AMERICAN VARIETY — SHOW
LIST
First show: February
8, 2004
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A treasure and pirate ship finder/explorer
who's an underwater archaeologist
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On Col. Henry Mucci, who led
the raid to rescue the Bataan Death March survivors and who spent the last
20 years of his life in Melbourne Beach
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The impact of the Internet on
our lives so far
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Dog Day--all about dogs with
the head of the Space Coast Kennel Club
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Culinary Trends: What's Cooking?
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Florist To the Stars (local
flower-shop owner who does the floral designs for the Academy Awards)
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Boomer--a local musician (a
"crossover classical percussionist") who has 5 CDs out under the Sony label
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The NASA scientist in charge
of the Mars Greenhouse--a simulator for growing plants in Mars-like conditions
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Developer Extraordinaire--a
local resort developer who first made millions in software and now is funding
international projects to build up the economies of Third World countries
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A treasure and pirate ship finder/explorer
who's a pirate himself--the most successful one ever (more than Mel Fisher)
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The same guy again talking about
his earlier reenactment of famous "voyages of discovery" such as Columbus'
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The young, super-dynamic director
of the Brevard Zoo who is leaving to go fulfill her real dream to be a
wildlife painter
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A former Nashville songwriter
who is now a Titusville-based humorist and writer of books about a zany
character called Thurmond
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Good News Week--all about the
uplifting and positive things that have happened recently and that don't
make the news
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The nation's foremost bridge
"detailer"--who also loves to fly his private jets
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Alocal author of science fiction
novels
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The legendary Shuttle Launch
Director, whose career spanned from Mercury to Space Station
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Arguably the best painter in
the area, a woman from Australia
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An up-and-coming young author
who teaches writing at the University of Miami
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The head of the Hubbs-SeaWorld
Research Institute's operations in Florida who's building an ocean research
center
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Old Florida Day" --talking about
the old days with a fifth-generation Floridian who owns a landmark restaurant
in the area
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A meteorologist from the Melbourne
National Weather Service Office, talking about hurricanes
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Florida Today newspaper's hurricane
expert, talking about hurricanes
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A Florida Institute of Technology
meteorology professor talking about hurricanes
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Discussing the medical-related
proposed amendments to the Florida Constitution with a proponent and opponent
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Good News Week #2
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UFO Day--discussing UFOs and
media attitudes toward them with a newspaper columnist
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"Old Florida Day #2"--with Patrick
Smith, noted author of books about old-time Florida
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Hurricane Heroes--stories about
people who went out of their way to help others during the storms
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A Brevard-based woman author
of books about notorious murderers and serial killers
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Good News Week #3
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Billy Cox—Extreme Stories
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Boom-Boom Benny Koske—a professional
daredevil nearing retirement
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An archaeologist on his search
for the trail of Jesus’ family in Egypt and a resulting TV documentary
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The owner of “Forever Florida”,
a nature preserve and working cattle ranch
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The writer-in-residence at Oxford
University on his latest action-adventure novel
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NASA’s Cassini Mission Manager
on the mission to Saturn and its findings so far
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A Canadian two-time world record
holder in kayak racing
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“Old Florida Day #3”—with the
Viera land use manager who’s a good ol’ boy
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Odd News #1
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The retired high school principal
who coached the first black football team in Florida to break the color
barrier and win the state championship
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Dog Day #2 with a Miami-based
author of books about dogs and the dog-human relationship
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A discussion of Cryptozoology
with a local adventurer and writer
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IndianHarbour Beach is first
“Tsunami-ready Community” on East Coast–w/ NWS meteorologist
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A leading designer/builder of
motorcycle choppers who is a celebrity in the chopper world
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A theologian and mythologist
on who/what human beings are
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The director of the Florida
Puerto Rican/Hispanic Chamber of Commerce on the status of Hispanics in
Florida today
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Two young guys who do jet-ski
exhibitions and stunts in movies and who are trying to establish an “extreme
sports” version of jet-skiing
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Two NWS meteorologists discussing
the outlook for the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season
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A woman who runs Project Backyard
Brevard, with a website and a book on making wildlife habitats in your
yard
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A local official on his earlier
life as an adventurer on treks such as the search for mokele mbembe, a
dinosaur-like aquatic creature in the Congo
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Revisiting the WWII operation
of Col. Henry Mucci to rescue Bataan Death March survivors, in light of
a new movie about it, “The Great Raid”
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A local motorcycle designer/builder
(different from #44) who will star in an upcoming reality show on the BBC
in England
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An officer from the U.S. Coast
Guard cutter Confidence on their recent patrol doing Hurricane Katrina
recovery & support
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A researcher/historian on an
archeological salvage team working a Melbourne Beach wreck
