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*Morning Edition story rundown
Leon Russell
Linda McCartney's Sixties: Portrait of an Era
*TOTN/SCI FRI
biotechnology revolution
*LIVING ON EARTH -
JUNK MAIL BEGONE
Saturday
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Morning Edition
Friday,
March 12, 1999
5-10am
MORNING EDITION RUNDOWN
AMERICA'S HOST: Bob Edwards
NEWS I/II: Carl Kasell
NEWS III: Doreen McCallister
[A-1] N-P-R's Barbara Bradley reports that, after an inquiry into leaks from
the Independent Counsel's office, Charles Bakalay, (BACK-lee), spokesman for
Kenneth Starr, has resigned. (3:39)
N-P-Rs Debbie Elliott reports that the Liggett tobacco settlement may be in
jeopardy. Dozens of groups are objecting to a proposed settlement with the
Liggett Group, the smallest of the nation's top five tobacco companies.
A judge in Mobile, Alabama, is deciding whether to approve the deal which would
give Liggett immunity from lawsuits brought by smokers and others who claim to
have been damaged by cigarette smoking. (4:27)
[B-1]
N-P-R's Peter Kenyon reports on the Christian Coalition's plan to
influence the 2000 elections. Coalition president Pat Robertson says the group
will raise and spend 21 million dollars to encourage conservative voters to
cast their ballots. Robertson says the Coalition will train one-point-five
million activists who'll be responsible for spreading the group's message to
15 million conservative voters. (3:27)
Partisanship in Alabama politics:
From Alabama Public Radio in Montgomery, Sara Baumgartner reports on
partisanship in Alabama politics. As bipartisanship has become the watch word
on Capitol Hill, the opposite has been going on in Alabama. Power plays by
both Democrats and Republicans have thrown the Alabama state senate into chaos,
and the states Supreme Court steps in today. (4:06)
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[C-1]
N-P-R's Mike Shuster reports that Indonesia will allow limited vote
in East Timor regarding the region's future status. The United Nations has
announced that Indonesia has agreed to hold some kind of vote in occupied East
Timor to determine whether the population of the remote island territory wants
independence.
After two days of talks in New York, this announcement represents
significant progress in the effort to end the conflict in East Timor. (3:37)
Leon Russell:
[D-1]
Host Bob Edwards talks with legendary 1970s singer-songwriter Leon
Russell. Russell's back with his first solo CD since 1992, titled "Face In
The Crowd." (8:37)
[E-1]
N-P-R's Business Correspondent Jack Speer has this morning's business
report. This segment will be updated throughout the morning.
N-P-R's Melinda Penkava reports that the Federal Trade Commission is cracking
down on pyramid schemes on the Internet.
The F-T-C announced yesterday it will
redouble its efforts to prosecute Internet fraud. (3:39)
Hour Two
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[A-2]
Virginia Democratic Congressman James Moran. The House
of Representatives voted last night to support President Clintons plan to send
U-S troops to Kosovo if necessary. N-P-Rs Sylvia Poggioli reports from
Belgrade on the latest developments in Kosovo. After U-S envoy Richard
Holbrooke failed to win Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's full approval
of a Kosovo peace settlement, Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov will meet
with Milosevic today. Kosovo peace negotiations resume in Paris in three days,
and the Kosovo Liberation Army still has not signed the peace deal. (4:18)
N-P-Rs Phillip Davis reports on President Clintons trip to Central America.
Clinton is back in Washington today after completing a four-day trip through
hurricane-ravaged lands, during which he met with survivors of Hurricane Mitch,
relief workers and the leaders of six Central American countries. At a summit
yesterday in Antigua, trade, aid and immigration were the hot topics. But
though the regions leaders were gratified by U-S help so far, theyre calling
for longer term solutions to help rebuild the region. (4:14)
[B-2]
N-P-R's Melissa Block reports that the New York State Division of Human
Rights is considering a complaint that says the Girl Scouts unlawfully
discriminated against an 8-year-old girl with the AIDS virus. The complaint
charges that Quashawn (kwuh-SHAWN) Donovan was turned down by at least five
Brownie Scout troops in upstate New York when leaders learned of her H-I-V
positive status. (4:08)
Photographer Linda McCartney:
N-P-R's Special Correspondent Susan Stamberg reports on the late photographer
Linda McCartney's exhibit on the 1960's, which opens tomorrow at the Bruce
Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut. It's called `Linda McCartney's Sixties:
Portrait of an Era.' (3:25)
NOTE - subsequent stops for the exhibit:
Cleveland, Tampa, Memhis, Louisville, and elsewhere
[C-2] N-P-R's Howard Berkes reports that there's more trouble for the 2002
Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. Officials say they are 350 million dollars
over budget. Part of the problem is unexpected costs and lost opportunities
associated with the bribery scandal. Organizers have cut costs by fourteen
million dollars and are considering another eighty-four million dollar cut.
