Sep 21st, 2005 · Federated Department Stores has announced a name change for its Marshall Field's stores, which will now become Macy's. The decision is controversial in the Chicago area where the Marshall Field's name has a historic tradition in retailing. Terry J. Lundgren, head of Federated, talks with host Michele Norris about the decision.
Jul 15th, 2005 · Commentator Lynne Tolman tells the story of Marshall J. "Major" Taylor, an African-American who became a champion bicycle racer in the 1890s and 1900s despite racial barriers and obstacles. Taylor is remembered annually at an all-uphill bike competition in Worcester, Mass.
Mar 14th, 2005 · Patrick Radden Keefe is the author of Chatter: Dispatches from the Secret World of Global Eavesdropping. For his book, Keefe researched the possibility that the United States has a planet-spanning surveillance network, known as Echelon. Keefe is a third-year student at Yale Law School and was a Marshall scholar and a 2003 fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library.
Feb 4th, 2005 · Will Marshall, president of the centrist Progressive Policy Institute, talks about why Democrats overwhelmingly oppose President Bush's plan to overhaul Social Security.
Oct 25th, 2004 · Squeezed availability of the flu vaccine in the United States prompts calls for changing America's private-market flu vaccine system. Critics of the system say governments are more aware than the market of health needs and are better able to marshal the resources needed to prevent shortages. NPR's Brenda Wilson reports.