From Behind Bars To Passing The Bar
Thursday, August 10 2006
FROM BEHIND BARS TO PASSING THE BAR
Serena Nunn was nineteen years old when she was arrested in a drug bust. Her boyfriend was the dealer, but she got sixteen years behind bars. Her story doesn't end there. She's out now, and this spring she passed the bar exam. Dick talks with Serena and her lawyer Sam Sheldon about the mandatory sentencing laws that put her in prison and the rare presidential order that got her out.
[Photo: Mark Baum, friend; Serena Nunn; and Sam Sheldon, the lawyer who got Serena a presidential commutation.]
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WHAT A COINCIDENCE!
Only twenty-five percent of women in science study astronomy. Dick talks with future astronomers Jane Moran, Rachel Rosen and Maggie Eftamova. These scientists find themselves turning to astrology to explain a very strange coincidence.
[click thumbnail left for larger image of the students being interviewed by Dick]
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