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 GoodThings on Public Radio May 31, 2001 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, May 25 | Women's Basketball Searching for Audience Now beginning its fifth season, the WNBA, a professional basketball league, is the longest-lasting women's professional sports league in the U.S. And as it becomes more business-like and less collegial, it's also experiencing growing pains. Despite its positive publicity and the fact that it's moved beyond being compared to men's basketball, it's still struggling to figure out where its fans really are. [Morning Edition] Listen (length of clip 5 min 31 seconds). SATURDAY, May 26 | New Film Is Road "Worth Traveling" Critic Bob Mondello says The Road Home, a new Chinese film by Zhang Yimou about a man's return to his rural hometown for his father's funeral -- and into a glorious story of his parents' passionate romance -- is a cinematic triumph. Such remote towns were isolated from the Chinese Cultural Revolution of the 1960s, allowing life there to maintain its colorful richness and beauty. [Weekend All Things Considered] Listen (3:30). Learn more about The Road Home. SUNDAY, May 27 | What About Neighbor Day? Mike Fisch wishes he knew his neighbors and laments the elaborate lengths to which Americans go to avoid random interactions with the folks next door. In the name of privacy, we go out of our way to keep from having to make eye contact. While other cultures embrace the opportunity to get to know the people around them, we talk about how much we hate what we pejoratively call "small talk." What will it take to turn us into good neighbors? Will we have to be forced to talk to each other? [Weekend Edition Sunday] Listen (2:36). Mike Fisch publishes the online magazine Nipsy. MONDAY, May 28 | "A Bridge of Souls" On May 30, the Chamber Music Society of Minnesota presented Hún Qiáo, or A Bridge of Souls: A Concert of Remembrance and Recognition, featuring the compositions and performances of Korean, Japanese, Chinese, and American musicians, including the cellist Yo Yo Ma. Using the power of music to heal and to evoke profound images, Hún Qiáo was a fitting memorial to the Japanese occupation of much of East Asia during World War II. [Morning Edition] Listen (6:31). Learn more about Hún Qiáo. TUESDAY, May 29 | Art All Around Us The people of Bedford, Massachusetts, have discovered a unique art gallery in their midst. Lurking beneath the trestle of the Minuteman Bikeway, formerly an old railroad track, are 24 oil paintings, all on individual pieces of plywood. No one knows how they got there or why they ended up in that particular location, but according to the town's engineer, they're relatively new creations -- some abstractions, others themed -- and all beguiling. [All Things Considered] Listen (3:00). WEDNESDAY, May 30 | Parrot Extinction Possible Despite the fact that the sale of wild parrots has been illegal in the U.S. since the early 1990s, exotic parrots from the jungles of Latin America are facing a precipitous decline due to poaching. A new study just published in the journal Conservation Biology suggests that as many as 800,000 juvenile parrots -- as many as one in every three -- from 12 different species are plucked from their nests every year and sold illegally across the world. Because adult birds are not directly affected, the ecological effects of such poaching may not be fully realized for years. [All Things Considered] Listen (4:30). THURSDAY, May 31 | Cultural Competency in Health Care A reader from Monterey, California, told us about a Changing Face of America story on South Brooklyn's multicultural Coney Island Hospital: "It was really inspiring to hear about all the people and progressive and constructive programs serving probably the world's most diverse (linguistically, culturally, and religiously) population." Embracing its community's demographic shifts, the public hospital takes a broadly inclusive approach to health care and caters to the specific needs of immigrants from across the globe. This approach manifests itself in both the cultural sensitivity and the language skills of health care providers. The hospital reaches its community in as many as 100 different languages. [Morning Edition] Listen (8:23). Learn more about NPR's Changing Face of America series. 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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