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Monday, Dec. 27, 2004 |
| Hour 1 (9 a.m.) |
 Sounding the alarm on social security
Former U.S. Democratic Representative Tim Penny discusses social security reform.
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Guests:
Tim Penny served on President Bush's Commission to Strengthen Social Security. He's a senior fellow at the Humphrey Institute of Public Policy. He was a Democratic congressman from 1982 - 1994.
Related Links:
 MPR: Tim Penny profile
Web Resource: Tim Penny's bio
Web Resource: President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security
Web Resource: Social Security Online
Web Resource: AARP: Social Security
Web Resource: Social Security Reform Center
Web Resource: NPR: Social Security Problems
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| Hour 2 (10 a.m.) |
Just Say Yes
The Yes Men got international coverage this month when one of them impersonated a spokesman for Dow Chemicals and announced a multi-billion dollar compensation settlement for the victims of the 1984 industrial disaster in Bhopal, India. Midmorning interviews the leading members of the Yes Men to discuss their unique approach to encouraging corporate responsibility.
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Guests:
Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno, anti-corporate activist-pranksters and members of the Yes Men.
Related Links:
Web Resource: The Yes Men Web site
Web Resource: About the Yes Men
Web Resource: The Yes Men on NPR's Fresh Air
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Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2004 |
| Hour 1 (9 a.m.) |
American gulag?
Information continues to surface about the abuse of detainees in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay. Hundreds of pages of Army records released by the American Civil Liberties Union indicate that superiors did not take charges of mistreatment seriously.
Photo from AFP/Getty Images
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Guests:
Omar Jadwat, staff attorney with the ACLU's Immigrants' Rights Project. Sam Zarifi, the deputy director of the Asian division of Human Rights Watch.
Related Links:
Web Resource: American Civil Liberties Union
Web Resource: Human Rights Watch
Web Resource: Newly released records on torture
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| Hour 2 (10 a.m.) |
Twelve months of music
Midmorning showcases the year in music and highlights the good, the bad and the just plain weird.
Photo by Tim Mosenfelder/Getty Images
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Guests:
Melissa Maerz, senior arts editor at City Pages. Ross Raihala, pop music critic for the Pioneer Press.
Related Links:
Web Resource: Ross Raihala's music picks for 2004
Web Resource: Melissa Maerz's favorite albums of the year
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Wednesday, Dec. 29, 2004 |
| Hour 1 (9 a.m.) |
Winter wonderland?
This winter's snow total is near the record low in Minnesota. Midmorning talks about the season's weather and all things meteorological.
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Guests:
Craig Edwards, meteorologist-in-charge at the National Weather Service in Chanhassen. Rich Naistat, science and operations officer at the National Weather Service.
Related Links:
Web Resource: Weather Service Forecast Office
Web Resource: World Meteorological Organization
Web Resource: How the Weather Works
Web Resource: About Global Warming
Web Resource: Climatology Working Group
Web Resource: Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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| Hour 2 (10 a.m.) |
Soldier survival rate jumps
A recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine says soldiers in Iraq are surviving devastating injuries that in previous wars would have killed them. Midmorning's guests look at what's behind the survival rate and recovery.
Photo by Erica Mater/U.S. Navy/Getty Images
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Guests:
Steven Scott, chief of rehabilitation medicine and spinal cord injury at the James A. Haley VA Medical Center. His center is studying blast injuries. Barbara Sigford, the national director of the physical medicine and rehabilitation service at the Veteran's Health Administration. She is chief of physical medicine and rehabilitation at the VA Medical Center in Minneapolis.
Related Links:
Web Resource: Veteran's Health Administration
Web Resource: James A. Haley VA Medical Center
Web Resource: Caring for the Wounded
Web Resource: NewsHour: U.S. Combat Injuries
Web Resource: The Nature of Combat Injuries
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Thursday, Dec. 30, 2004 |
| Hour 1 (9 a.m.) |
Surveying the Supreme Court
Over the past year, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments on everything from the rights of detainees to the death penalty for minors to the medical use of marijuana. Midmorning examines the cases of 2004 and discusses what 2005 holds for the high court.
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Guests:
Arthur Miller, professor of law at Harvard University. He is the author of Federal Practice and Procedure. Paul Rothstein, professor of law at Georgetown University. He is the author of Federal Rules of Evidence.
Related Links:
Web Resource: About Arthur Miller
Web Resource: About Paul Rothstein
Web Resource: Supreme Court of the United States
Web Resource: Legal Information Institute
Web Resource: FindLaw: Supreme Court
Web Resource: Thomson West
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| Hour 2 (10 a.m.) |
How science changed in 2004
The melting of an ice shelf off Antarctica was the top science story according to Discover magazine. Notable mentions included teleportation, the privatization of space travel and a cure for baldness.
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Guests:
Corey Powell, senior editor at Discover magazine. The magazine's year-end issue highlights the best stories and discoveries in science of 2004.
Related Links:
Web Resource: Discover Magazine
Web Resource: Top 100 Science Stories
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Friday, Dec. 31, 2004 |
| Hour 1 (9 a.m.) |
Food and thought
A Twin Cities food critic offers tips on where to find the best one-of-a-kind dining experiences and discusses the top food trends of the year.
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Guests:
Rick Nelson, food writer for the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
Related Links:
Web Resource: The Year of the Bistro
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| Hour 2 (10 a.m.) |
An artistic look at 2004
State of the Arts takes a look back at the biggest art stories of the year.
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Related Links:
Web Resource: State of the Arts
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