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We talk about John McCain's nomination acceptance speech in St. Paul. Also: retailers lose up to forty billion dollars a year to shoplifting, employee theft, and organized retail crime. Find out whether the retail industry's new high-tech approach to dealing with theft is working. Then, hear about one woman's 9-year struggle with a rare autoimmune blood disorder. And Please Explain is all about satellites!
Join us for another Lopate Show film screening! On Monday, Sept. 8th, we'll be showing the 1976 film "All the President's Men" at Galapagos in DUMBO. Seating is limited, so RSVP soon!
John McCain’s Speech in St. Paul
Clark Judge talks about McCain's nomination acceptance speech in St. Paul last night. Judge was a speechwriter and special assistant in the Reagan White House, and he wrote many of Reagan’s campaign speeches in 1988 and numerous podium speeches for the 1992 GOP convention. Currently he’s Managing Director of White House Writers Group, Inc.
Stop, Thief!
Retailers lose up to forty billion dollars a year to shoplifting, employee theft, and organized retail crime. Find out how the retail industry is now taking a high-tech approach to dealing with theft, and whether it’s working. John Colapinto’s article in the issue of the Sept. 1 issue of the New Yorker is "Stop, Thief!"
Surviving a Major Illness
Writer Sarah Manguso struggled for nine years with an autoimmune blood disorder so rare it doesn’t even have a real name. Her new memoir is The Two Kinds of Decay.
Event:
Sarah Manguso will be giving a reading
Tuesday, Sept. 9 at 7 p.m.
at Book Court
163 Court Street, Brooklyn, NY
Please Explain: Satellites
Please Explain is all about satellites – find out what they are, how they work, and what role they play in your everyday life – from cellphones to the weather report. Dr. Christopher Small is a geophysicist at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University; Dr. Scott E. Palo is a satellite engineer and Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering Sciences at UC Boulder.
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Science and Faith
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Earlier this week, Pres. Obama announced that he plans to nominate geneticist Dr. Francis Collins to lead the National Institutes of Health. You can listen to Leonard’s 2006 conversation with Dr. Collins about how he reconciles his personal faith with his professional scientific knowledge.
FDA to Regulate Tobacco?
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May 14, 2009
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.
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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.
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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?