(3:40)
[D-2]
Host Bob Edwards talks with Josef Joffe (YO-sef YAH-feh), foreign editor
of Suddeutsche Zeitung (SOOD-doitch-uh ZIE-toong) in Munich about German
Finance minister Oskar Lafontaine, who has resigned in a dispute over economic
policy with Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder.
Lafontaine, known for his left-of-center
economic positions, gave up his ministerial duties and the leadership of the
ruling Social Democrat Party yesterday. Schroeder will likely take over the
party reins today. (2:56)
N-P-Rs Jennifer Glasse reports that seven months after bombing of the American
embassy in Nairobi, Kenyans are still feeling the reverberations of the attack.
A lawsuit has been filed against the U-S seeking compensation for 2,300
bombing victims. Meanwhile, the Clinton administration has sent a team of
American doctors to Nairobi to conduct plastic surgery on people injured in the
blast. (4:56)
[E-2]
David D'Arcy (f) reports Canadian director David Cronenberg's latest
film Existenz (egg-iss-TENSS) made its world premiere at this year's Berlin
Film Festival. The film earned Cronenberg the festival's Silver Bear prize
for artistic achievement. The story is set in the near-future in which virtual
reality game designers have become superstars. The film's cast includes some
stars of its own, and Cronenberg is hoping to attract the public he lost with
such recent films as "Crash" and "M. Butterfly." (6:20)
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TOTN/SCI FRI
SCIENCE FRIDAY
Host: RICHARD HARRIS
3/12/99
2-4
2
Topic: ANTIBIOTIC USE IN ANIMALS
Mounting evidence shows that antibiotic use in animals is contributing to drug
resistant diseases, prompting the FDA to revise its guidelines for approving
antibiotics for use in animals. How does drug use in animals affect us? And
how can we protect both the food supply and ourselves? In this hour, we'll take
a look at antibiotic use in animals.
Guests:
Stuart Levy
Director, Center for Adaptation Genetics and Drug Resistance
Tufts University
Boston, Massachusetts
David Bell
Assistant to the Director for Antimicrobial Resistance
National Center for Infectious Diseases
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Atlanta, Georgia
Lyle Vogel
Director, Scientific Activities
American Veterinary Medical Association
Schaumburg, Illinois
3pm
Topic: HISTORY/FUTURE OF BIOTECH
From cloned mice to insect-resistant crops, the biotechnology revolution is
here... changing the way we think about biology, medicine, and agriculture.
What scientific advances gave rise to biotech, and what will the future bring?
In this hour, we'll talk with some of biotech's pioneers-- and observers --on
the history and future of biotechnology.
Guests:
Daniel Koshland
Former Editor (1985-1995)
Science
Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California
Edward Penhoet
Co-founder and Former CEO (1981-1998)
Chiron Corporation
Emeryville, California
Dean, School of Public Health
Professor, Public Health
Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California
Paul Rabinow
Author, "Making PCR: A Story of Biotechnology" (University of Chicago Press)
Author, "French DNA, Trouble in Purgatory" (University of Chicago Press)
Professor, Anthropology
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California
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Friday,
March 12, 1999
6p
LIVING ON EARTH -
Friday, March 12, 1999
6pm
LIVING ON EARTH - RUNDOWN
Host: Steve Curwood
INDIGENOUS GROUPS TAKE ON BIG OIL:
Multinational oil companies have left big footprints across parts of South
America, and Native American peoples have often felt the
brunt. The three U.S. citizens recently slain in the region
were helping indigenous groups in Colombia mobilize to stop
a U.S. oil company from drilling on their lands. Quil
Lawrence explores oil's impact in Ecuador, where local
residents are increasingly savvy in their dealings with oil
giants including Occidental Petroleum and Texaco. (8:40)
BANANAS OR THE ENVIRONMENT:
A FAIR TRADE?
