Mary Sweeney was producer, editor and co-writer of “The Straight Story.” The film concerned an elderly man’s cross country journey on a riding mower and was directed by David Lynch.
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Peter Kornbluh, directs the National Security Archive’s Chile Documentation Project. He’s just published “The Pinochet File,” which uses recently declassified documents to prove that there was American involvement at the highest levels of government in the efforts to foment chaos in Chile.
MD and best-selling novelist Michael Crichton talks with Jim Fleming about the ethical problems he envisions with permitting patents on human DNA.
Americans spend billions of dollars a year on over-the-counter pain relievers. In fact, all over the world, easing pain is big business. And Aspirin’s one of the top sellers. Why? Charles Mann, author of “The Aspirin Wars”, tells Steve Paulson what happened when a German company called Bayer came to America:
Novelist Jane Hamilton reads her favorite novel endings.
Richard Cohen fell in love with swordplay while at boarding school. He’s a sabre champion and the author of “By the Sword: A History of Gladiators, Musketeers, Samurai, Swashbucklers and Olympic Champions.”
Journalist Jean Zimmerman says that Americans are in the process of throwing away centuries of domestic skills and traditions.
Julie Phillips is the author of "James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon."
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