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Monday November 28, 2005

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12:06Personal Philanthropy and Gulf Recovery

In the three months since Hurricane Katrina, Americans have pledged over $2.7 billion for the relief effort. But some smaller charities have had trouble raising funds for redevelopment work. Join Kojo for a look at the philanthropic response in the Gulf, and where your money is going.

Guests

Rev. John Vaughn, Program Director, the Twenty-First Century Foundation

Kathleen McCarthy, Director, Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, City University of New York Graduate Center

Xochitl Bervera, Co-director, Families and Friends of Louisiana's Incarcerated Children

George Penick, President, Foundation for the Mid South

Walter Strong, Vice President for Institutional Advancement, Dillard University

Malcolm White, Executive Director, Mississippi Arts Commission

13:06Discounted Venezuelan Oil for American Poor

Experts agree -- it's a humanitarian gesture AND a public relations coup. This month, Venezuela will sell more than 20 million gallons of home heating oil at discounted prices to low-income Americans in Massachusetts and New York. We look at the programs and the reactions they're getting in the US and abroad.

Guests

Jose E. Serrano, Congressman (D-NY), US House of Representatives

Bill Delahunt, Congressman (D-MA), U.S. House of Representatives

Michael Shifter, Vice President for Policy at Inter-American Dialogue; and Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service

13:20Abducted by Aliens

There is no undisputed evidence that they even exist. So how could people be so sure that they have been abducted by them? A Harvard-trained psychologist explains how new findings linking memory and emotion help explain the phenomenon

Guests

Susan A. Clancy, Postdoctoral fellow in psychology, Harvard University; author, "Abducted" (Harvard University Press)

Will Bueche, former archivist, The John Mack Institute, who has encounted aliens

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