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Broadcast Date: March 5, 2005
Featured in Hour One
Opening Theme: Start From Scratch - Artist: Galactic
CD: Crazyhorse Mongoose (Capricorn)
Listen IconHope on Hold
On Monday, a drug called Tysabri that was used to treat Multiple Sclerosis was pulled off the market. For thousands patients pinning their hopes on its success, the news was devastating. Barbara Bogaev talked to a patient and a doctor about what life in the MS community will be like without the drug.
Online resources:
Norman J. Kachuck , MD
Tysabri Info. Web site
National Multiple Sclerosis Society
Accelerated Cure Project for Multiple Sclerosis
Multiple Sclerosis Association of America

Music Bridge: Waltz for a Little Bird - Artist: Rainstick Orchestra
CD: The Floating Glass Key in the Sky (Ninja Tune)
Ozzie Davis
Listen IconOpen Letter to a Cubicle
A report released this week noted that Americans are more productive than ever before. Jen DiOrio has an open letter to the man who made the modern office possible: the inventor of the cubicle.
Online resources:
Read this and other open letters
Send your own open letter

Independent Label Picks with Michael Raphael
Image Icongallery of Disney Hall
Classical Picks with Steve Smith
Esa-Pekka Salonen is responsible for putting the Los Angeles Philharmonic on the orchestra A-list. But he's also a composer in his own right. Classical music guy Steve Smith of Time Out New York has a piece that Salonen composed and conducted. Also reviewed: new recordings of Vivaldi and Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes.
Steve's set list:
Wing on Wing | Esa-Pekka Salonen from the album, Wing on Wing (Deutsche Grammophon)
Schubert Piano Sonata in B-flat - mvt 1 | Performed by Leif Ove Andsnes from the album, Piano Sonata in B-flat; Three Songs (EMI Classics)
Vivaldi - Violin Concerto in E minor - 3rd mvt | Performed by Giuliano Carmignola from the album, Concerto Veneziano (music by Vivaldi, Locatelli and Tartini) (Archiv)

Weekend Weather
Weekend America's John Moe takes a look at weather patterns and Saturday happenings all across the country.
Online resources:
hour 1 | hour 2

Music Bridge: Beat Connection (Disco Dub Version) - Artist: LCD Soundsystem
CD: DFA compilation #2 (DFA)
Listen IconThe Moving Chronicles
Moving has become a way of life for Susan Isaacs. It started innocently enough -- breaking up with a boyfriend, trying out a job on another coast -- but before she knew it, she moved 17 times in 24 months.

Listen IconBringing Down the Tablets
This week, the Supreme Court heard two cases about the display of the Ten Commandments on public property. But Thomas Van Orden, who filed one of the complaints, wasn't in the D.C. courtroom. He's homeless, and couldn't afford a ticket. He talked with Bill Radke about the case from a payphone in Austin, Texas.
Online resource:
"A Lawyer's Unlikely Journey Up the Legal Ladder"

Music Bridge: Dittyah - Artist: Monade
CD: A Few Steps More (Beggars)
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Listen Icon1,000 Pounds of Bacon
A pound of beef suet, a gill of milk, a teaspoon of rosewater. These ingredients make Teal Krech's 19th century family recipe book a little different than what's in today's Good Housekeeping. It's not the stuff you'll find in aisle 9 of your supermarket, but Teal and her husband set out to make a few of the recipes in the book.
Online resources:
Recipes from Teal Krech's 19th century family recipe book

Music Bridge:Gibbous Orisha - Artist: Shark Quest
CD: Gods and Devils (Merge)
Whale Watching in Baja California
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Listen IconMaking Contact
There are not many things that can incite a crowd of adults to be packed on a boat, excited about a splash in the water. But there's nothing that Jim Dorsey would rather be doing than whale watching.
Online resources:
Baja Adventure Company
American Cetacean Society
National Marine Fisheries Service
The Whale Museum: List of related whale links
Whale Watching USA
Whale Watching Mexico
Whale Watching Canada

Featured in Hour One
Opening Theme: Start From Scratch - Artist: Galactic
CD: Crazyhorse Mongoose (Capricorn)
Listen IconMorality Check
This week Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia declared that the nine Supreme Court Justices aren't the conscience of the nation. If they're passing the buck, then who is? Weekend America talks to several Americans -- including Lewis Lapham of Harper's Magazine -- about who they think represent the conscience of the nation.
Online resources:
Who is the conscience of the nation? Take our poll...

Listen IconWeb site of the Week
Weekend America's personal web browser, Chris Spurgeon, delves into the world of a collaborative encyclopedia called Wikipedia.
Online resources:
Wikipedia.org

Music Bridge: Miss You - Artist: To Rococo Rot
CD: Hotel Morgen (Domino)
Lost, Love Letter
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Listen IconRunning on Chi
Reporter Laila McClay loves running. So when she heard of ChiRunning, she had to check it out. It's a combination of the Chinese relaxation technique and one of her favorite sports. Here, she's getting a lesson from ChiRunning's inventor, Danny Dreyer.
Online resource:
Los Angeles Marathon
Chi Running

Music Bridge: Sehnsucht - Artist: Ellen Allien
CD: Camping: A B-Pitch Control Compilation (BPitch Control)
Independent Label Picks with Michael Raphael
Image Icongallery of Disney Hall
Classical Picks with Steve Smith
Esa-Pekka Salonen is responsible for putting the Los Angeles Philharmonic on the orchestra A-list. But he's also a composer in his own right. Classical music guy Steve Smith of Time Out New York has a piece that Salonen composed and conducted. Also reviewed: new recordings of Vivaldi and Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes.
Steve's set list:
Wing on Wing | Esa-Pekka Salonen from the album, Wing on Wing (Deutsche Grammophon)
Schubert Piano Sonata in B-flat - mvt 1 | Performed by Leif Ove Andsnes from the album, Piano Sonata in B-flat; Three Songs (EMI Classics)
Vivaldi - Violin Concerto in E minor - 3rd mvt | Performed by Giuliano Carmignola from the album, Concerto Veneziano (music by Vivaldi, Locatelli and Tartini) (Archiv)

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Listen IconThe Taxman Cometh
This time of year, you've most likely spent some time amongst blooming tulips and.tax forms. Weekend America brings you a voice from inside the IRS. Richard Yancy was a taxman for 12 years and wrote a book called "Confessions of a Tax Collector."
Online resources:
"Confessions of a Tax Collector: One Man's Tour of Duty Inside the IRS" is available at the Public Radio BookSource.

Music Bridge: Cake Peg - Artist: Pit Er Pat
CD: Shakey (Thrill Jockey)
Listen IconAnchored Down in Anchorage
When Former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Hass had a layover in Anchorage in 1991, he was inspired to write a poem. To him, the airport and the Alaskan landscape offered all sorts of metaphors for the first Gulf War.
Online resources:
More about Robert Hass (poets.org)
"Sun Under Wood " is available at the Public Radio BookSource.

Music Bridge: Untitled - Artist: Dead Meadow
CD: Feathers (Matador)
Listen IconHouse Arrest Lab Rat
Martha Stewart was released from prison this week, but she'll be under house arrest for the next five months. Producer Hank Rosenfeld offered to endure three days of house arrest to give us a better sense of what Martha will be going through.
Online resources:
More stories from Hank Rosenfeld

Music Bridge: Chase Me - Artist: Hexstatic
CD: Master-View (Ninja Tune)
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