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  Why Am I Taller? - What Happens...

  Elizabeth Howell, Dr. Dave Williams

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  What happens in space that causes the body to change? Learn about life in space from astronauts 
  		 
  Is the human body built for Mars? NASA’s studies on the International Space Station show we need to fix a few things before sending people to the Red Planet. Astronauts go into space with good vision and come back needing eyeglasses. Cognition and DNA expression could be affected for years. And then there’s the discomfort of living in a tight space with crewmates, depression, and separation from the people you love.
  		 
  Space doctors are on the case. You’ll meet the first twin to spend a year in space, the woman who racked up three physically challenging spacewalks in between 320 days of confinement, and the cosmonaut who was temporarily stranded on space station Mir while the Soviet Union broke up underneath him. What are we learning about the human body?
  		 
  As astronauts target moon missions and eventual landings on Mars, one of the major questions is how the human body will behave in “partial gravity.” How does the human body change on another world, as opposed to floating freely in microgravity? What can studies on Earth and in space tell us about planetary exploration? These questions will be important to the future of space exploration and to related studies of seniors and people with reduced mobility on Earth.

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  On This Day: June 11

  Emily Goldstein

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  On This Day: June 11. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Birth of Jeannette Rankin; birth of Gene Wilder; Guangxu emperor of China issued his first reform decree initiating the Hundred Days of Reform

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  Luftwaffe Fighter Pilot -...

  Wolfgang Fischer

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  A Nazi Germany fighter pilot gives readers a bird's-eye view from the cockpit of aerial combat against the Allied forces in World War II. Within weeks of war being declared, Wolfgang Fischer had volunteered to join the Luftwaffe and spent nearly five of the succeeding six years of hostilities in uniform. During this time he was given a succession of postings varying from a long-range recce unit; as a decoder in a met office in occupied France; to a bomber squadron; and as a flying instructor, before joining a squadron of the famous Richthofen Geschwader in Italy, from where he was shot down in his FW 190 by Mustangs en route to Normandy. By now a Lieutenant, he survived to fly offensive rocket attacks over Gold Beach on D-Day, only to be shot down again on D+1, and captured and sent first to a hospital in the UK, then into captivity in the USA. He was finally repatriated in April 1946. His description of all these events is entertaining and well-written, ranging from comic to tragic. It is unique in flavor, giving a valuable insight into the undeniably typical lot of those serving in the air arm of the Third Reich. Expertly translated and edited by John Weal, this is a worthy accompaniment to Norbert Hannig's Luftwaffe Fighter Ace published by Grub Street in 2004.

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  On Wings Like Eagles: A Story of...

  Thomas Gregory Stewart

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  I had a nightmare last night. I’d been crying out for help, but no one heard my silent screams. Growing up in the home of an absent father and an emotionally abusive mother, Tom Stewart was an easy mark for a predator. Conditioned for compliance and desperate for affirmation from authority figures, Tom falls prey to a decade of abuse by his Boy Scout leader.  The trauma of his stolen childhood follows him into the future, where he encounters more than his fair share of trials. Through a health crisis, broken relationships, and the tragic loss of a loved one, Tom clings to his unwavering faith. When a landmark lawsuit sets him on the long road to forgiveness and healing, Tom begins to see God’s purpose for his pain. Rather than retreating into bitterness, Tom faces his past, proving that even in the worst of circumstances, God can turn evil for good.  In his heartrending memoir, Tom delivers a message of hop

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  Boys Will Be Boys - A Daughter's...

  Sara Suleri Goodyear

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  “A daughter’s nostalgic tribute to her father . . . an intimate account of the socio-cultural fabric of the postcolonial world of Pakistan.” —Dr. Jharna Malaviya, Research Journal of English Language and Literature 
   
  Sara Suleri Goodyear’s Meatless Days is a finely wrought memoir of her girlhood in Pakistan after the 1947 partition. In Boys Will Be Boys, she returns—with the same treasury of language, humor, and passion—to her childhood and early adulthood to pay tribute to her father, the political journalist Z. A. Suleri (known as Pip, for his “patriotic and preposterous” disposition). 
   
  Taking its title from that jokingly chosen by her father for his unwritten autobiography, Boys Will Be Boys dips in and out of Suleri Goodyear’s upbringing in Pakistan and her life in the United States, moving between public and private history and addressing questions of loss and cultural displacement through a resolutely comic lens. In this rich portrait, Pip emerges as a prodigious figure: an ardent agitator against British rule in the 1930s and 1940s, a founder of the Times of Karachi and the Evening Times, on-and-off editor of the Pakistan Times, for a brief time director of the Pakistan military intelligence service, and a frequently jailed antagonist of successive Pakistani leaders. To the author, though, he was also “preposterous . . . counting himself king of infinite space,” a man who imposed outrageously on his children.  
   
  Suleri Goodyear invites the reader into an intimacy shaped equally by history and intensely personal detail, creating an elegant elegy for a man of force and contradiction. “On Judgment Day,” he told his daughter, “I will say to God, ‘Be merciful, for I have already been judged by my child.’”

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  Crime Classics: The Crime of...

  Elliott Lewis

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  The first show of the series, a summer replacement for Suspense. The story of the first woman tried and executed in the United States. The script was used as an audition for the series, recorded December 3, 1952. Thomas Hyland, connoisseur of crime, student of violence and teller of murders tells another true story of crime. Here is Thomas Hyland’s report to you on Crime Of Bathsheba Spooner the first woman to be tried for murder in the United States. Adapted from the original court reports and newspaper accounts by Morton Fine & David Freidkin Same story as the audition show but different announcements as actually broadcast 6 months later.

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