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 GoodThings on Public Radio July 5, 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. We want to hear from you. What's the best public radio story or show 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 29 | Major League Mentor Transcendent Major League baseball all-star Tony Gwynn is more than just a lifelong San Diego Padre. He is THE San Diego Padre, having spent two decades as a professional baseball player with the team. And at the end of this season, Gwynn plans to retire in a blaze of glory. His own memories are fond of the fans who adored him. Those same fans will treasure his commitment to being a role model for kids, his dedication to the local community, and his decision to value responsibility over salary. [Morning Edition] Listen (length of clip 2 min 34 sec). SATURDAY, June 30 | Housing is THE Issue Boston's Pine Street Inn is not your typical homeless shelter. Granted, many of the shelter's residents remain in a downward spiral, without jobs and without hope. However, many of Pine Street's residents represent the one-third of Boston's homeless population who have jobs. A full 20% of homeless people nationwide work at least 20 hours per week, many occupying entry level jobs left unfilled during booming economic days, but remain unable to afford escalating housing prices. The working homeless are guaranteed beds and relative privacy at places like Pine Street and struggle to maintain hope for a future of family stability and financial security. [Weekend All Things Considered] Listen (5:00). Learn more. SUNDAY, July 1 | Trying to Grab the Life Ring A new documentary, West 47th Street, is making the rounds of film festivals and heading towards theater release later this year. With no formal interviews and no narration, the film uses cinema verite style to tell the stories of the residents of New York's Fountain House, a residential facility for the mentally ill. Filmmakers Bill Lichtenstein and June Peoples were driven to move the perception of homeless mentally ill people beyond stereotype by revealing the human realities of their circumstances. They spent three months at Fountain House, building trusting relationships with the residents, before shooting any of the 350 hours of film. Authenticity was the result. [Weekend All Things Considered] Listen (9:45). Learn more. MONDAY, July 2 | Take Only Pictures, Leave Only Bubbles Can true wilderness exist underwater? In the Dry Tortugas, a remote chain of islands off of the Florida Keys, marine wilderness is the goal. A plan has recently been approved to turn management of the Dry Tortugas over to the National Park Service, changing recreational uses around the rare reef ecosystem. The reef and its aquatic life have been on a precipitous decline in recent years. Scientists hope that the controversial decision to reduce human impact (as many as 100,000 people came to the Dry Tortugas last year to fish, dive, or boat) will preserve the area's biological integrity. [Morning Edition] Listen (3:58). Learn more. TUESDAY, July 3 | Mercury Rising The Vermont-based Mercury Policy Project has begun a campaign to keep mercury out of landfills. While mercury is safe to use in a contained product form, as in thermometers or car trunk and hood lights, its disposal in landfills eventually contaminates rivers, streams, and the fish we eat. The Mercury Policy Project advocates for a growing number of hospital take-back programs, where you can trade in your old mercury thermometer for a digital one, as well as for ways to make it easier for automobile dismantlers to recycle the mercury products they remove from junked cars. The project is currently lobbying Ford to switch out mercury lights from its cars at the same time it is replacing flawed tires. [All Things Considered] Listen (4:30). Learn more. WEDNESDAY, July 4 | "Your Catcher's Good" Jack Petrash's 12-year-old child is a Little League catcher and an inspiration to other parents and fans. No errant pitches get away. Foul balls are smothered. It's all part of the kid's lifelong obsession with baseball. And in addition to idolizing the game's pioneer Jackie Robinson and being in heaven at Major League games, Petrash's kid also reads Nancy Drew and pays attention to how her ponytail looks on the field. What makes Petrash the most proud is that his daughter's all-girls baseball team is just on the verge of defeating a team of all boys. [All Things Considered] Listen (3:45). Get your copy of Jack Petrash's book Covering Home: Lessons on the Art of Fathering from the Game of Baseball. THURSDAY, July 5 | Beauty in Tax Simplicity In this light-hearted piece about attempts to "simplify" the United States tax code, commentator Amity Shlaes says that the more we have tried to simplify our approach to taxes, the more complex and confusing things have become. When someone in one bracket gets a tax break, she notes, someone in another one covers it. Initiatives to aid economically disadvantaged people have done exactly the opposite. The opportunities for various tax professionals grows in leaps and bounds every year. Shlaes yearns for simple beauty and for the time when the tax code didn't resemble War and Peace. [Morning Edition] Listen (3:03). [ : 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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