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Recap of the record-breaking
2005 hurricane season with an NWS meteorologist
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A local songwriter who has a
CD of his original songs climbing the British charts
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2005 Year in Review
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The retired News Director of
the oldest and biggest radio station in Atlanta
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A U.S. Navy intelligence analyst
and naval historian on his book about legendary Navy Capt. Charles Stewart
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A local historian on new research
that proves Ponce de Leon landed on Melbourne Beach
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The executive director of the
Florida Historical Society on life along the Indian River in the old days
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The two-time women’s world kayak
champion (again) on her most recent exploits
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A history professor from Florida
Tech on his recently published book on Florida history
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A prominent local attorney who
spent 18 months in Bosnia with a UN agency helping to rebuild a government
there after the civil war, and wrote a book about it
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A local realtor who had a near-death
experience following a car crash, and a program she and others have developed
to promote teen safe driving, which they hope to take nationwide
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The Chief Scientist on the Mars
Rover project, talking about the discoveries the long-lived little robots
have made
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Mother’s Day show — inspirational
stories about Moms
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The second female licensed charter
captain in the U.S., who wrote a book based on her adventures running a
sailing charter business in the islands
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Aguy who just finished a 500-mile
ocean catamaran race and is about to do a 1000-mile race
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A meteorologist from the Melbourne
National Weather Service Office, on the outlook for the 2006 hurricane
season
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The Brevard County Historian,
an author and journalist, telling stories of colorful characters in the
area’s past
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A Titusville businessman/entrepreneur
and former missionary pilot who flies self-contained water purification
units to disaster sites around the world and gives them away to save lives
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The former owner of a charter-industry
licensing school who now writes and publishes mystery novels based along
the Treasure Coast
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A former Air Force meteorologist
who administers a Central Florida-based website devoted to tracking and
forecasting hurricanes
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A professional medium and spiritualist
talking about what he does and what’s “out there”
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A Florida Tech biology professor
on the evidence for climate change and what it means
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Another episode of “Good News
Week”
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A Florida Tech space science
professor on the controversy over the definition of “planet”
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Another episode of “Old Florida
Day” with a professional “cracker storyteller”
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A young woman painter who is
not only highly talented but also an innovative entrepreneur
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The director of Hubbs-SeaWorld
Research Institute's operations in Florida with an update on progress with
their ocean research center
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A Tampa painter on his 1960s
painting “The Barefoot Mailman,” which hung in the old Melbourne Beach
P.O. and was recently rediscovered and donated to a major Miami museum
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A Florida Tech electrical engineering
professor who writes mystery thriller novels
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The co-founder of Space Coast
Ballet on their emigration from Russia and experiences establishing the
SCB and a new performing arts center
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A Melbourne ophthalmologist
who owns a Florida cattle ranch and breeds Cracker cattle
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An ocean catamaran racer back
from the worlds championships in Brazil
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The author of a book on the
highest-ranking American military office ever convicted of treason, who
lived in Viera
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A FIT biologist on stem cells—what
it’s all about and what the controversy is based on
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Another episode of “Good News
Week”
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Florida’s Statewide Crisis Response
Coordinator, on what she does and how it works
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The founder of Operation NOW
(Not on Our Watch!), an innovative teen safe driving program
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A young painter who has written
a book on how to market one’s artwork
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A boy who escaped Vietnam by
boat and became Executive Chef at a series of major international hotels,
and has now opened a restaurant in Melbourne, reflecting on his experiences
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The director of FAU’s Center
of Excellence in Ocean Energy Technology on various schemes for generating
energy from the ocean
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The writer-in-residence at Oxford
University on his latest action-adventure novel and surfing
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“Mango Man,” on a tropical
fruit orchard on S. Merritt Island owned by his family since 1925
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A woman astronaut, commander
of NASA’s NEEMO mission to an undersea research facility
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The Operations Director of “Friends
of Bats,” a company that does bat removal and exclusion
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Old Florida Day with the owner
of the oldest African-American cemetery in the area
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The “Julia Child” of the Space
Coast—a multimedia food artist on her global adventures
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A Palm Bay homicide detective
who writes crime novels
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Old Florida Day: The Palm Beach
County archaeologist on the drought that has exposed miles of Lake Okeechobee
shoreline and hundreds of formerly submerged archaeological sites
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The Auburn University ornithologist
who is leading the search for the ivory-billed woodpecker in North Florida
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Our meteorologist from the Melbourne
National Weather Service Office, on the outlook for the 2007 hurricane
season
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A young local woman who was
a finalist on “So You Think You Can Dance”
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Old Florida Day: The Sanford-based
author of several books about Florida’s natural landscape–what’s left and
what isn’t.
