Major Steve Beck is a Marine Casualty Notification Officer. And every Marine family's worst fear is seeing Major Beck at their door.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Jerome Wakefield tells Steve Paulson how the medical profession's attempts to make precise diagnoses have led them to define emotional states as medical conditions.
Steve Paulson chats with three writers from “The Onion” - the satirical newspaper that started out here in Madison.
We meet the Surfing Rabbi. Nachum Shifren tells Anne Strainchamps about the connection between surfing and mysticism.
Juan Cole, author of "Engaging the Muslim World," tells Steve Paulson that Barack Obama has good reasons to reach out to Iran.
Karen Armstrong is one of the world's best-known writers on religion, but her own spiritual path hasn't been easy. She tells us why she joined a convent and then left - and how she later came to appreciate religious texts.
Nicholas Basbanes tells Steve Paulson that people destroy books to annihilate the culture of their enemies and remembers some of the heroes who fought to save books from the Nazis and in Bosnia.
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