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How did your life collide with the headlines in 2007?
Iraq, the subprime crisis, Facebook, immigration, oil prices - 2007 had no shortage of hefty headlines. We'd like to hear about how these and other major news events of the past year affected you. Where did your life collide with the news in 2007?

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Broadcast Information for September 18, 2004

Borzou Daragahi
 The State of Iraq
This week has been a particularly violent one in Iraq. Marketplace contributor Borzou Daragahi gives us an update on the current situation from Baghdad.

Online resource:
Borzou Daragahi's website


Jim Sterngold
 If America Was Iraq
What if America had domestic problems similar to those in Iraq? We could only imagine, but Weekend America correspondent Jim Sterngold says he's found out the answer, and the picture he paints isn't pretty.

The Heavenly States
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Memorial for Iraqi Civilians
There is no official figure for the number of civilians killed in Iraq. So a San Francisco rock band, The Heavenly States, decided to honor the Iraqi dead their own way -- with a memorial they're about to release on CD.

Online resource:
Listen to the full version of Monument - by The Heavenly States
The Heavenly States
Baria Records features The Heavenly States

Music Bridge: Summa
Artist: Tape
CD: Opera (Hapna)

Hurricane
Ivan
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Weekend America's survey of events, celebrations, unplanned gatherings and -- of course -- weekend weather.

Weather reports:
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More about Ivan and hurricanes at CNN.com:
Hurricane Season 2004

Interview with Nick Flynn
Nick Flynn, author of "Another Bullshit Night in Suck City," didn't know his father during his youth. He grew up, and at one point in his life found himself working in Boston. Unbeknownst to him, his dad was evicted from a rooming house in Boston, and soon ended up living on the streets. Nick's father soon showed up at a homeless shelter -- where Nick was working.

Online resource:
Nick Flynn's book, "Another Bullshit Night in Suck City: A Memoir," is available at the Public Radio BookSource.

Music Bridge: Her
Artist: Richard Buckner
CD: Dents and Shells (Merge)
Listening Post: Up All Night
In this week's Listening Post, we decided to check in with George Noory -- host of Coast to Coast AM, America's most listened-to late-night radio show. Also in the mix: Ross Reynolds, host of a daily talk show on KUOW who took his daytime show into the night for a change. They discuss the night shift on radio, and all those insomniacs who listen.

Online resources:
"Coast to Coast AM"
Ross Reynolds
"The Conversation"

Music Bridge: Meter Maid
Artist: Drums and Tuba
CD: The Flying Ballerina (Righteous Babe)

Radio 4
Beastie Boys
John Fogerty
Music Picks with Jason Fine
Moveon.org, the web based political advocacy group known for their anti-Bush ads, is sponsoring a series of rock concerts in swing states. With that in mind, we asked our music guy Jason Fine to look at some new political songs.

Online resources:
MTV's Radio4 webpage
The Beastie Boys' website
John Fogerty's website

Set list:
Nation - Radio 4 from the album, Stealing of a Nation (Astralwerks)
Right Here Right Now - Beastie Boys from the album, To the 5 Boroughs (Capital)
Deja Vu (All Over Again - John Fogerty from the album, Deja Vu All Over Again (Geffen Records)

Paralympics Update
We check in with Associated Press reporter Lisa Orkin on the Paralympics in Athens.

Online resource:
www.usparalympics.org

Off the Shelf
What's America reading? To find out, we checked in with two independent bookstores that are the hub of their communities. Joining us are Suzanne Porter, owner of Maine Coast Book Shop, in Damariscotta, Maine, and Mark Finn, manager of the Book People, in business for 30 years in Austin, Texas.

Online resource:
Book People in Austin, Texas.

Book list, all available at the Public Radio BookSource:
Colin Woodard's book, "The Lobster Coast: Rebels, Rusticators, and the Struggle for a Forgotten Frontier"
George Howe Colt's book, "The Big House: A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home"
Dan Brown's book, "The Da Vinci Code"
Dan Brown's book, "Angels & Demons"
John E. O'Neill's book, "Unfit for Command"
Susanna Clarke's book, "Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell"
David Mitchell's book, "Cloud Atlas"
Mark Spragg's book, "An Unfinished Life"
Howard Frank Mosher's book, "Waiting for Teddy Williams"

What have you been reading this summer?
Take our Summer Book Poll

Music Bridge: Flutter
Artist: Bonobo
CD: Dial M for Monkey (Ninja Tune)
Featured in Hour Two

After the storm...
Gallery
Recovering from Ivan
Florida has taken a battering the past few weeks. Three hurricanes have hit the state. We sent our man Hal Humphreys on a post-hurricane walk-about to find out how people have been getting their lives back together.

Online resources:
Read Hal's Reporter's Notebook

Music Bridge: Charley Bradley's Ten-Sixty-Six Blues
Artist: John Fahey
CD: Red Cross (Revenant)
Native American Sculptures
This Tuesday, the Museum of the American Indian opens in Washington, D.C. Among those chosen to create a signature work was innovative and award winning sculptor Roxanne Swentzell, who created a series of eight larger-than-life bronze figures. She spoke with us from her home in Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico.

Online resource:
Roxanne Swentzell's website
National Museum of the American Indian


Mmm... gumbo!
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Gumbo!
Looking for the best gumbo in America? Check your own kitchen... Angela Taylor learns the family secret from her 80-year-old aunt Angela d'Gerolamo.

Online resources:
Gumbo recipe

Music Bridge: What You Gonna Do When the Zydeco Turn on You?
Artist: Buckwheat Zydeco
CD: The Best of Mountain Stage Live, Vol. 1 (Blue Plate)

Lauren Weedman
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Funny Ladies
We speak with two female comedians about their craft and working in a field dominated by men. First, writer Allison Silverman, the only female nominated for an Emmy this year in the category for outstanding writing for a variety, music or comedy program.

Then, we talk to actor and comedian Lauren Weedman. She's a former correspondent for "The Daily Show with John Stewart" and currently performing a one-woman show, "Wreckage," at the Highways performance space in Santa Monica, California.

Online resource:
Lauren Weedman at The Daily Show
Highways Performance Space

Music Bridge: Door Opens Both Ways
Artist: Kim Hiorthøy
CD: Melke (Smalltown Supersound)

Richard Paul
 The President and the Economy
We're starting a new series this week to bust some of the biggest myths in American public policy. Richard Paul begins with the President and the economy.

Online resources:
"A Term at the Fed: An Insider's View" is available at the Public Radio Booksource.
"Beyond a President's Control"
More from Richard Paul

Music Bridge: Drop Thumb Medley
Artist: Steve Martin
CD: Comedy is not Pretty (Warner Bros)
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