The Story

James Holzrichter became a reluctant whistleblower after finding evidence of misconduct by his employer, Northrop Grumman. He became a pariah in his field, and eventually found himself unemployed and homeless.

Applications to grad schools nationwide spiked two years ago, when the economy tanked.  Many students, pursuing a PhD, hope to become professors. That can be great work if you can get it, but the path isn’t easy. Caroline Bicks and Brendon Reay met as humanities PhD students and they married soon after graduation. They remained devoted to each other even while living, working and even having a child in cities 800 miles apart from each other. After a few years, they found jobs in the same city and it seemed they had it made - until tenure decisions rolled around. Dick Gordon talks with the couple about how they’ve handled their relationship and their thoughts on a system that ended one academic career while securing the other. Also: a brush with fame, with Bo Diddley.

Today, many of us have a day off from work to honor the 4th of July holiday. And the 4th of July is a day to honor all that is American - and we usually do it over hamburgers and hotdogs and lots of ketchup and mustard. Jennifer Connor is hoping that you’ll be eating lots and lots of mustard. She's a mustard entrepreneur. Also in the show, the story of previously unknown Japanese art photographers from the 1920's and 30's.

Crystal Riportella-Crose was adopted when she was an infant and grew up in Vermont. As an interracial child in a Caucasian family, she always wondered what her birth mother looked like. So when she got older, she began to search for her, and eventually found her birth mother on the social networking site, MySpace.