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Dwendy Johnson & Barbara Layne Updated: 2008-08-05 20:09:56 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD John Lucas & Erica Walsh Updated: 2008-07-31 19:32:58 Description: Summer Olympics 2008 John Lucas is a Penn State sports historian and an internationally recognized specialist on the history of the modern Olympic games...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Wayne Kober, Rita Kohn, & Jim Brown Updated: 2008-07-21 17:02:20 Description: Part one: Dirt Road Part two: Stories of the Lenape You've heard the expression, "Ten miles of bad roads...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Hal Hallock & Matt Mench Updated: 2008-07-15 18:09:24 Description: Part one: Motorcycle Safety Part two: Fuel Cells Motorcycle fatalities have been rising steadily for the past eight years...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Andrea Schokker, Gary Gittings, & Barry Schoch Updated: 2008-07-07 16:13:57 Description: 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 nu...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Dr. Monica Morrow & Barbara Ekey Updated: 2008-06-30 17:41:46 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Thom Brewster & Mark Greenberg Updated: 2008-06-23 18:20:50 Description: 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 ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Eric Leven & Greg Bock Updated: 2008-06-17 13:49:22 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Harry Campbell III & Dr. Jack Brenizer Updated: 2008-06-09 14:13:29 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Dan Gediman & Tom Richard Updated: 2008-06-04 13:06:40 Description: Part one: This I Believe Part two: Alternative Energy Series: Biodiesel In 1951, radio pioneer Edward R...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Mimi Barash Coppersmith Updated: 2008-05-27 14:49:13 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Peter Greene Updated: 2008-05-20 15:11:24 Description: Franklin Silver Cornet Band Long before there was television, movies, or even radio; entertainment in small-town America came from the town band...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD David Kriebel & Andy Lau and Kyle Macht Updated: 2008-05-12 13:21:10 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Dr. Doug Weber & Dr. Terry Engelder Updated: 2008-05-05 14:12:34 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Donald A. Eggen, Ph.D. & Dr. Harold Schobert Updated: 2008-04-28 18:43:00 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Diane Castelbuono & Bruce Logan Updated: 2008-04-21 16:16:44 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Russ Eshelman & Mike Joseph Updated: 2008-04-16 20:44:13 Description: Part one - Capital Culture Part two - Race for the 5th As recently as the 1970s, the U...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Mario Vargas Llosa & Lynn Hoffman Updated: 2008-04-11 15:03:59 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Dr. Greg Ferro & Dr. Meena Bose Updated: 2008-03-31 15:20:34 Description: Title: Past & Present Presidential Elections Pundits are calling this year's primaries invigorating, unprecedented, unforgettable...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Don Kraybill & Bill Coleman Updated: 2008-03-24 15:09:02 Description: Title: The Amish Sociologist Donald Kraybill and photographer Bill Coleman have had more access to the Amish than most outsiders...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Jennifer Storm Updated: 2008-03-19 18:09:32 Description: Title: Blackout Girl At age 12 and in the throes of her first alcohol-induced blackout, Jennifer Storm was raped...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Bill Cawley & Dr. Adam Marcovitch Updated: 2008-03-06 21:46:59 Description: Title: Beating the Odds / Cataract Surgery A diving accident in 1992 left Bill Cawley a quadriplegic...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Ellen Dannin & Barry Scheetz Updated: 2008-03-03 15:48:38 Description: ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Frank Baumgartner, Amber Boydstun, & Andrew F. Susko Updated: 2008-02-26 21:26:28 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Dr. Kyle Peck & Warren Robinson Updated: 2008-02-18 19:11:29 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Bob Allen, Jim Weedon, and Willie Fordham Updated: 2008-02-11 15:34:18 Description: Title: Negro Baseball League When the entire white culture was telling them, 'You will not play baseball,' they went ahead and formed a league...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Joan Quigley & Jean Siphron Updated: 2008-02-05 14:46:24 Description: Title: Centralia Mine Fire Anniversary/ Fit to be Crazy The underground mine fire in Centralia, Pennsylvania, is widely regarded as the nation's worst...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Barbara Layne & Kevin Schwartz Updated: 2008-01-28 15:03:41 Description: Title: Antibiotics Overuse/Healthy Homes Since the introduction of penicillin in 1929, antibiotics have revolutionized medicine and saved countless lives...