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Space aliens meet with President Bush, and a donkey-man is banned from drive-in movies! It?s time to talk about the magazines that spice-up your check out line. We?ll get a sneak peak at the industry that gives us so many stories of the seedy, incredible and bizarre. Trish is joined by Bill Sloan, a former editor of the National Enquirer and author of ?I Watched a Wild Hog Eat My Baby!: A Colorful History of Tabloids and Their Cultural Impact.? Original Air Date: 9/7/01

We constantly see surveys cited in the news on everything from politics to soup. We'll look at how polls are developed and how they influence policy. Laura's guests are Andy Smith, Director of UNH's Survey Center www.unh.edu/ipssr/survey-center , and Lynn Vavreck, Assistant Professor of Government at Dartmouth's Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and Civic Leadership www.dartmouth.edu/~rocky/TheCenter/nelson.html . This is a rebroadcast of an earlier program.

Our guests find Northeast's sense of humor is quite a bit different than the rest of the country's. We'll find out what tickles our funnybones--and share jokes you might have to live around these parts to appreciate. Trish swaps jokes with Tim Sample, downeast humorist http://timsample.com , and Cameron Nickels, English professor at James Madison University www.jmu.edu and author of "New England Humor: From the Revolutionary War to the Civil War" and This is a rebroadcast of an earlier program.

New Hampshire's population is getting older, but it's not clear whether the state is ready to handle the costs that go along with caring for the elderly. We'll find out what more needs to be done. Trish?s guests are Representative Neal Kurk, chairman of the House Finance Committee and chair of the Long Term Care Institute of New Hampshire www.nhltci.org , and David Frydman, Director of the Institute for Health, Law and Ethics at Franklin Pierce Law Center www.fplc.edu/healthlaw/title.htm

Normal weight adults are now a minority in the US and childhood obesity is at an all time high. The Surgeon General says being overweight is not just a personal issue, it's a pressing public health problem. Laura's guest is Margo Wootan, Director of
Nutrition Policy at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a consumer group based in Washington DC www.cspinet.org.