Search results for

Vicky Que (QUAY) of member station WHYY reports on programs across the country that deal with the teen pregnancy rate, from vows of "Secondary Virginity" to peer discussion groups.

NPR's Martha Guild reports on a rather sad story. Last September Ann Barrett overdosed on antidepressants. When the police found her they also discovered a 400-page diary which they took for a suicide note. They confiscated it and to the despair of the family .. lost it.

Jacki talks with Rolling Stone magazine music critic Anthony DeCurtis about the value of Greatest Hits albums. Bruce Springsteen's greatest hits suceeded Garth Brooks greatest hits on the Album charts and DeCurtis talks of the merits of buying such collections.

David Brower of member station KRWG reports on the 65th anniversary of the discovery of the planet Pluto. The planet was discovered in 1930 by a farm boy from Kansas named Clyde Tombaugh.

NPR's Isabel Alegria reports on a growth industry in Southern California... the proliferation of fake citizenship documents. Illegal immigrants are finding that for a fee, they can have someone make a fake Social Security card or birth certificate that says they are a legal U.S. citizen.

NPR's Julie McCarthy reports from Tokyo the Japanese police continue to raid a religious cult and find evidence of the cult being involved in this past week's chemical gas attack on the Tokyo subway.

Critic Bob Mondello muses about the cost of entertainment...now and a generation ago...and how much we all have to work to afford that ticket to the latest movie or sporting event.

NPR's Elizabeth Arnold reports that the Senate this week took up a 13 billion dollar spending recision bill. The House has passed a bill of 17 Billion. Arnold reports on the differences between the bills and that President Clinton says he will veto the House version.

Daniel talks with Harold Wonkle - deputy assistant director of the FBI's Criminal Investigations Division about the Russian mafia. Recently the FBI opened up an office in Moscow in order to work more closely with the Russian police in combatting Russian criminals whose efforts often extend into the United States. Wonkle says the Russian mafia is very sophisticated and is involved in everything from moneylaundering to medical fraud.

ITEM VETO - Jacki talks with James Thurber, the head of Congressional and Presidential Studies at American Univeristy in Washington D.C. Both houses of Congress have approved giving the President the Line-Item Veto...the ability of the President to veto specific portions of spending bills. Thurber discusses what the implications are.

The Aum Shinrykio sect is now the principal suspect in the Tokyo subway gassing last Monday. Over the past few days Japanese police have confiscated huge amounts of chemical compounds from their headquaters. But as Anne Garrels reports from Moscow the sect also has a large following in Russia - almost three times as many members as in Japan. But some of them are less willing than others.

Daniel talks to Ariel Bloch and Chana Bloch, who have retranslated one of the books of the Bible, the Song of Songs. Traditionally read during the Jewish festival of Passover, it is a passionate love poem that takes place during the spring.

Danny talks to Reverend Kelly Clem of Piedmont, Alabama about the Easter service she conducted today amidst the ruins of tiny Goshen Methodist Church where a deadly tornado struck during Palm Sunday services a year ago. Reverend Clem describes coming to terms with sorrow, destruction, and the death of 20 parishoners, including her daughter, Hanna.

On this April Fools Day, NPR science reporter Joe Palca has a story about a body of water called the The Firth of Forth, which runs through the Scottish city of Edinburgh, and a plan to use high-tech magnets to part the waters, the better to handle rush-hour traffic with.

Daniel talks to Philip Alt, who covered WWII for United Press. Alt was a colleague of Pulitzer-Prize winning columnist Ernie Pyle, who was killed in the battle of Okinawa, fifty years ago. Pyle was famous for giving what he called a "worm's eye view of the war," letting his reader know what the regular G.I. did and felt in the trenches.

Jacki speaks with NPR's Tom Goldman about prospects that the major league baseball season will begin on time tomorrow evening. Yesterday, a federal judge issued an injunction against the owners, prompting the players to offer to end their nearly eight-month old strike. Team owners will meet tomorrow to decide whether to go along with the players, or to lock them out.

Daniel talks to human rights activist Harry Wu, who was held by the Chinese government for 66 days and released during the past week. Wu says that while he was detained, he kept a secret diary in the margins of his dictionary, using the page numbers as a code for the date. He says that he loves China and will continue to return there.

Daniel talks to Jay Maser, President of the Union of Needle, Trades Industrial and Textile Employees about the poor conditions workers face in many garment manufacturing plants in the U.S. Many of these shops use legal and illegal immigrants and pay them much less than minimum wages. They have often been compared to slave labor because of the low pay and poor working conditions. Maser says more government enforcement is needed and calls on retailers to play a bigger role in improving conditions for these workers.

Daniel talks to Frank Keith, spokesperson for the IRS, and Greg Holloway of the General Accounting Office, about a GAO study that concludes that the IRS' internal bookkeeping system is so bad that it is virtually impossible to audit them. Keith says that the IRS deals with more recipts that the top 30 Fortune 500 companies put together with computer systems designed in the 60s, and that, given their present system, it is impossible to provide auditors with the information they need.