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Peter Hudson & Barry Marshall Updated: 2008-01-21 17:18:02 Description: 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, sayi...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Andrew Kleit & Tom Richard Updated: 2008-01-15 15:57:56 Description: Title: Oil & Biomass Energy As gasoline prices rise, so do battle cries to reduce U...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Brad Mallory and Dan Hawbacker & Steve Sheetz Updated: 2008-01-09 16:11:01 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Dr. Howard Zehr Updated: 2007-12-31 17:19:17 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Fred Beckey Updated: 2007-12-31 15:27:04 Description: Title: Mountaineer Fred Beckey His name is synonymous with mountaineering in Alaska, Canada and the western United States...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Nina Jablonksi Updated: 2007-12-17 16:17:47 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Anthony Kaye & Dr. Alex Wolszczan Updated: 2007-12-10 16:10:14 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Gabriel Akec & John Yak Updated: 2007-12-03 16:26:35 Description: Title: Lost Boys of Sudan In 1987, thousands of boys in Sudan were forced to flee their homelands...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Miriam Cooke Updated: 2007-11-26 16:16:47 Description: Title: Muslim Dialog Gender, war and the Middle East...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Dr. Daniel J.Glunk, Dr. Al Zoda and Dr. Rick Konstance Updated: 2007-11-19 17:00:10 Description: Title: Trans Fat & Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Trans fats are the hydrogenated oils contained in tens of thousands of processed foods...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Marie Hardin & PA State Senator Jake Corman Updated: 2007-11-14 19:35:06 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Dr. Robert Drago & Charlie Brennan Updated: 2007-11-05 16:31:47 Description: Title: Striking a Balance & PA Emergency Radios Pressures on our time seem greater than ever, with work encroaching more and more into family life...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Nichola Gutgold Updated: 2007-10-29 15:24:38 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Richard Lempert & Lisa Gensheimer Updated: 2007-10-22 14:27:11 Description: Affirmative Action & Supreme Court Justice Robert H...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Dennis McIlnay & Dr. Walt Cotrell Updated: 2007-10-15 16:24:05 Description: 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 Ado...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Dr. Mark Piasio & Heather Hibshman Updated: 2007-10-08 14:47:15 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Dawn McKee & Lupita Reyes Updated: 2007-10-02 16:00:16 Description: Title: Domestic Violence October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month! Relationship violence on college campuses is on the rise...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Greg McNeal & Thomas Day Updated: 2007-09-24 16:00:50 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Pat Shipman Updated: 2007-09-17 15:47:19 Description: Title: Mata Hari When Mata Hari's mummified head was discovered missing from the Museum of Anatomy in Paris, biographer Pat Shipman was intrigued...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Allen Hornblum Updated: 2007-09-10 17:20:04 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Michael Kenney, Ph.D. Updated: 2007-09-04 14:36:27 Description: 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 ho...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Bill Russell & Dr. Janet Wright [Encore] Updated: 2007-08-27 16:58:21 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Bob Trumpbour & Joseph Speakman Updated: 2007-08-20 16:46:28 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Mike Grabill & Ian Schreibman Updated: 2007-08-13 15:34:34 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Peter Whitehouse & Jackie Duffin Updated: 2007-07-31 14:43:21 Description: Title: Alzheimer’s Disease Dr...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Michael Berube Updated: 2007-07-31 14:41:53 Description: Title: Disability Rights There are more than 54 million Americans with disabilities...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Kathryn Edin & Nancy Folbre Updated: 2007-07-24 15:44:24 Description: 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 pover...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Dr. Kevin Murphy & Jim Borgardt [Encore] Updated: 2007-07-16 15:36:48 Description: 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 ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Linda Marshall, Al Luloff & Ted Alter Updated: 2007-07-09 15:42:02 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Mark Kriegel & Marc Eliot Updated: 2007-07-02 13:58:37 Description: Title: Pistol Pete & Jimmy Stewart Some say his life reads like a Greek tragedy...