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David Denby on "American Sucker"

David Denby hatched a plan to make a million dollars on the stock market. Then the dot com bubble burst, and he watched his new fortune wither away.

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Faith Adiele on "Meeting Faith"

Faith Adiele flunked out of Harvard and went to Thailand to study languages. There, she became the first ordained Black Buddhist Nun.

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Frans de Waal on "Our Inner Ape"

Frans de Waal talks with Jim Fleming about chimps, who can be aggressive and violent, and bonobos, who are mama's boys and like sex.

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Derick Burleson "Ejo"

Derick Burleson won the Felix Pollack Prize for his collection of poems about Rwanda, called "Ejo."

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Doris Kearns Goodwin on "Team of Rivals"

Doris Kearns Goodwin talks with Jim Fleming about her best-selling biography, "Team of Rivals."

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BookMark: Vikram Chandra reviews “The King Must Die” by Mary Renault

BookMark: Vikram Chandra reviews “The King Must Die” by Mary Renault.

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Bob Stout on Bowhunting

Bowhunter Bob Stout provides a brief commentary on being in the woods.

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Eduardo Kac on Alba the GFP Bunny

Alba is a real rabbit, created in a lab and genetically modified to glow in the dark.  Eduardo Kac talks about the moral and ethical implications of art using living subjects.

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