In this extended interview, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Dan Fagin discusses "Toms River" — his remarkable investigative story of industrial pollution in a New Jersey town — and why it's so difficult to prove the link between environmental toxins and cancer clusters.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Classical pianist Leon Fleisher tells Jim Fleming about the neurological disorder that crippled his right hand for over thirty years and what it meant for his musicianship.
Karen Armstrong tried to be a nun, then left the convent and all but lost her faith. She talks with Anne Strainchamps about how she gradually found her way back to god.
Patti Smith was born in South Jersey. She grew up determined to become an artist.
Ken Reardon now teaches city and regional planning at Cornell, and was one of the founders of the East St. Louis Action Research Project.
Freshman Representative Joe Walsh is considered the unofficial spokesman for the “no compromise” faction of the Republican majority in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Jean Auel is the author of the phenomenally successful “Earth’s Children” series of books. Auel tells Anne Strainchamps about the extensive hands on research that informs her work.
Feminist Naomi Wolf tells Anne Strainchamps that common obstetrical practices make things easier for the hospital, not the mother and baby, and she explains why many post-feminist women are shocked by the demands of early motherhood.
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