Whatever the outcome of the banana war going on between the United States and
Europe, there are serious concerns about the
human and environmental impact of banana cultivation that
are largely unaddressed. Steve Curwood talks with Living On
Earth contributor Bob Carty, who spent many years in Central
America reporting on the banana industry there.(4:40)
BIPARTISAN BACKING TO COMBAT GLOBAL WARMING --
Senators from both sides of the aisle are backing an effort to reward U.S.
companies who take measures to cut their emissions of
greenhouse gases. Environmentalists complain that the bill,
the "Credit for Early Action Act," contains too many
loopholes and doesn't do enough to stop global warming at
its source in industrialized countries. Support from key
industry and utility groups bolsters the bill's chances.
James Jones reports from Washington. (4:00)
JUNK MAIL BEGONE
Steve Curwood talks about junk mail with Jim Calhoun, the Chief Executive
Officer of Popular Demand, Incorporated. The company operates a website,
"unlistme.com," that removes people from junk mailing lists and signs them up
for a new type of commerce. (3:30)
THE LIVING ON EARTH ALMANAC - This week, facts about...
the annual migration of Monarch butterflies -- millions of
them. (1:30)
HOLLYWOOD TELLS AN ENVIRONMENTAL TALE
Hollywood hands out its Oscars later this month (on Sunday, March 21st) and a
film with toxic contamination as its theme is among the contenders.
"A Civil Action" could walk away with awards for
Best Cinematography and Best Supporting Actor. Based on the
best-selling book of the same name written by Jonathan Harr,
it's the story of a lawyer who takes on two companies which
contaminated drinking water, resulting in the deaths of
residents in Woburn, Massachusetts twenty years ago. Living
on Earth's Christopher Ballman has the background on the
events which took place in Woburn, and a look at why the
movie matters. (25:30)
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Friday
3/12/99
7pm
"THIS AMER LIFE" RUNDOWN
Host:Ira Glass
"MEDIA FRINGE"
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION:
Four stories about people struggling at the fringes of our nation's
media/music/infotainment industry.
First broadcast December 6, 1996.
Act One.
How to Get Famous.
Writer Sandra Tsing Loh on how she staged stunts to get press attention.
She was wildly successful, featured in the Wall Street Journal, NPR, People
Magazine, CNN and in the Tonight Show monologue. (9 minutes)
Song: "Show Business," A Tribe Called Quest
Act Two.
"The Friendly Man"
Whoring in Commercial Radio News.
Scott Carrier took a job in commercial radio working for a network
correspondent he refers to as "The Friendly Man."
Every story was supposed to be upbeat, a tale of people coming together in the
heartwarming spirit of community. And every story they sent him on turned out
to be a sham. When he tried to tell his editors the story they
wanted was untrue, he was told that attitude would get him fired.
(17 minutes)
Song: "Who Listens To Radio?" Sarah Vaughn
Act Three.
Doing a Personal Act for Money.
Sarah Vowell on the joy of making mix tapes of your favorite songs, to send to
loved ones. She spots an ad for someone who makes them for money.
"Prostitute" she thinks.
Then she decides she wants the job. And tries it. And finds it's a lot harder
than she imagined. (14 minutes)
Song: "Mix Tapes," The Nonce.
Act Four.
Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous.
Chicago writer Cheryl Trykv on her own close encounter with Hollywood and the
media and a famous maid.
Song: Bob Dylan
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March 13, 1999
7-8am
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*Women's Ice Hockey World Championships in Helsinki, Finland
*MARCH MADNESS STRIKES A SMALL MASSACHUSETTS COLLEGE BUT NO ONE SEEMS TO MIND
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March 14
7-8am
FRESH AIR/WEEKEND
What a Trio !
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-JANET LEIGH
-EVAN HUNTER
This year marks the centenary of Alfred Hitchcock's birth.
On the next Fresh Air Weekend a talk with EVAN HUNTER who wrote the screenplay
for Hitchcock's "The Birds," and actress JANET LEIGH, the star of "Psycho."
Also, Garrison Keillor has written a new book
satirizing his new governor, Jesse "the Body" Ventura.
And -- cockfighting.
Burkhard Bilger talks about his new article in Harper's on the bloodsport which
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