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1. Natural Gas Drilling: Is New York Ready?

The Marcellus Shale is what industry people call an unconventional play. It’s loaded with natural gas, from Eastern Ohio to the Catskill Mountains. But the gas is very hard to extract. It’s packe....

2. Drink Tips for Summer Grilling (The Leonard Lopate Show: Friday, 18 July 2008)

White with grilled fish, red with meat? What drink goes best with veggie kebabs? James Beard Award-winning author Karen Page shares some tips on what to drink when you’re out grilling this summer! She's the co-author of What to Drink with What…

3. Making green in green markets? (The Brian Lehrer Show: Friday, 18 July 2008)

Benjamin Shute, Co-Owner of Hearty Roots, a farm in upstate New York, talks about whether local farmers are rolling in the dough.

4. How to Go to College for Almost Free (The Brian Lehrer Show: Tuesday, 15 July 2008)

Ben Kaplan, author of How to Go to College Almost for Free: The Secrets of Winning Scholarship Money, talks about how he won $90,000 in college scholarships towards his Harvard degree.

5. How to Go to College for Almost Free (The Brian Lehrer Show: Tuesday, 15 July 2008)

Ben Kaplan, author of How to Go to College Almost for Free: The Secrets of Winning Scholarship Money, talks about how he won $90,000 in college scholarships towards his Harvard degree.

6. Five Four Time (The Fishko Files: Friday, 18 July 2008)

A new song by the popular Icelandic group Sigur Ros is notable for having no time signature at all; it’s impossible to count. It has WNYC’s Sara Fishko pondering time, music, and especially the number 5. Here is the next Fishko Files. Li…

7. What Educational Testing Really Tells Us (The Leonard Lopate Show: Wednesday, 23 July 2008)

Students, schools, and teachers are often judged by their standardized test scores. Find out what tests like the MCAT and the SATs really measure, and how often are they misunderstood and misused. Daniel Koretz is author of Measuring Up. Do y…

8. WNYC - Slideshow: Brian Lehrer Photo Month, Change

9. Don Felder on Life in the Eagles (The Leonard Lopate Show: Thursday, 17 July 2008)

The album “Eagles: Their Greatest Hits 1971–1975” is the bestselling album of all time in the United States. Now Don Felder of the Eagles has broken the band’s long public silence in a new memoir, Heaven and Hell: My Life in the Eagles (19…

10. Mike Gravel’s Political Odyssey (The Leonard Lopate Show: Wednesday, 23 July 2008)

From his release of the Pentagon Papers in 1971, to his recent shoestring campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, former Alaska Senator Mike Gravel has devoted much of his long career in politics to fighting the rise of American milita…