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Midmorning
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Archive for January 12 - 16, 2004
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Monday, Jan. 12, 2004
Hour 1 (9 a.m.)
Audio Food safety: separating the reality from the hype
The latest in a string of food safety concerns is salmon. A new study says some farm-raised salmon contains enough toxic chemicals that we should only eat it once a month. How can consumers sort through important food safety information and avoid the hype?

Guests:
Julie Jones, professor in the family, consumer and nutritional sciences department at the College of St. Catherine. Jones is also a licensed nutritionist.

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Hour 2 (10 a.m.)
Audio How the brain's secrets were revealed
Four hundred years ago, the brain first displaced the heart as the seat of human identity. A journalist finds fresh insight into the body's most mysterious organ by looking at the work of a 17th century scientist.
Guests:
Carl Zimmer, author of Soul Made Flesh: The Discovery of the Brain and How it Changed the World. He's also the author of Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea.

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Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2004
Hour 1 (9 a.m.)
Audio Departing Minneapolis Police Chief Robert Olson
Minneapolis Police Chief Robert Olson is stepping down after nine years. We talk with Chief Olson about his tenure and his hopes for the future of the department.

Guests:
Departing Minneapolis Police Chief Robert Olson.

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Hour 2 (10 a.m.)
Audio Money-making strategies create potential inequities at public schools
School fundraising used to involve no more than selling magazines or gift wrap. But some parents use more sophisticated methods to secure donations in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, and in the process they raise questions of equity in public schools.
Guests:
Charles Kyte, executive director of the Minnesota Association of School Administrators; Tammy Hauser, executive director of the Orono Alliance for Education which has raised $250,000 every year for the past four years to pay teacher salaries in the Orono public schools.

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Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2004
Hour 1 (9 a.m.)
Audio Bush hears grievances at Americas summit
The Americas summit ended Tuesday with tentative trade agreements, but many differences remain between the U.S. and Latin American countries. Some point out U.S. trade policy has not helped alleviate poverty. And many Latin Americans say they don't like U.S. stances on security and the drug trade.
Guests:
David Samuels, associate professor of political science at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of Ambition, Federalism, and Legislative Politics in Brazil.

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Hour 2 (10 a.m.)
Audio Does the Endangered Species Act work?
Thirty years after the Endangered Species Act, landowners still struggle with environmentalists over the vanishing species that rely on private land. One scholar of environmental laws says the venerable act doesn't protect endangered species at all.
Guests:
Jonathan Adler, assistant professor of law at Case Western Reserve University School of Law and a contributing editor to National Review Online.

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Thursday, Jan. 15, 2004
Hour 1 (9 a.m.)
Audio Bush proposes new mission in space
President Bush has proposed a multi-billion dollar boost to NASA's budget with the goal of a greater human presence in space. One proposal is to use the moon as a base for manned exploration of Mars.
Guests:
Maj. Gen. John Barry, USAF (Ret.), former executive director of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board. He was also NASA's liaison to the White House after the Challenger tragedy in 1986 when he was a White House Fellow. He now runs VISTA Quest, a company providing risk management advice to public and private organizations and is speaking around the Nation about the lessons learned from the Columbia mishap.

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Hour 2 (10 a.m.)
Audio Talking Volumes: "A Brief History of the Flood"
A broadcast of Talking Volumes at the Fitzgerald Theater. Katherine Lanpher talks with former Minnesotan Jean Harfenist about her debut novel, A Brief History of the Flood. The book chronicles a girl's growing up in a troubled family.
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Friday, Jan. 16, 2004
Hour 1 (9 a.m.)
Audio Midmorning goes ice fishing
A live broadcast from The Grand View Lodge on Gull Lake features a preview of the Ice Fishing Extravaganza, the world's largest ice fishing contest.
Guests:
Chip Leer, a pro-circuit Minnesota fisherman who's been involved with the Ice Fishing Extravaganza for a number of years and co-founder of Fishing the WildSide On Ice, a resource for winter anglers. Bob Slaybaugh, a veteran of the Ice Fishing Extravaganza since its inception l4 years ago.

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Hour 2 (10 a.m.)
Audio The life on ice
Minnesota's surface area increases dramatically in the winter and along with it, a sense of community. In a live broadcast from frozen Gull Lake near Brainard, a discussion about how Minnesotan's use their lakes in the winter.
Guests:
Neal Gaalswyk, water safety specialist with the Crow Wing County Sheriff's Department. Will Weaver, author of the short story collection A Gravestone Made of Wheat, as well as several young adult novels set in the upper Midwest -- his latest, Claws, is set in Duluth and the Boundry Waters. Don Hickman, aquatic biologist and environmental specialist in charge of the Health Lakes and Rivers Partnership Program for the Initiative Foundation in Little Falls.

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