Today's talk shows on WMUB

Thursday July 13, 2000

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Diane Rehm:    10-11: Social Security Reform  11-12: the media's
approach to scandal, "Peepshow"
Fresh Air:    Prescription medicines
Public Interest:   Constitutional rights of high school students
Talk of the Nation:   HR 1: Libertarian Party presidential  candidate
Harry Browne HR 2: SUMMER SCHOOL
All Things Considered:   second of two reports on the search for an
AIDS vaccine.

Friday on WMUB Forum:   Gerald Coffee, former POW & motivational
speaker.

Monday July 17 on Interconnect:  Health Through Nutrition, guest:
therapist & counselor Charlie Kabenji

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The Diane Rehm Show, 10-12 noon (*2 full hours live on WMUB)

***Diane will be out on vacation July 10-28 and she'll be back July 31.
 Susan Page, Steve Roberts, and Lynn Neary will guest host the program
in Diane's absence.

10-11: Social Security Reform: Two experts compare and contrast Social
Security reform proposals offered to date by Vice
President Al Gore and Texas Governor  George W. Bush.

Guests: Alan Blinder, The Brookings Institution;
             John Cogan, The Hoover Institution

11-12: Larry Sabato, Mark Stencel and Robert Lichter: In the aftermath
of Washington's biggest sex scandal, three media and
politics watchers offer a behind the scenes look at the media's
approach to scandal, and detail what they see as an entirely arbitrary
approach to what gets reported and why.  The book  is called "Peepshow".
(Rowman & Littlefield)

Guests: Larry Sabato: director, Center for Governmental Studies, U. Va;

             Mark Stencel, politics editor, washingtonpost.com
             Robert Lichter: president, Center for Media & Public
Affairs


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

A talk with two doctors about prescription medicine...the high  costs,
the confusing side effects, generics, the problems for the
elderly who have no insurance coverage for their medicines.   About 1/3
of Americans on Medicare have no coverage for their
prescriptions.  How to insure them is a major issue in the
presidential campaign.

Join us and Terry Gross for FRESH AIR...For tapes and transcripts of
Fresh Air, call Burrelle's toll-free at 1-877-21-FRESH
(NEW number as of 6/12/2000).

Public Interest

Host:  Kojo Nnamndi

 AS HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS LEARN ABOUT THEIR LEGAL RIGHTS THEY ALSO BEGIN
TO FIGHT FOR THEM, SOMETIMES WITH SERIOUS RAMIFICATIONS. KOJO AND GUESTS
DISCUSS THE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS AND HOW SOME
ARE LEARNING TO DEFEND THEM.

"We the Students" by Jamin Raskin
    1. Professor Jamin Raskin,  American University Washington College
of Law
    2. Liz Armstrong, former teacher at Highland Springs High School in
Richmond, Virginia.
    3. Marina Hennessy, a high school student from Avon High School in
Avon, Indiana



Talk of the Nation, 2-4 p.m.

HOUR ONE  SENATOR JOHN McCAIN (R, Arizona)

HR 1: HARRY BROWNE

Join Juan Williams for a conversation with Libertarian Party
presidential  candidate Harry Browne, next Talk of the Nation.

HR 2: SUMMER SCHOOL

Join Juan Williams and guests to examine why so many kids are going to
summer  school, on the next Talk of the Nation from NPR News.


All Things Considered, 4-7 p.m.

All things Considered -  the second of two reports on the search for an
AIDS vaccine. NPR's Richard Harris takes us to  Thailand, one of two
countries where scientists are testing an AIDS vaccine on people.


WMUB Forum, 9-10 a.m., repeated 7-8 p.m., Fridays

News Director Darrel Gray hosts an hour of conversations with guests,
and listener e-mail comments and questions
(http://www.wmub.org/forumcomment.html).

Friday, July 14, 2000:  Gerald Coffee, former prisoner-of-war, now a
motivational speaker.  This is an "encore show,"  originally
broadcast November 12, 1999.




Interconnect, 9-10 a.m., repeated 7-8 p.m., Mondays

John Hingsbergen and Cheri Lawson host a lively hour of discussion on
spirituality, self-care, alternative health care and lifestyle
issues (http://www.wmub.org/interconnect.html).

Monday, July 17:  Achieving Health through Nutrition

     Guest:  Charlie Kabenji,  therapist and nutrition counselor