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| 7/04/99 | Program # | TITLE (click for program detail) |
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| 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 | 98-05-03-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 | 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 |
| 7/11/99 | Program # | TITLE (click for program detail) |
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| Hour 1 | 99-07-11-A | WOMEN'S BODIES Women's Brains - Helen Fisher Women's Wombs - Germaine Greer The Story of Jane - Laura Kaplan Recovering from Rape - Patricia Francisco |
| Hour 2 | 99-07-11-B | FINE FEATHERED FRIENDS Life of Birds - David Attenborough Towerkill - Bill Evans Bird Migration - Scott Weidensaul Pink Flamingoes - Jennifer Price Birding Record - Harry Howard |
| Hour 3 | 99-07-11-C | MEAT & VEGGIES Meat Eating & Evolution - Craig Stanford Cooking Meat - Bruce Aidells Eating Bugs - Faith D'Alusio & Peter Menzel Vegan Diet - Erik Markus Vegetarian Cooking - Anna Thomas |
| 7/18/99 | Program # | TITLE (click for program detail) |
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| Hour 1 | 99-07-18-A | BUYING STUFF You Are What You Buy - James Twitchell Hidden Persuaders - Douglas Rushkoff Selling Nature - Jennifer Price Making Money, Literally - J.S.G. Boggs & Lawrence Weschler Overspent American - Vince Passaro |
| Hour 2 | 99-07-18-B | BYWAYS TO WELLNESS Food as Medicine - Nina Simonds Homeopathy - Chris Bohjalian Mona Lisa Schulz - Medical Intuitive Doctors & Drug Addiction - Abraham Verghese Navajo Woman Surgeon - Lori Arviso Alvord |
| Hour 3 | 99-07-18-C | READING AT CENTURY'S END TeleRead - David Rothman Go On Girls! Book Club - Monique Greenwood How to Read a Poem - Molly Peacock Poems of the 20th Century - Joan Murray Medieval Woman Writers - Laurie Finke |
| 7/25/99 | Program # | TITLE (click for program detail) |
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| Hour 1 | 99-07-25-A | PUBLIC INTELLECTUALS Training Public Intellectuals - Theresa Brennan Edmund Wilson - Jeffrey Meyers Public Intellectuals - Carlin Romano New York Intellectuals - Norman Podhoretz Penguin Lives Biographies - James Atlas |
| Hour 2 | 98-08-09-B | LOST WORLDS Recovering the Ship of Gold - Gary Kinder Myth of Atlantis - Richard Ellis Archaeology of the Mind - Brian Fagan Smelly Old History - Mary Dobson |
| Hour 3 | 98-07-26-C | STUDIOS AND INDIES Great 70's Directors - Peter Biskind Being an Independent - James Schamus John Ford's "The Searchers" - Stanley Crouch The Searchers in Space - Jonathan Lethem |
| 8/1/99 | Program # | TITLE (click for program detail) |
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| Hour 1 | 99-08-01-A | EGYPT ACROSS THE MILLENNIUM Islamic Revolution in Egypty - Mary Anne Weaver Ancient Egypt - Brian Fagan Memories of Egypt - Leila Ahmed Foods of Egypt - Colette Rossant Cairo - Max Rodenbeck |
| Hour 2 | 99-08-01-B | EVOLUTION IN ACTION Evolving Humans - Christopher Wills Playing God With Bacteria - Michael Travisano Evolution of Sex - Lin Chao Frog Calls - Michael Ryan |
| Hour 3 | 99-08-01-C | GOING SOLO Sailing Solo - Derek Lundy Solo Poem - Judith Strasser Dining Alone - Jane Doerfer Hermits - Susan Phelps Single Moms - Melissa Ludtke |
| 8/8/99 | Program # | TITLE (click for program detail) |
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| Hour 1 | 98-08-30-A | SURVIVING TREACHERY Helping the Hmong - Jane Hamilton-Merritt Revisiting Auschwitz with Mother - Julie Salamon The Stasi Were Everywhere - Timothy Garton Ash Surviving a Daughter's Murder - Robert Hellenga |
| Hour 2 | 99-08-08-B | RIVERS AND DAMS Dam Debate - William Graf Reading from Edward Abbey Baraboo Dam Removal Report - Emily Stanley Mississippi - Andrew Malcolm Whitewater Kayaker - Corran Addison |
| Hour 3 | 99-08-08-C | NATIVE AMERICAN STORIES Playing Indian - Philip Deloria Chippewa Land - Wayne Johnson Trickster Stories - Lewis Hyde Native Storyteller - Joseph Bruchac |
| 8/15/99 | Program # | TITLE (click for program detail) |
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| Hour 1 | 99-08-15-A | COMFORTS OF HOME Not-So-Big-House - Sarah Susanka A Hut of One's Own - Ann Cline Squeeze Chairs - Wendy Jacob Danger of Chairs - Galen Cranz George Washington, Architect - Allan Greenberg |
| Hour 2 | 98-08-23-B | ROBOTICS Cog the Humanoid Robot - Rodney Brooks Lego Mindstorms - Anthony Fudd Robots on Mars - David Miller Science Fiction Influence on Culture - Thomas Disch |
| Hour 3 | 99-08-15-C | BUSTING LOOSE Deep Play - Diane Ackerman Rock Climbing - David Breashears Heightening Sensory Experience - Michael Gelb Sweet Life in Tuscany - Frances Mayes Returning to Provence - Peter Mayle |
