Patt Morrison for Wednesday, April 21, 2010

PATT MORRISON SCHEDULE

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

1-3 p.m.

 

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1:06 – 1:30

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1:30 - 1:58:30

Murder City: Ciudad Juárez and the global economy’s new killing fields

Ciudad Juarez used to be a pretty productive city, but you wouldn’t know that by looking at it now. The city is riddled with closed factories, bullet holes and, in many cases dead bodies. Drug cartels have more or less taken over much aided by inept government officials and corrupt military and police. Journalist Charles Bowden was one of the few who dared cover the city for an extended period of time and he tells all in his new book, “Murder City.”

 

Guests:

Charles Bowden, journalist and author of “Murder City: Ciudad Juarez and the Global Economy’s New Killing Fields”

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2:06 – 2:30

Take it with a grain of salt: the FDA plans to limit sodium content in food

According to Food and Drug Administration sources who spoke on condition of anonymity, the FDA plans to wean Americans off our salt-heavy diets over the next ten years.  That means they’ll begin undertaking the complicated task of analyzing the sodium content of thousands of processed foods to limit salt, which, due to its classification by the FDA as “generally recognized as safe” substance, is not currently regulated.  Some nutritionists say limiting salt is the single most important thing the FDA can do to promote health, but salt producers claim salt still isn’t properly understood and that regulation would be disastrous for the American public, who have grown accustomed to a certain taste.  But actually reducing without regulation the amount of salt in the American food supply poses a massive challenge since 77% of our salt intake comes from processed food and, while there are many artificial sweeteners, there is still no substitute for salt.

 

Guests:

NOT CONFIRMED:

Cheryl Anderson, epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; she served on the Institute of Medicine committee

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NOT CONFIRMED:

Morton Satin, director for technical and regulatory affairs at the Salt Institute, which represents salt producers

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2:30 – 2:39

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2:41 – 2:58:30

Celebrating Mark Twain 100 years later

From The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County to Tom Sawyer and from Huck Finn to Tesla – Mark Twain traveled and traversed America and it’s culture for more than 70 years. Proving to be the quintessential American author of his era the man born Samuel Langhorne Clemens used his with and an enchanting harness of colloquialisms to produce poignant and disarmingly charming works that have endured the 100 years since his passing and still prove to be some of the most telling commentaries of that time. We celebrate the life and work of the author that may not have wanted to be considered the type to produce a classic.

 

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

-Mark Twain

 

Guest:

Roy Morris, Jr., editor of Military Heritage magazine and the author of “Lighting out for the Territory: how Samuel Clemens headed west and became Mark Twain”

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Jonathan Serviss

Producer, Patt Morrison Program

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