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Stanley Weintraub & Warren C. Robinson Updated: 2007-06-25 16:12:05 Description: Title: 15 Stars: Eisenhower, MacArthur, Marshall & the Battle of Gettysburg Douglas MacArthur, George Marshall and Dwight Eisenhower paved the way to U...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD David Freedman & Martha Freeman Updated: 2007-06-18 13:43:40 Description: Title: Science & Technology and Author Martha Freeman Author and journalist David Freedman writes about science, technology and business, and the intersections between them...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Lisa Marshall & John Lutz Updated: 2007-06-12 15:52:05 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Michael Kenney Updated: 2007-06-04 14:40:27 Description: 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 ho...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Damon Boughamer & Scott Conklin Updated: 2007-05-29 16:47:33 Description: Title: Legislative Reform Are you unhappy with state government? Last November, Pennsylvanians voted for change...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Col. Gerald Russell & Lorann Jacobs Updated: 2007-05-23 21:05:18 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Dr. Ian Schreibman & Mark Shriver Updated: 2007-05-15 14:51:40 Description: Title: Hepatitis C & Skin Cancer Awareness Month An estimated four million Americans are infected with Hepatitis C...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Dr. Peter Whitehouse and Jackie Duffin Updated: 2007-05-07 14:34:14 Description: Title: Alzheimer’s Disease Dr...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Clyde & Chad Peeling, Susan Ryan, and Vanessa Dietrick Updated: 2007-05-07 13:18:57 Description: Title: Reptiland, Agritourism & Annual River Sojourn Reptiland, located between Williamsport and Lewisburg, is much more than a roadside attraction...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Tawni O’Dell & Dr. Deborah Roney Updated: 2007-04-23 17:47:33 Description: Title: Tawni O’Dell & Language in Motion Her debut novel, Back Roads, was an Oprah Book Club selection and a New York Times bestseller...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Dr. Albert Wu & Kathy Stadler Updated: 2007-04-16 15:47:14 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Judy Maltz- Schejter, Barbara Bird and Richie Sherman Updated: 2007-04-09 16:18:36 Description: 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 ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Dr. Robert Trumpbour & Dr. Joseph Speakman Updated: 2007-04-02 15:22:35 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Nancy Folbre, Al Luloff & Ted Alter Updated: 2007-03-26 14:10:47 Description: 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 u...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Dr. Michael Berube Updated: 2007-03-26 14:09:47 Description: Title: Disability Rights There are more than 54 million Americans with disabilities...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Gary Clark & Elizabeth Cash Updated: 2007-03-07 16:52:15 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Joe & Mary Ann MacDonald and Charlene Friedman Updated: 2007-03-05 17:47:52 Description: Title: Wildlife Photography & PA Alpacas Chances are you've seen their iconic photographic images...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Dr. Ingrid Mattson Updated: 2007-02-26 16:50:43 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Gary Alt & Anne Sullivan Updated: 2007-02-19 15:03:11 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Rick & Liz Boni Updated: 2007-02-13 22:17:01 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Mike Grabill & Agent Randy Feathers Updated: 2007-02-05 18:56:45 Description: Title: Substance Abuse & Blair County Drug Task Force Substance abuse is a growing problem in central Pennsylvania...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Shaun Gabbidon & Elaine Richardson Updated: 2007-01-30 18:44:15 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Stephen Scott & Donald Kraybill Updated: 2007-01-22 16:55:56 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Dr. George Olt & Dr. Craig Myers Updated: 2007-01-15 17:06:50 Description: Title: Cervical Cancer January is Cervical Cancer Awareness Month...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Dr. Jerry Zahorchak Updated: 2007-01-08 15:06:50 Description: Title: PA Secretary of Education Pennsylvania’s Secretary of Education has a challenging job: to oversee all education initiatives in the state...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Frank Deford Updated: 2007-01-02 17:44:35 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Mike Reid Updated: 2006-12-25 21:06:48 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Pete Kiefer Updated: 2006-12-11 16:14:47 Description: Title: Fred Waring America Collection His name has been synonymous with music since his high school years in Tyrone, Pennsylvania...