The Brian Lehrer Show

Nobel Cause

Wednesday, September 28, 2005

Kenyan Wangari Muta Maathai became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize last year for her work as an environmental and political activist. Her campaigns against deforestation in Africa earned her the nickname: Tree Woman. Now she’s using her new status to further the environmental movement in her country and to pressure the world to achieve the UN Millennium Development goals of reducing poverty.

Listen to the whole show

Drawing A Blanco

Terence Samuel, chief Congressional correspondent for US News & World
- on Governor Blanco's testimony

» US News and World Report

ID Crisis

Michael Powell, reporter for the Washington Post
- reports on the lawsuit over teaching "intelligent design" in Dover, Pennsylvania

» "Intimidation Alleged On 'Intelligent Design'" (The Washington Post)
» The Dover Area School District

30 Issues: Home Health Aides

Michael Aronson, editorial page writer with the New York Daily News,
-says whether to make home health aides city employees is becoming a potent issue in New York's race for mayor

» News & Views in the New York Daily News

Nobel Causes

Dr. Wangari Maathai, Nobel Peace Prize winner and leader of Kenya's Green Belt Movement
- on her work in Kenya helping save the environment

» The Nobel Peace Prize
» Wangari Maathai's webpage