![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | New and different lives / Local essayist / Disabled author
Photographer and journalist Laura Pohl observed two North Korean defectors adjust to their new and very different lives in South Korea. She'll tell you about the women she photographed and the challenges North and South Koreans will face if the two countries unify. Sacramento-raised essayist Richard Rodriguez talks with Jeffrey. This segment originally aired on March 17, 2006. Spinal cord injury survivor Doug Champa on the struggle to redefine himself...
Keywords: North Korea; defectors; New and Different Lives; Richard Rodriguez; Doug Champa; paraplegic; KXJZ; Insight; Sacramento public radio
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| New Bill Aims to Educate Gun Buyers
Gun ownership is a constitutional right, but a new bill takes aim at how guns are sold. Host Jeffrey Callison asks experts what the government's role should be in regulating a citizen's choice to bear arms.
Keywords: Gun ownership; KXJZ: Sacramento Public Radio
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| Norman Lear / Summer Solstice
Norman Lear is sponsoring a visit of a rare copy of the Declaration of Independence to Sacramento. Guest host Douglas Everett speaks to Norman Lear about stirring civic interest in California's youth. The almanac says today is the first day of summer, but it's during the summer when the earth moves to its farthest point from the sun. So why doesn't the weather get colder? Douglas talks to experts about some little known, but curious, facts about the orbital dance of earth and sun.
Keywords: Norman Lear; Summer Solstice; KXJZ; Sacramento Public Radio
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| Nostalgic Jobs
As new jobs are created, others fade. Host Jeffrey Callison speaks to people doing jobs that were once more common. They are jobs that remind us of different, perhaps simpler, times. Joining us on Insight: a milkman, a doctor who still makes house calls, a blacksmith, a hat maker, a piano tuner, and a home cutlery salesman. Happy Birthday Insight Today Insight turns one! Over the last year Insight has covered more than 325 topics with over 1,200 guests on 245 shows...
Keywords: Jobs that Remind us of Simpler Times; KXJZ; Insight; Sacramento public radio
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