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Title: Fresh Air, Ron Carter and Dean Kamen

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Original Recording

Length: 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-22-03

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

Kamen invented the Segway Human Transporter, a high-tech scooter. The scooter relies on sensors, solid-state gyroscopes, and software to produce a balanced ride even over rough terrain. The price tag is around $5,000. Kamen's other inventions include a portable drug-infusion pump, a compact dialysis machine, and a wheelchair that can climb stairs. Kamen heads DEKA Research & Development Corporation in New Hampshire. (Original Broadcast Dates: October 15, 2002 and February 10, 2003)

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Title: Fresh Air, Sheri Fink and Doug Spreen

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Original Recording

Length: 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-19-03

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

Doctor Sheri Fink talks about working in war zones and athletic trainer Doug Spreen on this edition of Fresh Air. Dr. Shari Fink's new book is called War Hosptial: A True Story of Surgery and Survival. It's about the group of doctors who treated patients in Srebrenica, Bosnia, during wartime, under the most extreme conditions. They treated thousands of patients, often without electricity, water, or the proper medicine. Fink is a physician and writer based in New York. She works with the humanitarian organization International Medical Corps. She just returned from Iraq and has also worked in the Balkans, southern Africa, and Central Asia. Doug Spreen is one of the official trainers for the ATP (Association of Tennis Professionals) and has worked with the world's top tennis players, including Pete Sampras, Andre Agassi, Andy Roddick, and Venus and Serena Williams. He is responsible for the health of all the players, and deals with their injuries before and after competition. He also has to tend to them while they are competing; he often has to run onto the court and check on athletes who are injured during play. (Broadcast Date: August 19, 2003)

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Title: Fresh Air, Peter Mullen and Niki Caro

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Original Recording

Length: 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-12-03

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

Scottish writer/director/actor Peter Mullan and writer/director Niki Caro on this edition of Fresh Air. Peter Mullan's new feature film The Magdalene Sisters is based on the real life laundries run by the Sisters of the Magdalene Order in Ireland which opened near the end of the 19th century. Girls that were considered wayward or unruly were sent there as punishment for their "sins" and forced to do labor under sweat-shop conditions. The last of the laundries was shut down in 1996. Niki Caro's new film is Whale Rider a re-telling of Maori legend in which a young girl must challenge her grandfather and a thousand years of tradition to fulfill her destiny. The Maoris are the native people of New Zealand. Whale Rider won the Audience awards at the Sundance, Toronto and Rotterdam Film Festivals. (Broadcast Date: August 12, 2003)

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Title: Fresh Air, Eric Boehlert and John Hogan

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Original Recording

Length: 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-23-03

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

Journalist Eric Boehlert and Clear Channel CEO John Hogan on this edition of Fresh Air. Eric Boehlert writes for the online magazine Salon. He's been covering the story surrounding Clear Channel Communications Inc., a media conglomerate that owns 1,200 radio stations nationwide. Last January it was the subject of an inquiry by the Senate commerce committee because of claims that Clear Channel "bullies artists, replaces local programming with automated formats and uses hard-nosed tactics against competitors." John Hogan is the CEO of Clear Channel Radio, a part of Clear Channel Worldwide, headquartered in San Antonio, Texas. It includes TV stations, outdoor advertising displays and live entertainment productions and venues throughout the US and in 65 countries around the world. (Broadcast Date: July 23, 2003)

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Title: Fresh Air, Nicholas Kristof

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Original Recording

Length: 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-25-03

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

Editorial columnist for The New York Times, Nicholas Kirstof. In his recent columns he's been writing about the intelligence officers who disclosed to him that the Bush administration before the war exaggerated the claims of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Kristof recently returned from Iraq. He was also in Africa. (Broadcast Date: June 25, 2003)

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Title: Fresh Air, Thomas Ricks

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Original Recording

Length: 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-10-03

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

Journalist Thomas Ricks on this edition of Fresh Air. He covers the military for The Washington Post. He recently returned from Iraq where he was semi-embedded with troops in Baghdad. (Broadcast Date: June 10, 2003)

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Title: Fresh Air, Ahmir Thompson and Gary Shteyngart

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Original Recording

Length: 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-06-03

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

Drummer Ahmir Thompson, otherwise known as "?uestlove" of the hip-hop group The Roots and writer Gary Shtenyngart on this edition of Fresh Air. The Grammy award-winning sextet has six albums to its credit. Their latest CD is Phrenolog. Their first single from the album is "Break You Off." The group is just beginning a nationwide tour. Gary Shteyngart's debut novel, The Russian Debutante's Handbook, received critical acclaim and is now out in paperback. The main character of the book, like Shteyngart, is a Russian-American Jew who emigrated to the U.S. as a child. In a New York Times Magazine cover article, Daniel Zalewski wrote, "Gary Shteyngart has rewritten the classic immigrant narrative - starring a sarcastic slacker instead of a grateful striver. And after all his parents have done for him!" (Original Broadcast Dates: February 6, 2003 and July 2, 2002)

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Title: Fresh Air, Journalists Riccardo Orizio and Joyce Davis

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Original Recording

Length: 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-03-03

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

In this edition of Fresh Air, Italian journalist Riccardo Orizio on disposed dictators and journalist Joyce Davis on the views of martyrdom among extremists in the Middle East on this edition of Fresh Air. Riccardo Orizio is the author of the book Talk of the Devil: Encounters with Seven Dictators. He interviewed deposed dictators who haven't apologized for their crimes and weren't rehabilitated. They were Uganda's Idi Amin, Haiti's "Baby Doc" Duvalier, and Ethiopia's Haile Mengistu and others. Then, Joyce Davis is deputy foreign editor at Knight Ridder newspapers and is the former Middle East editor at NPR. She's the author of the new book, Martyrs: Innocence, Vengenance and Despair in the Middle East. Davis conducted interviews with Islamic scholars to try to understand the teachings about martyrdom and how those teachings had been twisted by extremists. She also conducted interviews in the Middle East with the families of martyrs and of victims. (Broadcast Date: June 3, 2003)

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Title: Fresh Air, Thomas Friedman

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Original Recording

Length: 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-21-03

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

New York Times Foreign Affairs columnist Thomas Friedman on this edition of Fresh Air. He'll discuss the post-Saddam Middle East. Friedman's best selling book is called Longitudes and Attitudes: Exploring the World After September 11. He has won two Pulitzer Prizes for his coverage of the Middle East. (Broadcast Date: April 21, 2003)

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Title: Fresh Air, Bathshena Crocker and remembering Cecile de Brunhoff

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Unabridged

Length: 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-09-03

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

An expert in Post-Conflict Reconstruction Bathsheba Crocker and remembering Cecile de Brunhoff on this edition of Fresh Air. Bathsheba Crocker is co-director of the Post-Conflict Reconstruction Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. She'll discuss many of the questions surrounding reconstruction in Iraq: who will be in charge of reconstruction? What role will the United Nations have? Who will get the construction contracts? Who will step in and lead Iraq? And who will pay for construction? Crocker is a resident of the Center for Strategic and International Studies International Security Program. We remember Cecile de Brunhoff who died April 7th at the age of 99. It was the bedtime story she made up and told her sons in 1930 that became the basis for the world-famous Babar the Elephant stories. Her husband Laurent de Brunhoff, an artist and illustrator, wrote down the story and provided the illustrations. Terry Gross talked with their son, author and illustrator Laurent de Brunhoff. He followed his father's footsteps, and for the past 40 years has written and drawn the continuing adventures of Babar the Elephant. (Broadcast Dates: April 9, 2003 and February 28, 1990)

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