The Story

We hear a series of voices from Egyptians who camped out in the main public square of Cairo to push for the removal of President Hosni Mubarak in Feb. 2011.

Four years ago, Keith McNichols read an article about orphans in Sudan that made he and his wife decide to look into adopting a child from Africa. The McNichols already had three children, but they thought they could help one or perhaps two of the many older children orphaned by AIDS.  They wound up adopting two girls from Ethiopia - one 8 years old, the other 14. The girls, Fevan and Tsion, tell Dick Gordon about their lives in Ethiopia, and what it was like when the McNichols showed up to take them to a new home in the U.S. Also in this episode, listener Frank Brown and his story.

When Jenny Brown was laid off from her job in Oregon, she was offered a job as a captain of a river ferry even though she had no experience with boats. She was happy she found the job, and discovered unexpected benefits.

In the cold northern waters of the Labrador Sea, the first of this year’s icebergs have been spotted. Camille Seaman’s Shinnecock Indian ancestors hunted whale in the Atlantic Ocean.