May 28th, 2008 · When Bob Morris' widowed father decided to start dating again — at the age of 80 — guess who found himself sorting through the personals? In Assisted Loving, Morris chronicles the search for Dad's new Ms. Right — and his own misadventures in the romantic jungle that is Manhattan's gay ghetto.
Jan 25th, 2006 · Many Americans searching for low-cost housing have been on the federal government's Section 8 waiting list for years. But now, some Hurricane Katrina survivors are jumping ahead of them on the list for government financial assistance to help pay rent. Jessica Jones of North Carolina Public Radio reports on one woman in Raleigh, N.C., who has been waiting for five years for Section 8 assistance.
Jan 19th, 2006 · Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announces plans to reform the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development. The move, she says, will bring the foreign assistance programs into line with the Bush administration's push to spread democracy, or "transformational diplomacy."
Jan 18th, 2006 · By a 6-to-3 vote the U.S. Supreme Court has upheld an Oregon law that allows doctors to prescribe lethal doses of narcotics to terminally ill patients who want to end their lives. The physician-assisted suicide law is the only one in the country.
Jan 17th, 2006 · On a 6 to 3 vote, the Supreme Court upholds Oregon's assisted suicide law, the only one of its kind in the country. Guests examine the political, moral and medical issues surrounding the decision.
Jan 17th, 2006 · The Supreme Court Tuesday ruled in favor of Oregon's law allowing doctors to help terminally ill patients commit suicide. The law allows doctors to prescribe lethal narcotics to those who have been certified by two physicians as psychologically unimpaired and having less than six months to live.
Jan 17th, 2006 · Dr. Peter Rasmussen, a doctor of medical oncology, hospice and palliative medicine in Oregon, talks about how the Supreme Court ruling to uphold physician-assisted suicide in his state will affect his practice.
Jan 14th, 2006 · The head of America's foreign assistance agency, USAID, is stepping down after five tumultuous years on the job. Before leaving, Andrew Natsios fired some parting shots at the Bush administration for its approach to development.