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New Time Zone for Maine?

By Barbara Cariddi on Friday, May 6, 2005.

Crossing from New Hampshire into Maine today merits no particular attention. At most, the transition might be marked by a sign welcoming you to Vacationland. But a bill making its way through the Maine legislature could add a new twist at the border. The measure would move Maine from Eastern time to the Atlantic time zone.

From the Maine Public Broadcasting Network, Barbara Cariddi has this report.

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Birds In Odd Places

By Rosemary Conroy on Friday, May 6, 2005.

Birds often build their nests in places that are inconvenient to us, but also they also offer us an opportunity to see the whole parenting process from egg to flight.

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Scores of Voices

By John Walters on Friday, May 6, 2005.

Conductor and Tenor Ryan Turner is the director of the Concord Chorale. He's earned accolades from the countless voices he's conducted and from the conductors for whom he's sung. We'll hear Ryan talk about some of the Concord Chorale's work under his baton as well as some of his solo work.

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The State of Stem Cells

By Laura Knoy on Friday, May 6, 2005.

A national advisory group recently released stem cell research guidelines which conflict with federal policy. Meanwhile, individual states like Maryland and Massachusetts are trying to legislate state funding. We're looking at the state of stem cells, from politics to science. Laura's guests are Eric Cohen, Director of the Biotechnology & American Democracy Program at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, Editor of The New Atlantis and Consultant to the President?s Council on Bioethics and Dr. M. William Lensch, Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Fellow at Children's Hospital Boston, Researcher at Harvard Medical School and member of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute.

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