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Today's talk
shows on
WMUB

Tuesday, October 20, 1998

Diane Rehm (*2 FULL HOURS on WMUB): hospital nursing; former Senator Paul
Simon on global water  shortages
Fresh Air: Dr. Mehmet Oz ("Healing from the Heart")
Public Interest: humorist Dave Barry ("Dave Barry Turns 50")
Talk of the Nation (*LIVE): Chile/Pinochet; the $500 billion budget deal in
Congress
All Things Considered: the uses of secrecy: decrypted Soviet cables

Friday on WMUB Forum: TBA


   The Diane
Rehm Show,
10-12 noon
(*2 FULL HOURS
on WMUB)

                       10-11: Hospital Nursing: Some health advocates say
nursing in American hospitals is in crisis. They say the  problems include
dangerous levels of understaffing and lack of legal protection for nurses
who call  attention to problems. Hospitals and health care companies say
changes in nursing are just part of larger  changes brought on by rising
health care costs in the U.S. Diane and her guests talk about what's really
happening in the nation's hospitals and how nursing itself has changed.

                             Guests: Argene Carswell, American Nursing
Assn.; Barry Adams, registered nurse; Lois Kercher,  American Org. of Nurse
Executives/American Hospital Assn.

                       11-12: Former Senator Paul Simon: According to
former Senator Paul Simon, regional water shortages will  be the most
serious source of conflict between nations in the next century, and that
solving this problem is  a matter of the planet's survival. He'll talk with
Diane about the worldwide water shortage and what we can do about it. His
book on the topic is called "Tapped Out: The Coming World Crisis in Water
and What  We Can Do About It" (Welcome Rain).


   Fresh Air
with Terry Gross,
12:06-1 p.m.

                       Complementary medicine. DR MEHMET OZ, combines
western medicine with ancient healing techniques to  speed up recovery. He
is the author of the new book "Healing from the Heart."



   Public Interest,
1-2 p.m.

                       DAVE BARRY HAS TURNED FIFTY, AND INSTEAD OF
COMPLAINING ABOUT GETTING OLDER, HE HAS  DECIDED TO DO WHAT ANY GOOD HUMOR
WRITER WOULD-- CELEBRATE THE POSITIVE ASPECTS OF REACHING THE HALF- CENTURY
MARK. BARRY JOINS KOJO TO TALK ABOUT SUCH BENEFITS OF AGING AS  GETTING
BETTER AND BETTER READING GLASSES AND TO REMINISCE ABOUT GROWING UP IN THE
LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY.

                             Guest: Dave Barry, author, "Dave Barry Turns 50"


   Talk of
the Nation/
Science Friday,
2-4 p.m. (*LIVE)

                       Host: Ray Suarez

                       HOUR ONE: CHILE / PINOCHET: Britain's arrest of
former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet, and  the implications for
international human rights law.

                       HOUR TWO: BUDGET DEAL: details of the 500 billion
dollar federal budget deal which Congress is expected  to pass on Tuesday
(today).


   on today's
All Things
Considered,
4-7 p.m.

                       The uses of secrecy: a conversation with New York
Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan about Soviet cables secretly decrypted by
U.S. intelligence.



   WMUB Forum,
Friday 9-10 a.m.,
repeated 7-8 p.m.

                       News Director Darrel Gray hosts an hour of
conversations with guests, and your e-mail comments and questions
(http://www.wmub.org/forumcomment.html)

                             TBA

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