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Thursday March 4, 2004

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12:06Spring Gardening

Get your plant containers ready and brush out those beds. The weather is warming up, and it's time to dig in the dirt. Get gardening advice from the experts.

Guests

Holly Shimizu, Executive Director, U.S. Botanic Garden

Dr. Marc Cathey, president emeritus of the American Horticultural Society and former director of the U.S. National Arboretum (1981-1991)

13:06International Perspectives on Haiti

Kojo talks with journalists from around the world about the ouster of Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and how this event is being perceived outside the U.S.

Guests

Milton Walker, Milton Walker, Manager of News, Sports and Current Events, CVM-TV Jamaica

Carlos Widemann, writer, Suddeuetsche Zeitung (sue-DOIT-cha ZYE-toong) newspaper; former columnist, Der Speigel

13:32The Book Nobody Read

From Melbourne to Moscow, Boston to Beijing, Harvard astrophysicist Owen Gingerich traveled the world to read one book. 600 copies of it, to be exact. What book? Nicolaus Copernicus' highly influential text which suggested the Sun, and not the Earth, was at the center of the universe.

Guests

Owen Gingerich, author; senior astronomer emeritus, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and research professor of astronomy and the history of science, Harvard University

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