"The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some clearly seen and deeply felt good."
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"The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some clearly seen and deeply felt good." - Ruth Benedict
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 GoodThings on Public Radio April 12, 2001 When you think of teenagers and their radio, it usually makes you think of something you can't bear to listen to. Berkeley-based Youth Radio is changing all that. This emerging public radio program deals with issues that youth are facing everyday, such as school violence, body image, and role models. More importantly, it empowers kids, giving them constructive opportunities to produce meaningful stories that matter to them. Find out how you can listen. And when you take a break from Youth Radio, check out our public radio favorites this week: panda pressures; West Wing-ing it; a Hippopotapoem; the benefits of meandering; uniting against telemarketing; 911 a joke?; and tales from the town t-shirts made. 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, April 6 | Panda Pressures During a previous era of diplomatic struggles between China and the United States, giant pandas were the symbolic olive branch, becoming the cornerstone of Washington's National Zoo. And for over thirty years, these docile black-and-white beasts have been icons of the endangered species movement. Now, their native habitat in southwestern China's Woolong Nature Reserve is facing pressures few thought possible. [Morning Edition] Listen (length of clip 3 min 35 sec). SATURDAY, April 7 | West Wing-ing It? Are you one of those people who, during The West Wing's two seasons spanning two presidential administrations, has found yourself wishing Jed Bartlet was your president? You might want to count Weekend Edition Saturday's venerable host Scott Simon among your company. Simon criticizes the Peabody Award-winning television show's "ping-pong dialogue" but lauds its commitment to big, fundamental ideas. [Weekend Edition Saturday] Listen (2:30). SUNDAY, April 8 | If Angela's Ashes Were by Erma Bombeck Terry Ryan says her mother had an unusual gift for writing jingles for everything from Dr. Pepper to Tootsie Rolls-- and she did it to support her family. Evelyn Ryan wasn't an advertising executive, though; she lived to enter prize contests. In her new book The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less, Terry Ryan tells the story of how her mother won hundreds of contests that rescued her family from the jaws of poverty too many times to count, all the while exhibiting a "capacity for joy" that amazed everyone around her. Listen, if only to hear Evelyn Ryan's whimsical "Hippopotapoem." [Weekend All Things Considered] Listen (8:15). Buy Terry Ryan's book The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less from [powell's] or [amazon]. MONDAY, April 9 | Guess My Feet Know Where They Want Me To Go Although Joel Achenbach jests with chagrin that he hasn't moved from his desk chair since 1993, he wishes his kids and their friends would learn to meander a little more. He worries instead that they're being molded at an all-too-early age to become bottom-line oriented and invokes the romantic "wonderings" of Winnie the Pooh. It's sometimes when we lack an agenda that we uncover what Achenbach calls "infinite possibility." [Morning Edition] Listen (3:02). Joel Achenbach is a Washington Post columnist and the author of It Looks Like a President Only Smaller: Trailing Campaign 2000. TUESDAY, April 10 | Who Else Calls at 7:00 PM? If all of us knew West Virginian mother of three Diana May, we'd call her our hero. Insisting upon uninterrupted family dinner conversations and diligent about keeping track of all the telemarketing calls she received just as the food was hitting the table, May discovered a little-known protection available to targets of telemarketing and became a national poster child for personal privacy. She's inspired legislative action in many states, including New York, which has now banned telemarketing to those on a "Do Not Call" registry. [All Things Considered] Listen (5:00). WEDNESDAY, April 11 | New Hampshire's New Emergency Until recently, New Hampshire was one of very few places in the United States where 911 service wasn't available. For emergencies, you dialed a regular seven-digit phone number. New Hampshire writer Edie Clark says, though, that the new system -- and the new street names that came with it -- is more than a little town of 1,000 cares to deal with. [All Things Considered] Listen (3:00). THURSDAY, April 12 | Where Tacky and Glorious Come Together Writer Mary Sojourner has written a new collection of short stories about working women who eat real food, have job difficulties, and struggle with serious health problems. But Delicate: Stories of Love and Delight is no downer. It's full of unsentimental stories of love from places like Sedona, Arizona, which Sojourner calls the "the little town that t-shirts made." The middle-aged protagonists of these stories represent the first generation of women that had to learn how to take charge of their own lives. [Morning Edition] Listen (6:36). Visit the NPR Web site to learn more about Mary Sojourner's book. Or visit Magic Tails to buy it. 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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