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Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India 
I was the last American Video journalist to have interviewed Mrs. Gandhi. To this day I still have difficulty understanding why I was selected over such icons as Barbara Walters and McNeil and Lehrer. But I was! I would lie to think I was chosen because of my fame and erudition but it really boiled down to being in the right place at the right time and having the audacity to request the interview. Getting the interview was easy - getting to India was a daunting task.
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Interview with His Holiness, Tenzin Gyatso, The 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet
I, along with 50 or 60 other members of various electronic and newsprint media, interviewed the Dalai Lama at Findley College, Ohio in April of 1991. For me it was an extremely emotional experience. I now know what it is to be in the presence of a truly great person who has achieved greatness, not through power, but through a Devine Connection. When the Dalai Lama was introduced to the S.R.O. audience of about 4000 the reaction was total reverent silence and then fevered applause while all 4000 rose to their feet as if they were one human being. Babies and children were held up to be blessed and I envied them.
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Breast Cancer: Interview with Dr. Janet Blanchard and Mary Wood
This interview focused on what happens after the original surgery to remove cancerous breast tissue. Dr. Blanchard is a reconstructive and plastic surgeon and Mary Wood is a licensed fitter of prosthesis and wearing apparel for women who have undergone breast surgery. This show was an ennobling experience for me and it did much to alleviate my great-unfounded dread and fear about breast cancer and post surgical options. Mastectomies, lumpectomies, reconstructive surgical options, medical tattooing, prosthesis and prosthetic choices, psychological and emotional support, and fashion and apparel for breast cancer patients were discussed in this interview.
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"First Mothers": Interview with author Bonnie Angelo
In her book, First Mothers : The Women Who Shaped the Presidents, Bonnie Angelo gives an intimate flesh and blood account of the relationship between eleven presidents and their mothers. Bonnie Angelo wrote for Time Magazine for over 25 years and reported on the White House during eight administrations.
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World Wildlife Federation: Interview with Gina DeFerrai
The cutting down of the rain forest - destruction of the ozone layer - the killing and maiming of animals for sexual elixirs - water pollution (both fresh and salt) destruction of wet lands - eco systems imbalance - multiple species plant and animal extinctions - habitat destruction - strip mining - and the melting of the polar ice caps due to Global Warming are just some of the issues that the World Wildlife Federation is trying to solve on a daily basis.
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Homosexuality: Interview with Linda Malick
Homosexuality has been a part of every culture and civilization for many thousands of years. Regarding all things sexual; the morals and laws of any particular culture at any given time determine the role of homosexuals within that society. Because they were often thought to be endowed with special mystical or magical powers some early cultures revered homosexuals and assigned them special status within the tribe or clan.
My guest for this interview, Linda Malicki, was very articulate, forthright, and unapologetic. Some of the issues that were discussed included: 1) Gays in the military, 2) Gay marriage,
3) The roles of homosexuals throughout history, 4) Coming out of the "closet", 5) Media portrayal, 6) Family acceptance/rejection, 7) The presence of gays at all levels of society,
8) AIDS.
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Women of Afghanistan: Interview with Zeeba Shomley
I first met Zeeba Shomley at a Women's Convention at Southern Connecticut State University. She was dressed all in black as if in mourning (technically I guess she is) and she had a commanding presence, which made the whole room become silent. During the interview Zeeba spoke lovingly about her childhood in Afghanistan. That Afghanistan is now just a distant memory, which can never be recaptured.
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Interview with Sister Elizabeth (Libby) Schaffer and "Mary" (a false name) an ex-convict. Sister Libby was the Director of a women's rehabilitation program in Cleveland, OH
Over the 5-year period from 1999 to 2004, the number of sentenced female prisoners in the USA increased from 82,402 to 96,125. This represents an increase of 17% in just 5 years. Not surprisingly the 3 largest increases were; Federal prisons, Florida, and Texas. All of these 3 areas are under the sphere of influence and domination of the Bush administration and the "Religious Right".