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Stanley Weintraub & David Wolfgang Updated: 2006-12-05 15:17:24 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Norma Keller, Jane Roberts, & Kathryn Edin Updated: 2006-11-28 19:04:06 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Ray Lombra & Bathsheba Monk Updated: 2006-11-21 04:34:49 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Linda Marshall & Penny Wolboldt Updated: 2006-11-13 17:22:33 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Pat Conway & Frank Leone Updated: 2006-11-06 20:47:39 Description: Title: Lung Cancer Lung cancer kills more Americans than breast, prostate and colon cancer combined...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Charlie Young, Sam McConnell, and Manfred Kroger Updated: 2006-10-30 18:38:48 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Bill Russell & Dr. Janet Wright Updated: 2006-10-23 17:08:55 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Dr. Kevin Murphy & Jim Borgardt Updated: 2006-10-16 15:29:38 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Tom Donohue Updated: 2006-10-09 15:13:34 Description: Title: Who's Positive? When Tom Donohue learned three years ago that he was HIV positive, it was a very private and painful moment...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Richard Alley & Andre Boehman Updated: 2006-10-02 16:12:04 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Former Ambassador Joseph Wilson Updated: 2006-09-25 15:56:41 Description: This past July, Joseph Wilson and Valerie Plame filed a civil lawsuit against Vice President Dick Cheney, Lewis ‘Scooter’ Libby and Karl Rove...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Sean Patrick Griffin Updated: 2006-09-18 15:35:31 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Marybeth Kuznik, Chris Exarchos, & Mary Vollero Updated: 2006-09-11 15:11:48 Description: 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 elec...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Sandra Spanier, Linda Littleton, and Karen Hirshon Updated: 2006-08-15 17:46:06 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Tom and Leesa Folmar & Andrea Hille Updated: 2006-06-26 14:49:22 Description: He discovered mountaineering in 1986...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Dr. Rustum Roy & Dr. Jay Hosler Updated: 2006-06-26 14:45:51 Description: The simple little molecule we call H20 may not be so simple after all...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Marvin Hamlisch Updated: 2006-06-26 14:44:48 Description: At the age of seven, he became the youngest student ever admitted to the acclaimed Juilliard School of Music...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Bill Siemering Updated: 2006-06-19 14:36:00 Description: His lifelong love affair with radio began more than 50 years ago...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD James Morrow & Andrew Jackson Updated: 2006-06-12 14:12:25 Description: His newest book has been called utterly original, provocative and truly unforgettable...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Lindsay Barrett George, Christopher Raschka, & Rick Hirsch Updated: 2006-06-05 14:08:42 Description: Pennsylvania's yearlong initiative, "One Book, Every Young Child," is dedicated to instilling in children a lifelong love of learning...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Salman Rushdie Updated: 2006-05-30 15:03:24 Description: He once lamented "People are now much more interested in writers than in their writing...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Jim Campi, Paul & Kathryn Mackes Updated: 2006-05-22 13:46:55 Description: The Civil War Preservation Trust has preserved more than 22,000 acres of battlefield land in 19 states, including key parcels in Pennsylvania...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Leo Mazow & Richard Sleigh Updated: 2006-05-19 13:38:46 Description: If “banjo” makes you think “hillbilly”, you’re the one in the dark ages...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Patty Kleban, Tobin Short, & Adam Smeltz Updated: 2006-05-08 16:25:38 Description: The State College Area School District is a district divided...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Kent Vrana & Lee Newsom Updated: 2006-05-02 16:15:06 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Eugene Lengerich & Ralph W. Moss, Ph.D. Updated: 2006-04-27 15:44:18 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Kathy Patnode and Bruce Pluta & Lisa Gensheimer Updated: 2006-04-18 15:23:06 Description: In celebration of Earth Day 2006, we talk with two environmentalists about their work on a former Superfund site in Mifflin County...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Steve Herzenberg & Emily Stover DeRocco Updated: 2006-04-13 18:50:00 Description: The federal minimum wage has been stuck at $5...