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No one wants to talk about their own death or the death of a loved one, but our guests say it's a conversation everyone must have. Decisions about life-support and hospice scenarios should be made while we're still healthy, or we may give-up the opportunity to make them ourselves. Laura talks with William Colby, attorney and author of "Long Goodbye: The Deaths of Nancy Cruzan" www.hayhouse.com, and Peg Gilmore, CEO of Home Health and Hospice Care in Nashua www.hhhc.org

Originally Broadcast 10/2/2002.

This week, scientists reported a black hole is hurtling through our galaxy, dragging a star behind it. While they assure us it won?t swallow the earth, it does raise the question: What are these things anyway? And what?s keeping them from gulping up the universe? Laura explores black holes with John Gianforte, Astronomy teacher at the College for Lifelong Learning www.cll.edu and columnist for Fosters Daily Democrat www.fosters.com.

Thousands of plants and animals may become extinct every year, and scientists are scrambling to find and preserve what?s left. Our guest has documented the effort from the mountains of Tasmania to the jungles of Brazil. Scott Weidensaul is the author of several books on natural history, including his latest, ?The Ghost with Trembling Wings: Science, Wishful Thinking, and the Search for Lost Species.? www.fsgbooks.com

It's in the headlines again, with New Hampshire's Fish and Game executive director suspended. The case raises broader issues about how sexual harassment is defined and how it's handled. Laura talks with Nancy Richards-Stower, an employment law attorney in Merrimack, and Cameron Shilling, an employment law attorney with McLane Law Firm.

He was enemy number-one in the months following September 11th. A year later, he's still at large but has largely disappeared from the headlines. That changed last week, when yet another tape surfaced. We'll talk about the hunt for bin Laden and where it fits in with U.S. priorities. Laura talks with Peter Bergen, CNN's terrorism expert www.cnn.com and author of "Holy War, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama bin Laden." www.simonsays.com. Bergen interviewed bin Laden in 1997.