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Annie, Get Your Gun!

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Thursday, May 27, 2004

Journalist Caitlin Kelly was surprised when two middle-class girlfriends separately told her that they carried handguns. She decided to investigate the issue, and discovered that 11 to 17 million American women own guns, and that the majority do so for their own protection.

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Richard Wolffe Diplomatic Correspondent, Newsweek on the Draft UN resolution about Iraqi sovereignty and John Kerry's foreign policy stance

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The Small Screen Goes Gay

Gail Shister TV columnist for the Philadelphia Enquirer whose column is also syndicated by Knight-Ridder in over 500 other newspapers and first "out" journalist at a major American considers the possibilities of a cable channel expressly for gays and lesbians

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Annie Get Your Gun

Caitlin Kelly freelance journalist and author, Blown Away: American Women and Guns (Pocket Books, 2004) discusses the relationship American women have with guns

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Earth, Wind, and Fire

Michael C. Lowndes director of media relations at the Long Island Power Authority says windmills and a giant cable to New Jersey will solve Long Island's energy woes

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Big Empty Boxes

Greg LeRoy Executive Director, Good Jobs First on the effect of Wal-Mart on communities, smart growth and living wage

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Kissinger and Tell

Tomorrow’s show will feature a segment on the Henry Kissinger transcripts released this week. They cover his conversations while he was Richard Nixon’s National Security Advisor and were released over Kissinger’s objections. Among other revelations, they include an incident where Nixon was too drunk to ...

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