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KQED Public Radio: Tuesday, August 21, 2012

88.5 FM San Francisco • 89.3 FM Sacramento

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OVERNIGHT

12:00 am

All Things Considered Location-Based Dating People have turned to their computers to find dates online for ages. In more recent years, people have now turned to their phones. New apps for smart phones make it possible to not only find someone you might be interested in, but find those people who live next door. Men love the apps - but the response from women has been more mixed.

2:00 am

It's Your World (a broadcast of the World Affairs Council) China and the Global Race for Resources In order to ensure its economic development and survival, every country strives to secure and stockpile natural resources. Few countries are as aggressive with their resource campaigns as China. Join Dr. Dambisa Moyo, New York Times bestselling author of Dead Aid and How the West was Lost, for an in depth look at China's unprecedented rush for resources and what it means for the rest of the world.

3:00 am

Morning Edition Searching for a Biofuel Miracle As corn fields wither in the drought, some people question using corn for fuel. Investors are searching the world for new biofuels that aren't food, like the jatropha tree, which doesn't need much water. But the jatropha hasn't lived up to investors' hopes.

MORNING

9:00 am

Forum The Country Reacts to Akin's Abortion Comments Political analyst Marc Sandalow joins us to discuss the political firestorm that has ignited in response to comments that U.S. Rep. Todd Akin (R-Mo.) made about abortion and rape.

10:00 am

Forum Geoffrey Nunberg on the 'Ascent of the A-Word' As English speakers, we have a plethora of epithets at our disposal available to hurl at those whom we reproach. But linguist Geoffrey Nunberg says these days, there's one word that has come to take center stage in the world of name-calling. In his new book, "Ascent of the A-Word," Nunberg traces the history of the word -- and the personality type.

11:00 am

Talk of the Nation Navigating the Medicare Maze Health care is back in the political spotlight. Republicans warn that the president will drive Medicare into the ground. Democrats insist a Romney-Ryan win in November would mean the end of Medicare as we know it.

AFTERNOON

12:00 pm

Talk of the Nation College Pressure Gaining acceptance to a university is difficult enough, but now students face real stressors during the college years. There's picking a major, paying for school, doing the work - and finding a job.

1:00 pm

Fresh Air Uncovering the FBI's War on 'Subversives' Terry Gross talks with Bay Area journalist Seth Rosenfeld about the secret tactics used by the FBI and California's then-governor Ronald Reagan to stop Berkeley's radical student movement in the '60s. Rosenfeld finally uncovered the information for his book through the Freedom of Information Act, after three lawsuits. His new book is "Subversives: The FBI's War on Student Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power." Rosenfeld is a former reporter for the San Francisco Examiner and the San Francisco Chronicle.

4:00 pm

Marketplace The Foreclosure Crisis' Public Safety Impact The national foreclosure crisis has left neighborhoods all across the country with vacant and deteriorating homes. And that's causing a real mess for local residents and police forces.

EVENING

6:30 pm

Marketplace The Foreclosure Crisis' Public Safety Impact The national foreclosure crisis has left neighborhoods all across the country with vacant and deteriorating homes. And that's causing a real mess for local residents and police forces.

7:00 pm

Fresh Air Uncovering the FBI's War on 'Subversives' Terry Gross talks with Bay Area journalist Seth Rosenfeld about the secret tactics used by the FBI and California's then-governor Ronald Reagan to stop Berkeley's radical student movement in the '60s. Rosenfeld finally uncovered the information for his book through the Freedom of Information Act, after three lawsuits. His new book is "Subversives: The FBI's War on Student Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power." Rosenfeld is a former reporter for the San Francisco Examiner and the San Francisco Chronicle.

8:00 pm

City Arts & Lectures Terry Tempest Williams A naturalist and fierce advocate for freedom of speech, Terry Tempest Williams has consistently shown how environmental issues are social issues that ultimately become matters of justice. She is the author of the environmental literature classic, "Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place," and many other works of impassioned and lyrical prose. Her newest book is "When Women Were Birds." After discovering that her mother had kept journals, Williams was shocked to find that the cloth-bound books lining shelf after shelf were blank. She speaks about the book with Michael Lerner.

10:00 pm

Forum Geoffrey Nunberg on the 'Ascent of the A-Word' As English speakers, we have a plethora of epithets at our disposal available to hurl at those whom we reproach. But linguist Geoffrey Nunberg says these days, there's one word that has come to take center stage in the world of name-calling. In his new book, "Ascent of the A-Word," Nunberg traces the history of the word -- and the personality type.

11:00 pm

All Things Considered Life on Mars Time David Oh, flight director for NASA's newest Mars rover, is living on Martian time throughout the mission. In his new world, days are 39 minutes and 35 seconds longer than they are on Earth. It's not unusual for those involved in the mission to change their schedules, but Oh's entire family has made the change with him. Melissa Block talks with him and his wife, Bryn, about their life on extraterrestrial time.

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