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Thursday, January 31, 2008
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    Artist's concept of Dawn (William K. Hartmann/UCLA)

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    A former State Department official who resigned her post in protest of the Iraq invasion explains how that's affected her career since then. Also, Dr. Hugh Sampson on food allergies. Russell Banks on his new novel, The Reserve. And on Underreported: find out about a lawsuit brought by Jet Propulsion Lab scientists against NASA for probing into intimate details of the scientists’ lives. And a closer look at NASA's Dawn probe.

    Check out the latest in our Political Projections election film series! We're hosting a FREE Feb. 4th special screening of the Marx Brothers' movie "Duck Soup." Space is limited and filling up quickly. Find out more here.

Dissent from within the U.S. Government

Ann Wright was a U.S. Army Colonel and diplomat before she resigned from her State Department post in protest of the invasion of Iraq. Her new book is Dissent: Voices of Conscience.

Event: Colonel (Ret.) Ann Wright will be speaking and signing books
Thursday, January 31 at 7 pm
Bluestockings Books
172 Allen Street (between Stanton and Rivington Streets)

The Risk of Food Allergies

Dr. Hugh Sampson of Mount Sinai School of Medicine responds to our controversial interview about allergies with journalist Meredith Broussard earlier this month. Dr. Sampson is an allergy activist and director of the Jaffe Food Allergy Institute.

Listen to Meredith Broussard's Jan. 2 interview here

Russell Banks’s New Novel

Russell Banks’s new novel, The Reserve, is partly a love story and partly a murder mystery. It’s set in the years just before World War II.

Event: Russell Banks will be interviewed
Friday, February 1 at 7:00 pm
Brooklyn Public Library
Admission is free, and a reception will follow the program
More information here

Underreported: NASA’s Investigations of its Scientists

Scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory are suing NASA over the Bush administration’s attempts to investigate the scientists’ personal lives. Attorney Dan Stormer is representing the scientists.

Underreported: Dawn Probe

NASA's Dawn probe is giving scientists a closer look at two of the most overlooked objects in the solar system: asteroids Vesta and Ceres. Find out why Vesta and Ceres can teach us about the origins of the solar system. Dr. Thomas Prettyman is a member of the Dawn science team and a planetary scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory in NM; Dr. Tom McCord is also a member of the Dawn team and is a planetary scientist with Bear Fight Institute in Washington.

More about the Dawn mission

FDA to Regulate Tobacco?

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Congress is getting ready to a vote on whether to make tobacco subject to FDA regulation. You can listen to a segment we did in May about the bill and what it would mean for the cigarette companies.

Video Pick: Elizabeth Edwards

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Elizabeth Edwards discusses how to best cope with lifes difficulties in her book Resilience: Reflections on the Burdens and Gifts of Facing Life's Adversities.

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Our 3-ingredient Challenge wins a James Beard Award

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On May 3, the Lopate Show won its third James Beard Award for our 3-ingredient challenge. In August, we asked our listeners to call in and name 3 ingredients and then challenged New York chef and 3-ingredient expert Rozanne Gold to whip up a recipe! You can listen to the 3-ingredient challenge and get some inspiration for simple, delicious, and unexpected dishes.

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Barack Obama, Circa 2004

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Listen to President-Elect Barack Obama on the Leonard Lopate Show in November 2004. He had recently won a seat in the U.S. Senate, and only a few months before, his rousing speech during the 2004 Democratic National Convention catapulted him into the national spotlight.

Guest Picks

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Find out surprising facts about some recent guests on the Leonard Lopate Show. Check out our Guest Picks section! Did you know that football star Herschel Walker loves Judge Judy, Laurie Anderson is a big fan of agility training for dogs, and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi likes Johnny Depp?