journalist and author
Journalist and author of The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes--and Why and The Smartest Kids in the World -- and How They Got That Way; former contributor to Time magazine
PROFILE
Amanda Ripley
Guest
FROM Amanda Ripley
To the Point
The Upwardly Mobile Barista Last summer, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz made headlines with a big promise: he announced his company would team up with Arizona State University to help Starbucks employees finish college .
To the Point
Are America's Public Schools Too Much About Sports? A public school in New Jersey fields 18 sports teams in a year, including golf and bowling. The campus has lush grass fields, six tennis courts and an athletic Hall of Fame. That’s not unusual in American schools, but what are the tradeoffs?
Which Way, L.A.?
H1N1: What You Need to Know, What You Need to Do By early next week, the first batch of some 250 million swine flu vaccine treatments will be available free, paid for by the American government. In an unprecedented preventive campaign, health officials are trying to blunt the impact of the H1N1 virus, or swine flu, as it’s commonly called. But symptoms are described as a mild influenza.
To the Point
H1N1: What You Need to Know, What You Need to Do By early next week, the first batch of some 250 million swine flu vaccine treatments will be available free, paid for by the American government. In an unprecedented preventive campaign, health officials are trying to blunt the impact of the H1N1 virus, or swine flu, as it’s commonly called. But symptoms are described as a mild influenza.
Recommended
KCRW Features
The last time L.A. teachers went on strike L.A. teachers last went on strike in May of 1989, and what L.A. Unified teachers demanded back then isn’t that different from what they’re demanding 30 years later.
KCRW Features
What are charter schools? LAUSD teachers were picket lines for a second day Tuesday. And this morning the teachers union organized a march to the California Charter Schools Association office downtown, to draw attention to their criticisms of local charter schools. But what are charter schools anyway?