Stem Cell Lines Created Without Embryos; Education Funding In California: Where The Money Come From And Where Does It Go?; Iraq’s Constitutional Referendum; Depression-Era Boxing Heroes Joe Louis And Max Shmeling
Stem Cell Lines Created Without Embryos
Larry Mantle talks with Dr. Michael Friedman, President and CEO of City of Hope Cancer Center, and a member of Prop 71’s Stem Cell Oversight Committee about this new way of creating stem cell lines.
Education Funding In California: Where The Money Come From And Where Does It Go?
Larry Mantle talks with experts Lawrence O. Picus, director of the Center for Research in Education Finance at USC, Mary Perry, Deputy Director of EdSource, and David Tokofsky, LAUSD Board Member from District 5, who attempt to simplify how public schools are funded in California.
Iraq’s Constitutional Referendum
Larry Mantle talks with the Christian Science Monitor’s Dan Murphy about this weekend’s Iraqi elections. He was embedded with the US Army in Baqubah, north of Baghdad, with US soldiers as they patrolled on referendum day. Larry also talks with Barbara Bodine of the Belfer Center at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.
Depression-Era Boxing Heroes Joe Louis And Max Shmeling
In the 1930s, with the country staggering under the Depression and looming international threats, many Americans looked to boxing for heroes on which they could project their hopes and fears. Two of the greatest icons of the ring were Joe Louis and Max Schmeling, magnificent athletes who came to represent far more to their fans and detractors. Larry Mantle talks to author David Margolick about his new book Beyond Glory: Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling and a World on the Brink, which examines the symbolic clashes of these two titans and their implications beyond the ring.