Novelist Fay Weldon Discusses Her Work.
British writer Fay Weldon. She's most famous for her book, "The Life and Loves of a She-Devil," which was recently made into a movie. Weldon's novels deal with certain aspects of the female experience. In her first novel, "Fat Women's Joke" (1967), an over-weight middle-aged woman leaves her husband and struggles for self-respect in a world where youth and sex appeal count. And the heroine of "Down Among the Women," is an unwed mother. In all, Weldon has written fourteen novels and story collections. Her new novel, "The Cloning of Joanna May," tells the story of a 60-year-old divorced woman who discovers that she has three daughters as a result of a cloning experiment carried out by her husband thirty years earlier. (Published by Viking Penguin Inc.)
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Barry Commoner Discusses the State of the Environment.
Scientist Barry Commoner, founder and director of the Center for the Biology of Natural Systems in New York. For years Commoner has been at the forefront of the ecology movement. "Time" magazine once dubbed him the "Paul Revere of Ecology." Early on he crusaded about the dangers of nuclear fallout. In 1970 he helped organize the first Earth Day, and a year later published "The Closing Circle," an examination of the affect of technology on the environment.
Sinead O'Connor is Not Your Average Pop Star.
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