Henrietta Lacks was a poor, African American woman who died of cervical cancer at the age of 31...
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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You'll have to know the great expectations of Cornell students to be successful for this round of the Whad'Ya Know? Quiz!
Mamek Khadem's soundtrack for an art installation commemorating the anniversary of the Iranian Revolution.
Richard Hand describes several of the programs that made that period the Golden Age of radio.
Linda Gray Sexton describes in vivid detail her own, lifelong battle against depression and suicide.
Peggy Orenstein tells Anne Strainchamps about “parasite singles” - young Japanese, mostly female, who reject the traditional life of marriage and children.
Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis talks about "On Repeat: How Music Plays the Mind."
Louise Barnett, author of tells Jim Fleming about the case of Captain Andrew Geddes, who was tried and convicted of slandering a fellow officer, even though the man was clearly guilty of sexually abusing his daughter.
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