The Story

The fight against HIV-AIDS in Africa is a matter of two steps forward and one step back, as Catherine Piwang knows well. People were just beginning to talk about this mysterious new disease when she left Uganda in the late 80s. When she returned in 1996, seven of her siblings had died of HIV-AIDS and two more were gravely ill.

Mike Stachowiak knows the thrill of online gaming intimately. Mike spent three years during high school and college immersed in an online role playing game called EverQuest. When he quit, he was ranked the best player in the world.

The ACLU says there are over 900,000 names on the government's centralized terror watch list, though TSA says the number is much less. James K. Robinson is on that list - and at least two men have been routinely stopped because of it. Also in this episode, the few schools that teach adults to ride bicycles are experiencing record enrollment. Many students say rising gas prices are a main motivation.Arun Mukerjee, a physician in Cambridge, Mass., recently graduated from a bike riding school. And, back in 1962 when the space race was on, Georg Deutsch approached Steven Schwarcz in the lunch line at junior high and asked, "Do you want to start a rocket society?" That encounter started a relationship that would last for decades, span several rocket experiments, and see their launching of the first non-governmental satellite.

Duane Chapman is a researcher with the US Geologic Survey exploring high tech ways to control the exploding Asian carp population. But he wasn't always working to contain the invasive species. Also in this episode, more than one fisherman has suggested a straightforward way of dealing with Asian Carp - eat them, all of them. Dan Collision and Elizabeth Meister are two journalists who went out on the Illinois River to look into that argument. Plus, Rachel Friedman's protest.