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Dwendy Johnson & Barbara Layne Part one: Organ Donation Part two: Childhood Obesity Today, more than 98,000 Americans are on an organ donor waiting list; nearly sixty-five hundred of them are right here in Pennsylvania Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website John Lucas & Erica Walsh Summer Olympics 2008 John Lucas is a Penn State sports historian and an internationally recognized specialist on the history of the modern Olympic games Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wayne Kober, Rita Kohn, & Jim Brown Part one: Dirt Road Part two: Stories of the Lenape You've heard the expression, "Ten miles of bad roads Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hal Hallock & Matt Mench Part one: Motorcycle Safety Part two: Fuel Cells Motorcycle fatalities have been rising steadily for the past eight years Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Andrea Schokker, Gary Gittings, & Barry Schoch Part one: Bridge Safety Part two: Turnpike on I-80 The horrifying images of Minnesota's bridge collapse last summer raise a frightening question: Could it happen here? Despite a record level of investment since 2003, Pennsylvania has the largest number of structurally deficient bridges in the nation, with nearly six thousand Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr. Monica Morrow & Barbara Ekey Part one: Breast Cancer: Are We Making Progress? Part two: Breast Cancer “Lily Fest” If you or someone you love has been diagnosed with breast cancer, you're probably confused, afraid-perhaps even angry Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thom Brewster & Mark Greenberg Part one: Centre Peace Part two: Children in Rural Pennsylvania We talk with the executive director of Centre Peace about the concept of restorative justice and we talk with a researcher about a new that looks at poverty in rural areas---including central Pennsylvania Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Eric Leven & Greg Bock Part one: Special Effects in Movies Part two: Alternative Energy Series: Wind Eric Leven is a visual effects supervisor for Tippett Visual Effects Studio, one of the biggest names in Hollywood Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Harry Campbell III & Dr. Jack Brenizer Part one: Water Quality Trading Credits Part two: Alternative Energy Series: Nuclear You've probably heard about "carbon credits" as a way to mediate climate change Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dan Gediman & Tom Richard Part one: This I Believe Part two: Alternative Energy Series: Biodiesel In 1951, radio pioneer Edward R Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mimi Barash Coppersmith A Conversation with Mimi Barash Coppersmith After nearly 50 years of publication, Town & Gown, the Barash Group's signature publication, has been sold to Indiana Printing & Publishing Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Peter Greene Franklin Silver Cornet Band Long before there was television, movies, or even radio; entertainment in small-town America came from the town band Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website David Kriebel & Andy Lau and Kyle Macht Part one � PA Dutch Pow-Wow Part two � Alternative Energy Series: Solar Powwowing has been practiced in Pennsylvania since the first German-speaking settlements were established here in the early eighteenth century Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr. Doug Weber & Dr. Terry Engelder Part one � Energy Capturing Knee Brace Part two � Alternative Energy Series: Natural Gas The term �Power Walking� has a whole new meaning, thanks to a knee-mounted device that can covert the kinetic energy of walking into useable electricity Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Donald A. Eggen, Ph.D. & Dr. Harold Schobert Part one � Gypsy Moths Part two � Alternative Energy Series: Coal Gypsy moth caterpillar populations were high in central Pennsylvania last summer and are projected to be higher this year Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Diane Castelbuono & Bruce Logan Part one � Better Education for At-Risk Youth Part two � Alternative Energy Series: Fuel Cells The Pennsylvania Department of Education was recently awarded a half million dollar grant from the John D Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Russ Eshelman & Mike Joseph Part one - Capital Culture Part two - Race for the 5th As recently as the 1970s, the U Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mario Vargas Llosa & Lynn Hoffman Part one: A Conversation with Writer Mario Vargas Llosa Part two: �Novel �Approach to Gun Control Mario Vargas Llosa is one of the most prolific and celebrated Latin-American writers of our time Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr. Greg Ferro & Dr. Meena Bose Title: Past & Present Presidential Elections Pundits are calling this year's primaries invigorating, unprecedented, unforgettable Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Don Kraybill & Bill Coleman Title: The Amish Sociologist Donald Kraybill and photographer Bill Coleman have had more access to the Amish than most outsiders Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jennifer Storm Title: Blackout Girl At age 12 and in the throes of her first alcohol-induced blackout, Jennifer Storm was raped Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bill Cawley & Dr. Adam Marcovitch Title: Beating the Odds / Cataract Surgery A diving accident in 1992 left Bill Cawley a quadriplegic Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ellin Dannin & Barry Scheetz Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Frank