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View the full archive of KQED's Perspectives Back to the Future When Tania Schweig decided to become an orthodox Jew, she didn't expect that many of her faith's traditions would make her lifestyle so cutting edge. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bird Feeder Peggy Hansen puts out a feeder to please her local feathered friends, but keeping everybody happy turns out to be not so simple. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Whose Fault Is It? A mentally ill man is removed from a public library by the police — and the ugly scene leaves Jocelyn Wiener with difficult questions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website So Much Can Change Anne Stuhldreher's mom suffered silently while undergoing chemotherapy for lymphoma, until a speech by Maria Shriver made it possible for her to share her fear and pain with her daughter. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Saving Sharp Park Golf writer Gerry Stratford argues that saving Sharp Park is about saving not just a golf course, but also an experience valuable to people from many walks of life. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website You're Only As Old As... They say you're only as old as you feel. Richard Friedlander knows that's a bunch of baloney. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website College Prep Julie Turjoman's daughter was well prepared for college far from home, except when it came to dealing with her health care. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Compost It More and more towns and cities are encouraging — or ordering — their residents to compost. Fern Burch has some tips for how to get started. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Abalone Diving For Brian Dinday, abalone diving is dangerous and challenging — but its compelling thrills are about much more than abalone. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Crowded Wilderness Carol Arnold heads for Zion National Park where her experience of the wild is tempered by prerecorded guides, bus tours and people, lot and lots of people. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website My Name Is Changing your name isn't easy and it isn't cheap. But for Sho Sho Smith, it was worth every inconvenience. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Penny Saved When she immigrated to this country, Youth Radio's Denise Tejada was taught relentlessly by her father about saving, credit and real estate. Now, at 20 years old, she's bought her own home. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website One Year Later It's been a year since America elected its first African American president, and Brenda Payton says the country is still figuring out how to deal with it. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dow 10,000 The stock market skips above and below the 10,000 mark, but Bob Goldman wonders why investors attach so much meaning to a number that doesn't mean much. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Let the Light Shine To Lewis Heathcote, California's referendum-soaked direct democracy means that a constitutional convention to cure what ails state governance is more likely to be a Trojan War than an Age of Aquarius. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website From New Year's Day to Halloween How did a Celtic celebration of New Year's Day become our modern Halloween? Michael Ellis has the answer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Give a Little When John Mathias established a small arts scholarship, he didn't realize that perhaps its biggest beneficiary would be himself. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Red, White and Blue Socialism Socialism isn't usually associated with Americanism, unless, as history teacher Josh Gnass notes, you happen to be the author of the Pledge of Allegiance. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Sound of Music There's a spot on Irving Street in the Inner Sunset where you're sure to find street musicians. Katherine Field-Rothschild's family taught her never to just walk on by the music. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Times, They Are A-Changin' To some people time is a fact. To Jessica O'Dwyer, who doesn't have a single clock or watch keeping the same time, it's a little more complicated than that. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website