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Wednesday April 13, 2005

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10:00Senate Confirmation Hearings

On Capital Hill several Bush administration nominees are facing challenges from Senate Democrats. We'll talk about the nominations of John Bolton, John Negroponte and others.

Guests

Norman Ornstein, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute

Ron Elving, Washington editor for National Public Radio

11:00Drs. Torrey & Yolken: "Beasts of the Earth" (Rutgers U. Press)

Throughout human history diseases have spread from animals to people. Two scientists explain why, as the planet gets more crowded, we can expect more animal-transmitted diseases.

Guests

E. Fuller - duplicate record Torrey, M.D., is associate director for laboratory research at the Stanley Medical Research Institute in Bethesda, Maryland and author and coauthor of 18 books including "The Invisible Plague: The Rise of Mental Illness from 1750 to the Present."

Robert Yolken, M.D., is the director of the Stanley Laboratory of Developmental Neurovirology and a professor of pediatrics at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He is the coeditor of the "Manual of Clinical Microbiology."

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