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Conversations with Allan Wolper

Conversations with Allan Wolper

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Hosted by Allan Wolper Audio biographies of people whose lives and ideas are on the cutting edge. Host Allan Wolper is a “journalist’s journalist.” A superb interviewer, radio and television producer, ethics columnist, magazine and newspaper writer, he has been honored by every journalism medium. Wolper has won more than 50 awards, including television’s Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Award – the Pulitzer Prize of Broadcast news. Wolper is professor emeritus of Journalism from Rutgers University.

179 - Dr. Michael Crane: Treating 9/11 First Responders
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  • 179 - Dr. Michael Crane: Treating 9/11 First Responders

    Dr. Michael Crane treats the selfless 911 responders who came to New York City from all over America to help the victims of the horrific attack on the World Trade Center that cost 2996 people their lives. Dr. Crane, who directs the World Trade Center Health Program at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, says the religious and moral lessons he learned growing up was behind his desire to counsel and help those first responders. It was what he thought about when he first saw the towers

    Fri, 15 Sep 2017
  • 178 - Aracelis Lucero: Mexican Children and Deportation

    Aracelis Lucero was born and raised in the South Bronx, won a scholarship to Middlebury College, received a Masters Degree in International Affairs from Columbia University and became a Wall Street executive. But as immigration became a major issue in America, she gave up her career in finance to devote her life to helping Mexican children and their families, both documented and undocumented. Lucero is now executive director of Masa-MexEd, a nonprofit organization that focuses on educating and

    Fri, 08 Sep 2017
  • 177 - Layla Fanucci: Music Teacher To International Art Sensation

    For 25 years, Layla Fanucci, taught music at St. Helena Catholic School in California. But her life turned around when she bought paint and an art board at a Ben Franklin arts and crafts store. Today, Layla, who never took an art class, has had her cityscapes shown at galleries and museums in Paris, Morocco, San Francisco, and New York City. “It all happened by accident,” she said in a May, 2009 interview on Conversations with Allan Wolper. “I wanted a piece of art that was big and bold, had a

    Thu, 31 Aug 2017
  • 176 - V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai: The Controversial Inventor of EMAIL

    V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai received a United States Copyright in 1982 crediting him with being The Inventor of EMAIL, a title he earned as a 14-year-old research scholar at the University of Medicine and Dentistry in Newark, New Jersey. He said he received a copyright certificate on August 30, 1982 , rather than a patent, because patents were not awarded to software discoveries at the time. However, he says he has been forced to defend his creation in a series of high profile court cases and high

    Fri, 18 Aug 2017
  • 175 - Roger Sherman: In Search of Israeli Cuisine

    Roger Sherman has produced a documentary that makes an extraordinary journey through Israeli kitchens, restaurants and vineyards. The movie, In Search of Israeli Cuisine , explores the ancient and modern farming and cooking techniques created by the polyglot of people who migrated to Israel or never left. The film opened March 24th at the Lincoln Plaza Cinema in New York and in theaters around the country. Sherman says he found a wealth of tasty treasures in Israel: “I always wanted to go to

    Sat, 05 Aug 2017
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