Baumgartner, Amber Boydstun, & Andrew F. Susko Title: The Decline of the Death Penalty In theory, most Americans support the death penalty, but the possibility of mistakes and recent discoveries of innocence have led to historic shifts in public opinion and to a sharp decline in executions Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr. Kyle Peck & Warren Robinson Title: Classrooms for the Future/Family Planning What if every high school student in Pennsylvania had a laptop? That's the goal of a new Classrooms of the Future initiative, led by Penn State Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bob Allen, Jim Weedon, and Willie Fordham Title: Negro Baseball League When the entire white culture was telling them, 'You will not play baseball,' they went ahead and formed a league Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Joan Quigley & Jean Siphron Title: Centralia Mine Fire Anniversary/ Fit to be Crazy The underground mine fire in Centralia, Pennsylvania, is widely regarded as the nation's worst Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Barbara Layne & Kevin Schwartz Title: Antibiotics Overuse/Healthy Homes Since the introduction of penicillin in 1929, antibiotics have revolutionized medicine and saved countless lives Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Peter Hudson & Barry Marshall Title: Emerging Diseases & 2005 Nobel Prize Co-Recipient Barry Marshall We speak with a Penn State biologist about new infectious diseases and those we still don�t control and one prominent gastroenterologist dismissed him as �a crazy guy, saying crazy things Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Andrew Kleit & Tom Richard Title: Oil & Biomass Energy As gasoline prices rise, so do battle cries to reduce U Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brad Mallory and Dan Hawbacker & Steve Sheetz Title: Remembering Tom Larson/Sheetz Convenience Stores When the late Tom Larson took the helm of PennDOT in 1979, he inherited a highway system mired in scandal Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr. Howard Zehr Title: Restorative Justice Our current model of criminal justice emphasizes punishment and retribution, which helps explain why the United States has the highest incarceration rates in the world Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fred Beckey Title: Mountaineer Fred Beckey His name is synonymous with mountaineering in Alaska, Canada and the western United States Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nina Jablonksi Title: Our Skin In her fascinating book, Skin: A Natural History, Penn State anthropologist Nina Jablonski traces the three-hundred-million-year evolution of our skin, revealing a host of essential functions most of us take for granted Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Anthony Kaye & Dr. Alex Wolszczan Title: Slave Neighborhoods & New Planet They married across plantation lines, strived to get right with God, and fashioned neighborhoods as the focus for their struggles to overthrow slave owners Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gabriel Akec & John Yak Title: Lost Boys of Sudan In 1987, thousands of boys in Sudan were forced to flee their homelands Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Miriam Cooke Title: Muslim DialogGender, war and the Middle East Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr. Daniel J.Glunk, Dr. Al Zoda and Dr. Rick Konstance Title: Trans Fat & Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Trans fats are the hydrogenated oils contained in tens of thousands of processed foods Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Marie Hardin & PA State Senator Jake Corman Title: Athletes in Trouble & a Conversation with Jake Corman Rarely does a week go by that we're not reading about student athletes in trouble with the law Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr. Robert Drago & Charlie Brennan Title: Striking a Balance & PA Emergency Radios Pressures on our time seem greater than ever, with work encroaching more and more into family life Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nichola Gutgold Title: Female Candidates When the first woman president moves into the White House-whenever that day might be-she will be indebted to at least five women who ran for president before her and helped pave the way Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Richard Lempert & Lisa Gensheimer Affirmative Action & Supreme Court Justice Robert H Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dennis McIlnay & Dr. Walt Cotrell Title: Horseshoe Curve & Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease A new book released on the history of the Horseshoe Curve tells the story of three little-known events in American history, including the Nazi plot to destroy the Horseshoe Curve, a mission Adolf Hitler himself conceived Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr. Mark Piasio & Heather Hibshman Title: Smoking Ban & Breast Cancer Awareness Month Is there public support for a smoking ban in restaurants, bars and casinos? There�s a coalition that's pushing for a comprehensive smoke-free workplace law that protects all Pennsylvanians Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dawn McKee & Lupita Reyes Title: Domestic Violence October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month! Relationship violence on college campuses is on the rise Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Greg McNeal & Thomas Day Title: Law and the War on Terrorism & Along the Tigris The trial of Saddam Hussein to the conviction of Jose Padilla has sparked heated global debate about national security law and international