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Inventor Dean Kamen and remembering Boston Globe reporter Elizabeth Neuffer who died in Iraq last week on this edition of Frsh Air. Dean Kamen invented the Segway Human Transporter, a high-tech scooter. The scooter relies on sensors, sold-state gyroscopes, and softwear to produce a balanced ride even over rough terrain. The price tag is around $5,000. Kamen's other inventions include a portable drug-infusion pump, a compact dialysis machine and a wheelchair that can climb stairs.

Kent State shooting survivor Dean Kahler and founder of National Empowerment Television Paul Weyrich on this archive edition of Fresh Air. Dean Kahler was wounded in the Kent State University shootings. 25 years before this broadcast (May 4th, 1970), the Ohio National Guard fired into a crowd of students at Kent State University demonstrating against raids into Cambodia.

Actor Bill Paxton and Charles Mingus' widow, Sue Graham Mingus, on this edition of Fresh Air. Bill Paxton makes his directing debut.

Hear New York Times science reporter Nicholas Wade and film director Marc Lawrence on this edition of Fresh Air. Nicholas Wade's new book examines what we've learned about our human ancestors using the latest techniques in DNA analysis. Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors is now out in paperback.

Activist Floyd Cochran on this archive edition of Fresh Air. Cochran used to be a recruiter and public relations man for the racist, anti-Semitic Aryan Nations, based in Idaho. In 1992, Cochran left the group and denounced it and its racist views. Now he travels the country speaking out against white supremacy movements and the philosophy of hatred. (Original Broadcast Date: March 21, 1994)

Documentary filmmakers Chris Hegedus and Jehane Noujaim and astronaut Jim Newman, on this edition of Fresh Air.

Writer David Kertzer on this edition of Fresh Air. Kertzer is the author of The Popes Against the Jews: The Vatican's Role in the Rise of Modern Anti-Semitism. In the book, he focuses on the time period from Napolean to Hitler, and how 'traditional' Catholic forms of dealing with Jews became transformed into modern anti-Semitism. Kertzer is Paul Dupee, Jr. University Professor of Social Studies and a professor of anthropology and Italian Studies at Brown University.

Author Shawn Levy and freelance fighter Peter Leschak on this edition of Fresh Air. Shawn Levy is the author of the new book Ready Steady, Go!: The Smashing Rise and Giddy Fall of Swinging London. It's about the time period in London 1961-1969. He writes, "for those few evanescent years it all came together: youth, pop music, fashion, celebrity, satire, crime, fine art, sexuality, scandal, theater, cinema, drugs, media: the whole mad modern stew."

Journalist Laura Blumenfeld and her father, David Blumenfeld, on this edition of Fresh Air. Laura Blumenfeld is the author of the book Revenge.

Dr. Jerome Groopman and Saudi Arabian-born journalist Faiza Saleh Ambah on this edition of Fresh Air. Dr. Groopman is a Harvard Medical School Chair and is Chief of Experimental Medicine at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.

Hear Washington Post Senior Pentagon Correspondent Thomas Ricks and critc-at-large John Powers on this edition of Fresh Air. Thomas Ricks talks about the testimony before Congress of General David Petreaus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker. Ricks is a Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and the author of the best-selling book Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq. Then, John Powers tells us about the wartime novels of British writer Derek Robinson.

Hear writer and director Mike White, film critic David Edelstein, TV critic David Bianculli, and jazz drummer Max Roach, on this edition of Fresh Air. Mike White's films include Nacho Libre, The School of Rock, Orange County, and Chuck & Buck. He also directed three episodes of the critically acclaimed TV show, Freaks & Geeks. White's newest film, Year of the Dog, stars Molly Shannon and Peter Sarsgaard.

Tom Kelley, general manager of IDEO, on this edition of Fresh Air.

Hear novelist Philip Roth, film critic David Edelstein, and TV critic David Bianculli on this edition of Fresh Air. The Pulitzer Prize winning author's 27th book, Everyman, is now out in paperback. It's a novel about a 71-year-old, divorced, successful, advertising man and his response to his physical decline and approaching death.

Country and bluegrass musician Ricky Skaggs and Khmer Rouge survivor Arn Chorn-Pond on this edition of Fresh Air. Ricky Skaggs has a new album out called The Three Pickers, and it features Skaggs playing along with Earl Scruggs and Doc Watson.

Founder and editor-in-chief of the online magazine Salon.com, David Talbot, Pat Davis, vice president of scheduling at America Movie Classics, and Charlie Tabesh, vice president of programming at Turner Classic Movies, on this edition of Fresh Air.

Filmmaker Chen Kaige on this edition of Fresh Air. Kaige is the director, writer, producer and acts in the new film Together, a coming of age tale about a 13-year-old Chinese boy who plays violin. The boy's father takes him from their provincial Chinese city to Beijing, seeking prominence. But plans change as the boy grows up and ultimately chooses his own path.

Actor Alfred Molina on this edition of Fresh Air. Molina is starring in the new film, Chocolat, about a mysterious and seductive chocolate shop that electrifies a French village. Molina is a Tony-nominated actor who has played in over thirty films, thirty television movies, and many theater productions. His Tony nomination was for his role in the Broadway hit Art. His film credits include Boogie Nights, Anna Karenina, and Prick Up Your Ears.

Wildlife conservationist Stephen Bognar and jazz pianist and singer Barbara Carroll on this edition of Fresh Air. Stephen Bognar is a field agent for the San Francisco-based international non-profit wildlife conservation group, WildAid. Bognar just returned from two months in Baghdad, where he helped with the effort to rescue and rehabilitate the animals at the Baghdad Zoo.

On this edition of Fresh Air, the focus is the work of underground comic book writer Harvey Pekar and the new film based on his life and work, American Splendor. Harvey has been described as "working-class Everyman," and "first-class curmudgeon."