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April 1998
4/5 4/12 4/19 4/26
April 1998 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin

4/05/98Program #Title
Hour 1 98-04-05-A TEACHING LITERACY
Teaching Reading - Diane McGuiness
Loving to Read - Lucy Calkins
Handwriting - Tamara Thornton
Passion Before Language - Adam Phillips
Hour 2 98-04-05-B BIRDS
Songbird Populations - Scott Robinson
Cranes in Korea's DMZ - George Archibald
Intelligence of Ravens - Bernd Heinrich
Birding on the Road - Kenn Kaufman
Bird Gardening - Bill Thompson
Hour 3 98-04-05-C PEOPLE AND PLACE
John Steuart Curry's Midwest - Patricia Junker
Albany, NY - William Kennedy
Montana - Larry Watson
Oregon - Craig Lesley

4/12/98Program #Title
Hour 1 98-04-12-A MONEY AND IDENTITY
Middle Class Shame - Marlene Jupiter
Virtual Beggar - Jim Dennison
Who Has Money & Why - Andrew Hacker
Voluntary Simplicity
- Jacqueline Blix & David Heitmiller
God is My Broker
- Christopher Buckley & John Tierney
Hour 2 98-04-12-B EDUCATING SCIENTISTS
TIMMS (Math & Science Study) - William Schmidt
Teaching Math - Thomas Romberg
To the Young Scientist - Fred Bortz
Math of Truth & Beauty - K.C. Cole
Hour 3 98-04-12-C The Storied Land Part One:
THE BORDER

Arriving at LAX - Pico Iyer
L.A. Essay - Judith Strasser/Marv Nonn
Commentary - Richard Rodriguez
The Border in the Heartland - Ruben Martinez
Ecological Borders - Jack Ewel

4/19/98Program #Title
Hour 1 98-04-19-A THE FUTURE OF MEDICINE
Fairlure of HMO's - Ronald Glasser
History of Medicine - Roy Porter
Hmong & Western Medicine - Anne Fadiman
Pet Love - Cynthia Heimel
Pet Health Care - Bernard Rollin
Hour 2 98-04-19-B NATIONAL PARKS
Reducing Park Traffic - Jon Margolis
Lechiguilla Cavern - Nevada Barr
History of Glacier Park - Louis Warren
African Parks - David Western
Hour 3 98-04-19-C The Storied Land Part Two:
THE CEMETERY

African-American Cemeteries
- Wilbur Hughes & Roberta Hughes Wright
Texas Graveyards - Terry Jordan
Mt. Auburn & the Modern Cemetery
- Blanche M.G. Linden
Tombstones - Richard Meyer
Commentary - Andrei Codrescu

4/26/98Program #Title
Hour 1 97-04-13-A INFO GLUT
Enough Already! - David Shenk
Bring on the Technology! - John Katz
The HDTV Revolution - Joel Brinkley
My Life on Line - John Seabrook
Hour 2 98-04-26-B EVOLUTION DEBATES
Teaching Evolution - Donald Kennedy
Evolution & the Bible - Gerald Schroeder
The Epic of Evolution - Connie Barlow
Are Humans Unique? - James Trefil
Hour 3 98-04-26-C The Storied Land Part Three:
THE MONUMENT

Niagara Falls Story - Ernest Benedict
Niagara Falls as Sublime Monument - Al Runte
Contested Sites - Edward Linenthal
Manzanar Commentary - Mas Masumoto
Graceland - Karal Ann Marling

April 1998 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin

May 1998
5/3 5/10 5/17 5/24 5/31
May 1998 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin
5/3/98Program #Title
Hour 1 98-05-03-A AFTER VIETNAM
Nike Sweatshops - Dara O'Rourke
Internet in Vietnam - David Case
Returning to Vietnam - Robert Olen Butler
Hitchhiking Vietnam - Karin Muller
Pol Pot's Secret Prison - David Chandler
Hour 2 98-05-03-B BLOODSUCKING BUGS
Malaria and Mosquitoes - Kent Campbell
People vs. Pests - Mark Winston
Black Widow Spider - Gordon Grice
Flea Circus - Maria Fernanda Cardoso
Forensic Entomology - Neal Haskell
Hour 3 97-04-20-C CYCLES OF HISTORY
Historical Turnings - Neil Howe
Dogma of Decline - Arthur Herman
The X-Files - Mary Kaye Schilling
Conqueror's Luck - Jared Diamond

5/10/98Program #Title
Hour 1 98-05-10-A THE CARIBBEAN
Statehood for Puerto Rico? - Rosario Ferre
History as Postcard in Martinique - Richard Price
AIDS in Antigua - Jamaica Kincaid
Reggae - Anita Waters
Hour 2 97-07-20-B FISHED OUT
Deep Sea Fishing - William Broad
Cod - Mark Kulansky
Lost at Sea - Sebastian Junger
Women Fly Fishers - Lyla Foggia
Hour 3 98-05-10-C POLITICS OF PHILANTHROPY
Looking Good & Doing Good
- Jerome Himmelstein
New Profit Inc. - Vanesssa Kirsch
John D. Rockefeller - Ron Chernow
The Impact Project - Anne Slepian

