NPR: Talk of the Nation Opinion Page PodcastEvery Monday, 'Talk of the Nation' hosts a live discussion with the author of a provocative op-ed from the Sunday papers. The audience is encouraged to read the commentary each week at npr.org and call or e-mail during the show with questions and comments.Remembering 'My Cancer' Blogger Leroy Sievers- August 25, 2008 'My Cancer' blogger Leroy Sievers passed away this weekend. To Ted Koppel he was a journalistic partner and close friend. Koppel talks about Sievers' battle with cancer and the community he left behind.http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93702592&ft=2&f=5139316 Op-Ed: Olympic Gender Testing 'Bound To Fail'- August 5, 2008 Jennifer Finney Boylan, author of the op-ed, "The XY Games," discusses gender testing at the Olympic games in Beijing. "China's tests are likely to produce the wrong answers," she writes, "because they measure maleness and femaleness by the wrong yardsticks."http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93267653&ft=2&f=5139316 |