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Midmorning
Midmorning
Archive for August 15 - 19, 2005
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Monday, Aug. 15, 2005
Hour 1 (9 a.m.)
Audio Pullout begins from Gaza
Israeli soldiers are issuing eviction notices. Some Jewish settlers are resisting the process of returing the Gaza Strip to Palestinians. While hailing the evictions as a promising step, some are skeptical of the political ability of either side to maintain peace.
Guests:
Philip C. Wilcox, Jr. was deputy assistant Secretary of State for Middle Eastern Affairs. He currently is president of the Foundation for Middle East Peace. The Foundation publishes data on Israeli settlements in the occupied territories.

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Document Web Resource: Foundation for Middle East Peace
Document Web Resource: Wikipedia: Gaza Strip
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Hour 2 (10 a.m.)
Audio Competing in China
How can Minnesota businesses compete in the Chinese marketplace? An expert on the economic development of Asia talks about the future of foreign enterprises in mainland China.

Guests:
Dan Rosen, founder of China Strategic Advisory, which helps U.S. businesses better understand China. He has written five books on the Chinese economy, including Behind the Open Door: Foreign Enterprises in the Chinese Marketplace. He has worked as a senior advisor at the White House and at the Institute for International Economics in Washington.

Related Links:
Document Web Resource: About Daniel Rosen
Document Web Resource: Doing Business in China Survey
Document Web Resource: China: Creating Value in a New Era
Document Web Resource: Consumer Markets in China
Document Web Resource: China Today
Document Web Resource: Blandin Foundation
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Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2005
Hour 1 (9 a.m.)
Audio Democrats' dilemma on abortion
Democrats, like Republicans, have always differed on abortion. Now Democrats are trying to figure out if reaching out to abortion opponents is the way to win more elections, including the White House.
Guests:
John Green, senior fellow on religion at the Pew Center on Religion & Public Life. John Nichols, political writer for The Nation.

Related Links:
Document Web Resource: John Green's Bio
Document Web Resource: Pew Forum: "Abortion and Rights of Terror Suspects Top Court Issues"
Document Web Resource: John Nichols' Bio
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Hour 2 (10 a.m.)
Audio Oral histories of the Twin Towers released
What the recent release of thousands of pages of oral histories, phone logs and radio transmission tells us of the fall of the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001.
Guests:
Jim Dwyer, metro reporter with the New York Times and co-author with Kevin Flynn of 102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers.

Related Links:
Document Web Resource: Audio excerpts from NY Times
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Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2005
Hour 1 (9 a.m.)
Audio In the grip of gas prices
The latest economic figures show gas prices again driving overall inflation numbers upward. But is the pain so great that consumers changing their behavior?
Guests:
Mike Burdette, senior analyst with the Energy Information Administration, part of the federal Department of Energy. Brad Proctor, co-founder and chief executive of GasPriceWatch.com which gathers input from gas consumers.

Related Links:
Document Web Resource: GasPriceWatch.com
Document Web Resource: Energy Information Administration
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Hour 2 (10 a.m.)
Audio Letters from war
A historian gathers letters from the fronts of the Revolutionary War through World War II in a new book.

Guests:
Andrew Carroll, author of Behind the Lines: Powerful and Revealing American and Foreign War Letters--And One Man's Search to Find Them.

Related Links:
Document Web Resource: Smithsonian: Andrew Carroll
Document Web Resource: The Legacy Project
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Thursday, Aug. 18, 2005
Hour 1 (9 a.m.)
Audio New leadership at Minnesota DFL, GOP
They're new to the top positions of their parties, but not to political activism. The newly elected chairs of the state Republican and state DFL parties appear together on Midmorning.
Guests:
Ron Carey, chair of the Minnesota Republican Party. Brian Melendez, chair of the state DFL Party.

Related Links:
Document Campaign 2006
Document Web Resource: Republican Party of Minnesota
Document Web Resource: Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party
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Hour 2 (10 a.m.)
Audio Payola's prevalence in the music industry
How much does it cost to make a hit? The drummer of the former Minneapolis band Semisonic knows. He'll talk about that and give his perspective on payola.
Guests:
Jacob Slichter, member of the band Semisonic. He's the author of So You Wanna Be a Rock & Roll Star: How I Machine-Gunned a Roomful of Record Executives and Other True Tales From a Drummer's Life. Cliff Doerksen, film critic for Time Out Chicago and the author of American Babel: Rogue Radio Broadcasters of the Jazz Age.

Related Links:
Document Web Resource: Definition of Payola
Document Web Resource: Semisonic.com
Document Web Resource: TimeOut Chicago
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Friday, Aug. 19, 2005
Hour 1 (9 a.m.)
Audio Heading for a strike
Northwest Airlines' mechanics union may legally strike at one minute after 11:00pm on Friday. Both the airline and the union say they are far from an agreement, but admit there could be movement in the last hours of negotiations.

Guests:
Steve MacFarlane, assistant national director for the Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association. George Novak, a consultant on airline restructuring for the Metis Group. He is a former research scientist at the Aviation Institute at George Washington University and a former attorney for the Federal Aviation Administration. Joseph Daly, professor at Hamline University Law School. He's an arbitrator for the United States Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service and teaches mediation at Hamline. Mark Zdechlik, Minnesota Public Radio News reporter covering Northwest Airlines' negotiations.

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Document MPR News: Northwest Airlines
Document Web Resource: Northwest Airlines
Document Web Resource: AeroAdvisor Group
Document Web Resource: Joseph Daly's bio
Document Web Resource: Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association
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Hour 2 (10 a.m.)
Audio Women's struggle against heart disease
Studies have shown women and their doctors have trouble communicating when it comes to heart disease. What women can do to improve their chances of surviving the number one killer.
Guests:
Sharonne Hayes, MD, director of the Women's Heart Clinic at Mayo Clinic in Rochester. Kathrine Switzer was the first woman to run the Boston Marathon.

Related Links:
Document Web Resource: Women's Heart Clinic at Mayo
Document Web Resource: WomenHeart
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