April 21, 2000 - Authors and scientists Jill Schneiderman of Vassar College and Ed Buchwald of Carleton College will discuss their new book The Earth Around Us. The 30th anniversary of Earth Day is Saturday.
April 26, 2000 - Eugene McCarthy, former Minnesota senator and former presidential candidate, visits MPR studios to talk with Gary Eichten about politics, journalism, and 25 years after the end of the Vietnam War. McCarthy also answers listener call-in questions.
April 26, 2000 - A new American Radioworks documentary "Twenty-Five Years From Vietnam." An hour of stories about the war as it fades into history but continues to shape the lives of many Americans.
April 26, 2000 - MPR’s Bob Potter talks with Lee Pao Xiong, member of the Metropolitan Council, about what has changed in the past 25 years for the Hmong community. Xiong is the first Hmong appointed by the governor to a state policy-making body.
May 2, 2000 - In John Lanchester's new novel "Mr Phillips" the title character wakes to begin his first day in the ranks of the unemployed. He's been laid off, "downsized", and can't bring himself to tell his family. The book chronicles the first 12 hours of an experience which Lanchester told Minnesota Public Radio's Euan Kerr many people go through, but few talk about.
May 8, 2000 - Celice and Joseph are lying on a beach: both are dead. From its opening scene, "Being Dead" the new novel from English writer Jim Crace, sets the idea of the biographical novel on its head. What seems at first to be a study in describing the process of decay becomes a compeling story of Joseph and Celice's rather ordinary lives. Crace juggles the story of their past and the story of their daughter discovering that her parents are dead Crace told Minnesota Public Radio's Stephanie Curtis the death of his own father 20 years ago inspired the novel .
May 12, 2000 - First there was the fish-cam, then the bear-cam…now visitors to the World Wide Web can see "Lake Superior Cam." A team of inventors have dropped a gadget into 30-feet of Lake Superior water just off Duluth. It will show anyone who's interested what's happening down there, 24 hours a day.
May 12, 2000 - A discussion about why people kill, and what pushes people over the edge to violence against strangers. Guests include Pulitzer Prize winning author Richard Rhodes, author of Why They Kill: Discoveries of a Maverick Criminologist.
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May 12, 2000 - Hmong veterans will have to wait to hear about legislation that would allow them to take the US Citizenship test in their own language. The US Senate has set aside the bill until at least next week. Hmong veterans were pleased when the House passed the legislation last week. But things have gotten bogged down in the Senate, where there is disagreement over details of the bill. Democrat Paul Wellstone supports the House bill, while Republican Rod Grams has introduced a slightly different one. Senator Grams joins us now.