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Kindertransport: Interview with Irena Leibman
Between December 1938 and September 1939 approximately 10,000 children between the ages 3 and 17 left Nazi Germany without their parents or any other adult relative for safe haven in Great Britain. Each child was allowed 1 suitcase and until they reached the port city in Holland where they boarded the boat for England, they were forced to travel in sealed train cars.
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Amnesty International: First Interview with Nancy Bosney, Second Interview with Dori Dinsmore
The charter for Amnesty International states that their mandate is to promote universal human rights. Over the 43 years of existence (it was created in 1964) there has never been a time when they lacked for trouble spots all over the world. Amnesty International has almost 2 million members. In the 43 years of operation the geographical focuses have changed somewhat but "man's inhumanity to man" seems to have no boundaries.
At the time of broadcast both Ms. Bosney and Ms. Dinsmore were Midwest Regional Directors for Amnesty International.
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Iran- "Neither East Nor West": Interview with author Christiane Bird
In 2003, one year before the Iraq war began, acclaimed journalist and author Christiane Bird spent six months traveling through Kurdistan, an isolated, largely mountainous, but highly strategic land spread across Iraq, Iran, Turkey and Syria that does not appear on modern maps. Kurdistan is home to the Kurds, who are the fourth largest ethnic group in the Middle East (numbering between 25 and 30 million) and yet remain, despite the war, a people all but unknown to most Americans.
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Procrastination: Interview with author Rita Emmett
Almost everyone procrastinates. It is a very human trait and many of us don't even realize how much it affects our productivity and relationships. Procrastination is not just a modern phenomenon as even William Shakespeare uses it as a theme in two plays: Procrastination was the reason for Hamlets downfall and an anti-procrastination speech appears in the play, Julius Caeser.
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Sexual Deviance: Interview with Kimberly Resnick Anderson, Social Worker and Sexologist
One can hardly turn on the radio or TV, read a magazine, or newspaper or use the internet without exposure to ever more intimate and often shocking news about sexual predilections, practices and predation of a perverse or deviant nature. But what constitutes perverse or deviant behavior varies from culture to culture
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"Toxic In Laws: Loving Strategies For Protecting Your Marriage" Interview with Susan Forward, Ph.D.
I remember the days when most comedians on radio or TV used mother-in-law "jokes" to unleash vituperation that often times was not deserved. But having toxic in-laws is no laughing matter. In her book, Dr. Forward lists many categories of toxic in-laws
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"Infidelity on the Internet: Virtual Relationships and Real Betrayal" Interview with Rona Subotnik
Seventy-five million people worldwide are actively engaging in online sexual activity. These people revel in the freedom and undefined boundaries of finding relationships in a virtual world. A huge percentage of these participants are already involved in a committed relationship and it is this issue that is causing such a furor.
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Multiple Personality Syndrome: Interview with Judy Castelli
This interview will always stand out as having a profound effect on me emotionally. I always marvel at the strength and tenacity of the human to survive and heal. Judy Castelli was an articulate and insightful guest. Her calm voice belied the horrible pain, abuse, and incarceration of her life.
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Biological or Genetic Engineering: Interview with Dr. Faith Lagay
Biological or Genetic Engineering is the term applied to the techniques that alter the genes hereditary material for a specific desired outcome. Genetic engineering has been a hotly debated topic over the past 2-1/2 decades. However, some forms of genetic engineering have been around for a long time.
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"Lucy" The 3½ Million Year Oldest Human Ancestor" Interview with Dr. Donald Johanson
Donald Carl Johanson, an American anthropologist, is an authority on human origins and one of the world's most successful fossil hunters. A 1974 expedition led by Johanson at Hadar, Ethiopia, discovered the fossilized remains of one of the earliest humanlike creatures that walked fully upright. The fossils, which are from a creature nicknamed "Lucy", are between 3 million and 3,600,000 years old. They belong to a species classified as Australopithecus afarensis
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Women and Heart Disease: Interview with Shirley White
- 8,000,000 American women are currently living with heart disease (10% of women ages 45-64 and 25% age 65 and over.