criminal law Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pat Shipman Title: Mata Hari When Mata Hari's mummified head was discovered missing from the Museum of Anatomy in Paris, biographer Pat Shipman was intrigued Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Allen Hornblum Title: Sentenced to Science From 1951 until 1974, hundreds of Philadelphia prisoners were used as human guinea pigs in an array of unethical and often dangerous medical experiments Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Michael Kenney, Ph.D. Title: International Terrorism What do Columbian drug-smuggling enterprises and terrorist networks, including al Qaeda, have in common? We talk with a Penn State professor of political science and public policy about his new book, which explores how drug cartels and terrorist groups remain one step ahead of us, despite our military and technical advantages Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bill Russell & Dr. Janet Wright Title: Wild Mushrooms & Allegheny Woodrat Are you in the dark about mushrooms? Picking edible mushrooms in the wild can be risky business-and a practice not to be undertaken by amateurs Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bob Trumpbour & Joseph Speakman Title: New Cathedrals & the Civilian Conservation Corp in PA From the Middle Ages to the Industrial Revolution, many great cities of Europe were best known for their cathedrals Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mike Grabill & Ian Schreibman Title: Substance Abuse & Hepatitis C The use of alcohol, marijuana, and other illegal drugs�most notably heroin and oxycontin�is on the rise in central Pennsylvania Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Peter Whitehouse&Jackie Duffin Title: Alzheimer’s DiseaseDr Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Michael Berube Title: Disability RightsThere are more than 54 million Americans with disabilities Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kathryn Edin&Nancy Folbre Title: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage&"Who Cares?"Why do poor women put motherhood before marriage, despite the daunting challenges? We talk with a noted sociologist about what motherhood and marriage mean in the context of poverty Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr. Kevin Murphy & Jim Borgardt Title: International Center for the Study of Terrorism & Nuclear Terrorism What makes someone join-or support-a terrorist group? A new International Center for the Study of Terrorism has just been established on the University Park campus of Penn State Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Linda Marshall, Al Luloff & Ted Alter Title: Affordable Housing & Rural Economy At least one in four Pennsylvanians find it difficult to bridge the gap between their wages and increased housing costs Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mark Kriegel & Marc Eliot Title: Pistol Pete & Jimmy Stewart Some say his life reads like a Greek tragedy Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stanley Weintraub & Warren C. Robinson Title: 15 Stars: Eisenhower, MacArthur, Marshall & the Battle of Gettysburg Douglas MacArthur, George Marshall and Dwight Eisenhower paved the way to U Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website David Freedman & Martha Freeman Title: Science & Technology and Author Martha Freeman Author and journalist David Freedman writes about science, technology and business, and the intersections between them Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lisa Marshall & John Lutz Title: Burn Out Nation & Does the Nittany Lion live? Are we becoming a nation of burnouts? We talk with an executive coach who says employees are struggling to survive in today's fast-paced workplace Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Michael Kenney Title: International Terrorism What do Columbian drug-smuggling enterprises and terrorist networks, including al Qaeda, have in common? We talk with a Penn State professor of political science and public policy about his new book, which explores how drug cartels and terrorist groups remain one step ahead of us, despite our military and technical advantages Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Damon Boughamer & Scott Conklin Title: Legislative Reform Are you unhappy with state government? Last November, Pennsylvanians voted for change Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Col. Gerald Russell & Lorann Jacobs Title: World War II Remembered & Boalsburg Memorial Day Sculptor The thirty-six day campaign to capture Iwo Jima was the bloodiest in the history of the U Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr. Ian Schreibman & Mark Shriver Title: Hepatitis C & Skin Cancer Awareness Month An estimated four million Americans are infected with Hepatitis C Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr. Peter Whitehouse and Jackie Duffin Title: Alzheimer�s Disease Dr Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Clyde & Chad Peeling, Susan Ryan, and Vanessa Dietrick Title: Reptiland, Agritourism & Annual River Sojourn Reptiland, located between Williamsport and Lewisburg, is much more than a roadside attraction Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tawni O�Dell & Dr. Deborah Roney Title: Tawni O�Dell & Language in Motion Her debut novel, Back Roads, was an Oprah Book Club selection and a New York Times bestseller Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr. Albert Wu & Kathy Stadler Title: Medical Errors & Cancer Control Month Tens of thousands of people die in hospitals each year as a result of preventable medical errors, making it the eighth leading cause of death in the U Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Judy Maltz-Schejter, Barbara Bird and Richie Sherman Title: Holocaust Remembrance Sunday, April 15th is Holocaust Remembrance Day, we talk with the producer/director of a new documentary �On the Side of Angels,� about Polish Christians who risked their lives to save Jewish neighbors during World War II Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr. Robert Trumpbour & Dr. Joseph Speakman Title: New Cathedrals & the Civilian Conservation Corp in PA From the Middle Ages to the Industrial Revolution, many great cities of Europe were best known for their cathedrals Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nancy Folbre, Al Luloff & Ted Alter Title: �Who Cares?