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Random drug testing in schools, said to be constitutional by the Supreme Court in two landmark cases, is slow to catch on, if at all. We're looking at the problem of drugs in schools and see if random testing of students hs having an effect in the classroom. Laura's guests are Todd DeMitchell, Professor of Education and Justice Studies & Administration and Supervision Program in the Education Department at UNH and Ted Comstock, Executive Director & General Counsel for the NH School Boards Association. We'll also hear from Michael Meyers, Principal of the Hackettstown, New Jersey Middle School, which has instituted random drug testing, Nate Greenberg, Superintendent of the Londonderry School District and Barbara Keshen, Staff Attorney for the NH Civil Liberties Union.

Forty five years ago this week, a one hundred and three mile long wall was built in Germany, splitting the capitol city of Berlin into East and West and creating an impassable no man's land. Topped with barbwire, surrounded by boobytraps, mines and armed guards, the wall was meant to stop the steady flow of skilled workers leaving East Berlin for West Germany and prevent an economic collapse in not only post World War II Germany, but also the occupying Soviet Union, who was subsidizing their economy. We'll look at what led up to the creation of the wall, the impact it had not only on Germany, but Europe and the United States and how people feel about it today, long after it was torn down. Laura's guest is Dr. Jackson Janes, Executive Director of the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Janes previously taught in Germany and has been engaged in German-American affairs for three decades, including serving as the Director of the German-American Institute in Tübingen, Germany. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Autism is growing at a shocking rate, affecting millions of Americans. While many of us know little about this disorder, individuals and families are trying to create more awareness, and researchers are trying to uncover autism's causes and effects. We'll look at what autism is and what we're learning about it. Laura's guests are Stephen Shore, a graduate student at Boston University who lives with autism, author of numerous books on autism disorders and board member of the Autism Society of America; Rae Sonnenmaier, Assistant Professor at the University of New Hampshire's Institute on Disability; and Stacey Shannon, president of the Autism Society of New Hampshire.

A parade honoring the Viking explorer Leif Erikson, an annual giant pumpkin boat race, and a garage completely sided by license plates. Writer Eric Jones crossed the four corners of our state trying to find the most "curious" people, places and events in our state. He found the one and only state hired gull harasser, a slush pond crossing competition and a thirty two year tradition of square dancing around a Randolph gas pump. Today we'll explore some of most quirky and offbeat things in that make the Granite State great. John Clayton hosts. His guest is Eric Jones, author of "New Hampshire Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff".

It started as a small music video channel, but in twenty-five years, MTV has become a dominant force in American culture, building pop stars like Madonna and Michael Jackson, leading the reality TV revolution and even getting an American President to answer the age old question "boxers or briefs." We'll look at 25 years of MTV and its influence on our culture. John Clayton hosts. His guests are Robert Thompson, founding director of the Center for the Study of Popular Television at Syracuse University and Trustee Professor of Television and Popular Culture at the university's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and Gary Hoppenstand, Professor of American Thought and Language at Michigan State University, and Editor of the Journal of Popular Culture.