- 6,000,000 of women today have a history of heart attack and/or angina or both.
- Nearly 13% of women age 45 and over have had a heart attack.
435,000 American women have heart attacks each year; 83,000 are under age 65 and 9,000 are under age 45. Their average age is 70.4.
- 4,000,000 women suffer from angina, and 47,000 of them were hospitalized in 1999.
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Credit Bias for Women: Interview with Brette Sember
Brette Sember is an attorney who left a busy law practice to become a full time author. The Complete Credit Repair Kit is a practical user-friendly book which covers every conceivable financial situation which includes; reducing your debt, dealing with bill collectors, changing your credit history, budgeting, mortgages, interest rates, spousal death, divorce, alimony, bankruptcy and credit cards.
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Animal Cruelty: Interview with Laurelee Blanchard
The Industrial Revolution triggered the juggernaut decline of the treatment of animals on a planetary basis. Tens of thousands of species have become extinct because of human beings. Animals that live on land, sea, fresh water, or use the air as their primary milieu have all suffered from abuse.
Laurelee Blanchard is the Communications Director of Farm Sanctuary and the former Communications Director for Farm Animal Reform.
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"Memories of the Night: Studies of the Holocaust": Interview with Miriam Klein Kassenoff and Anita Meyer Meinbach
Nowhere in the world do the words of George Santayana become more prophetic than in the barracks of Auschwitz Concentration Camp, where they are surrounded by pictures and other artifacts to remind us of the 6,000,000 Jewish men, women and children who died there and in other concentration camps throughout Germany and Poland. The words "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" becomes a haunting refrain, warning us of what happens when apathy replaces action, when tyranny replaces tolerance, and when hate replaces love.
Reprinted from the introduction to Memories of the Night: Studies of the Holocaust. Anita Meyer Meinbach has been a teacher in the Miami-Dade County public schools for more than 20 years and was honored as the country's Teacher of the Year in 2003. She was chosen by USA Today for their 2002 All Teacher First Team, one out of 20 teachers nationwide.
Miriam Klein Kassenoff fled Nazi Germany with her family in 1940. Miriam was honored as the Israel Bonds Woman of the Year in 2000. Dr. Klein Kassenoff is the Director of the Holocaust Institute at the University of Miami where she is also an adjunct professor.
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How To Spot A Dangerous Man Before You Get Involved: Interview with Sandra L. Brown, M. A.
When a woman thinks of a "dangerous man" she usually thinks of someone who is physically violent but danger can come in the form of mental, spiritual, emotional and quality of life abuse. Sandra Brown teaches women how to spot dangerous men as well as what to do if you are involved in a relationship with one. Sandra L. Brown, M.A. is a psychotherapist, lecturer and a consultant in the field of psychopathology.
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"Whistle Blowing on the Federal Government" Interview with Sibel Edmonds
Sibel Edmonds: A Patriot Silenced, Unjustly Fired but Fighting Back to Help Keep America Safe.
Sibel Edmonds, a 32-year-old Turkish-American, was hired as a translator by the FBI shortly after the terrorists attacks of September 11, 2001 because of her knowledge of Middle Eastern languages. She was fired less than a year later in March 2002 for reporting shoddy work and security breaches to her supervisors that could have prevented those attacks.
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"Twilight of Democracy": Interview with Jennifer Von Berger
In her interview book, The Twilight of Democracy, Jennifer Van Bergen quotes Laurence W. Britt's book, Down The Road To Fascism which presents fourteen common threads leading to a fascist society. Whether this is deliberate or accidental, all of these exist in varying degrees under the Bush Presidency.
