friday, Jan. 3, 2003 |
| Hour 1 (9 a.m.) |
Daddy's DNA
A state Court of Appeals decision may make DNA tests to establish paternity more important in Minnesota. Many family courts across the country are trying to reconcile two different definitions of what it means to be a father.
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Guests:
Susan Gaertner, attorney for Ramsey county and former co-chair of the DNA subcommittee of the National District Attorney's Association.
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| Hour 2 (10 a.m.) |
Garden guru
Trying to grow those holiday bulbs? Looking forward to the arrival of those seed catalogues? University of Minnesota extension horticulturalist Deb Brown answers your garden questions during her regular first Friday of the month visit to Midmorning.
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Related Links:
Web Resource: Yard & Garden Line
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