Comments: 0 - Date: March 31st, 2008 - Categories: Uncategorized
Starting in New Zealand and moving west with the sun, people around the world turned off the lights for 60 minutes on Saturday. Bryan Walsh, environmental writer for Time magazine, discusses the effort to raise awareness about the link between energy use and climate change.
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Ongoing anti-government protests have sparked violence in Tibet, and China accuses the Dalai Lama of instigating the unrest. Journalist Pico Iyer has known the Dalai Lama for three decades and written a new book about the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader.
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Rachel Donadio talks about her essay in Sunday's New York Times, "It's Not You, It's Your Books." She writes that mismatched literary tastes can make it "chillingly clear that a romance is going nowhere fast." Does love conquer literature? Listeners weigh in.
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Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr ordered his fighters to put down their weapons on Sunday following a week of violent clashes. This comes after ongoing fighting escalated between Shi'ite militias and Iraqi and U.S. forces. Experts discuss the situation in the southern port city of Basra.
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Comments: 0 - Date: March 30th, 2008 - Categories: Uncategorized
Boxing is possibly less dangerous for the brain than previously feared -- at least for amateurs. However, conclusive statements on the level of danger are not yet possible. Whether professional boxers such as Muhammad Ali contracted their later brain conditions -- in his case Parkinson's disease at the age of 40 -- from boxing, remains unclear. The all-clear cannot be given until more extensive studies of both amateur and professional boxers tell us more about the risks for the brain from boxing.