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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?

What's your holiday performance story?
The office talent show, the neighborhood caroling posse, the school pageant ... At holiday time we often sing, dance, and dress as shepherds. Did you bloom in the warmth of your audience's adulation, or freeze up like the snowman you'd rather be building? Did your holiday performance change your life or that of someone close to you?

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Broadcast Date: June 25, 2005
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Listen IconIs Sorry Ever Enough?
This week, Edgar Killen was sentenced for manslaughter, but he never apologized or showed remorse. Weekend America host Bill Radke talks with a pastor in Philadelphia, Mississippi, Reverend William Young, about forgiveness. Then, Weekend America guest host Alex Cohen finds out more about apologies from Dr. Fred Luskin, director of the Stanford Forgiveness Project, and ethicist and litigation strategist Lee Taft.
Online resources:
> Fred Luskin book, Forgive for Good: A Proven Prescription for Health and Happiness , is available at the Public Radio BookSource.
> Learn more about Dr. Fred Luskin
> Lee Taft can be reached at leetaft@earthlink.net
> Worldwide Forgiveness Alliance
> Read Bill Radke's thoughts about his interview with Reverend William Young in the Weekend America blog.

Music Bridge: Lung - Pedro
CD: Melodic Today Compilation (Melodic)
Listen IconDeep Impact
What's inside a comet? NASA hopes to find out when project Deep Impact takes a sample from one on July 4. Weekend America correspondent Rebecca Roberts talks with an investigator on the project, Peter Schultz of Brown University.
Online resources:
> NASA's Deep Impact Web site
> Learn more about comets
> Schultz on Deep Impact team, which hopes to peer into comet's interior (George Street Journal)
> Gunning for a Crash: Rehearsing Deep Impact's Comet Collision (Space.com)

Music Picks
Listen IconWorld Music: Fanfare Ciocarlia
Music critic Tom Pryor shares a global pick from a remote region of Romania. It's gypsy music from Fanfare Ciocarila.
Online resources:
Fanfare Ciocarlia - 007/ James Bond Theme | From the album, Gili Garabdi (Piranha)

Listen IconParents Say the Darndest Things
Weekend America contributor Ann Randolph moved back in with her parents. But some days she's not sure if she can go the distance. It's all she can do to keep her mother from using handicap spaces -- illegally.
Online resources:
Learn more about Ann Randolph

Music Bridge: Adowa - Artist: The Claudia Quintet
CD: I, Claudia (Cuneiform)
Listen IconChain of Influence
You never know whom you touch in this life. In the latest link of our chain of people who influenced others, Weekend America host Bill Radke talks with literature professor Baruch Hochman. He inspired religion scholar Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg.
Online resources:
> More "Chain of Influence"
> Weekend America Blog: Host Barbara Bogaev wants your feedback

Music Picks
Listen IconWorld Music: Emmanuel Jal
What's up with African hip-hop? Tom Pryor brings the latest world music from Emmanuel Jal. He's a former child soldier and a refugee from Sudan.
Online resources:
Emmanuel Jal - Gua | From the album, Rough Guide to Sudan (World Music Network)

Listen IconWeekend Weather
Weekend America's Hank Rosenfeld takes a look at weather patterns and Saturday happenings all across the country.
Online resources:
Links to events mentioned during the weekend weather report

Music Bridge: Beat Connection (Disco Dub Version) - Artist: lcd soundsystem
CD: DFA compilation #2 (DFA)
Listen IconDrive-In Memories
Some people are obsessed with movies. Jennifer and her brother Kipp are obsessed with seeing movies outdoors. Weekend America guest host Alex Cohen finds out what's so great about drive-ins.
Online resources:
> Drive-Ins.com
> www.modern-aire.com

Listen IconGuerilla Theater
Want to see a movie on a moment's notice? Bryan Kennedy can help. He organizes spontaneous drive-ins. Weekend America host Bill Radke talks with Bryan about what you can do with a sheet, a car battery and a dream.
Online resources:
www.mobmov.org

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Listen IconWhat is a human organism?
Weekend America host Barbara Bogaev puts this question to Dr. William Hurlbut. The Stanford Bioethics professor has a new proposal that could redefine stem cell research.
Online resources:
> Stem-Cell Finesse Too Grotesque (Wired News)
> William B. Hurlbut, M.D.
> The President's Council on Bioethics
> International Society for Stem Cell Research
> A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for human embryonic stem cell research

Music Bridge: Tilijem's Forrest - Artist: Nobody
CD: And Everything Else (Plug Research)

Listen IconA Noble Experiment
Wikipedia is a collaborative online encyclopedia founded by Jim Wales. Visitors add their own entries. In that tradition, the Los Angeles Times asked readers to contribute to an editorial, but the Wiki-torial didn't work as planned. Weekend America host Bill Radke talks with Jim about wiki and the newspaper's ill-fated experiment.
Online resources:
Wikipedia.org
Wikimania 2005, the first ever Wikimedia conference

Listen IconWhen the Chips Are Down
Jack Kilby was a pioneer in the microchip revolution and changed the way we live. The Nobel Prize-winning engineer died last week at the age of 81. We pay tribute to him as Weekend America correspondent Ian Chillag tries to get through the day without using a chip.
Online resources:
More about Jack St. Clair Kilby (Wikipedia.com)

Music Bridge: Notions of Slow and Fast are Set at Naught - Artist: Portbale
CD: Version (Scape)
Listen IconWalk This Way
Yellow arrows are turning up all over New York City. But there's a method to the madness. Producers Kara Oehler and Ann Heppermann go on tour with some "archers" to find out what the stickers are all about.
Online resources:
Learn more about Yellow Arrow, the global public art project of local experiences

Listen IconWhat Are You Afraid Of...
Two people are walking down the street. Who's more afraid -- the follower or the followed? Sound artist Jonathan Mitchell explores the power of fear.

Listen IconPrimal Fears
Mystery fiction writer SJ Rozan understands the criminal mind. She knows that fear motivates crime. Weekend America host Bill Radke explores the power of the imagination and talks with Rozan about what scares us all.
Online resources:
Take the Weekend America phobia quiz...

Music Bridge: 9.01-9.06 - Artist: Laurent Garnier
CD: The Cloud Making Machine (Mute)
Listen IconWeekend Weather
Weekend America's Hank Rosenfeld takes a look at weather patterns and Saturday happenings all across the country.
Online resources:
Links to events mentioned during the weekend weather report

Music Bridge: Beat Connection (Disco Dub Version) - Artist: lcd soundsystem
CD: DFA compilation #2 (DFA)
Listen IconFrom the Mouths of Babes
Artist Miranda July just directed her first film, Me and You and Everyone We Know. During the film shoot, she bonded with her young co-star, seven-year-old Brandon Ratcliff. He gives her advice about the business.
Online resources:
www.mirandajuly.com
Me and You and Everyone We Know Official Website

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