Non-Fiction

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DNA Sequencing & Personal Genomics (Rebroadcast)

DNA Sequencing & Personal Genomics (Rebroadcast)

December 31, 2010

Growing access to personal genome sequencing.

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Grace Pundyk: "The Honey Trail" (Rebroadcast)

Grace Pundyk: "The Honey Trail" (Rebroadcast)

December 29, 2010

Honey is a global food -- part of tradition, culture and trade. But it's not all sweet: The story also involves smuggling, deforestation and climate change. One woman explains what she found out when she went around the world in pursuit of...

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Thomas Powers: "The Killing of Crazy Horse" (Rebroadcast)

December 28, 2010

Crazy Horse has been called the greatest Native American warrior of the 19th century. His victory over General Custer at the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876 was a bitter defeat for the frontier army of the American West. Volumes have been...

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Molly Caldwell Crosby: "Asleep" (Rebroadcast)

Molly Caldwell Crosby: "Asleep" (Rebroadcast)

December 27, 2010

A sleeping sickness epidemic in the wake of the 1918 influenza pandemic has been nearly forgotten. Scientists still don't know what caused it and why it suddenly disappeared, but they fear it could happen again.

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Roger Rosenblatt: "Making Toast" (Rebroadcast)

Roger Rosenblatt: "Making Toast" (Rebroadcast)

December 23, 2010

Join us to discuss life after loss. Essayist and PBS NewsHour commentator Roger Rosenblatt recounts the struggle to help his son-in-law and three young grandchildren cope with the sudden death of his 38-year-old daughter.

http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2010-12-16/oscar-andrew-hammerstein-hammersteins

Oscar Andrew Hammerstein: "The Hammersteins"

December 16, 2010

Oscar Hammerstein was perhaps the most influential lyricist of the American theater. Together with collaborator Richard Rodgers, he helped define the modern musical, winning eight Tonys and two Academy Awards in the process. Oscar...

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David and Julie Nixon Eisenhower: "Going Home to Glory"

December 14, 2010

David and Julie Eisenhower discuss life with General Dwight Eisenhower in the years after he left the White House. They offer new insights on the president's influence over his party, the nation and his family.

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Dick Cavett: "Talk Show"

Dick Cavett: "Talk Show"

December 13, 2010

Dick Cavett is a legendary talk show host who spent three decades interviewing some of the most influential figures of the last century. Cavett got his break when he was hired as a comedy writer for Jack Paar, host of "The Tonight Show...

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David Rohde & Kristen Mulvihill: "A Rope and a Prayer: A Kidnapping from Two Sides"

David Rohde & Kristen Mulvihill: "A Rope and a Prayer: A Kidnapping from Two Sides"

December 2, 2010

Islamic militants increasingly favor kidnapping as a weapon of war. In Iraq alone, 57 journalists have been taken hostage since 2003. So when New York Times reporter David Rohde decided to interview a Taliban commander outside Kabul two...

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Autobiography of Mark Twain

December 1, 2010

Mark Twain left instructions that his unedited autobiography not be published until one hundred years after his death. This year marks the centennial of the author’s demise. The first of three large volumes was just published. In it the...

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