Today's talk
shows on
WMUB
Thursday, July 30, 1998
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Diane Rehm: Frogs and the Environment; Teaching
Children to Read Fresh Air: The changing face of
warfare; Also, actor J-K SIMMONS Public Interest:
American Religion and Foreign Relations Talk of
the Nation: The Global Economy; The American
Musical All Things Considered: Preventing sex
offenders who've been paroled from committing new
crimes.
The Diane
Rehm Show,
10-12 noon
Guest host Susan Page (Diane will be on vacation
for the rest of the month.)
10-11: Frogs and the Environment: Scientists
around the world have been tracking declines in
frog populations. Some species are dying off,
while others are developing an unusual number of
deformities, and still other species seem
unaffected. Many scientists believe these
problems in frog populations are a clear warning
that environmental pollution is irreversibly
damaging the natural world. A panel talks about
the most recent findings and what they may
signify.
Guests:
Sam Droege, U.S. Geological Survey
David Wake, amphibian biologist and director of
the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at the University
of California at Berkeley Mark Shaefer, Deputy
Secretary for Water and Science, Dept. of the
Interior George Lucier, director of National
Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
11-12: Teaching Children to Read: Educators and
researchers in child development have long debated
the best way to teach children to read. A panel
discussion of the latest findings about what works
and why, and how that compares to how kids
actually are taught at home and in America's
schools. Guests: Catherine Snow, Harvard Graduate
School of Education Michelle Fill, speech-language
pathologist and consultant Maris Vinovskis,
University of Michigan
Fresh Air
with Terry Gross,
12:06-1 p.m.
The changing face of warfare ... Host Terry Gross
talks with military historian JOHN KEEGAN ... He's
consultant to the new documentary series "War and
Civilization" ... which covers the past 5,000
years of conflict ...Also, actor J-K SIMMONS ...
He's a regular on the H-B-O drama "OZ" ... which
depicts the brutality of life in a maximum
security prison ...
Public Interest,
1-2 p.m.
THE INTRODUCTION OF THE FREEDOM FROM
RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION BILL IN CONGRESS HAS DRAWN
ATTENTION TO A LONG-STANDING CONTROVERSY OVER THE
CONNECTION BETWEEN AMERICAN RELIGION AND FOREIGN
RELATIONS. HOST SANFORD UNGAR AND GUESTS DISCUSS
THE HISTORICAL CONNECTION BETWEEN RELIGION AND
FOREIGN POLICY AND THE CURRENT DEBATE OVER THIS
COMPLEX ISSUE. Guest: 1. Leo Ribuffo, professor of
history, The George Washington University
Talk of
the Nation,
2-4 p.m.
Join Ray Suarez for a conversation with Treasury
Secretary Robert Rubin and Fred Bergsten, Director
of the Institute for International Economics ...
about America's role in the global economy ... And
in the second hour ...
A rememberance of Broadway choreographer and
director Jerome Robbins ... Look back at how
Robbins made musicals' dance and what's lighting
up Broadway today.
HOUR 1: The Global Economy
HOUR 2: The American Musical
on today's
All Things
Considered,
4-7 p.m.
Later today on All Things Considered...Preventing
sex offenders who've been paroled from committing
new crimes... Counselors want to teach the
offenders to talk differently to themselves about
their behaviors...and to think differently about
themselves...as people who are not molestors...
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