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July 1998
7/5 7/12 7/19 7/26
July 1998 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin
7/5/98Program #Title
Hour 1 97-07-27-C WOMEN AND VIOLENCE
The Gift of Fear - Gavin de Becker
Tales of an Expert Tracker - Hannah Nyala
An Abused Woman - Paula Sharp
Hour 2 97-08-10-B POLITICS OF ENVIRONMENT
Environmental Politics - Tom Athanasiou
Art of Compromise - Charles Mann
Environmental Refugees - Norman Myers
Backyard Radical - Sara Stein
Hour 3 97-06-01-C VISUAL CULTURE
Television is Trash - George Trow
Television is a Scapegoat - John Leonard
Animation Art - Stefan Kanfer
Art in America - Robert Hughes

7/12/98Program #Title
Hour 1 97-05-25-A RACE AND CLASS
Black Wealth/White Wealth - Thomas Shapiro
White Trash - Annalee Newitz and Matt Wray
Working Class Arab-American - Joanna Kadi
Working Class Black Southerner - Deborah McDowell
Re-defining Class - Gerda Lerner
Hour 2 97-08-31-B TOXIC ENVIRONMENT
Food Contamination - Nicols Fox
Toxic Environment - Sandra Steingraber
Immunotherapy - Stephen Hall
Wisdom of the Body - Sherwin Nuland
Hour 3 97-04-27-C LOVE AND MARRIAGE
Romantic Daydreams - Charlotte Mayerson
Romantic Love - Marilyn French
Single Father - John Thorndike
A Lover's Death - Mark Doty

7/19/98Program #Title
Hour 1 97-01-05-A FAMILY FARM
Farm Crisis - Joel Dyer
Family Farm - John Hildebrand
Rural Economy - Daniel Kemmis
Farm Memoir - Jane Brox
Hour 2 97-08-24-B WILDNESS
Managing Nature - Stephen Budiansky
Meaning of Wildness - Gary Snyder
Amazon Paradise - John Terborgh
Zoos - Vicki Croke
Hour 3 97-08-17-C PURSUIT OF PLEASURE
Finding Flow - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Pursuit of Pleasure - Lionel Tiger
The Perfect Wave - Dan Duane
"Pleasure" Cruise - David Foster Wallace

7/26/98Program #Title
Hour 1 98-07-26-A STRADDLING CULTURES
Bilingual Journey - Ariel Dorfman
Growing Up Hawaiian - Carolyn Lei-lanilau
Asian-American Women - Claire Chow
Belgian Immigrant - Luc Sante
Hour 2 98-07-26-B BIOLOGY OF EMOTIONS
Emotional Selves - Candace Pert
About Face - Jonathan Cole
Detecting Lies - Deborah Blum
Darwin & Emotions - Paul Ekman
Emotional Computers - Rosalind Picard
Hour 3 98-07-26-C STUDIOS AND INDIES
Great 70's Directors - Peter Biskind
Being an Independent - James Schamus
John Ford's "The Searchers" - Stanley Crouch
The Searchers in Space - Jonathan Lethem

July 1998 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin

August 1998
8/2 8/9 8/16 8/23 8/30
August 1998 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin
8/2/98Program #Title
Hour 1 98-08-02-A JAPAN IN CRISIS
Culture & Economics - Murray Sayle
Rituals & Community - James McPherson
Caught Between Cultures - Kyoko Mori
Straddling Cultures - Ruth Ozeki
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Hour 2 98-08-02-B POPULATION CRISIS
Population Decline - Nicholas Eberstadt
Census Count - Ellen Waltersheid
Population & Global Warming - Bill McKibben
From Butterflies to People - Paul Ehrlich
Gaviotas - Alan Weisman
Hour 3 98-08-02-C SENSUAL APPETITES
Aphrodisiacs - Isabel Allende
The Sensual Life - Thomas Moore
Physical Experiments - Emily Jenkins
Celibacy & Sensuosness - Stephen Honeygosky
Touch Starved - Mariana Caplan

8/9/98Program #Title
Hour 1 98-08-09-A NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION
Nukes in South Asia - George Perkovich
Nuclear Deterrence - John Mearsheimer
Disarmament Now - Jonathan Schell
Highways as Weapons - John Stilgoe
Nuclear Landscape - Valerie Kuletz
Hour 2 98-08-09-B LOST WORLDS
Recovering the Ship of Gold - Gary Kinder
Myth of Atlantis - Richard Ellis
Archaeology of the Mind - Brian Fagan
Smelly Old History - Mary Dobson
Hour 3 97-03-09-C TELLING WOMEN'S LIVES
Women's Memoirs - Jill Ker Conway
Grace Marks: Canadian Scandal - Margaret Atwood
Babe Didrikson Zaharias - Susan Cayleff
Father and Self - Mary Gordon

8/16/98Program #Title
Hour 1 98-08-16-A Y2K - The Year 2000
Y2K and Millenialism - Richard Landes
Y2K Won't Be So Bad - Judith Golub
Ubiquitous Chips - Rick Smolan
Millenial History - Henry Chadwick
Hour 2 98-08-16-B Extraordinary Brains
Neurology of Phineas Gage - Deric Bownds
Genius & Mental Disorder - Clifford Pickover
Think Like a Genius - Michael Gelb
Autism - Leigh Ann Tidey
Mind Control - David Spiegel
Hour 3 98-08-16-C Creating Your Life
Men's Passages - Gail Sheehy
Rediscovering the Piano - Noah Adams
Practical Career Design - Carol Lloyd
Corporate Fool - Gordon MacKenzie
Buying a House in Tuscany - Frances Mayes

