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The Leonard Lopate Show

Tuesday, February 19, 2008
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    The Budget Crisis and You

    Experts tell you what you should know about America’s federal budget crisis...and how it’ll affect your personal finances. Also: how the medical text Gray’s Anatomy changed the field of medicine. And Robert Bennett, the lawyer who defended Bill Clinton in the Paula Jones case, Judith Miller and some other controversial defendants.

A Guided Tour of the Federal Budget Crisis

Find out everything you need to know about the looming federal debt crisis…and how it could affect your own personal finances. Scott Bittle and Jean Johnson of Public Agenda Online are co-authors of Where Does the Money Go?: Your Guided Tour to the Federal Budget Crisis.

Public Agenda Online’s website

Gray’s Anatomy - The Medical Textbook, Not the TV Show

Gray’s Anatomy has set the standard for medical textbooks for the past 150 years. Bill Hayes’s new book about how Gray’s Anatomy changed the field of medicine is The Anatomist.

Event: Bill Hayes will be speaking and signing books
Tuesday, February 19 at 7 pm
192 Books
192 Tenth Avenue (at 21st Street)

Orphan Films

Every other year, film archivists from around the world gather to present "orphan films" - unusual movies of unknown origins. Dan Streible is founder and curator of the Orphan Film Symposium, showing at the IFC Center as part of the "Stranger Than Fiction" series. The full Orphan Film Symposium will be held at NYU March 26-29; more information is available here.

Event: Best of Orphan Film Symposium
Tuesday, February 19 at 8 pm
IFC Center
323 Sixth Avenue (at West 3rd Street)
To purchase tickets, go here.

Superlawyer Robert Bennett

Lawyer Robert Bennett has represented some important people in difficult situations: Judith Miller; Paul Wolfowitz; Bill Clinton in the Paula Jones scandal. His new memoir is In the Ring: The Trials of a Washington Lawyer.

Tributes: Kate McGarrigle

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Folk singer Kate McGarrigle, who gained acclaim for a series of projects with her sister Anna, died Monday, Jan. 18, from a rare form of cancer. She left behind a family of talented musicians, including her sister, son Rufus Wainwright, and daughter Martha Wainwright. McGarrigle appeared on The Leonard Lopate show with her sister in December 2005, ahead of their holiday show at Carnegie Hall.

Monona Rossol on 50 Million Chemicals

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On September 7, 2009, scientists working for the Chemical Abstract Service (which assigns identification numbers to all new chemicals) entered the 50-millionth chemical substance into their Registry. Chemist and industrial hygienist Monona Rossol, President and Founder of Arts, Crafts & Theater Safety, took a look at what all these new substances are, where they are coming from, and how they affect our health. Rossol also responded to listener comments and questions. You can read her answers here.

Alan Alda on What Makes Us Human

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Barbara Demick on Ordinary Lives in North Korea

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Lucien Castaing-Taylor on "Sweetgrass"

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Michael Pollan on Food in 2010

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Atul Gawande on The Checklist Manifesto

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Christopher Kimball on Surviving Holiday Cooking Disasters

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Lidia Bastianich on Cooks from the Heart of Italy

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Neil deGrasse Tyson on Pluto

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National Book Award Winners

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A number of this year’s National Book Award winners have appeared on The Leonard Lopate Show. Click here to see the list!

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.