5/17/98Program #Title
Hour 1 98-05-17-A MADE BY HAND
Factory Closing - Cathy Davidson
Toys By Hand - John Linck
Working Construction - Susan Eisenberg
Joys of Housework - Margaret Horsfield
Self Sufficiency - Wendell Berry
Hour 2 98-05-17-B NATURE IN THE CITY
City Wildlife - David Quammen
Disney's Animal Kingdom - Cory Lancaster
Desert Yard - John Alcock
Gardens - Michael Pollan
Wickerby - Charles Siebert
Hour 3 98-05-17-C JAZZ LEGENDS
The Swing Movement - V. Vale
Swing Band
- Levay Smith & Chris Siebert
Duke Ellington - Stanley Crouch
Chet Baker Novel - Bart Schneider
Blues Women as Feminists - Angela Davis

5/24/98Program #Title
Hour 1 98-05-24-A THE IRISH
Peace Accord - Nuala O'Faolain
Irish Americans - Ray O'Hanlon
Irish Music - Ciaran Carson
Irish Memoir - Nuala O'Faolain
Oscar Wilde - Merlin Holland
Hour 2 96-10-13-B SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY
Creativity & The Workplace - Rogers Hollingsworth
The End of Science - John Horgan
A Tale of Discovery - Patricia Wright
The Private Louis Pasteur - Gerald L. Geison
Hour 3 96-12-15-C HAPPINESS
Happy DNA - David Lykken
Optimistic Child - Martin Seligman
Happy Soul - Thomas Moore
History of Boredom - Patricia Meyer Spacks

5/31/98Program #Title
Hour 1 98-05-31-A ACTIVISTS
U.S. Activists Today - Paul Lichterman
Unarmed Bodyguards - Liam Mahoney
Irish Activists in Ohio - Virginia Brodine
The Activist's Daughter - Ellyn Bache
Hour 2 98-05-31-B GOING NATIVE
Native Plants - Judith Larner Lowry
Becoming Native - Wes Jackson
African-American Community
- Katherine Butler Jones
Going Native - Marianna Torgovnick
Hour 3 98-05-31-C WHAT IS ART
The Art Guys
- Jack Massing & Mark Galbreth
Outsider Art - Roger Manley
Van Gogh's Portrait of Dr. Gachet - Cynthia Saltzman

May 1998 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin

June 1998
6/7 6/14 6/21 6/28
June 1998 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin
6/7/98Program #Title
Hour 1 98-06-07-A CREATIVE HEALING
Intimacy & Healing - Dean Ornish
Talk Radio & Healing
- Joe Marshall & Margaret Norris
Humor & Stress - Loretta LaRoche
Drumming Power - Arthur Hull
Hour 2 97-11-23-C UNDERSTANDING HORSES
Training Horses - Monty Roberts
Race Horses - Stephen Budiansky
Horse Vet - John McCormack
Saving Horses - Cleveland Amory
Hour 3 98-06-07-C SMOOTH TALKERS
Argument Culture - Deborah Tannen
Eloquence - Ian Edwards
Silent on Sunday - James Otis
Auctioneering - Larry Howe
Rapping - Craig Werner

6/14/98Program #Title
Hour 1 98-06-14-A REJECTING CONSUMERISM
Overspent America - Juliet Schor
Inconspicuous Consumption - Paul Lukas
Liviing Simply - Eustace Conway
Advertising Culture - Thomas Frank
Hour 2 98-06-14-B PRIMORDIAL LIFE
Burgess Shale Fossils - Simon Conway Morris
Macroevolution - Carl Zimmer
Prehistoric Art - Ian Tattersall
Alfred Wallace & the Spice Islands
- Tim Severin
Hour 3 98-06-14-C FROM DRILL TO DANCE
Popular Rhythms - Jim Sutton
Muscular Bonding - William McNeill
Marching Bands - Mike Leckrone
Women & Dance - Sally Banes
Boy & Ballet - Jane Hamilton


6/21/98Program #Title
Hour 1 97-05-18-C AMERICA MAXED OUT
Our Indebted Society - James Medoff
Credit Card Debt - Connie Kilmark
Malling of America - Karal Anne Marling
History of Money - Jack Weatherford
Hour 2 97-04-20-B MEMORY
Mouse Memory - Matthew Wilson
False Memories - Elizabeth Loftus
Un-recovered Memories - Brooks Brenneis
Memoir and Memory - Mary Karr
Hour 3 97-04-06-C MYSTICS
Modern Mystic - Andrew Harvey
Spiritual Journeys to Nowhere - Gita Mehta
Putting the Buddha on CD-ROM - Michael Roach
St. Francis & Human Rights - Calvin Normore

6/28/98Program #Title
Hour 1 97-07-27-B MANAGED CARE
Managed Mental Health - Karen Shore
The Market and Managed Care - Regina Herzlinger
Managing Women's Health Care - Karen Hein
Do We Still Need Doctors? - John Lantos
Hour 2 97-08-17-B NEW PRIMATE PARADIGM
Bonobo: The Forgotten Ape - Frans de Waal
Brazil's Muriqui Monkey - Karen Streir
Infanticide and Evolution - Sarah Hrdy
Bio-Politics - Russell Mittermeier
Hour 3 97-07-20-C ENDS OF THE EARTH
Mount Everest - Jon Krakauer
Caving - Michael Ray Taylor
Submarine Volcanoes - Robert Ballard
End of the Tourist - Peter Greenberg

June 1998 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin


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