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6:00 AM

Joy Cardin

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After six, Joy Cardin talks with a Wisconsin Alzheimer's researcher about new efforts to diagnose and predict the disease, and the latest in Alzheimer's research.
Guest: Dr. Mark Sager, Professor of Medicine and Population Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Director, Wisconsin Alzheimer's Institute.



7:00 AM

Joy Cardin

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After seven, Joy Cardin has this week's Big Question: "Should Social Security set a higher age qualification to receive benefits?" Leaders in both major parties have suggested a retirement age boost... Joy gets two takes on the question.
Guests:
- Olivia Mitchell, Professor of Insurance and Risk Management and Business and Public Policy, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania. Executive Director, Pension Research Council.
- Maria Freese (FREEZ), Director of Government Relations and Policy, National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare.



8:00 AM

Joy Cardin

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After eight, Joy Cardin talks to a Wisconsinite who's won international attention as a travel blogger. He'll share some of his favorite travel experiences - and Joy wants to hear yours, as well.
Guest: Gary Arndt, travel blogger, Everything-Everywhere dot com (rated one of the best 25 blogs of 2010 by Time Magazine). www.everything-everywhere.com



9:00 AM

Kathleen Dunn

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After nine, Kathleen Dunn and her guest examine the outlook today for the un-employed and under-employed in America.
Guest: Katherine Newman, Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Princeton University. Author, "The Missing Class: Portraits of the Near Poor in America"



10:00 AM

Kathleen Dunn

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After ten, a renowned and innovative educator, Rafe Esquith, joins Kathleen Dunn to discuss his teaching philosophy.
Guest: Rafe Esquith, Elementary school teacher, Los Angeles. Author, "Teach Like Your Hair is on Fire: The Methods and Madness Inside Room 56" “Lighting Their Fires: How Parents and Teachers can Raise Extraordinary Kids".



11:00 AM

Larry Meiller

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After eleven, Larry Meiller talks with a man who rode a bicycle around the world. He is Scott Stoll of Waukesha, author of "Falling Uphill: Dreams for the Young Adventurer and the Young at Heart" (the Argonauts). www.theArgonauts.com


11:45 AM

Larry Meiller

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After eleven-forty five, Larry Meiller joins the search for the elusive Great Lakes Spotted Muskie. His guest is professional guide and outdoors writer, Gary Engberg of Mazomanie, WI. gengberg@garyengbergoutdoors.com


12:30 PM

Chapter A Day


Jim Fleming reads from a new novel, "Union Atlantic," by Adam Haslett. It's a portrait of the modern gilded age - the first decade of the twenty-first century.


1:00 PM

Talk of the Nation


After one, on TALK OF THE NATION, join Ken Rudin and host Neal Conan for a special Rockies edition of the Political Junkie.


2:00 PM

Talk of the Nation


After two, on TALK OF THE NATION, a look at childhood hunger in America.


3:00 PM

Here On Earth: Radio Without Borders

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On Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders with Jean Feraca, the growing rift between Turkey and Israel... and what Turkey might look like in the future.
Guest: Seyla Benhabib, Turkish Jewish philosopher. Author. Professor of political science and philosophy, Yale University.



4:00 PM

At Issue with Ben Merens

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A couple from Milwaukee chose to end their lives together rather than live them out in states of illness. In their passing they asked us to discuss their choice and yours. Today after four, join Ben Merens and his guest in a discussion about how we choose to die.
GUEST: Arthur Derse is the director of medical and legal affairs, and associate director, Center for the Study of Bioethics at the Medical College of Wisconsin. He is also director of the Medical Humanities Program and a professor of bioethics and emergency medicine.



5:00 PM

At Issue with Ben Merens

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In the effort to diagnose Alzheimer's earlier... before memory problems surface... medical experts have proposed the first new guidelines in twenty-five years. After five, Ben Merens and his guests examine the current state of the early detection of Alzheimer's Disease. A look at how bio-markers, such as brain imaging, can help.
Guests:
- Creighton Phelps, Director, Alzheimer's Disease Centers Program, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health.
- Maria Carrillo, Director of Medical and Scientific Relations, Alzheimer's Association.



6:00 PM

On Point


After six, On Point: Racial Anxieties in America.
In the age of diversity, are elite universities denying working class whites equal treatment? New racial anxieties, and who's getting left behind in America.



7:00 PM

On Point


After seven, On Point: The Story of Whales.
Outside magazine has gone deep on the story of the Killer Whale that killed at Sea World. On Point gets the whole story of whales, captivity, and the dead trainer.



8:00 PM

As It Happens


At eight, it's As It Happens from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.


9:00 PM

Here On Earth: Radio Without Borders

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On Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders with Jean Feraca, the growing rift between Turkey and Israel... and what Turkey might look like in the future.
Guest: Seyla Benhabib, Turkish Jewish philosopher. Author. Professor of political science and philosophy, Yale University.



10:00 PM

Kathleen Dunn

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After ten, a renowned and innovative educator, Rafe Esquith, joins Kathleen Dunn to discuss his teaching philosophy.
Guest: Rafe Esquith, Elementary school teacher, Los Angeles. Author, "Teach Like Your Hair is on Fire: The Methods and Madness Inside Room 56" “Lighting Their Fires: How Parents and Teachers can Raise Extraordinary Kids".



11:00 PM

Chapter A Day


Jim Fleming reads from a new novel, "Union Atlantic," by Adam Haslett. It's a portrait of the modern gilded age - the first decade of the twenty-first century.


11:30 PM

BBC World Service


World news and features are heard overnight seven days a week from the British Broadcasting Corporation.

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