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Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of NIH's National Institute on Allergy and Infectious Diseases, joins Diane to talk about U.S. preparations for a new era of threats to public health, including smallpox as a biological weapon, malaria, and other diseases.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases/NIH
Joyce Carol Oates presents her newest novel, whose narrator, a 1960s-era college student, struggles with feelings of not belonging as she joins a sorority, has an affair with an African-American grad student, and deals with the death of a family member.
Joyce Carol Oates, novelist