WAMC: 51% Show # 997 (2008-08-21)

51 % The Women's Perspective

51% Show # 997

(2008-08-21)

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ALBANY, NY (WAMC) - BILLBOARD - Susan Barnett(:51) (Music Out)
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Adelaide Elm Kimball is a founding member of project vote smart. The idea was to compile a complete record of candidates voting records and political positions...using the internet to let voters educate themselves. Almost twenty years later, the operation is headed by Lisa Coligan, who rose through the ranks as a researcher to now head the entire operation, which includes a 150 acre research retreat in Montana. Kimball explains how it began...

7:31 Vote Smart Barnett

If you want to find out more about the candidates or volunteer to help, go to votesmart.org.

Coming up on 51%... life becomes art as a city woman's blog about her exile in the country gets national attention..

If you missed part of our show, you can listen to 51% anytime. Just download our podcast at wamc.org or call 1-800-323-9262 to order a CD - you'll need to know the program number. This week's show is #997.

(Music Bed) (8:57)
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Judith O'Reilly has a blog she called wife in the north. She wrote it mostly as an exercise in venting...her husband moved her from her happy home in London to the wilds of Northumberland while she was pregnant with their third child. She was homesick and she was lonely...and now she's famous.

7:58 O'Reilly Barnett

Judith O'Reilly's book, Wife in the North is available through Viking Penguin...and O'Reilly is Britain's latest sensation. You can follow her on her journey to fortune and fame on her blog, wifeinthenorth.com

The Internet is usually considered the demon that has killed family relationships. But in Alaska, it's being used to keep traditions alive. Susan Karlson has a report showing how technology and tradition can work together.

5:00 Inuit Internet Susan Karlson

Today as part of our National Science Foundation The Sounds of Progress project, producer Mary Darcy and narrator Kate Mulgrew profile Elizabeth Blackwell. Her family considered her a little shy...but that hid a steely determination that led her to break down barriers for herself and others.

2:00 NSF #5 Elizabeth Blackwell

If you'd like to find out more or hear more in this series, visit womeninscience.org.

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That's it for this edition of 51%
Thanks for listening. If you have any comments about today's program or ideas for future shows, please email me at sbarnett@wamc.org. For 51%, I'm Susan Barnett.
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