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January 1999
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January 1999 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin

1/3/99Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 99-01-03-A HUMAN RIGHTS
Enduring Spirit - Phil Borges
Human Wrongs in Rwanda - Philip Gourevitch
Human Rights in Colombia - Tricia Smith
What's Wrong With Human Rights - Henry Rosemont
Hour 2 98-02-08-B ENGINEERING
Petronas Towers, Malaysia - Charles Thornton
Three Gorges Dam, China - David Lampton
Engineer's Mind - Henry Petroski
Building a Treehouse - Peter Nelson
Hour 3 98-01-04-C LANGUAGE
Norwegian anti-Nazi jokes - Kathleen Stokker
Loss of Language - Hilda Raz
Language of Names - Justin Kaplan & Anne Bernays
Talk American! - Jim Crotty

1/10/99Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 99-01-10-A SEX, POLITICS, & THE G.O.P.
Conservatives - David Brooks
Moral Scourges - Andrew Sullivan
George W. Bush - Sam Verhovek
Political Humor - Scott Dikkers
Eleanor Roosevelt & Horena Hickok
- Rodger Streitmatter
Hour 2 99-01-10-B SCIENCE AND ILLUSION
Virtual Rape? - Julian Dibbell
Fairy Paintings - Pamela Trimpe
Science, Not Magic - Richard Dawkins
Magician - Rudy Coby
Computers that Think - Ray Kurzweil
Hour 3 98-01-25-C BODIES OF POWER
Barbie History - Gary Cross
New Barbie - Andrea Dworkin
Barbie Parody - Sarah Strohmeyer
Extraordinary Bodies - Rosemarie Thomson
Professional Wrestling - Sharon Mazer

1/17/99Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 99-01-17-A LAND USE
Black Farmers - Gary Grant
Trespassing - John Hanson Mitchell
Rethinking Land Ownership - Chuck Matthei
Indian Land - Winona LaDuke
Reading Landscape - Anne Spirn
Hour 2 99-01-17-B DESPERATE FOR BABIES
Reproductive Ethics - Lori Andrews
Accepting Infertility - Paulette Bates Alden
Sperm Sorting for Sex - Richard Rawlins
Chinese Sex Ratio - Susan Greenhalgh
The Orphan Train - Andrea Warren
Orphan Train Rider - Howar Heard
Hour 3 98-02-22-C RELIGION & PSYCHOLOGY
Jung Was a Fraud - Richard Noll
Defending Jung - Thomas Moore
Spirituality & Therapy - James Jones
William James - Linda Simon

1/24/99Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 97-08-31-A HOME/WORK
The Time Bind - Arlie Hochschild
Taylorism - Robert Kanigel
Simone Weil's Vision - Richard Bell
Working Fathers - James Levine
Hour 2 99-01-24-B THE WOLF
Wolf Lore - Barry Lopez
Mexican Wolves - Rick Bass
Wolf Biologist - Dave Mech
Wolf Dogs - Nicole Wilde
Wolves for Children - Jean Craighead George
Hour 3 99-01-24-C ON THE ROAD
Being a Foreign Correspondent - Jackie Lyden
Sportswriter's Road Trip - Steve Rushin
Kerouac & Road Literature - Doug Brinkley
Cross-Country Bicycle Trip - Brian Newhouse

1/31/99Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 99-01-31-A COVERING WAR
Compassion Fatigue - Susan Moeller
War Reporter - Chuck Sudetic
Reporting Vietnam
Vietnam Myths - Jerry Lembcke
Citizen Soldiers - Stephen Ambrose
Hour 2 99-01-31-B STRANGE WEATHER
Strange Weather - Mark Hertsgaard
Disaster Psychology - Dee Elliott
Weather Channel - Mike Lerner
Winter Poem - Judith Strasser
Virtues of Snow - Ruth Kirk
Polar Plunge - Aaron Frank
Hour 3 99-01-31-C ART EVERYDAY
NEA & Art Everyday - Bill Ivey
Art & Everyday Science - Landa Townsend
Art for Everyone - Claes Oldenburg
Big Wooden Spoons & Bowls
- Ursula von Rydingsvard
Disney's Everyday Business of Art
- Christopher Finch
January 1999 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin

February 1999
2/7 2/14 2/21 2/28
Febuary 1999 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin
2/07/99Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 99-02-07-A AMERICAN ICONS
Michael Jordan - David Halberstam
Bill Clinton - Richard Shenkman
Lillian Hellman - Rosemary Mahoney
The Outlaw Hero - David Leeming
Elvis Presley - David Guralnick
Hour 2 99-02-07-B MAD ABOUT PLANTS
Orchid Obsession - Susan Orlean
Undiscovered Species - Barbara Ertter
Tulipomania - Anna Pavord
Edible Vaccines - Tom German
Fungus Among Us - George Hudler
Hour 3 99-02-07-C STREET LIFE
Homeless in New York - Lee Stringer
A Juggler's Life - Truly Remarkable Loon
Radio Documentaries - David Isay
Begging In India - Rohinton Mistry
Mr. Satan - Adam Gussow

2/14/99Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 98-03-01-A PRIVACY IN PERIL
Invasion of Privacy - Beth Givens
Public Surveillance - Richard Chase
A Housecleaner's Adventures - Louise Rafkin
Protecting the Private Life - Janna Malamud Smith
Hour 2 99-02-14-B POPULARIZING SCIENCE
Stories and Numbers - John Allen Paulos
Wonders of Physics - Clint Sprott
Verse and Universe - Kurt Brown
Pattiann Rogers - Writing Poems About Science
Writing Science Fiction - Gregory Benford
Hour 3 98-02-15-C MEN, WOMEN & INTIMACY
Should You Leave? - Peter Kramer
Men, Women & Divorce -
Benjamin Cheever & Daphne Merkin
Romantic Love is Doomed - Doris Lessing
Women & Men - Richard Ford

