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 GoodThings on Public Radio June 28, 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, June 22 | What Can Your Employer Do for You? Childcare has increasingly become a serious issue for the American workforce, with 40% of working women raising children under the age of 18. Companies are beginning to provide thoughtful solutions because it makes economic sense. When Pittsburgh's PNC Bank relocated its offices, it looked for ways to maximize employee benefits. One such benefit is its back-up daycare program. Up to twenty times a year, employees are allowed to make use of a full-service daycare center. It doesn't replace regular childcare arrangements, but it's a major help in an emergency. And best of all for PNC, it keeps employees at work. [Morning Edition] Listen (length of clip 3 min 54 sec). SATURDAY, June 23 | You Say Potat-uh? You can now call Merriam-Webster a full-service dictionary. Not only does the venerable maven of all things related to the English language have spellings, definitions, and phonetics of over 200,000 words on its Web site, but it also provides audio files for nearly half of them. So if you're stuck on how to say words like "inchoate," let the Merriam-Webster Web site spell it out -- or speak it out -- for you, complete with spirited inflections. [Weekend Edition Saturday] Listen (3:30). Learn more. SUNDAY, June 24 | French Struggle with Survivor Offspring Loft Story is the French version of Survivor, Big Brother, and The Real World, and it's got the entire country up in arms. Critics are dismissing the reality television craze as cynical, which only seems to fuel the weekly obsessions of millions. Despite the frivolous nature of the show itself, it's created a national dialogue about what television and the mass media should be about. Should it facilitate discussion about society's problems or should it exploit human weakness? The conversation has only just begun. [Weekend Edition Sunday] Listen (4:40). Read GoodThings' perspective on reality TV. MONDAY, June 25 | A Life's Work If Julian Chisholm were a household name, thousands would now be celebrating the life of the late medical researcher and founder of the Kennedy-Krieger Institute. Nearly five decades ago, Chisholm published a study showing evidence of the adverse health effects of lead paint on children. He had become particularly concerned with what was happening to east Baltimore's poor African-American children, and he embarked upon a lifelong crusade to draw attention to the profound gravity of the issue and to the damage lead paint was causing and could continue to cause. His findings not only saved lives but shaped national housing policy. [All Things Considered] Listen (3:30). Learn more. TUESDAY, June 26 | AIDS and Gender Equality The international AIDS crisis is having a devastating effect on women, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. Research is suggesting that women with only one sexual partner are being infected at rates similar to those of prostitutes. Teenage girls are five times as likely to be infected as their male counterparts. The issue seems to have less to do with education than it does cultural gender dynamics. As such, women have no control over prevention, and no products have emerged to help them change their circumstance. More and more, asking tough questions about gender inequality is becoming a life or death situation. [Morning Edition] Listen (5:08). Learn more. WEDNESDAY, June 27 | Sowing the Seeds of Peace A summer camp in Portland, Maine, is bridging some of the most complex international divides. Seeds of Peace has brought Israeli and Palestinian teenagers to the same place and helped transform mortal enemies into solid friends. With the help of New York's Global Action Project, campers created a documentary film a couple of years ago called "Peace of Mind" to show that the friendships could survive. But with trying circumstances that vex even the most gifted diplomats, some conflicts eventually rear their ugly heads despite the best intentions. Still, Seeds of Peace demonstrates that peace should be personal, not political. [Morning Edition] Listen (6:25). Learn more about Seeds of Peace and the Global Action Project THURSDAY, June 28 | "Extra Special" Families What would happen if a child maintained a relationship with both adoptive parents and birth parents? There was a time when such an arrangement was unimaginable. But in an age where fewer and fewer women are having children that they don't intend to keep, open adoptions are becoming more and more widespread. In many cases, they are proving to be healthy ways to avoid the tension, difficult questions, and often the searching that results from closed or sealed adoptions. Not all arrangements are perfect, but the initial goal is the same: to shower the child with as much love as possible. [Morning Edition] Listen (8:56). Read GoodThings' story on international adoptions. [ : previous week : ] 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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