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Midmorning
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Archive for July 19 - 23, 2004
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Monday, July 19, 2004
Hour 1 (9 a.m.)
Audio Classifying obesity as a disease
Calling obesity "a critical health problem," Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson says Medicare may cover treatments for overweight Americans. Some are hailing the decision, saying it acknowledges obesity is a disease, not a matter of self-control. Others say Medicare has gone too far.
Guests:
Lynn Blewett, associate professor in the school of public health at the University of Minnesota. Corey Davidson, Midwest regional director at the Concord Coalition. Guilford Hartley, doctor of internal medicine at Hennepin County Medical Center. He is a member of the North American Association for the Study of Obesity.

Related Links:
Document MPR Series: The Fight Against Fat
Document MPR: Obesity as a Disease
Document Web Resource: American Obesity Association
Document Web Resource: Minnesota Obesity Center
Document Web Resource: America's Obesity Crisis
Document Web Resource: Center for Consumer Freedom
Document Web Resource: CDC: Obesity
Document Web Resource: North American Association for the Study of Obesity
Document Share your views in the News Forum.
Hour 2 (10 a.m.)
Audio Promoting and preserving our park system
Summer is the time when many families head for state and national parks for vacation. Though parks departments want the visitors, they have to balance the impact of those visitors and the funds needed to operate these natural areas.
Guests:
Charles Clusen, director of the Natural Resources Defense Council's national parks program. Courtland Nelson, director of Minnesota state parks. Prior to his appointment last spring, he was parks director for the state of Utah.

Related Links:
Document MPR: State parks muddle through budget cuts
Document Web Resource: Minnesota DNR
Document Web Resource: Directory of Minnesota State Parks
Document Web Resource: National Resources Defense Council
Document Web Resource: National Parks Conservation Association
Document Web Resource: National Park Service
Document Web Resource: Subcommittee on National Parks, Recreation and Public Land
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Tuesday, July 20, 2004
Hour 1 (9 a.m.)
Audio Supreme Court is asked to end juvenile executions
The Supreme Court will reconsider this fall whether states can execute killers who committed their crimes as juveniles. The United States is among only a handful of nations that allow the practice.
Guests:
Victor Streib, a professor of law at Ohio Northern University. He has been studying this issue for 25 years and has represented juveniles on death row. Dudley Sharp is with Justice Matters in Houston, Texas.

Related Links:
Document Web Resource: Victor Streib's bio
Document Web Resource: Justice For All
Document Web Resource: Death Penalty Information Center
Document Web Resource: Frontline: Pros and Cons of the Death Penalty
Document Web Resource: NewsHour: Justice and Juveniles
Document Web Resource: Amnesty International: Death Penalty
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Hour 2 (10 a.m.)
Audio Reporting from Iraq
Midmorning takes a look at how one reporter is covering Iraq, perhaps the biggest on-going story for more than a year.

Guests:
Deborah Amos covers Iraq for National Public Radio. She also works as a correspondent for ABC News.

Related Links:
Document Web Resource: Bio for Deborah Amos
Document Web Resource: NPR's Iraq Coverage
Document Web Resource: The War After the War
Document Share your views in the News Forum.
Wednesday, July 21, 2004
Hour 1 (9 a.m.)
Audio Why aren't more women in politics?
Women make up 51 percent of the adult population in the United States. Yet only 18 percent of state governors are female. And of the more than 12,000 people who have served in the U.S. Congress, only 215 of them have been women. Is there a glass ceiling in American politics? Or do women prefer not to pursue public political roles?

Guests:
Jennifer Lawless, professor of political science at Brown University. Joan Growe, former Secretary of State of Minnesota.

Related Links:
Document Web Resource: Center for American Women and Politics
Document Web Resource: The Gender Gap
Document Web Resource: Minnesota Women's Political Caucus
Document Web Resource: Why Don't Women Run for Office?
Document Web Resource: Emily's List
Document Web Resource: The White House Project
Document Share your views in the News Forum.
Hour 2 (10 a.m.)
Audio The life of a cadaver
For 2,000 years, cadavers -- some willingly, some unwittingly -- have been involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. Author Mary Roach explores the post-life uses of human corpses.

Guests:
Mary Roach, author of Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers.

Related Links:
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Thursday, July 22, 2004
Hour 1 (9 a.m.)
Audio Is Iran the enemy?
Iran's ruling mullahs say they're resuming activities that could lead to development of a uranium-based bomb. And the Sept. 11 commission concludes that Iran gave al Qaeda hijackers safe passage. Washington is considering tough new policies to punish the Islamic Republic, but some say the lack of engagement with Iran threatens U.S. interests.
Guests:
Daniel Brumberg, senior associate in the Carnegie Endowment's Democracy and Rule of Law Project. He is also an associate professor at Georgetown University and the author of Reinventing Khomeini: The Struggle for Reform in Iran.

Related Links:
Document Web Resource: Daniel Brumberg's bio
Document Web Resource: Iran: Time for a New Approach
Document Web Resource: Terror and Tehran
Document Web Resource: Iran: Current Developments and U.S. Policy
Document Web Resource: Iran: The Islamic Republic in Transition
Document Web Resource: Iran: A Country Study
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Hour 2 (10 a.m.)
Audio Lapses in intelligence
The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States has released its final report. We'll talk with the local FBI agent who was one of the first people to bring to light intelligence lapses leading up to September 11, 2001.
Guests:
Coleen Rowley, an agent with the Minneapolis FBI. She sent a letter to FBI headquarters in Washington charging that officials there botched the investigation of accused terrorist Zacharias Moussaoui. The charges led to a flurry of changes at the bureau. Rowley was named one of Time magazine's Persons of the Year in 2002.

Related Links:
Document Web Resource: Rowley's letter to the FBI director
Document Web Resource: National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States
Document Web Resource: Sept. 11 commission's final report
Document Share your views in the News Forum.
Friday, July 23, 2004
Hour 1 (9 a.m.)
Audio Airports brace for shortage of air traffic controllers
The majority of air traffic controllers at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport may be retiring within the next five years. Airports across the country are facing potential staffing shortages unless more controllers enter the profession.
Guests:
Ruth Marlin, executive vice president of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association, a federal-sector labor union that represents more than 15,000 air traffic controllers throughout the U.S. and its territories. Daryl Jenkins, professor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and the former director of the Aviation Institute at George Washington University.

Related Links:
Document Web Resource: National Air Traffic Controllers Association
Document Web Resource: FAA: Air Traffic Control System Command Center
Document Web Resource: So You Want to be an Air Traffic Controller?
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Hour 2 (10 a.m.)
Audio State of the Arts
We'll find out how to collect art with Earl Gutnik, an artist, designer and obsessive collector. Plus, we'll check out the new play Sex Sting and a Duluth mystery. And we'll investigate who's destroying Joel Carter's sculptures.

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