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The Leonard Lopate Show

No Strangers to Controversy

Monday, April 17, 2006

On today’s show, a biology teacher from Dover, Pennsylvania, describes what happened when the controversy over intelligent design came to her high school classroom. Then, a look at blondes in film and literature. Plus, a new novel about modern-day astronauts. And to start it all off, Jane Fonda!


Fonda Memories

Jane Fonda discusses her Oscar-winning performances, her credits as a producer, her workout videos, and her activism, in My Life So Far.


Becoming Bombshells

Ellen Tremper examines how blondes became brassy icons in film and literature in I'm No Angel: The Blonde in Fiction And Film.


Mom Needs Her Outer Space

Stephen Harrigan describes his new novel Challenger Park, about a modern-day astronaut who’s also a wife and mother.

Events: Stephen Harrigan will be reading and signing books
Monday, April 17 at 7 pm
Lincoln Center Barnes and Noble
1972 Broadway at 66th Street


Controversy in the Classroom

Last December, a US District Judge ruled that it was unconstitutional for a Dover, Pennsylvania school board to require that teachers include intelligent design in their science classes. Jennifer Miller, a high school biology teacher from Dover, explains why she fought to keep intelligent design out of her classroom…and what effect the controversy had on her students.



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