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For the broadcast of March 22, 2008
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Love Stories

This week, Christopher Murray loves his mom, Alex Ben Block loves the Herald-Examiner, and an Iraqi-American loves her adopted country.



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listenNew Law Aims At School Shootings

City councilman Ed Reyes held a news conference on Monday to propose a law that would mandate jail time for anyone with an illegal gun a thousand feet from a school.


listenShot In the Heart

Dr. Mauricio Heilbraun tells of operating on an 11-year-old boy who was fatally shot.

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listenCreating Vintage Photos

Pasadena artist Stephen Berkman makes old-fashioned photographs called tintypes, which have appeared in such films as The Assassination of Jesse James and Cold Mountain.



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listenTold You So

Marc Haefele tells how he urged his bosses at Doubleday to buy the rights to a new science fiction book, but they refused. The book was 2001: A Space Odyssey. The writer Arther C. Clarke died this week.



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listenNewspaper Reunion

Alex Ben Block tells of the L.A. Herald-Examiner reunion last week. The Hearst paper shut down in 1989.


listenSculpting Junk

Laurie Hassold, a Kentuckian who lives in Orange County, makes stunning sculptures that look like creepy sea creatures. But look closely and you'll see they're made up of all sorts of found objects.

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listenHollywood Star

Off-Ramp is following actor Christopher Murray's efforts to get his mother Hope Lange a star on Hollywood Blvd. The late actor won an Emmy and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in Peyton Place.


listenThe Iraq War Five Years In

As part of KPCC's series, Frank Stoltze spoke with Ilham Hussain, an Iraqi-American psychotherapist who lives in the San Gabriel Valley.
listenJohn McCain Mix

John Rabe mixes McCain's words to the soundtrack of an old spaghetti western.
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