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Thursday, May 10, 2001

Help Desk (9am - 10am, repeated 7pm - 8pm)
Your Mac and PC computer questions answered by Ted Beerman and Guy Moore

The Diane Rehm Show (10am - Noon); guest host tba
Hour One: malaria
Hour Two: for Mothers' Day: linguist Deborah Tannen on the ways
people communicate with each other within families

Fresh Air with Terry Gross (Noon - 1pm)
Tax inequities, tax loopholes, and President Bush's tax plan

Public Interest with Kojo Nnamdi (1pm - 2pm)
Colonialism and the roots of tribal conflict in Africa

Talk of the Nation with Juan Williams (2pm - 4pm); live from the
Newseum in Arlington, Virginia
Hour One: the 24-hour news cycle
Hour Two: segregation in cities

All Things Considered (4pm - 7pm)
The pleasures of family music: Jim and Andy Creegan of the hit band,
Barenaked Ladies

coming up soon in local talk
(live and interactive 9am - 10am, repeated 7pm - 8pm)

tomorrow on WMUB Forum with guest host John Hingsbergen
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Sunday on Talk of the Week (a repeat of a previous week's show)
 From Thursday's Public Interest: Colonialism and the roots of tribal
conflict in Africa

Monday on Interconnect with John Hingsbergen and Cheri Lawson
Illness as a Gift: The Side Effects of Cancer. Guests: Bernie Siegel,
M.D, author of "Love, Medicine and Miracles;" "Peace, Love &
Healing;" "How to Live Between Office Visits;" and many more
well-known books; and Chris Webb, cancer survivor

Tuesday on the Todd Mundt Show
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Wednesday on Sound Health with Marianne Russ
Allergies & Asthma


DETAILS:

Help Desk (9am - 10am, repeated 7 - 8pm)
Your Mac and PC computer questions answered by Ted Beerman and Guy Moore

The Diane Rehm Show (10am - Noon); guest host tba
Hour One: Malaria: An anonymous donor gave John Hopkins University
MedicalCenters $100 million to establish an institute for developing
better treatments and a vaccine for malaria, a disease that kills
more than a million people each year. A panel explains what's behind
this initiative and the problems the researchers will face. Guests:
Alfred Somer, dean of Johns Hopkins School of Public Health; Don
Roberts, professor of tropical public health at the Uniformed
Services, University of the Health Sciences; Regina Rabinovich,
director of the Malaria Vaccine Initiative.
Hour Two: Deborah Tannen: Deborah Tannen, a linguist and leading
expert on the ways people communicate with each other, examines
conversation within families in her new book, "I Only Say This
Because I Love You" (Random House). It might be helpful to listen in
before Mothers' Day brunch this Sunday.

Fresh Air with Terry Gross (Noon - 1pm)
Tax inequities, tax loopholes, and President Bush's controversial tax
plan with New York Times reporter DAVID CAY JOHNSTON. Last month he
won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on taxes.

Public Interest with Kojo Nnamdi (1pm - 2pm)
WHY DOES WAR ERUPT SO OFTEN AND SO VIOLENTLY IN AFRICA? SOME BLAME
AGE-OLD TRIBAL CONFLICTS THAT "OUTSIDERS" CAN NEVER UNDERSTAND. BUT
NOW, SOME WESTERN JOURNALISTS ARE CHALLENGING THAT NOTION. A CRITICAL
LOOK AT CONFLICT IN AFRICA AND THE ROLE COLONIALISM AND WESTERN
SELF-INTEREST MAY HAVE PLAYED FROM A REPORTER'S POINT OF VIEW.
Guests: 1. Bill Berkeley, editorial writer, The New York Times; also
author "The Graves Are Not Yet Full: Race, Tribe, and Power in the
Heart of Africa" (pub: Basic Books); 2. (1:30-1:40 by phone) Linda
Melvern, investigative journalist; author of "A People Betrayed: The
Role of the West in Rwanda" (Pub: Palgrave/St. Martins Press)

Talk of the Nation with Juan Williams (2pm - 4pm); live from the
Newseum in Arlington, Virginia
Hour One: 24 HOUR NEWS INDUSTRY: the challenges and pressures today's
journalists face with a 24 hour news cycle and the corporate push for
higher profits.
Hour Two: SEGREGATION IN CITIES: why some U-S cities in the North
remain largely segregated, while others, in the south and west, are
more integrated.

All Things Considered (4pm - 7pm)
The pleasures of family music: Jim and Andy Creegan helped found the
hit band, Barenaked Ladies. But the brothers keep their feet on the
ground playing and recording on their own.


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