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Thursday, September 14, 2000

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Diane Rehm: U.S. POWs in Japan sue their captors years later; the 1938
discovery of the coelacanth (SEEL-a-canth), a fish
thought extinct for millions of years
Fresh Air: Senator John McCain
Public Interest: Tech Tuesday: artificial intelligence
Talk of the Nation: contemporary gospel music; strange weather
All Things Considered: the budget plans of George W. Bush and Al Gore

Friday on WMUB Forum: the ethics of cloning
Monday on Interconnect: Plato Not Prozac

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The Diane Rehm Show, 10-12 noon (*2 full hours live on WMUB)

10-11: U.S. POWs in Japan: Several World War II veterans who were
prisonersof war in Japan are suing several Japanese
companies for their labor and suffering as slave workers. Former POWs
say they were starved and beaten, and many were
worked to death in Japanese mines and factories. The U.S. State
Department says the U.S. treaty with Japan bars the lawsuit,
but the POWs' lawyers disagree.Two former POWs and an attorney on the
case talk about the experiences of American
servicemen as prisoners of war in Japan.
        Guests: Lester Tenney and Frank Bigelow, former prisoners of war
in Japan; Ron Kleinman, attorney

11-12: Samantha Weinberg: In 1938, a museum curator in South Africa came
across a fish she had never seen before.  To the
surprise of the experts around the world, it turned out that she had
found a coelacanth ("SEEL a canth") -- a species of fish that
had been presumed extinct for millions of years. In her new book "A Fish
Caught in Time" (HarperCollins), journalist Samantha
Weinberg tells the story of the effect this unlikely discovery had on
the scientific world.



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

Senator JOHN MCCAIN talks about his failed primary campaign, his
endorsment of George W. Bush, and how being a
prisoner of war changed the course of his life. His book "Faith of My
Fathers" was just released in paperback.



Public Interest, 1-2 p.m.

Guest host: Melinda Penkava

SCIENCE FICTION IS CLOSER TO REALITY THAN YOU THINK.  JUST RECENTLY,
COMPUTERS GAVE
BIRTH.  A LOOK AT ADVANCES IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, AND TO SORT OUT
FACT FROM
FICTION.
        Guests: 1. Jordan Pollack, Director, Dynamical and Evolutionary
Machine Organization, Brandeis University; 2.Jim
Hendler, Program manager, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
(DARPA); also Professor of Computer Science,
University of Maryland computer scientist, University of Maryland;
3.Curt Suplee, Writer/Editor Washington Post National
Desk; also author of "Everyday Science Explained" (Pub: National
Geographic Society)



Talk of the Nation, 2-4 p.m.

Host: Juan Williams

HR 1: CONTEMPORARY GOSPEL MUSIC - a conversation with an award-winning
Gospel singer and a music historian
about the changes in Gospel and its influence in American music and
culture, on the next Talk of the Nation from NPR News.

HR 2: STRANGE WEATHER - Join Juan Williams and a panel of climate
experts for a look at what's causing
the recent erratic weather patterns, on the next Talk of the Nation from
NPR News.



All Things Considered, 4-7 p.m.

A comparison of the budget plans of George W. Bush and Al Gore.  In this
time of prosperity, the debate revolves around
what to do with the projected budget surplus.



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

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

Friday, September 15, 2000:  The Ethics of Cloning

     Last month, Great Britain gave the go-ahead for cloning from human
fetuses, opening up a whole new area of
     debate for the continuing controversy over cloning. Darrel talks
with Jeffery Kahn, Director of the Center for
     Bioethics at the University of Minnesota



Interconnect, 9-10 a.m., repeated 7-8 p.m., Mondays

John Hingsbergen and Cheri Lawson host a lively hour of discussion on
spirituality, self-care, alternative health care and
lifestyle issues (http://www.wmub.org/interconnect.html).

Monday, September 18, 2000:  Plato not Prozac