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Environmentalist and Earth First! Founder Dave Foreman

Foreman faces federal felony charges for allegedly plotting to blow up power lines leading to a nuclear power plant. His organization Earth First! has been praised and vilified for its use of "monkey wrenching" -- acts of sabotage and civil disobedience against organizations that are hurting the earth. Foreman, who has since distanced himself from the group, has a new book, called "Confessions of an Eco-Warrior."

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Fresh Air with Terry Gross, March 11, 1991: Interview with Dave Foreman; Interview with Gerd Leipold; Interview with Thomas Naff; Review of the John Richardson's book "A Life of Picasso."
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Water is More Precious than Oil in Israel

Professor Thomas Naff of the University of Pennsylvania and head of the Middle East Water Project. He discusses the overwhelming importance of water in the Middle East; water beneath the Ocupied Territories may be a factor in the Israeli government's refusal to cede lands to the Palestinians.

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To Picasso, Sex and Art Were the Same Thing

Book critic John Leonard reviews a new Pablo Picasso biography, by the artist's friend John Richardson. The book reveals how Picasso was often cruel to women, deeply apolitical, and overworked.

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