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WPSU - Take Note Radio Podcasts

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Hosted by Patty Satalia, this continuing interview series covers a very broad range of topics from entertainment, politics, science, literature, journalism and more.

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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

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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

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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

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Hal Hallock & Matt Mench

Part one: Motorcycle Safety Part two: Fuel Cells Motorcycle fatalities have been rising steadily for the past eight years

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Dan Gediman & Tom Richard

Part one: This I Believe Part two: Alternative Energy Series: Biodiesel In 1951, radio pioneer Edward R

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Russ Eshelman & Mike Joseph

Part one - Capital Culture Part two - Race for the 5th As recently as the 1970s, the U

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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

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Dr. Greg Ferro & Dr. Meena Bose

Title: Past & Present Presidential Elections Pundits are calling this year's primaries invigorating, unprecedented, unforgettable

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Don Kraybill & Bill Coleman

Title: The Amish Sociologist Donald Kraybill and photographer Bill Coleman have had more access to the Amish than most outsiders

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Jennifer Storm

Title: Blackout Girl At age 12 and in the throes of her first alcohol-induced blackout, Jennifer Storm was raped

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Bill Cawley & Dr. Adam Marcovitch

Title: Beating the Odds / Cataract Surgery A diving accident in 1992 left Bill Cawley a quadriplegic

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Ellin Dannin & Barry Scheetz

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Barbara Layne & Kevin Schwartz

Title: Antibiotics Overuse/Healthy Homes Since the introduction of penicillin in 1929, antibiotics have revolutionized medicine and saved countless lives

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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 dont control and one prominent gastroenterologist dismissed him as a crazy guy, saying crazy things

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Andrew Kleit & Tom Richard

Title: Oil & Biomass Energy As gasoline prices rise, so do battle cries to reduce U

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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

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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

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Fred Beckey

Title: Mountaineer Fred Beckey His name is synonymous with mountaineering in Alaska, Canada and the western United States

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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

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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

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Gabriel Akec & John Yak

Title: Lost Boys of Sudan In 1987, thousands of boys in Sudan were forced to flee their homelands

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Miriam Cooke

Title: Muslim DialogGender, war and the Middle East

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Richard Lempert & Lisa Gensheimer

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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? Theres a coalition that's pushing for a comprehensive smoke-free workplace law that protects all Pennsylvanians

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Dawn McKee & Lupita Reyes

Title: Domestic Violence October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month! Relationship violence on college campuses is on the rise

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Mike Grabill & Ian Schreibman

Title: Substance Abuse & Hepatitis C The use of alcohol, marijuana, and other illegal drugsmost notably heroin and oxycontinis on the rise in central Pennsylvania

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Peter Whitehouse&Jackie Duffin

Title: Alzheimer’s DiseaseDr

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Michael Berube

Title: Disability RightsThere are more than 54 million Americans with disabilities

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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

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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

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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

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Mark Kriegel & Marc Eliot

Title: Pistol Pete & Jimmy Stewart Some say his life reads like a Greek tragedy

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Damon Boughamer & Scott Conklin

Title: Legislative Reform Are you unhappy with state government? Last November, Pennsylvanians voted for change

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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

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Dr. Ian Schreibman & Mark Shriver

Title: Hepatitis C & Skin Cancer Awareness Month An estimated four million Americans are infected with Hepatitis C

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Dr. Peter Whitehouse and Jackie Duffin

Title: Alzheimers Disease Dr

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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

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Tawni ODell & Dr. Deborah Roney

Title: Tawni ODell & Language in Motion Her debut novel, Back Roads, was an Oprah Book Club selection and a New York Times bestseller

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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

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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

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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

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Nancy Folbre, Al Luloff & Ted Alter

Title: Who Cares? & Pennsylvanias 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

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Dr. Michael Berube

Title: Disability Rights There are more than 54 million Americans with disabilities

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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

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Joe & Mary Ann MacDonald and Charlene Friedman

Title: Wildlife Photography & PA Alpacas Chances are you've seen their iconic photographic images

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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

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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

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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

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Mike Grabill & Agent Randy Feathers

Title: Substance Abuse & Blair County Drug Task Force Substance abuse is a growing problem in central Pennsylvania

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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

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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

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Dr. George Olt & Dr. Craig Myers

Title: Cervical Cancer January is Cervical Cancer Awareness Month

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Dr. Jerry Zahorchak

Title: PA Secretary of Education Pennsylvanias Secretary of Education has a challenging job: to oversee all education initiatives in the state

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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

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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

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Pete Kiefer

Title: Fred Waring America Collection His name has been synonymous with music since his high school years in Tyrone, Pennsylvania

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Pat Conway & Frank Leone

Title: Lung Cancer Lung cancer kills more Americans than breast, prostate and colon cancer combined

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Tom and Leesa Folmar & Andrea Hille

He discovered mountaineering in 1986

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Dr. Rustum Roy & Dr. Jay Hosler

The simple little molecule we call H20 may not be so simple after all

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Marvin Hamlisch

At the age of seven, he became the youngest student ever admitted to the acclaimed Juilliard School of Music

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Bill Siemering

His lifelong love affair with radio began more than 50 years ago

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James Morrow & Andrew Jackson

His newest book has been called utterly original, provocative and truly unforgettable

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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

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Salman Rushdie

He once lamented "People are now much more interested in writers than in their writing

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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

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Leo Mazow & Richard Sleigh

If banjo makes you think hillbilly, youre the one in the dark ages

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Patty Kleban, Tobin Short, & Adam Smeltz

The State College Area School District is a district divided

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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

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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

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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

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Steve Herzenberg & Emily Stover DeRocco

The federal minimum wage has been stuck at $5

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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

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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

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Mike Sobkowski & Anita Ditz

Family literacy programs have been hurt by cuts in federal funding

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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

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Pam Monk & Nancy Mooney

She's been called one of the best satirists on the planet

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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

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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

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PEMA Director James Joseph

General James Joseph is the new director of the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency (PEMA)

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Gene Stilp & Melvin Romig

His lawsuits and press releases have Pennsylvania's top legislators in a tizzy

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Lauren Larsen & Wendi Keeler

According to the American Red Cross, only 5 percent of people who are eligible donate blood

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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

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Robert Shaler & Bob McConnell

On this edition of the program, we talk with Robert Shaler

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Allen Biehler & Joe Jenkins

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, better known as PennDot, operates the fifth largest state-owned highway system in the nation

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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

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Dennis Dickey & Kim Steiner

Earlier Pennsylvanians rarely passed up an opportunity to dam a river, creek or stream

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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

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Lee Peterson

This week we observe the 10th anniversary of the peace accord after the war in Bosnia

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Marjorie Maddox & Jerry Wemple

Penn State Press has released a new poetry anthology thats a unique celebration of Pennsylvania

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Rachel Simon & Arthur Goldstein

According to one reviewer, "You couldn't get off this bus if you tried

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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

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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

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Scott Bruce, Anna Marie and AnneLiese Nachman

He says he was the least funny of everyone in his family

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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

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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

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Debbie Elliott and Michael Jinbo

This past August, Debbie Elliott was named host of the weekend edition of All Things Considered

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Mark Bernhard

Rock star Bruce Springsteen dropped out of college

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