8/23/98Program #Title
Hour 1 98-08-23-A ADULTERY
History of Adultery - Elaine Tyler May
Adulterous Affair - Catherine Texier
Infidelity - Catherine Wallace
Science of Monogamy - Deborah Blum
Sex Education - James Sears
Hour 2 98-08-23-B ROBOTICS
Cog the Humanoid Robot - Rodney Brooks
Lego Mindstorms - Anthony Fudd
Robots on Mars - David Miller
Science Fiction Influence on Culture
- Thomas Disch
Hour 3 98-08-23-C RAT RACE
Time Change - John Robinson
Giving Up the Rat Race
Marilyn Abraham & Sandy MacGregor
Need for Speed - Stan Davis
Work Place Napping - William Anthony

8/30/98Program #Title
Hour 1 98-08-30-A SURVIVING TREACHERY
Helping the Hmong - Jane Hamilton-Merritt
Revisiting Auschwitz with Mother
- Julie Salamon
The Stasi Were Everywhere - Timothy Garton Ash
Surviving a Daughter's Murder - Robert Hellenga
Hour 2 96-07-21-B CONQUERING CANCER
Prostate Cancer - Michael Korda
Molecular Epidemiology - Frederica Perera
Synthesizing Taxol - Kip Guy
Cancer Poetry - Donald Hall
Hour 3 96-12-22-C SETTLING THE FRONTIER
Migration to Inter-Mountain States
- Rick Knight
Settling the Badlands - Jonathan Raban
Wm. Cooper/Founding of Cooperstown
- Alan Taylor
First American Naturalists: The Bartrams
- Thomas Slaughter

August 1998 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin

September 1998
9/6 9/13 9/20 9/27
September 1998 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin
9/6/98Program #Title
Hour 1 98-09-06-A TRUE BELIEVERS
Osama bin Laden - John Esposito
Gunpowder Plot - Antonia Fraser
John Brown - Russell Banks
Radical Right - Joel Dyer
Ex-Communist - William Herrick
Hour 2 98-09-06-B MATHEMATICAL WONDERS
Stacking Oranges - Ian Stewart
Math's Popularity - Keith Devlin
Paul Erdos - Paul Hoffman
Math in Nature - Ian Stewart
John Nash - Sylvia Nasar
Hour 3 98-09-06-C WONDERLANDS
Celebration, FL - Michael Pollan
Area 51 - Phil Patton
Iceland - Charles Fergus
Children's Dreamlands - Alan Siegel

9/13/98Program #Title
Hour 1 98-09-13-A DO PARENTS MATTER?
Nurture Assumption - Steven Pinker
Father's Influence - Scott Sanders
Birth of the Mother - Daniel Stern
and Nadia Bruschweiller-Stern
Adventures in Parenting - Marion Winik
Hour 2 98-09-13-B HOT STUFF!
Global Fire - Stephen Pyne
Humans & Heat - Kathleen Delaney
Air Conditioning & The South - Raymond Arsenault
Thermodynamics - Hans von Baeyer
Hour 3 98-09-13-C ART OF TRAVEL
Off the Beaten Track - Hilary Bradt
Ethics of Travel - Barry Lopez
Kidnapping Threat - Ann Hagedorn Auerbach
In the Footsteps of D.H. Lawrence - Geoff Dyer
Hiking the Appalachian Trail - Bill Bryson

9/20/98Program #Title
Hour 1 96-09-22-A CHILD PROTECTION
Child Welfare Intervention - Richard Gelles
Preserve the Family - Charlotte Booth
Rebuilding Our Families - Mary Pipher
Learning From Kids' Culture - Douglas Rushkoff
Hour 2 97-12-21-B COSMOLOGY
Evolving Physics - Lee Smolin
Alien Solar Systems - Ken Croswell
Comets - Sara Schechner Genuth
Gravity - Joseph Lanza
Hour 3 98-09-20-C EATING ETHNIC
How Ethnic Food Shaped America - Donna Gabaccia
Weird Food Festivals - Coleman Andrews
Authentic Italian Cooking - Marcella Hazan
Basmati Rice Patent - Vandana Shiva
African Food Memories - Dorinda Hafner

9/27/98Program #Title
Hour 1 98-09-27-A Religion at the Crossroads Part One:
DOES GOD EXIST?
God Exists - William Lane Craig
Miracle of Science - Chet Raymo
Brain Imaging & Meditation - Andrew Newberg
Touched by God - Doris Grumbach
Jews & Buddhists - Sylvia Boorstein
Hour 2 97-09-21-B EUREKA!
The End of Science - Robert Hazen
Bad Science - A.K. Dewdney
Discovery Biography - Alan Guth
Folk Remedies - Robert Root-Bernstein
Hour 3 98-09-27-C PUBLISHING STORIES
Small Press Publishing - Karin Taylor
New Yorker - Daniel Menaker
An Editor's Life - Carol Houck Smith
The Bloomsbury Marmoset - Sigrid Nunez

September 1998 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin


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