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Election season typically isn't as busy for officials who aren't on the ballot. But as we head down the home stretch this fall, there are plenty of election-related issues to keep Maryland Attorney General Douglas Gansler's hands full. We talk with Gansler about those challenges, as well the fallout of a domestic spying investigation in Maryland and other legal issues in the Old Line State.
Douglas Gansler, Maryland Attorney General
Physician-geneticist Francis S. Collins is best-known for leading the project that decoded the human genome. A pioneer in using innovative genetic tools to uncover the secrets of diseases, he joins Kojo to talk about personalized genetic medicine, including the home tests & full-body scans being marketed to individuals nationwide.
Francis Collins, Director, National Human Genome Research Institute
It's a continuing paradox: the same countries blessed with natural reserves of oil, timber and diamonds often have the most human inequality and government dysfunction. Challenging this "resource curse" is difficult, and creative partnerships with plans for positively distributing wealth often meet mixed results. Kojo looks at what's working and what's not in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Todd Moss, Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development; author, "African Development: Making Sense of the Issue and Actors" (Lynne Rienner); former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Africa, State Department
Ian Gary, Senior Policy Advisor for Extractive Industries, Oxfam America
Kwame Bawuah-Edusei, Ambassador, Republic of Ghana
Artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude have been creating grand-scale installations as public works of art for more than 40 years. Known most recently for The Gates in New York's Central Park, the artists join Kojo to discuss their careers, and their two new projects - one in America, suspending almost 6 miles of silvery fabric over a river in Colorado; the other in the United Arab Emirates involving over 400,000 colorfully-painted steel oil barrels.
Christo, artist
Jeanne-Claude, artist
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