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 GoodThings on Public Radio March 29, 2001 Wish you could find creative ways to connect with your siblings? Consider making Satellite Sisters part of your public radio week. Five flesh-and-blood sisters "born of the same parents, raised in the same house, fed the same clam chowder" now living in four different cities as far apart as New York and Bangkok get together on the radio once a week to talk amongst themselves -- and they invite you to their virtual dining room table. Click here to find out how you can crash the party. But we digress. Check out our public radio favorites this week: planting trees for history's sake, home ice advantage, perfectly legal coffee, computers and the Peace Corps, toasting the tummy, the value of silence, and apes are what they eat. We want to hear from you. What's the best public radio story you heard this past week? Share. If you want to listen, you'll need RealPlayer on your computer. (If you don't already have it, it's a FREE download.) Visit Real Networks. FRIDAY, March 23 | Plant a Tree, Make History Until a crippling blight in the early 20th century, American chestnut trees stood billions strong in forests across the country. Now, a small Virginia community is working to re-establish the trees. The local Lion's Club with support from the American Chestnut Cooperators' Foundation are passing out blight-resistant seedlings and passing on stories about the trees' one-time significance in the nation's history. [All Things Considered] Listen (length of clip 3 min 30 sec). SATURDAY, March 24 | Home Ice Advantage The Belfast Giants may very well be the hottest thing in Northern Ireland these days. And they're not a new soccer team. They're a hockey team made up of players from North America. After winning nine straight games in December, they became the local darlings, appealing to people of all religions, ages, and backgrounds. They've caused a boom in youth hockey and may be unifying this fractured community at the same time. [Weekend All Things Considered] Listen (4:00). SUNDAY, March 25 | Perfectly Legal Coffee Would you pay $20 for the perfect cup of coffee? No? What if it came with answers to your burning legal questions? Legal Grind, a Santa Monica, California, coffeehouse, is providing just that one-two punch. It's making basic legal service affordable and comfortable and is making lawyers seem approachable. People are driving as far as 60 miles for their uncommon cup of joe at the one and only Legal Grind, but sooner than later, they may be able to find franchises everywhere. [Weekend All Things Considered] Listen (4:45). MONDAY, March 26 | Peace Corps: The Next Dot-Com? Your dot-com has gone under, and you've got a wealth of computer skills. What should you do? Join the Peace Corps, of course. More and more countries are looking to the Peace Corps for help in finding skilled information technology professionals to help in the building of Web sites, networks, and databases. This emerging program has just kicked off in Belize and has important differences from your typical Peace Corps volunteer experience. [All Things Considered] Listen (4:00). Learn more about the Peace Corps' growing Information Technology program. Visit their Web site. TUESDAY, March 27 | Toasting the Tummy John McIlwraith decided to throw a "smashing farewell" party for one of his very closest friends -- his stomach. With the news that cancer would require the removal of most of his stomach, he gathered all of his loved ones to celebrate its lifetime of glorious food and drink. Forever the lighthearted absurdist, he found himself curious about the soon-to-be-discovered gender of his stomach. But first, he needed to share certain necessities with his wife Dixie, as well as one of her wonderful hams. [All Things Considered] Listen (3:00). WEDNESDAY, March 28 | The Land As Classroom In the third in a week-long series highlighting actual college application essays, Leo Stoscheck says the education he received from the hill where he spent the first eighteen years of his life taught him the wonderful "value of silence." He roamed the fields around that hill watching birds and deer and listening to nocturnal frogs and all-too-rare Eastern coyotes and, as he got older, came to realize that similar wild places were becoming islands in a sea of encroaching concrete. [Morning Edition] Listen (2:53). Read Leo's and each of the other four college application essays in this series on the National Public Radio Web site. THURSDAY, March 29 | In Search of a New Species An altogether undiscovered chimpanzee-like species may be lurking in the jungles of Central Africa, and Alex Chadwick is tagging along with the scientists determined to find it. In a quest to find the ever-elusive Bili Ape, Chadwick sees the tracks of lions, hyena, and buffalo and learns the truth behind the old saying "you are what you eat." A new species could mean new conservation priorities in the Congo, but at the very least, it's the stuff of true adventure. [Morning Edition] Listen (9:54). Learn more about this and other Radio Expeditions by visiting their Web site. WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU. Did we miss a good public radio story this week? Want to recommend one for next week? Share it with us! |
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