| 8/22/99 | Program # | TITLE (click for program detail) |
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| Hour 1 | 98-07-26-A | STRADDLING CULTURES Bilingual Journey - Ariel Dorfman Growing Up Hawaiian - Carolyn Lei-lanilau Asian-American Women - Claire Chow Belgian Immigrant - Luc Sante |
| Hour 2 | 98-09-06-B | MATHEMATICAL WONDERS Stacking Oranges - Ian Stewart Math's Popularity - Keith Devlin Paul Erdos - Paul Hoffman Math in Nature - Ian Stewart John Nash - Sylvia Nasar |
| Hour 3 | 98-10-04-C | REENACTING THE CIVIL WAR Civil War Reenactors - Tony Horwitz Reenactor - Stephen Oreck How to Teach the Civil War - Gary Gallagher Civil War Lessons - Ryan Lester Robert Beecham's Memoir - Michael Stevens Women in the Civil War - Kaye Gibbons |
| 8/29/99 | Program # | TITLE (click for program detail) |
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| Hour 1 | 99-08-29-A | MODEL CITIES Northampton MA - Tracy Kidder Celebration FL - Andrew Ross Problems with Federal Money - John Norquist Philadelphia Mayor - Buzz Bissinger Chicago IL - Donald Miller |
| Hour 2 | 99-08-29-B | STORMY WEATHER History of Global Warming - Gale Christianson Weather Junkie - Patricia Barnes-Svarney Fulgurites - Martin Uman Cloud Seeding - Thomas Henderson El Nino & Civilization - Brian Fagan |
| Hour 3 | 99-08-29-C | OUTSIDERS Discovering Black America - Randall Kenan Black Conservatives - Shelby Steele Diversity Exercise - Mariamne Whatley The Chicago Anarchist - Walter Roth Bi-Racial Sisters - Danzy Senna |
| 9/5/99 | Program # | TITLE (click for program detail) |
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| Hour 1 | 99-09-05-A | LABOR PAINS Living Wage Movement - Lawrence Glickman Working Poor - Katherine Newman Organizing Labor in the Post-Industrial Economy - Rand Wilson Future of Organized Labor - Stanley Aronowitz Women on the Railroad - Linda Niemann |
| Hour 2 | 98-10-04-B | THE OBESITY EPIDEMIC Why Are We Fat? - Claude Bouchard & Kelly Brownell Pima Indians' Obesity Struggle - Eric Ravussin Plus Size Fashions - Fern Bratten Anti-Obesity Drugs - Arthur Campfield Anorexia & Bulimia Memoir - Marya Hornbacher |
| Hour 3 | 98-09-20-C | EATING ETHNIC How Ethnic Food Shaped America - Donna Gabaccia Weird Food Festivals - Coleman Andrews Authentic Italian Cooking - Marcella Hazan Basmati Rice Patent - Vandana Shiva African Food Memories - Dorinda Hafner |
| 9/12/99 | Program # | TITLE (click for program detail) |
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| Hour 1 | 99-09-12-A | JEWISH IDENTITY Generation J - Lisa Schmiffman Jews as Chosen People - Arthur Hertzberg Fiction about Orthodox Jews - Nathan Englander Quakers and Jews - Claire Gorfinkel Miriam's Kitchen - Elizabeth Ehrlich |
| Hour 2 | 99-09-12-B | WOMEN DOING SCIENCE How Feminism Changed Science - Londa Schiebinger Women as Career Scientists - Sandra Witelson Women Field Biologists Canopy Researcher - Margaret Lowman Female Contributions to Evolution - Alison Jolly |
| Hour 3 | 99-09-12-C | TV & REAL LIFE C-Span & Popular Taste - Brian Lamb Culture of Fear - Barry Glassner Owning Your Life Story - James Schamus Sixties TV Shows - Curtis White Drive-In Stories - Larry Baker |
| 9/19/99 | Program # | TITLE (click for program detail) |
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| Hour 1 | 99-09-19-A | THE MINDS OF CHILDREN Babies' Brains - Alison Gopnik Mozart Effect - Steven Pinker Kindness of Children - Vivian Paley Picture Books - Ellen Spitz Dr. Seuss - Henry Jenkins |
| Hour 2 | 98-11-01-B | SUSTAINABILITY Raising Chickens - Gene Logsdon Natural Step - Terry Gips Thoreau's Walden - Bill McKibben Amazon Rain Forest - Geoffrey O'Connor |
| Hour 3 | 98-10-11-C | COME FLY WITH ME Charles Lindburgh - Scott Berg Flying Inside Storms - William Langewiesche Air Freighters - Barry Lopez Wind - Jan De Blieu |
| 9/27/99 | Program # | TITLE (click for program detail) |
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| Hour 3 | 98-10-18-C | DISABILITY STUDIES Disability Studies - Simi Linton Life With MS - Nancy Mairs Resisting Blindness - Stephen Kuusisto Helen Keller - Dorthy Herrmann |
| Hour 2 | 98-11-08-B | ANCIENT WORLDS Lost Tomb of Ramses II Sons - Kent Weeks Indus Valley Civilization - Mark Kenoyer Tattoos in Antiquity - Adrienne Mayor Making the Classics Count - Victor Davis Hanson Alexander the Great - Michael Wood |
| Hour 3 | 98-09-13-C | ART OF TRAVEL Off the Beaten Track - Hilary Bradt Ethics of Travel - Barry Lopez Kidnapping Threat - Ann Hagedorn Auerbach In the Footsteps of D.H. Lawrence - Geoff Dyer Hiking the Appalachian Trail - Bill Bryson |
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