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January 28, 1996 Programs
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1100 - 1159 Hour #1 Ghettos
1200 - 1259 Hour #2 Technology Development
1300 - 1359 Hour #3 Anthropology of Religion (repeat from 4/16/95)
PROGRAM RUNDOWN Hour 1:Ghettos
SEGMENT 1:
Peter Davis, author of "If you Came This Way: A Journey through
the Lives of the Underclass," talks with Judith Strasser about
the human dimension of poverty in America.
SEGMENT 2:
Journalist and photographer Camilo Jose Vergara uses his work
to document the decay of urban America, especially inner city
neighborhoods. He tells Steve Paulson about some of the images
in his book "The New American Ghetto" and explains what they
say about how we live now.
SEGMENT 3:
Deborah Meier, principal and founder of Central Park East High
School in East Harlem, tells Steve Paulson that the key to
successful school reform is involving parents and the
community. Meier is the author of "The Power of Their Ideas:
Lessons for America from a Small School in Harlem." Also,
Walter Turnbull, founder and director of the Boy's Choir of
Harlem, tells Jim Fleming how singing in the choir brings hope
to the lives of New York's poorest children. Turnbull is the
author, with Howard Manly, of "Lift Every Voice."
For cassette copies of this hour, call 1-800-747-7444, and ask for program number
01-28-A.
PROGRAM RUNDOWN Hour 2:Technology Development
SEGMENT 1:
John Gibbons is President Clinton's Science Advisor and directs
the White House Office of Science and Technology. He tells
Judith Strasser that government funding for basic research is
crucial and that partnerships need to be developed between
business and governments from many nations to create technology
that will benefit everyone. Also, Joseph Lyding tells Steve
Paulson about his research into nanotechnology - putting things
together at the atomic level. Lyding teaches electrical and
computer engineering at the University of Illinois.
SEGMENT 2:
Experimental archaeologists Kathy Schick and Nicholas Toth, who
direct the Center for Research into the Anthropological
Foundations of Technology at Indiana University, tell Jim
Fleming how playing with rocks helps them understand how humans
came to be who they are. Their book is "Making Silent Stones
Speak."
SEGMENT 3:
Technology is a guy thing, right? Australian science writer
Margaret Wertheim tells Steve Paulson why Western science,
especially physics, excludes women. Wertheim's book is called
"Pythagoras' Trousers."
For cassette copies of this hour, call 1-800-747-7444, and ask for program number
01-28-B.
PROGRAM RUNDOWN: HOUR 3: Anthropology of Religion
SEGMENT 1
This hour, we look at some of the odder varieties of religious
experience. Writer and journalist Dennis Covington tells
Judith Strasser about his experiences with snake-handling
Christians in remote Southern Appalachian communities.
Covington's book is "Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake
Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia.
SEGMENT 2:
The tigers of India's Sundarbans swamps are man-eaters. They
devour hundreds of people every year! Nature writer Sy
Montgomery tells a flabbergasted Steve Paulson that the locals
have not tried to exterminate the tigers - instead, they
worship them! Montgomery's book is "Spell of the Tiger: The Man
Eaters of Sundarbans."
SEGMENT 3:
Malidoma Some (mal' i doe' mah so' may) tells Jim Fleming that
he was kidnapped by Jesuit missionaries and later had to
undergo a difficult initiation to rejoin the Dagara people of
West Africa. Some's autobiography is "Water and Spirit."
Also, writer Philip Graham and his anthropologist wife Alma
Gottlieb tell Steve Paulson about living with the Beng people
of Africa's Ivory Coat and trying to understand the Beng spirit
world. They chronicle their experiences with the Beng in a
book called "Parallel Worlds."
For cassette copies of this hour, call 1-800-747-7444, and ask for program number
04-16-C.
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