� & Pennsylvania�s Rural Economy Time is not money, in fact time is more important than money! On this edition of Take Note, we talk with a feminist economist who says the Gross Domestic Product doesn't adequately measure unpaid labor predominantly performed by women, such as housework, childcare, and eldercare Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr. Michael Berube Title: Disability Rights There are more than 54 million Americans with disabilities Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gary Clark & Elizabeth Cash Title: Homeless & Micro-Loans Gary Clark's photographs of the homeless in Wilkes-Barre and New York City are drawing attention to the plight of homelessness Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Joe & Mary Ann MacDonald and Charlene Friedman Title: Wildlife Photography & PA Alpacas Chances are you've seen their iconic photographic images Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr. Ingrid Mattson Title: Muslim in America An American Muslim leader says American Muslims have a special duty to demythologize Islam to the American public and to stop violence committed by Muslims in the name of Islam Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gary Alt & Anne Sullivan Title: Black Bears & Anne Sullivan Gary Alt is best known as one of the nation's leading experts on the biology of the black bear Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rick & Liz Boni Title: Chainsaw Rendezvous The world famous Ridgway Chainsaw Rendezvous is the world's largest gathering of chainsaw artists in the country and last year the event received funding from the National Endowment for the Arts Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mike Grabill & Agent Randy Feathers Title: Substance Abuse & Blair County Drug Task Force Substance abuse is a growing problem in central Pennsylvania Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Shaun Gabbidon & Elaine Richardson Title: Living While Black & the African American Read-in What role does stress play on the quality of life among Black Americans? During the program, we'll talk with a Penn State researcher about his state-by-state Living While Black index Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stephen Scott & Donald Kraybill Title: Horse & Buggy Mennonites The murders of five little girls at an Amish school house in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, this past fall was viewed not just as a human tragedy but as a dreadful clash of cultures Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr. George Olt & Dr. Craig Myers Title: Cervical Cancer January is Cervical Cancer Awareness Month Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr. Jerry Zahorchak Title: PA Secretary of Education Pennsylvania�s Secretary of Education has a challenging job: to oversee all education initiatives in the state Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Frank Deford Title: A Conversation with Frank Deford Among the most celebrated and versatile writers in the country, Frank Deford's work appears in virtually every medium-books, magazines, movies and television Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mike Reid Title: A Conversation with Mike Reid He was an All-American Penn State football player in the 1960s and later, a first-round draft pick for the Cincinnati Bengals Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pete Kiefer Title: Fred Waring America Collection His name has been synonymous with music since his high school years in Tyrone, Pennsylvania Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stanley Weintraub & David Wolfgang Title: 11 Days in December & Wild Hogs In his newest book, 11 Days in December, master historian Stanley Weintraub transports readers to the frontlines of what was one of the deadliest battles for American forces during WWII Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Norma Keller, Jane Roberts, & Kathryn Edin Title: 34 Million Friends & Promises I Can Keep They were so outraged when the Bush Administration reneged on its commitment to provide $34 million to the United Nations Population Fund that they took matters into their own hands Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ray Lombra & Bathsheba Monk Title: The Penny & Now You See It A penny saved may be a penny earned, but today, many of us are reluctant to even take pennies as change Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Linda Marshall & Penny Wolboldt Title: Affordable Housing & Allegheny Chronicles Housing is considered "affordable" if a family pays no more than 30% of its monthly income for total housing costs Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pat Conway & Frank Leone Title: Lung Cancer Lung cancer kills more Americans than breast, prostate and colon cancer combined Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Charlie Young, Sam McConnell, and Manfred Kroger Title: Ethanol Plant The Bush Administration's