Search results for

WITH THE SUPREME COURT HAVING JUST CONCLUDED ITS TERM, NPR'S LEGAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT NINA TOTEMBERG BRINGS US THIS ANALYSIS.

This past week, Marvin Kamras died. Though most people have never heard of Kamras, they have unwittingly benefitted from his work in the area of magnetic tape recording. Michael talks with audio and video inventor Ray Dolby about Kamras's contributions.

SIMON/BELL: SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH SCULPTOR BRUCE HASSON WHOSE BELL, MADE FROM CONFISCATED FIREARMS, WILL BE RUNG AS PART OF THE FESTIVITIES COMMEMORATING THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE UNITED NATIONS CHARTER WHICH WAS SIGNED IN SAN FRANCISCO. THE BELL IS ON EXHIBIT AT THE WAR MEMORIAL VETERANS BUILDING THERE.

From Seattle, Paula Wissel of member station KPLU reports on the difficulties faced by the cellular telephone industry. In attempting to put up enough radio towers and antennas to complete a national wireless network, firms have run across local community opposition.

Jacki talks to film maker George Stoney and former cotton mill worker Lucille Thornburgh about the film the "Uprising of '34" to be aired on Public Television on Tuesday June 27th. Stoney tells how he wanted to let the people involved in the cotton strike tell their own story - and Lucille Thornburgh, now 85, was one of those that was there...

NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports from Rome on frantic consultations going on in Europe and at the United Nations as the world community tries to figure out how to respond to the latest developments in Bosnia. France has been as focus of this diplomatic activity. France has more peacekeepers in Bosnian than any other Western nation and has suffered the most casualties.

SIMON/ITALIAN FOOD: SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH FRANCO MARENGHI (FRAHN-ko meh-REN-gee), PRESIDENT OF THE ACADEMY OF ITALIAN COOKING, ABOUT THE NEWLY RELEASED 1995 MICHELIN GUIDE TO INTERNATIONAL RESTAURANTS WHICH RANKED FRANCE, GERMANY AND ENGLAND AHEAD OF ITALY FOR GOOD EATING.

Daniel talks with Paul Kammenar (KAM-ehn-ahr)of the Washington Legal Foundation...and George Kendall of the N-A-A-C-P Legal Defense Fund. They discuss a bill passed by the Senate last week that would reduce the federal appeals process and the effect this may have on those convicted in capital cases.

NPR'S JIM ZAROLLI REPORTS ON YESTERDAY'S ANNOUNCEMENT BY PHILLIP MORRIS THAT IT IS RECALLING MOST OF ITS MOST POPULAR BRANDS OF CIGARETTS BECAUSE SOME OF THE CIGARETTE FILTERS MAY BE CONTAMINATED BY A SUBSTANCE THAT COULD CAUSE EYE AND THROAT IRRITATION AND DIZZINESS.

A SPECIES OF FRUIT FLY PRODUCES THE WORLD'S LONGEST SPERM.