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Week of February 26, 2012
Segment 1: International Adoptions - A Mother's Journey
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Adopting a child from another country is fraught with emotions on all sides. Beth Nonte Russell, Forever Lily: An Unexpected Mother's Journey to Adoption in China went to China to support a friend who was adopting a little baby girl. She wasn't expecting her friend to reject the baby and ask Beth to take her instead. She tells the remarkable story of going to China as a tourist and returning a mother.
Segment 2: International Adoptions - A Child's Journey
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Hollee McGinnis is the Policy and Operations Director of the Evan B. Donaldson Institute. She was adopted from an orphanage in South Korea at the age of three. She has since been united with her birth family and leads trips of adult adoptees to South Korea.
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Week of February 19, 2012
Segment 1: Anthony Shadid - "Most Gifted Foreign Correspondent in a Generation"
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Two-time Pulitzer prize winning journalist Anthony Shadid, Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War reported from Iraq for the Washington Post. He is of Arab ancestry and fluent in Arabic. He discusses the hopes and anguish of the Iraqi people before and during the war with America. His memoir, House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and Lost Middle East will be published next month. This program was originally recorded in September 2005.
Segment 2: West Point Class of 2002
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In 2002, at the graduation ceremony at West Point Military Academy, President Bush laid out his argument for preemptive war. Bill Murphy, In A Time of War: The Proud and Perilous Journey of West Point's Class of 2002 tells the stories of the first class in a generation to graduate into armed combat.
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Week of February 12, 2012
Segment 1: The Mystery of Sleeping Sickness
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It's believed that Sleeping Sickness or Encephalitis Lethargica was the inspiration for stories like Sleeping Beauty and Rip Van Winkle. When it appeared in epidemic form around the time of WWI, 5 million people were afflicted. A third of them died, and a third became permanently disabled. There is no cure or treatment. Molly Caldwell Crosby, Asleep: The Forgotten Epidemic that Remains One of Medicine's Greatest Mysteries tells the stories of the victims and the doctors that tried to defeat the disease.
Segment 2: Water - Our Most Precious Natural Resource
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Unlike other precious resources, fresh water cannot be replaced. Without it, we die. Author and journalist Steven Solomon, Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization describes the challenges some parts of the world face as fresh water becomes scarce.
MG Show commentator Victoria Zackheim reviews Jane Gardam's novel, "The Man in the Wooden Hat."
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Week of February 5, 2012
Segment 1: Honey, You're Stressing Me Out!
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Frank Sinatra sang that love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage, but its just not that easy. John Gray, Why Mars & Venus Collide: Improving Relationships by Understanding How Men and Women Cope Differently with Stress is the psychologist that first introduced the idea that men and women are from "different planets." In this book he shows how we can reduce stress in our relationships.
Segment 2: A History of Marriage
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The fact that marriage is now based on love between two people is a relatively recent phenomenon. Stephanie Coontz, Marriage A History: From Obedience to Intimacy Or How Love Conquered Marriage explains how the institution of marriage has evolved over history and the dramatic changes it has gone through.