Jennifer Van Bergen is a journalist, a legal analyst and a non-practicing attorney. Van Bergen is a member of the ACLU, The Sierra Club, Amnesty International and MENSA.
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Autism - "Animals in Translation": Interview with author Temple Grandin
People with autism can often think the way animals think, which puts them in perfect position to translate "animal talk". In her book Grandin draws on her own experiences with autism as well as her career as an animal scientist to tell us how animals think, act, and feel. Animals in Translation will forever change the way we look at our fellow creatures
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Camping Out at the Bush Ranch (Anti War): Interview with Celeste Zappala
Celeste Zappala's son, Dewey, joined the Pennsylvania National Guard and boasted to his mother that no one from his unit had been killed in the line of duty since 1945. What is that old adage about tempting fate? Dewey was killed just 6 weeks after arriving in Iraq. He was 30 years old.
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Constitutional Threats and Erosion of Freedoms: Interview with Attorney Carrie Davis (ACLU)
If I had to choose the one organization in America that best epitomizes the words; "With Liberty and Justice For All", I would only choose the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Since its inception 87 years ago (1920) the only concern of the ACLU has been to preserve the Bill of Rights (The 1st 10 Amendments of the U.S. Constitution) for equal treatment of all people under the law. This means that the Ku Klux Klan, Gays, Ethnic minorities, women, the super rich, the super poor, the President, and even Paris Hilton must be equally protected and defended by the Bill of Rights.
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Virgin Sex: Interview with Dr. Darcy Laudzer
The title of Dr. Darcy Laudzer's book, Virgin S.E.X. appears to be an oxymoron by literal definition - but herein lies a grave national epidemic with far reaching results. No matter how much the religious right or the Bush administration promotes the practice of total abstinence until marriage (and they sure don't mean same-sex marriage) human sexuality cannot be hidden or denied.
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Abuse: Interview with Barbara Oleynick
The "Delta Project" is not a hush-hush alien invasion or a design for new weapons of mass destruction but it is a consortium of 14 States and the Center For Disease Control meeting to discuss the spread and control of a dire new epidemic sweeping the United States. The name of this epidemic is ABUSE!
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Obesity: Interview with Hanna Blank and Ann Pai
Hanna Blank and Ann Pai have authored 2 different books each of which has obesity as a woven theme. Hanna Blank's book, Big Big Love is an intimate, sassy, irreverent guide for lovemaking among the obese. Ann Pai's book, My Other Body is a memoir about love, fat, life, and death.
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Depression: Interview with Dr. Kathy Whan Marco
About 75% of all Americans will suffer some form of depression during their lifetime. Some symptoms of depression are; chronic fatigue, feelings of great sadness, feeling worthless, chronic insomnia or prolonged periods of sleep, thoughts of suicide, crying for no apparent reason, difficulty concentrating and slowed thinking.
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Angels: Interview with Ruth Crystal
Meet Ruth Crystal, the woman that sees Angels and delivers personal
messages from the Angels.
This author of three Angel books: Angel Talk, Think About Angels and The
Seventh Sense with Angels has appeared on television and radio around
the world delighting listeners with messages from their own personal
divine messengers as well as stories of her own encounters and
experiences within the Angelic realm.
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"Our Toxic World": Interview with Dr. Doris Rapp
Movies such as "A Civil Action" and "Erin Brockovich" have done a great deal to increase public awareness about gross ad deliberate chemical disasters perpetrated by industry onto an unaware citizenry. But how safe are we? In her book, Our Toxic World, Dr. Doris Rapp puts every person, product and home in America on "Red Alert".
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"This Affair is Over - The "Other" Woman, or Single Women Who Have Affairs With Married Men": Interview with Nanette Minor
Over 70% of married men have been involved in extramarital affairs, while less than 1% have left their wives for their lover. In most cases each woman who is involved with a married man believes she is the only one who can make a difference in his life, the only one he will leave his wife for. The only one he is having an affair with.
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Center for Missing and Exploited Children: Interview with Ann Scofield
What is the mission of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children?
