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Disparities in Juvenile Justice System
By Dan Gorenstein on Thursday, August 7, 2008.In New Hampshire African American children between the ages of 10-17 are three times more likely to be arrested as white ten to seventeen year olds.
That’s according to the most recent statistics from the state’s Division of Juvenile Justice.
A committee made up of police officers, judges and advocates has begun to dig into the root causes of the disparity.
New Hampshire Public Radio’s Dan Gorenstein reports.
The NHPR Clock
By Brady Carlson on Thursday, August 7, 2008.
NHPR's Carlene Ruesenberg display the one-of-a-kind NHPR schedule clock, made by her colleague, Becky Kates. The clock hands correspond to NHPR's daytime schedule.
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August 7, 2008
Today on Word of Mouth, a modern music ensemble spent a summer in Vermont creating a musical ode to the rails connecting Brattleboro and Bellows Falls. And a new documentary follows a family doing everything possible to help a loved one who suffering a brain injury. Plus, years of antibiotic use have helped create a new generation of pathogens that are resistant to most treatments. Also, a look at the new crop of reality TV shows.
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Monadnock Music Festival
By Avishay Artsy on Thursday, August 7, 2008.On Thursday's show, we heard from the modern music ensemble So Percussion and their new project Music for Trains.
The State of Reality TV
By Virginia Prescott on Thursday, August 7, 2008.When reality TV first hit it big almost a decade ago, many rolled their eyes, groaned, and wondered if television could get any worse.
But for everyone who hated the new trend, plenty of people clearly loved it – after all, it’s still going strong today. But for those who wondered if it could get any worse, well, now they have their answer: yes.
Shows like Wife Swap, The Baby Borrowers and I Love Money make some critics long for more innocent days, when watching people eat worms on Survivor was as repulsive as it got.
Today on Word of Mouth, we talk with two women who do not apologize for their love of the genre. Eileen Doherty and Laura Murphy give us the low-down on the newest offerings from the producers of reality television. Laura and Eileen co-own Best Company Ever, a production company based in New York and Los Angeles.
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Life. Support. Music.
By Virginia Prescott on Thursday, August 7, 2008.
In August of 2004, Jason Crigler, a highly-regarded guitarist, suffered a brain hemorrhage during a gig in New York City. His pregnant wife rushed him to the hospital and got the bad news: doctors told Jason’s family that he might not live through the night, and if he did, little of the Jason they knew would be left.
But Jason and his family refused to accept the prognosis. Their tenacity and loving attention to Jason’s recovery is the subject of a new documentary, "Life. Support. Music." The film screens tonight at Red River Theaters in Concord. Jason Crigler and director Eric Daniel Metzgar will be there for a live Q & A following the film. Both join Word of Mouth to discuss how the film was made and the vital and demanding role that Jason's family played in his rehabilitation.
An Unhealthy Resistance
By Virginia Prescott on Thursday, August 7, 2008.A growing number of powerful, drug-resistant bacteria is causing despair among medical experts - and these pathogens are spreading fast.
Klebsiella pneumoniae, part of a class of bacteria called gram-negative, infected 34 patients in an intensive care unit at Tisch Hospital in New York in 2003, killing nearly half. The bacteria, once entering the bloodstream, can spread to every organ in the body. Infectious-disease experts have found Klebsiella virtually untreatable, and difficult to contain.
The most well-known of the "superbugs," the methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, can cause wound infections after surgery, pneumonia, and even such extreme infections as bacterial meningitis. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention counted 19,000 deaths and 105,000 infections from MRSA in 2006. But unlike the gram-negative bacteria, MRSA can be treated with a number of new antibiotics coming onto the market.
Dr. Jerome Groopman wrote about “superbugs” for The New Yorker. He's the Recanati Professor at Harvard, and his book "How Doctors Think" is out now in paperback. You can read Dr. Groopman's article by clicking here.
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