2/21/99Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 99-02-21-A IS "PROFIT" A DIRTY WORD?
Learning from Literature - Robert Brawer
A Lottery Lesson - Andy Schmookler
Jack Welch & G.E. - Tom O'Boyle
Defending Capitalism - Werner DeBondt
History of Money - James Buchan
Letters from Listeners
Hour 2 98-03-08-B ALZHEIMER'S AND AGING
Ethics of Genetic Testing - Henry Greely
Alzheimer's Poem - Kelly Cherry
New Alzheimer's Research - Steve DeKosky
Aging & Memory - John Daniel
Joy of Aging - Rebecca Latimer
Hour 3 99-02-21-C HOLLYWOOD FOR SALE
Eulogy to Hollywood - Robert Allen
Hong to Hollywood - Peter Chan
Xena Fan - Kym Taborn
Recycling the Classics - Matthew Gumpert
Our Lives as Movies - Neil Gabler

2/28/99Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 99-02-28-A SPIES
Open Source Intelligence - Robert Steele
Post-Cold-War Spying - Peter Earnest
Becoming a Spy - Judith Strasser
The Prodigal Spy - Joseph Kanon
Harriet the Spy - Kathleen Horning
Hour 2 99-02-28-B CONSERVATION STORIES
Environmental Travels - Mark Hertsgaard
Cranes - Peter Matthiessen
Giving Up Fishing - David Quammen
Animal Tracker - Paul Rezendes
Hour 3 99-02-28-C ENLIGHTENMENT OR BUST
Alternative Spiritual Approaches - Mary Morris
Camp Meeting Resort - Troy Messenger
Enlightenment Factories - Robert Thurman
Angel Sex & Buddhism - Stephen Mitchell
Sinking Boat & Marriage - Peter Nichols

Febuary 1999 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin

March 1999
3/7 3/14 3/21 3/28
March 1999 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin
3/07/99Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 97-08-24-A LIVING ON WELFARE
Welfare Queens - David Zucchino
Welfare Activism - Cheri Honkala
Attitude Adjustment - David Sykes
Hour 2 97-11-23-B BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR
Right Brain, Left Brain - Robert Ornstein
Evolution of the Brain - Steven Pinker
Violence and Brain Damage - Jonathan Pincus
A Manic Mom - Jackie Lyden
Hour 3 98-04-12-C The Storied Land Part One:
THE BORDER

Arriving at LAX - Pico Iyer
L.A. Essay - Judith Strasser/Marv Nonn
Commentary - Richard Rodriguez
The Border in the Heartland - Ruben Martinez
Ecological Borders - Jack Ewel

3/14/99Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 99-03-14-A GROWING UP IRISH
NY Tenement Irish - Dennis Smith
A Priest & His Housekeeper/Story - John Gleeson
An IRA Bombing Comedy - Patrick McCabe
Maternal Alcoholism - Nuala O'Faolain
Pub Talk & Music - Ciaran Carson
Hour 2 99-03-14-B WINTER
Snowflake Bentley - Jacqueline Briggs Martin
Love of Ice - Peter Stark
Woman Polar Explorer - Anne Bancroft
Wilderness Winter - Gary Paulsen
Hour 3 98-04-19-C The Storied Land Part Two:
THE CEMETERY

African-American Cemeteries
- Wilbur Hughes & Roberta Hughes Wright
Texas Graveyards - Terry Jordan
Mt. Auburn & the Modern Cemetery
- Blanche M.G. Linden
Tombstones - Richard Meyer
Commentary - Andrei Codrescu

3/21/99Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 99-03-21-A ENTERTAINMENT & ESCAPE
Crossover Directors - Michael Bodnarchek
Commercial Directors - Christopher Guest
The Power of Star Wars - Mary Henderson
Star Wars Meets Cops Spoof - Kevin Rubio
Escapism - Yi-Fu Tuan
Remembering Radio Days - Gerald Nachman
Hour 2 98-03-22-B MAPPING THE LAND
Cosmic Cartography - Margaret Geller
Mapping Revolution - John Radke
Native American Maps - Mark Warhus
Mapping Cyberspace - Paul Starrs
Hour 3 98-04-26-C The Storied Land Part Three:
THE MONUMENT

Niagara Falls Story - Ernest Benedict
Niagara Falls as Sublime Monument - Al Runte
Contested Sites - Edward Linenthal
Manzanar Commentary - Mas Masumoto
Graceland - Karal Ann Marling

3/28/99Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 99-03-28-A GETTING A LIFE
Blind Man's Memoir - Jim Knipfel
Depression as Social Epidemic - David Awbrey
Freudian Analyst - Daniel Menaker
Buddhism & Psychotherapy - Mark Epstein
Lies and Stories - Alice McDermott
Hour 2 98-03-29-B ELECTRONIC COMMUNITIES
Interactive Communities - David Brock
Wiring the Arctic - Sheldon Teitelbaum
How Television Saved Russia - Ellen Mickiewicz
Radio Orca - John Ford
Emotion and Radio - Scott Simon
Hour 3 99-03-28-C KEEPING TIME
Apocalypse Cultures - Alex Heard
Life in the Year 1000 - Robert Lacey
Millennium Clock - Stewart Brand
Geography of Time - Robert Levine
History of the Calendar - David Duncan

March 1999 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin


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