Just have to get ahold of Christina Chiu's 2001 collection of short stories, Troublemaker and Other Saints, 2001 H.P. Putnam's Sons, NY http://www.amazon.com/Troublemaker-Other-Saints-Christina-Chiu/dp/0425183432/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1302113254&sr=8-1 . Chiu channels Flannery O'Conner in her converging and haunting modern shorts set in suburbia and Hong Kong here and now. She joins us today in the studio for a discussion as she prepares for the birth of her second child and works on her first novel (which we can't wait to read)
We share a story gathered first hand by International Rescue Committee's Sophia Mwangi http://www.rescue.org/blog/contributor/sophia-mwangi-0 on a woman making a difference in southern Sudan.
We also give the heads up on a new drug therapy being developed by Merck & Co. based on research conducted by Dr. Yibin Kang. Kang has uncovered the exact mechanism in breast cancer that lets traveling tumor cells disrupt normal bone growth in metatastic breast cancer. His work may put a roadblock in the formation of breast cancer cells spread to the bone by inhibiting an essential enzyme gamma secretase http://www.cell.com/cancer-cell/abstract/S1535-6108(10)00531-3?script=true
