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ArchivesA Quick Refresher on the U.S. ConstitutionBy Laura Knoy on Tuesday, April 10, 2001.More than two hundred years old, it still profoundly affects our lives every day. We’ll look at some misconceptions about what the constitution does and doesn’t say. And, we'll have a trivia quiz to test your knowledge of the United States’ most important document. Laura talks with Deb Stever, a criminal justice professor with the College for Lifelong Learning. listen: No audio currently available. Order on CD (pdf).
A Controversial Novelist Saving Old NewspapersBy John Walters on Tuesday, April 10, 2001.Nicholson Baker is best known as a writer who?s generated controversy with the explicit novels ?Vox? and ?The Fermata.? His newfound passion is preserving old newspapers. He discovered that almost all major libraries have been microfilming old papers and discarding the originals. He believes part of our history is lost in the process. Baker?s new book, ?Double Fold,? is an attack on the high-tech orientation of major libraries. He?s created the American Newspaper Repository in an old mill building in Rollinsford, NH as a place to store old papers that would otherwise have been thrown away or sold for profit. listen: No audio currently available. Order on CD (pdf).
Connecticut River Train Wreck Clean Up UnderwayBy Josh Rogers on Tuesday, April 10, 2001.Crews seek to contain environmental peril in the wake of derailment that spilled some 5000 gallons of diesel fuel into the Connecticut river. listen: No audio currently available. Order on CD (pdf).
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