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Ivan Watson, NPR Foreign Correspondent, Istanbul (NPR/Jacques Coughlin)Reading Blogs In Tehran
With a population that is 70 percent under age 25 (and a voting age of 15), Iran’s younger voters will play a big role in elections there on Friday. Many of them are turning to blogs to avoid the mullahs’ stifling grip on public discourse.
Live from Iran
Hossein Derakhshan, Iranian blogger, writes "Editor: Myself: A weblog on Iran, technology and pop culture"
» Hossein's weblog
and
Ivan Watson, NPR Correspondent (in Tehran for election)
» Ivan Watson's bio
and
Roya Boroumand, Historian, director of the Bouroumand Foundation for Promotion of Democracy and Human Rights in Iran
- with analysis of the upcoming elections in Iran
What's Good for the Goose
Lee Hall, legal director of Friends of Animals
-says foie gras is cruel, anyway you cut, spread, or spoon it
» Friends of Animals
and
Michael Ginor, co-founder, co-owner, and president of Hudson Valley Foie Gras
-says"inhumane" is a relative term
» Hudson Valley Foie Gras
Book Country
Christopher Hitchens,(photo right) book review columnist for The Atlantic Monthly, contributing editor to Vanity Fair and author, Thomas Jefferson: Author of America (Harper Collins, 2005)
- on current events in the Middle East as well as American's founding father
» Christopher Hitchens' website
Prison's Other Victims
Elizabeth Gaynes, Director of the Osborne Association, a group
» Osborne Association
and
Liz Garbus,Director and producer of Xiara's Song, a documentary about children of incarcerated parents, to be broadcast on Cinemax on June 19
» Xiara's Song website
-discuss the impact of the rate of children's parents in prison
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