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Alzheimer’s Disease

By Laura Knoy on Tuesday, May 7, 2002.

Nearly twenty million Americans have someone in their family with Alzheimer’s. We'll talk about the impact of this illness on those who have it and their caregivers. Also: the search for a cure. Laura’s guests are Susan Gordon, director or the greater Vermont and New Hampshire Alzheimer's Association www.nhalz.org, and Dr. Bob Santulli president of the association and also a geriatric psychiatrist at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center www.dartmouth-hitchcock.org

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Rebuilding the Old Man

By Trish Anderton on Tuesday, May 7, 2002.

Almost as soon as New Hampshire's Old Man of the Mountain collapsed, people began talking about rebuilding the stone profile. But the Old Man's mountain perch isn't an easy working environment. As NHPR's Trish Anderton reports, experts say reconstruction would be costly and difficult.

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A Concord Folksinger, Songwriter, and Poet

By John Walters on Tuesday, May 7, 2002.

Lester Hirsh spends a lot of his time on the road singing and reading his poetry. He also conducts seminars and workshops for people with special needs and the elderly. We'll hear his own poems and songs and about how he works with people who can be hard to reach. Lester's music is at www.oasiscd.com or reach him at movespring@aol.com.

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North Country Debate Downsized Amid Labor Protests

By Josh Rogers on Tuesday, May 7, 2002.

Yesterday's gubernatorial forum at the Mount Washington hotel did not go off according to plan?. Three candidates ? republicans Craig Benson and Bruce Keough, and Libertarian John Babiarz participated; while four others, Democrats Jim Normand, Beverly Hollingworth, Mark Fernald, and Republican Gordon Humphrey, refused to cross an information picket set up to protest hotel labor policy.

NHPR's Josh Rogers has more.

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School Offers Prizes For Test Takers

By Lisa Peakes on Tuesday, May 7, 2002.

High school 10th graders in New Hampshire face a barrage of statewide tests this week.
Their scores won?t effect their grades?.and the result is that students don?t take the tests seriously. To solve that problem, officials at Concord High hope that incentives?food and prizes?will encourage kids to give it their best. The plan has attracted criticism?.some say doing well should be incentive enough?.others argue the students are simply lacking school pride. Dan Clary, assistant principal at Concord High, came up with a new plan.

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