Aug 12th, 2007 · The Weinstein Company's $285 million Asian film fund is officially open for business. New York Asian Film Festival director Grady Hendrix talks to Rebecca Roberts about his skepticism about its efficacy in raising U.S. audiences' awareness about Asian cinema.
Aug 12th, 2007 · The United Nations is taking steps toward trying to stem the violence in Iraq. On Friday, the Security Council passed a resolution supporting U.N. involvement in the region. Zalmay Khalilzad, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, talks to Rebecca Roberts about the move.
Aug 12th, 2007 · Short of just covering it up with concrete, Ketzel Levine offers suggestions to Rebecca Roberts on lawn care and saving water during the current summer hot spell.
Jun 8th, 2007 · Major League Baseball is heading for a dramatic off-the-field confrontation. The conflict involves an internal investigation into the use of performance-enhancing drugs. One of the players at the center of the controversy is Jason Giambi of the New York Yankees. Rebecca Roberts talks about the controversy with sportswriter Stefan Fatsis of The Wall Street Journal.
Jun 8th, 2007 · Rufus Wainwright's new album, Release the Stars follows on the heels of his recreation of Judy Garland's 1961 comeback concert, a flamboyant stage performance that played at the Hollywood Bowl and Carnegie Hall. Rebecca Roberts talks with Release the Stars, at times huge and operatic, was executive-produced by former Pet Shop Boys member Neil Tennant.
Jun 7th, 2007 · A new species of bacteria has been discovered, thanks to an American tourist who caught it while traveling in Peru. Dr. Jane Koehler, an infectious-disease specialist who led the team that found the species, named it Bartonella Rochalimae, after a long-dead Brazilian scientist. Back in 1992, the scientist's name was removed from another bacteria, due to research by Koehler that determined that the bacteria was from a different family. Koehler, who works at the University of California at San Francisco Medical Center, tells NPR's Rebecca Roberts that the new name is her way of making it up to him.
Jun 5th, 2007 · Flights on U.S.-based air carriers suffered more delays in the first four months of 2007 than in any year since the government began tracking the numbers in 1995. Rebecca Roberts talks with David Field, U.S. Editor of Airline Business Magazine, who is at the International Air Transport Association conference in Vancouver.
Jun 4th, 2007 · The new at-home fertility test, Fertell, includes a male test for sperm motility and a female test for a follicle-stimulating hormone. Both provide just one indication of a couple's ability to reproduce. Dr. Harry Fisch, director of the Male Reproductive Center at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center, talks with Rebecca Roberts.