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Archive for May 26 - 30, 2003
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Monday, May 26, 2003
Hour 1 (9 a.m.)
Audio Paul Theroux's travels across Africa
A rebrodacast of Katherine Lanpher's conversation with author Paul Theroux. His new book is an account of his journey across Africa, where he talks with people struggling with drought, corruption and poverty.

Guests:
Paul Theroux's latest book is Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town. He's written fourteen books of nonfiction and criticism and twenty-four novels. His novels Saint Jack, The Mosquito Coast, and Half Moon Street have been made into feature films. He won the Whitbread Prize for the novel, Picture Palace.

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Hour 2 (10 a.m.)
Audio Revealed family histories
A rebroadcast of Katherine Lanpher's conversation with author Jonathan Safran Foer, whose debut novel lit up the book world last year.

Guests:
Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Everything is Illuminated.

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Tuesday, May 27, 2003
Hour 1 (9 a.m.)
Audio Sexual activity among young teens
New statistics show that one in five teens have had sex by the time they reach 15. Experts say the numbers don't surprise them and lament that more isn't being done to prevent teens from having sex.

Guests:
Nancy Nelson, executive director of the Minnesota Organization on Adolescent Pregnancy, Prevention and Parenting.

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Document Web Resource: MOAPPP Web site
Document Web Resource: National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy
Document Web Resource: Minnesota Department of Health MN ENABL
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Hour 2 (10 a.m.)
Audio Children's Theatre and "Frog and Toad"
The Children's Theatre Company won national acclaim for the musical "A Year with Frog and Toad" and a special Tony Award as best regional theater. Katherine Lanpher talks about the past season and a look ahead with CTC's Peter Brosius.
Guests:
Peter Brosius, artistic director for the Children's Theatre Company in Minneapolis.

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Document Web Resource: A Year with Frog and Toad
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Wednesday, May 28, 2003
Hour 1 (9 a.m.)
Audio More media outlets in fewer hands?
On June 2 the Federal Communications Commission is set to dramatically change ownership rules that have governed television and radio stations for decades. Supporters of the change say cable and the internet preserve the marketplace of ideas enough to allow greater media concentration.
Guests:
Paul Gallant, chair of the media ownership committee for the Federal Communications Commission. Brian Lambert, media critic for the St. Paul Pioneer Press.

Related Links:
Document Web Resource: FCC media ownership studies
Document Web Resource: Brian Lambert columns, St. Paul Pioneer Press
Document Web Resource: Columbia Journalism Review, "Who Owns What"
Document Web Resource: Mediareform.net
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Hour 2 (10 a.m.)
Audio Repairing French-American relations
Since the Revolutionary War, Americans have had a love/hate relationship with the French and vice versa. After the war in Iraq, both countries explore how to improve relations.

Guests:
Anthony Smith, president of the French American Foundation. Alain Frecon, Minnesota's honorary consul of France.

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Document Web Resource: The Consulate General of France in Chicago
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Thursday, May 29, 2003
Hour 1 (9 a.m.)
Audio Challenges for the U
The University of Minnesota will receive some capital improvements, including a new lab building, if the Minnesota state bonding bill is approved. Finances, future of the U, and a new look at mental health for children with the university's president.

Guests:
Robert Bruininks, president of the University of Minnesota.

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Hour 2 (10 a.m.)
Audio Garden insects, friends and enemies
Consider bugs a plague upon your roses? Insects can help your garden, too. A look at strategies and alternatives to spraying first.

Guests:
Peter Moe, director of operations at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum in Chanhassen. Jeffrey Hahn, entomologist at the University of Minnesota's Extension Service.

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Document Web Resource: Minnesota Landscape Arboretum
Document Web Resource: Yard & Garden Line
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Friday, May 30, 2003
Hour 1 (9 a.m.)
Audio Iran and nuclear weapons
Iran's nuclear weapons potential worries Washington and the Bush Administration has made clear its antipathy toward a country labeled part of the "axis of evil".

Guests:
Jim Walsh, executive director, Managing the Atom Project at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.

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Hour 2 (10 a.m.)
Audio Change in poor neighborhoods
A new study says poverty is less concentrated in some major cities in the U.S., including Minneapolis. But does this really mean that the poverty picture is improving?
Guests:
Paul Jargowsky, associate professor of political economy at the University of Texas at Dallas and author of the Brookings Institution study, "Stunning Progress, Hidden Problems: The Dramatic Decline of Concentrated Poverty in the 1990s". Edward Goetz, professor and director of urban and regional planning at the Humphrey Institute at the University of Minnesota.

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Document Web Resource: Brookings Poverty Study
Document Web Resource: Paul Jargowsky's home page
Document Web Resource: "Deconcentrating Poverty in Minneapolis"
Document Web Resource: Edward Goetz home page
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