TO THE BEST OF OUR KNOWLEDGE

PROMO       "Family Life Decisions"
*Everyone know you can choose your friends, but not your family.  Well,
maybe that used to be true, but today's families are a lot more flexible
about defining themselves.  In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge
we'll hear NPR's Scott Simon rhapsodize about his two adopted daughters
from China.  And we'll learn how it takes a whole family to fight one
member's anorexia.
PROGRAM RUNDOWN:   "Family Life Decisions"

0:00 - 24:07        SEGMENT 1: (24:08)
            Annie Murphy Paul is a magazine journalist and author of
            "Origins: How the Nine Months Before Birth Shape the Rest
            of Our Lives."  She talks with Jim Fleming about her
            research into the field of fetal development.  As if
            pregnancy wasn't scary enough!  Also, Harriet Brown had a
            smart, happy daughter who was stricken in adolescence by
            anorexia.  Her book describing the family's experience of
            her daughter's illness is called "Brave Girl Eating: A
            Family's Struggle with Anorexia."  Brown talks with Anne
            Strainchamps (whom she's known for years) about her
            daughter's illness and treatment.
                    
            Segment One Outcue:  "...PRI - Public Radio
            International."

24:08 - 24:37  LOCAL OPTION with music bed (:29)

24:38 - 38:10       SEGMENT 2: (13:34)
            Jonah Lehrer has written for The New Yorker, The
            Washington Post and The Boston Globe, and he's written
            two books: Proust Was a Neuroscientist and now, How We
            Decide. Steve Paulson talks with Lehrer about the bio-
            mechanics of the decision-making process. What exactly
            happens in the brain when you "decide" to do something?
                    
            Segment Two Outcue:  "...PRI - Public Radio
            International."

38:11 - 38:40       LOCAL OPTION with music bed (:29)

38:41 - 53:00       SEGMENT 3: (14:19)
            NPR's Scott Simon has endeared himself to listeners as
            the longtime host of Weekend Edition.  He's also a best-
            selling author.  His latest book is "Baby, We Were Meant
            for Each Other: In Praise of Adoption."  Simon talks with
            Anne Strainchamps about why he and his wife are such fans
            of adoption.  They've adopted two baby girls from China,
            and Scott tells the story of what happened when they went
            to pick up their second little girl. There won't be a dry
            eye in the house!
                    
            Segment Three Outcue: PRI Audio Logo


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