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Aired: Thursday, July 06, 2006 10-11AM ET
By host Tom Ashbrook:
In 1988, all of China had exactly eleven miles of expressway. Today, a booming China has 23,000 miles of expressway -- second only to the United States -- and the Chinese people are going absolutely crazy for cars. The number of cars on Chinese roads has tripled in the last five years.
In 1949, the Chinese Communists confiscated all private cars. Now, half a century later, demand is exploding in Chinese auto-mania. It's wild. With two percent of the world's cars, China has 21 percent of all road fatalities. And that's just the beginning of the impact on culture, on global environment.
Hear about China's exploding culture of cars.
| · | Jennifer Turner, Coordinator of the China Environment Forum at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars | | · | Ted Conover, Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University & Author of: "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" | | · | David Lampton, Dean of Faculty & Director of China Studies at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. |
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The Extraordinary Tale of Christopher Hogwood |
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Wilbur from EB White's classic, "Charlotte's Web" might be the world's most famous literary pig. But there's another hog we think you should meet. He's Christopher Hogwood, the real-life porcine prince of Hancock, New Hampshire.
Hogwood lived to the ripe old age of 14, and in those years, this fun-loving, free-roaming pig changed the lives of residents in his community, and of his owner, author Sy Montgomery.
She's chronicled the story of this remarkable hog and his people in a new book, "The Good, Good Pig."
(Photo Credit: Sy Montgomery)
| · | Sy Montgomery, author of "The Good, Good Pig: The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood." |
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