Answer: The mission of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) is to help prevent child abduction and sexual exploitation, help find missing children, and assist victims of child abduction and sexual exploitation, their families, and the professionals who serve them.
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Iraq: Interview with Weam Namou
Weam Namou was born in Baghdad, Iraq in 1970 and came to America in 1981 at age 11. While early childhood memories often seem to selectively fade for most of us; the 180° abrupt culture shock of moving to the U.S.A. seemed to etch the memories of Iraq like a still life painting upon Weam's mind. Life in the "Cradle of Civilization" was languorous and mellow. The Namou family is Christian and traces its roots back to ancient Chaldea in the Land of Ur, home of the Patriarch, Abraham.
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Medical Ethics: Interview with Dr. Michelle Carter
The medical profession has long subscribed to a body of ethical statements developed primarily for the benefit of the patient. As a member of this profession, a physician must recognize responsibility to patients first and foremost, as well as to society, to other health professionals, and to self.
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Disability: Interview with Donna McNamee
In the year 2000 I had a freak accident which put me in a cast for 7 months during which time I was unable to drive and had to learn to walk and how to go up and down stairs all over again. Those 7 months of incapacitation were real eye openers for me. Donna McNamee has been "disabled" all of her life - but don't tell her that. Donna was born with Spina Bifida and the doctors told her parents to "put her away" but they refused to do so
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Domestic Violence: Interview with Rita Ciafani
Domestic violence is control by one partner over another in a dating, marital or live-in relationship. The means of control include physical, sexual, emotional and economic abuse, threats and isolation.
Survivors face many obstacles in trying to end the abuse in their lives although most are able to... psychological and economic entrapment, physical isolation and lack of social support, religious and cultural values, fear of social judgment, threats and intimidation over custody or separation, immigration status or disabilities and lack of viable alternatives. Increased public, legal and healthcare awareness and improved community resources enable survivors to rebuild their lives.
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Medical Red Tape: Interview with Pat Palmer
ARM YOURSELF AGAINST THE ABUSES OF THE AMERICAN HEALTH CARE SYSTEM. Ready for a real medical horror story? Nine out of ten medical bills contain errors. The average error per patient is $1,300. And the total yearly overcharge nationwide is a staggering $10 billion. Counting on your insurance to pick up the slack? Don't even think about it.
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"Glued To The Tube": Interview with Dr. Cheryl Pawlowsky
Believe It or Not: - Today's average American child will spend 10 years of his or her life watching TV
- More American Households have TVs than have indoor plumbing
- Regular TV watchers sleep an average of 1 hour and 45 minutes less per week.
Cheryl Pawlowski has a Ph.D. in media ecology from New York University. Currently she is an assistant professor in speech communication at the University of Northern Colorado in Greely, Colorado.
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UFOs and Aliens: Interview with Marianne Hawkins
The first written accounts of what is believed by many to be an accurate description of space ships, astronauts, and close encounters appears in the book of Isaiah in the Old Testament. Other descriptions are said to be found in ancient; Egyptian, Chinese, Incan, and Indian oral and written histories. Humankind have been fascinated with the thought of extra terrestrial visitors and space travel for many millennia.
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"Embraced By The Light" - Life After Death: Interview with author Betty Eadie
Every culture since the beginning of Time has wondered about and hotly debated what happens when we die. Betty Eadie's story is moving and profound. At the age of 39, Betty "died" in a hospital after an operation. What happened then was called "the most" profound near-death experience ever..
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Transsexual: Interview with Ronnie Elise Elrod
Ronnie Elise Elrod was born Ronny Eugene Elrod and as far as "society" knew he was just your average American Boy. Ronny played football in high school, married and fathered children.
Elise (as she likes to be known) spent over $100,000 to have her body restructured as female and has now joined the ranks of an elite group that comprises only about a few thousandths of one percent of the population of the U.S.A.
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