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An astronaut describes how she
became an astronaut and what it's like to be one
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Author Blair Witherington on
"Florida's Living Beaches: A Guide for the Curious Beachcomber"
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Treasure-finder Rob Westrick
on the search for the missing ship of the 1715 treasure fleet
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Dog Day--Miami-based author
Mark Derr on our growing national fascination (or obsession?) with our
pets--dogs in particular.
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Teacher Dennis Phillips has
realized his lifelong dream of circumnavigating the 5000-mile "America's
Great Loop" in a small boat
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Titusville entrepreneur Joe
Hurston flies his water-purification units to disaster areas around the
globe
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FIT's Prof. Jean-Paul Pinelli
is developing a State-funded hurricane "loss model" for more accurate insurance
risk assessment
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Sebastian Inlet District Administrator
Martin Smithson talks about the history of the Inlet and big changes underway
there
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Old Florida Day: Melbourne
opthalmologist Dr. William Broussard on his recent sale of a conservation
easement to the State for his Crescent J Ranch in Holopaw, and what it
means for wilderness lands
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Amazing Brevardian: Col.
Henry Mucci, leader of the Great Raid to rescue the Bataan Death March
survivors, lived almost unknown in Melbourne Beach for 20 years
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Bob Marx, the most successful
finder of ancient sunken ships and treasure in modern history, also once
managed to reenact Columbus' Voyage of Discovery in every detail--and somehow
survived!
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Margaret Broussard owns and
operates Forever Florida, a unique ecotourism venture and wonderful piece
of Old Florida near St. Cloud
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Two intrepid underwater cave
explorers on their record-breaking descent into Weeki Wachee Springs, the
deepest spring in the U.S.
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Surfing event promoter extraordinaire
Mitch Varnes created the Sebastian Inlet Pro contest four years ago; it
is now one of the 3 top-ranked surfing events in North America
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Good News Week with Court Lewis
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Author/naturalist Bill Belleville
on the natural and human history of the St. Johns River, and other "Old
Florida" topics
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The Wall Street Journal's Jennifer
Saranow explores with us "Seven Missing Wonders of the World"
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French Baron John de Bry talks
about his grandfather's participation in both the 1907 Peking-to-Paris
auto race and the 1908 "Great Race" from New York to Paris.
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Birdwatcher Susan Bird advocates
making habitats for wild birds in your own backyard
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"Genderology" -- the first in
a new series on that age-old topic, male-female differences. Vive la difference!
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Author Anna Flowers debuts her
new book, "Wanton Woman," about S. Carolina's Strom Thurmond and an affair
that led to his lover's execution
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Genderology #2: Communication
Between the Sexes ("I Said What?!")
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Old Florida Day: DeLand's unofficial
historian Bill Dreggors on Ghost Towns of the St. Johns River
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Genderology #3: Aging
for Men and Women--How's It Different? (with Dr. Kim Zipper)
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British yachtsman Keith White
has just sailed across the Atlantic single-handedly -- that is, alone and
without the use of his left arm -- to raise money for charities
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Next episode of Genderology
#4, on "Changing Roles in Parenting" with Dr. Vicki Panaccione
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FIRST Robotics Teams in Brevard
are winning top national awards and going for #1 in the World
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At 27, Christian Tamburr is
an accomplished and much-acclaimed percussionist, currently touring with
Julio Iglesias
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Hollywood writer/producer Cheryl
Dubois gives us the lowdown on the gritty business of making films and
TV shows
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Steve Wagner, owner of Exotic
Encounters near St. Cloud, talks about Florida wildlife and our relation
to what's left of it
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Attorney Pamela Bress on the
need--particularly for women--to advocate for your own rights and interests
when dealing with the medical system and other power structures
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The outlook for the 2008 hurricane
season, with a National Weather Service meteorologist
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20-year-old Nancy Rios is the
only woman windsurfer on the U.S. Olympic Team and is heading to Beijing
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Dutch master painter (as distinct
from "Dutch Master") Frits Van Eeden is one of Central Florida's preeminent
artists
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Next episode of Genderology,
on "What Do Women Want in Men (and vice versa)?" with Brenda McKee
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Two Florida men prepare to drive
a flats boat--a 21-ft FLATS boat--from Boston to London, unaccompanied
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Using larynx models based on
fossil evidence, Florida Atlantic University anthropologist Robert McCarthy
replicates the sounds that Neanderthals might have made
Court can be reached
at courtlewis@americanvarietyradio.com
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