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Tuesday, July 14, 1998.

Diane Rehm:  aging aircraft; early childhood development
Fresh Air: genetic risks for Alzheimer's
Public Interest: Contemporary American Play Festival
Talk of the Nation: Whiteness Studies; crack
All Things Considered: complexities of the calendar


   The Diane
Rehm Show,
10-12 noon

                       10-11: Aging Aircraft: Recent airline scares and
disasters have heightened concerns about how aircraft  are maintained. A
panel of experts discusses aircraft maintenance and repair, and talks about
how to  tell when it's time to retire an airplane.

                             Guests: Tom McSweeney, director of aircraft
certification, Federal Aviation Administration; Vernon Grose, Omega
Systems; Sarah MacLeod, Aeronautical Repair Station Association; Clyde
Kizer, President & Chief Operating Officer of Airbus Service Co.

                       11-12: Dr. Ann Barnet: Diane talks with pediatric
neurologist Dr. Ann Barnet about her new book, "The Youngest Minds" (Simon
& Schuster). The book is about what the very latest medical and
psychological research tells us about early childhood development.


   Fresh Air
with Terry Gross,
12:06-1 p.m.

                       JANET WALSH...co-founder of the Long Island
Alzheimer's Foundation... As a teenager, she watched her  father struggle
with the disease... Later she was tested for the genetic predisposition to
Alzheimer's... and found that she was at highest risk.



   Public Interest,
1-2 p.m.


                       SINCE 1991 THE CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN THEATER
FESTIVAL IN SHEPHERDSTOWN, WEST VIRGINIA HAS PRODUCED AND DEVELOPED
TWENTY-SIX NEW AMERICAN PLAYS. THE FESTIVAL'S PRODUCING DIRECTOR,
PLAYWRIGHTS, AND ACTORS JOIN HOST KATHY MERRITT TO TALK ABOUT THE  PROCESS
OF WRITING AND STAGING NEW WORKS. ACTORS WILL ALSO DO LIVE READINGS OF
SCENES  FROM SOME OF THIS YEAR'S PRODUCTIONS.

                       Guests: 1. Ed Herendeen, Founder and Producing
Director of the Contemporary American Theater  Festival 2. Cherylene Lee,
playwright 3. Beulah Quo, actor



   Talk of
the Nation,
2-4 p.m.

                       OUR ONE: WHITENESS STUDIES: the controversial
academic field known as Whiteness Studies. Ray and guests will talk about
why Whiteness Studies programs are emerging and how this new discipline is
affecting the national dialogue on race.

                       HOUR TWO: CRACK: a conversation with the head of the
non-profit group "Children Requiring a Caring Kommunity," or CRACK. It's an
organization whose primary focus is to prevent pregnancies that result in
drug-addicted babies.



   on today's
All Things
Considered,
4-7 p.m.

                       Complexities of the calendar: It's Bastille
Day...the fourteenth of July....or is it? At one time, Europeans lived with
a calendar that was off by at least 10 days-- until the Vatican decided to
right the mistake. People who went to sleep on October 4th, 1582 awakened
the next morning to find it was suddenly October 15th.

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