Terry Gross

The Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center was Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation with the Department of Health and Human Services. He resigned last September because of his disapproval of President Clinton's welfare-reform bill. Edelman criticizes the bill as not promoting job obtainment and as damaging to the lives of poor children and legal immigrants.

Dr. Love is known as the "breast doctor" because of her writings and research on the subject. In her new book (with, Karen Lindsey) "Dr. Susan Love's Hormone Book," she takes a look at menopause. She addresses the symptoms, medication, and questions some women face when approaching this life phase. Love is a breast surgeon and an adjunct associate professor of clinical surgery at UCLA.

Chapmyn was homeless, surviving on garbage and sleeping in vacant buildings in the '80's. A suicide note he began writing to his mother inspired him to write the play "Our Young Black Men Are Dying and Nobody Seems to Care," which became a big hit on the so-called chitlin circuit. He went on to write other plays on social issues facing the African-American community., making a name for himself as a playwright and a social activist.