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January 13 - 17, 2003
Monday, Jan. 13
Iraq or North Korea: Who is the greater threat?
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After this weekendÕs swell of anti-war sentiment-with estimates as high as 15,000 protesters here in LA- Talk of the City opens up the phones to get your feelings on the looming possibility of war with Iraq and the Bush AdministrationÕs insistence that the same rules we are using with Iraq do not apply to North KoreaÕs nuclear stance.
Socially Responsible Businesses
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Can a green business stay clean when a conventional business buys it out? Guest host Mat Kaplan asks this question and more of President and CEO of Stonyfield Farms, Gary Hirshberg, and owner and founder of Patagonia, Yvon Chouinard.
Tuesday, Jan. 14
Hot Zone in Long Beach
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Four Long Beach tech companies have teamed up with the city of Long Beach to host the first free wireless internet district west of the Rocky Mountains. Laptop users in downtown Long Beach equipped with a wireless card can access the internet free of charge. Guest host Mat Kaplan speaks with two players involved with the launch of the Long Beach Hot Zone, Business Technology Specialist from the City of Long Beach, Bruce Mayes, and founder of the web portal G-Site, Lorenzo Gigliotti.
Spying with Maps
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Go beyond the fear of ÒTheyÕre watching you.Ó TheyÕve been watching you for years. Author Mark Monmonier , author of Spying with Maps (University of Chicago Press), shares how surveillance technology works, from traffic cameras to demographic maps based on consumer purchases. How did surveillance technology get this far? What do these advances mean to the future of privacy? Guest host Mat Kaplan asks these questions and more.
John Quigley Update
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The deposed tree sitter is back on the ground and talks to Mat about what he plans to do now that Old Glory is finally being moved.
Jean Ensminger
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Performing experiments that appear to be nothing more than observing people playing games, Caltech Anthropology professor Jean Ensminger studies concepts like sharing and trust across cultures. For periods at a time over the past 30 years, Ensminger studied and lived with the Orma tribe in northeastern Kenya running experiments using real money in order to learn about real behavior. Ensminger joins guest host Mat Kaplan to talk about economic anthropology and her research, including the broader conclusions she draws about human social and economic activity.
Dr. Jean Ensminger will be talking about her research at Caltech on Monday, February 3 at 4PM in CaltechÕs Beckman Institute Auditorium. The talk is specifically for middle and high school science students. For more information, call 626-304-2727.
Wednesday, Jan. 15
Stormwater Debate
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Are we paying too much to prevent runoff? A new study commissioned by a coalition of cities criticizing the current county stormwater protections was released yesterday. WeÕll hear from the legislator who commissioned the study and from the Clean Water Alliance which supports current protections. Guests include David Nahai, board member and former two time chair of the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board; Larry Forester, senior councilmember in Signal Hill; and Craig Perkins, director of environmental and public works for the city of Santa Monica.
Nuclear Forecast
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What are we really afraid of? Who has what and where is it pointed? As we teeter on the brink of war over the issue of weapons of mass destruction, Kitty will contemplate nuclear worst-case scenarios with guests Steve Koonin, provost and professor of theoretical nuclear physics at the California Institute of Technology and Clay Moltz, North Korea expert at the Monteray Institute Center for Nonproliferation Studies.
Thursday, Jan. 16
Frank Stoltze Update on BrattonÕs News Conference
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Chief William Bratton launched a strict campaign to combat LA gangs. KPCC reporter Frank Stoltze speaks with Kitty Felde about the press conference.
Using Genetics to Test the Waters
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Stan Grant from the Department of Chemical Engineering and earth Science joins Kitty once again. Last you heard from him we were live from Huntington Beach finding out what was going on with our oceans. Grant and other researchers at UCI have developed a more precise way to search for and identify waste in our waters.
Prisoners of War
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ItÕs been a year since Afghani prisoners were taken to Guantanamo Bay. Kitty Felde focuses on the dispute between legal scholars over the use of Guantanamo as a prison camp and how you classify the detainees under international law. What's the difference between legitimate and illegitimate combatants under international law? How do you classify a soldier under Geneva Conventions? Kitty asks these questions and more of Frontline producer, Saul Gonzalez, who toured the Guantanamo Bay detention camp; President of Center for Constitutional Rights, Michael Ratner; and, Director of the SAIS International Law and Organization Program, Ruth Wedgewood.
Winter Gardening Tips
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Apparently winter is the busiest time for gardeners, making preparations for spring and summer and performing the bulk of the maintenance on our gardens. As part of Talk of the CityÕs continuing series on gardening, Kitty talks with the executive director of the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, Clem Hamilton, about what needs to be done in these colder months.
For more information on the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Gardens, call 909.625.8767 or visit Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden online.
Books recommended by Clem Hamilton:
Sunset Western Gardening Book (Sunset Books) by Kathleen Norris Brenzel
California Native Plant Gardens: Care and Maintenance (Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden) by Bart C. OÕBrien (available through the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden)
Friday, Jan. 17
Gay Adoptions
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The foster care system nationwide is overburdened with over 500,000 children, 117,000 of whom are waiting to be adopted. While responding to the need for qualified adoptive parents, the Ògay-byÓ boom stirs controversy in the courts, schools, churches, and even the gay community itself. Host Kitty Felde speaks with Betty DeGeneres, author and speaker for PFLAG (Parents of Families of Lesbians and Gays and the Human Rights Coalition National Coming Out Project), Professor Judith Stacey, Streisand professor of Contemporary Gender Studies and Professor of sociology, USC, Christopher Caldwell, National Family Pride Coalition, who adopted two children from Peru, and Abigail Garner, grown daughter from a gay family. She launched FamiliesLikeMine.com providing advice, support, and commentaries for other kids of gay and lesbian parents. Also joining the conversation is ten-year-old ÒJustin,Ó the adoptive son of gay parents.
For links to agencies mentioned today, visit Betty DeGeneresÕ column.
Starving to Death on $200 Million
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James Ledbetter was a top editor at the short-lived publishing phenomenon that was supposed to be the Business Week of the internet economy. The Industry Standard instead lived up to its name in a late '90s fashion by going bankrupt. Ledbetter relates his tales of the magazineÕs short and absurd life in Starving to Death on $200 Million (Public Affairs).
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