Cats have convinced some of their owners that cats deserve legal citizenship. Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Saadi Simawe spent six years in an Iraqi prison for publishing verse opposed to Saddam Husssein’s Bath party. Now he’s an exile and teaches at Grinnell College in Iowa.
Scott Gelfand tells Jim Fleming about the latest in reproductive technology: the artificial womb. He worries that the device will be upon us before we’ve settled all the social and ethical issues it raises.
Steven Okazaki is a third generation Japanese-American and an Academy Award winning film-maker. He tells Jim Fleming that Japanese-Americans face racism both at home and in Japan.
Jesse Ball's new novel is called "How to Set a Fire and Why." The protagonist is a teenage girl who joins a secret Arson Club at her new school.
Stacy Peralta was one of the original Z-boys who transformed the sport of skateboarding. Peralta tells Steve Paulson that the Z boys were all wild surfers from a rough neighborhood in west Los Angeles.
Susana Chavez-Silverman tells Steve Paulson why she fell in love with Spanglish, a form of code-switching.
Tissa Hami is one of the world's few female Muslim stand-up comics.
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