Today's talk
shows on
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Wednesday, July 22, 1998.
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Diane Rehm: Politics & Homosexuality; "Dying To
Quit," nicotine addiction
Fresh Air: film ciritc STEPHEN SCHIFF
Public Interest: Primate research and the Orangutan
Language Project
Talk of the Nation: Puerto Rico - Part II; 100 Top
Novels
All Things Considered: International Montetary Fund
The Diane
Rehm Show,
10-12 noon
Guest host Steve Roberts (Diane will be on vacation
for the rest of the month.)
10-11: Politics & Homosexuality: A recent series of
newspaper ads featuring
people who said they had changed their sexual
orientation with the help of
counseling and prayer has gotten a lot of attention
from the media and political
commentators. A panel talks about the reaction to
these ads around the country,
and about the larger subject of homosexuality as a
political issue. Guests:
Carmen Pate, president of Concerned Women for
America Rich Tafel, exec.
director of Log Cabin Republicans Ed Goeas,
Republican pollster Richard
Berke, New York Times political reporter
11-12: Janet Brigham: Janet Brigham is a research
psychologist who specializes
in nicotine addiction. In her new book "Dying To
Quit" (Joseph Henry Press)
she discusses the latest research on how people
become addicted to cigarettes
and other tobacco products, and why breaking that
addiction is so challenging.
Fresh Air
with Terry Gross,
12:06-1 p.m.
Former Fresh Air film ciritc STEPHEN SCHIFF returns
to talk about writing the
screenplay for the controversial film version of
"Lolita..." Nabokov's 1954
classic novel...
Public Interest,
1-2 p.m.
EVER SINCE JANE GOODALL IMMERSED HERSELF IN THE
WILDS OF
EAST AFRICA TO OBSERVE THE BEHAVIOR OF CHIMPANZEES,
THE
ADVANCES OF PRIMATE RESEARCH HAVE CAPTURED THE
ATTENTION AND IMAGINATION OF PEOPLE AROUND THE
GLOBE.
HOST KATHY MERRITT TALKS WITH PRIMATOLOGISTS ABOUT
DEVELOPMENTS IN THE FIELD, THEIR OWN RESEARCH, AND
THE
POTENTIAL TO LEARN MORE ABOUT HUMAN BEHAVIOR BY
OBSERVING OUR SIMIAN COUSINS.
Guests: 1. Rob Shumaker, coordinator of the
Orangutan Language Project,
National Zoo, Washington, DC
2. (Via studio in Atlanta)Frans de Waal, director of
the Living Links Center at
the Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center,
Atlanta, GA; author,
"Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex Among Apes."
Talk of
the Nation,
2-4 p.m.
In part-two of a three-part series...Join Ray Suarez
and guests for a look at the
lives of those Puerto Ricans who have migrated to
America ... and the challenges
of living between two cultures...And in the second
hour...A group of writers and
scholars has come out this week with ITS choices for
the Hundred Best Novels
of the 20-th Century...Find out what's on their
list...
HOUR 1: Puerto Rico - Part II
HOUR 2: 100 Top Novels
on today's
All Things
Considered,
4-7 p.m.
N-P-R Congressional Correspondent Brian Naylor
reports on the disagreement
between House Republicans and Democrats over funding
for the International
Montetary Fund. The Clinton administration is
requesting 18-billion dollars for
the I-M-F, since loans for Asian countries and
Russia have drained its
resources. House Republicans oppose the proposal.
N-P-R's Larry Abramson reports the Senate has
approved a proposal requiring
schools receiving federal funding for computers to
install filtering software that
blocks indecent material from the Internet.
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