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ArchivesFrom Nutrition to Ice CrystalsBy John Walters on Thursday, April 22, 2004.The whiter the bread, the quicker you're dead. Beatrice Trum Hunter may not have coined that phrase, but she'd certainly agree with it. Long before Diet For a Small Planet and the Moosewood cookbooks, she was writing about food safety and nutrition. Her first book, The Natural Foods Cookbook, was published in 1961 and she's published over 20 since. Beatrice promotes natural, unprocessed foods above all else- think butter, not margarine, and stay away from the white flour and sugar. She was also an early activist against pesticides and helped Rachel Carson with research for Silent Spring. listen:
 I Swear!By Mike Arnold on Thursday, April 22, 2004.You can?t avoid it anymore? from South Park to C-Span to the Superbowl, profanity is becoming part of our television?s scripts, our pop-culture vernacular and our everyday language. Now, the FCC is looking to crack down on profanity by issuing fines and delaying broadcasts. Today on the Exchange, we look at the biological, psychological and social elements of curse words and profanity. Mike's guests are Dr. Timothy Jay, Professor of Psychology at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts in North Adams, MA and author of "Cursing in America: A Psycholinguistic Study of Dirty Language in the Courts, in the Movies, in the Schoolyards and on the Streets" and "Why We Curse: A Neuro-Psycho-Social Theory of Speech". And Robert J. Thompson, Professor of Television and Pop Culture and Founding Director of the Center for the Study of Popular Television at Syracuse University's Newhouse School of Public Communication. listen:
Senate Moves School Vouchers ForwardBy Dan Gorenstein on Thursday, April 22, 2004.The Senate has narrowly passed a plan to create vouchers for elementary school-aged students. If approved, the measure would ultimately provide vouchers to 14 thousand students. New Hampshire Public Radio's Dan Gorenstein reports. listen:
Unemployed in NH and Nationwide Are UndercountedBy David Darman on Thursday, April 22, 2004.There were about 30,000 first time unemployment claims around the nation last week. That's 4 times greater than U.S. Labor Department officials expected. In New Hampshire, the official unemployment rate is the same as last year, about 4.2 percent. But neither the state nor the national unemployment rate includes people who've stopped looking for work, because they've been jobless for so long. New Hampshire Public Radio's David Darman has more. listen:
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