Biofuels Initiative to reduce foreign oil dependence calls for the development of advanced technologies for producing ethanol that is both practical and competitive by 2012 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bill Russell & Dr. Janet Wright Title: Wild Mushrooms & Allegheny Woodrat Are you in the dark about mushrooms? Picking edible mushrooms in the wild can be risky business-and a practice not to be undertaken by amateurs Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr. Kevin Murphy & Jim Borgardt Title: Terrorism What makes someone join-or support-a terrorist group? A new International Center for the Study of Terrorism has just been established on the University Park campus of Penn State Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tom Donohue Title: Who's Positive? When Tom Donohue learned three years ago that he was HIV positive, it was a very private and painful moment Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Richard Alley & Andre Boehman Title: Global Warming Researchers now say that climate change didn't happen gradually in the past, and it won't happen that way in the future Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Former Ambassador Joseph Wilson This past July, Joseph Wilson and Valerie Plame filed a civil lawsuit against Vice President Dick Cheney, Lewis �Scooter� Libby and Karl Rove Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sean Patrick Griffin Title: Black Mafia Beginning in the late 1960s, the infamous �Black Mafia� terrorized predominantly African-American sections of Philadelphia and was linked to some of the most heinous crimes in Philadelphia history Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Marybeth Kuznik, Chris Exarchos, & Mary Vollero Title: Pennslvania Voting Machines The Help America Vote Act, which revised election standards and encouraged states to get ride of punch-card voting systems, came in response to the dimpled ballots fiasco that accompanied the 2000 presidential election Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sandra Spanier, Linda Littleton, and Karen Hirshon It is hard to find anyone writing today who doesn't owe a debt of influence to Ernest Hemingway, one of the greatest American authors of all time Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tom and Leesa Folmar & Andrea Hille He discovered mountaineering in 1986 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr. Rustum Roy & Dr. Jay Hosler The simple little molecule we call H20 may not be so simple after all Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Marvin Hamlisch At the age of seven, he became the youngest student ever admitted to the acclaimed Juilliard School of Music Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bill Siemering His lifelong love affair with radio began more than 50 years ago Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website James Morrow & Andrew Jackson His newest book has been called utterly original, provocative and truly unforgettable Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lindsay Barrett George, Christopher Raschka, & Rick Hirsch Pennsylvania's yearlong initiative, "One Book, Every Young Child," is dedicated to instilling in children a lifelong love of learning Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Salman Rushdie He once lamented "People are now much more interested in writers than in their writing Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jim Campi, Paul & Kathryn Mackes The Civil War Preservation Trust has preserved more than 22,000 acres of battlefield land in 19 states, including key parcels in Pennsylvania Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Leo Mazow & Richard Sleigh If �banjo� makes you think �hillbilly�, you�re the one in the dark ages Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Patty Kleban, Tobin Short, & Adam Smeltz The State College Area School District is a district divided Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kent Vrana & Lee Newsom Scientists may have found a less controversial way of getting special human cells capable of growing into nerves, organs or any other cell in the body Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Eugene Lengerich & Ralph W. Moss, Ph.D. Residents of Appalachia suffer from more colorectal cancer deaths than the rest of the country, and in Pennsylvania, colorectal cancer is most often diagnosed during the late stages when chances of survival is lower Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kathy Patnode and Bruce Pluta & Lisa Gensheimer In celebration of Earth Day 2006, we talk with two environmentalists about their work on a former Superfund site in Mifflin County Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Steve Herzenberg & Emily Stover DeRocco The federal minimum wage has been stuck at $5 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Anthony Leach & Bill Sisson To hear a performance by Penn State's student choir, Essence of Joy, is to know that the message and meaning of gospel is powerful and contagious Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mike Joseph & PA Senator Jake Corman The construction of Interstate 99 over Centre County's Skytop Mountain has been stalled for almost three years-ever since excavations turned up acid-bearing rocks that threaten area trout streams and groundwater Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mike Sobkowski & Anita Ditz Family literacy programs have been hurt by cuts in federal funding Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Attorney James Kimmel, Jr. In the name of justice we employ 700,000 lawyers, file 36 million lawsuits and imprison more than two million people Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pam Monk & Nancy Mooney She's been called one of the best satirists on the planet Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Greg Eghigian & Wilbur Zelinsky In 1946, 23 leading Nazi doctors stood trial for murder, torture and other atrocities committed in the name of medical science Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Steve Schmidt, Kathy and Larry Dansky It is estimated that nearly 2/3 of high school seniors consume alcohol, the drug of choice for teenagers Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PEMA Director James Joseph General James Joseph is the new director of the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency (PEMA) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gene Stilp & Melvin Romig His lawsuits and press releases have Pennsylvania's top legislators in a tizzy Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lauren Larsen & Wendi Keeler According to the American Red Cross, only 5 percent of people who are eligible donate blood Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pat Shipman & Preston Green In one of the biggest courtroom clashes between faith and evolution since the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial, a federal judge ruled that it was unconstitutional for the Dover School district to present Intelligent Design in high school biology courses, saying the concept is creationism in disguise Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Robert Shaler & Bob McConnell On this edition of the program, we talk with Robert Shaler Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Allen Biehler & Joe Jenkins The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, better known as PennDot, operates the fifth largest state-owned highway system in the nation Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Josip Novakovich, Linda Littleton & Karen Hirshon We speak with Croatian-born writer Josip Novakovich, winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship and numerous other awards, about his newest work Infidelities, another masterful collection of short stories Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dennis Dickey & Kim Steiner Earlier Pennsylvanians rarely passed up an opportunity to dam a river, creek or stream Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jim Lichtman & Ernest Giglio We talked with Jim Lichtman, an ethics specialist, who says Martha Stewart may have paid her debt to society for lying to government investigators about a suspicious stock trade, but that doesn't make her a role model for how to run a successful business Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lee Peterson This week we observe the 10th anniversary of the peace accord after the war in Bosnia Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Marjorie Maddox & Jerry Wemple Penn State Press has released a new poetry anthology that�s a unique celebration of Pennsylvania Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rachel Simon & Arthur Goldstein According to one reviewer, "You couldn't get off this bus if you tried Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Andrew Vachss For more than three decades, Andrew Vachss has sought to protect children from the devastating effects of child abuse both as a lawyer who represents children exclusively and as a writer whose dark fiction brings his battle before a wider audience Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sandra Spanier and Megan Lloyd It is hard to find anyone writing today who doesn't owe a debt of influence to Ernest Hemingway, one of the greatest American authors of all time Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Scott Bruce, Anna Marie and AnneLiese Nachman He says he was the least funny of everyone in his family Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ambassador Joseph Wilson On Friday, October 28, 2005, Vice President Cheney's Chief of Staff, "Scooter" Libby, was indicted in the Valerie Plame spy case, prompting us to open our archives Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dick Thornburgh The only Republican to be elected to two successive terms of governor of Pennsylvania, Dick Thornburgh has been a key player in American political and legal life for more than three decades Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Debbie Elliott and Michael Jinbo This past August, Debbie Elliott was named host of the weekend edition of All Things Considered Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ray Suarez With more than 25 years of varied experience in the news business, Ray Saurez is not only a senior correspondent for the NewsHour on PBS, the former NPR host is also an author and essayist Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jennifer Weiner Lots of novelists get their start at small-town newspapers, like Jennifer Weiner, a reporter for the Centre Daily Times in State College in the early �90s Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Steven Herb As the school year gears up, parents and teachers are wrestling with the issue of "how do you get kids to read?" In Central Pennsylvania there's an institution dedicated to promoting reading -- for kids, and for readers of ALL ages Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Susie Glaze, Peter Pickow & Van Wagner We talk with performers Susie Glaze and Peter Pickow about "Singing the Moon Up," an evening of music and storytelling based on the life of folk music legend Jean Ritchie Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mark Bernhard Rock star Bruce Springsteen dropped out of college Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website