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Anthony Leach & Bill Sisson Updated: 2006-04-03 14:19:42 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Mike Joseph & PA Senator Jake Corman Updated: 2006-03-27 19:32:54 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Mike Sobkowski & Anita Ditz Updated: 2006-03-22 20:34:38 Description: Family literacy programs have been hurt by cuts in federal funding...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Attorney James Kimmel, Jr. Updated: 2006-03-13 20:29:03 Description: In the name of justice we employ 700,000 lawyers, file 36 million lawsuits and imprison more than two million people...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Pam Monk & Nancy Mooney Updated: 2006-02-27 14:43:13 Description: She's been called one of the best satirists on the planet...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Greg Eghigian & Wilbur Zelinsky Updated: 2006-02-27 14:41:32 Description: In 1946, 23 leading Nazi doctors stood trial for murder, torture and other atrocities committed in the name of medical science...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Steve Schmidt, Kathy and Larry Dansky Updated: 2006-02-20 19:57:35 Description: It is estimated that nearly 2/3 of high school seniors consume alcohol, the drug of choice for teenagers...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD PEMA Director James Joseph Updated: 2006-02-13 18:50:13 Description: General James Joseph is the new director of the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency (PEMA)...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Gene Stilp & Melvin Romig Updated: 2006-02-06 17:19:47 Description: His lawsuits and press releases have Pennsylvania's top legislators in a tizzy...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Lauren Larsen & Wendi Keeler Updated: 2006-02-06 17:16:00 Description: According to the American Red Cross, only 5 percent of people who are eligible donate blood...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Pat Shipman & Preston Green Updated: 2006-01-23 11:40:37 Description: 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, say...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Robert Shaler & Bob McConnell Updated: 2006-01-17 15:08:50 Description: On this edition of the program, we talk with Robert Shaler...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Allen Biehler & Joe Jenkins Updated: 2006-01-10 22:53:17 Description: The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, better known as PennDot, operates the fifth largest state-owned highway system in the nation...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Josip Novakovich, Linda Littleton & Karen Hirshon Updated: 2006-01-05 17:58:45 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Dennis Dickey & Kim Steiner Updated: 2005-12-30 16:40:56 Description: Earlier Pennsylvanians rarely passed up an opportunity to dam a river, creek or stream...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Jim Lichtman & Ernest Giglio Updated: 2005-12-16 10:44:41 Description: 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 bus...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Lee Peterson Updated: 2005-12-05 19:11:27 Description: This week we observe the 10th anniversary of the peace accord after the war in Bosnia...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Marjorie Maddox & Jerry Wemple Updated: 2005-11-28 17:48:03 Description: Penn State Press has released a new poetry anthology that’s a unique celebration of Pennsylvania...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Rachel Simon & Arthur Goldstein Updated: 2005-11-23 19:10:04 Description: According to one reviewer, "You couldn't get off this bus if you tried...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Andrew Vachss Updated: 2005-11-14 15:46:26 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Sandra Spanier and Megan Lloyd Updated: 2005-11-08 20:37:52 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Scott Bruce, Anna Marie and AnneLiese Nachman Updated: 2005-10-31 19:27:42 Description: He says he was the least funny of everyone in his family...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Ambassador Joseph Wilson Updated: 2005-10-26 19:38:41 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Dick Thornburgh Updated: 2005-10-18 16:54:11 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Debbie Elliott and Michael Jinbo Updated: 2005-10-17 16:24:38 Description: This past August, Debbie Elliott was named host of the weekend edition of All Things Considered...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Ray Suarez Updated: 2005-10-13 20:37:31 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Jennifer Weiner Updated: 2005-10-13 20:36:51 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Steven Herb Updated: 2005-10-13 20:35:29 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Susie Glaze, Peter Pickow & Van Wagner Updated: 2005-10-13 20:34:43 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Mark Bernhard Updated: 2005-10-13 20:34:15 Description: Rock star Bruce Springsteen dropped out of college...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD |
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