The following is a "closing segment" for the show which aired Friday, November 30, 2001 at 10:00 AM EST.
Friday, November 30, 2001 at 10:00 AM EST
Preparing for Life
Sergeant Thomas Kelly is A Marine recruiting officer. He talks about the pitch he’s delivering to young men and women interested in the Corps, and what a life in the Marines has meant to him.
The Copenhagen climate conference is one month away. US climate action is going nowhere in Congress. We’ll look at the global implications of America’s domestic climate politics.
On Point is headed west!
No, no. Not for good. Only for one show. But it’s a very special show! The NPR station in Thousand Oaks, California – KCLU – is celebrating their 15th anniversary. We’re lucky to have been on their airwaves for nearly seven years, and they invited us out west to host a live [...]
A new study supports the idea that U.S. dominance in engineering and science is threatened — but not for lack of training and education. It has more to do with a lack of social and economic incentives.
Matthew Hoh, a former Marine captain, became the first foreign service official to publicly resign in protest over the war in Afghanistan. The move has generated a lot of reaction. You can read Hoh’s resignation letter, posted by The Washington Post, which reported on it here.
It’s a topic for our news roundtable today. What [...]