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Epidemiologist Dr. Donald Francis on this archival edition of Fresh Air. In the mid 1970's he was in Sudan helping to contain the Ebola virus, which had then just been identified. Francis was also on the forefront of research on AIDS and the HIV virus. He was director of the CDC's AIDS Laboratory Activities, and worked closely with the Institut Pasteur to prove that HIV was the cause of AIDS. Francis is currently doing research to develop a vaccine for HIV.

Hear musician Eugene Hutz and Cold Case Files creator Michael Harvey on this edition of Fresh Air. Eugene Hutz is the charismatic front man of the "gypsy punk" band Gogol Bordello. The group includes a violinist, guitarist, accordionist, and bassist. Hutz hails from Ukraine and sounds a lot like Borat.

Historian and rabbi Arthur Hertzberg and Dr. Eric Goemaere on this edition of Fresh Air. Eighty-two-year-old historian and rabbi Arthur Hertzberg has been at the center of events that shape American Jewish life for over 50 years. He is the former president of the American Jewish congress, and helped to found Peace Now in Israel.

Actor Matt Damon and writer John Ridley on this edition of Fresh Air. Matt Damon's film The Bourne Identity is being released on DVD next week. The Bourne Identity is a thriller about a man with amnesia flushed out of the Mediterranean Sea, riddled with bullet holes. Damon has been in many hit films, including The Talented Mr. Ripley, Saving Private Ryan and Good Will Hunting, which he co-wrote with close friend Ben Affleck.

Hear attorneys Clive Stafford Smith and Captain Pat McCarthy on this edition of Fresh Air. Clive Stafford Smith represents dozens of prisoners held in the United States detention facility at Guantanamo Bay. His new book is Eight O' Clock Ferry to the Windward Side: Seeking Justice in Guantanamo Bay.

Associate curator at The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, Russell Ferguson on this edition of Fresh Air. Ferguson curated the exhibit "In Memory of My Feelings: Frank O'Hara and American Art." Frank O'Hara was part of a small group of poets in New York City in the 1950s and 60s, influenced by the Abstract Expressionist painters of that time, including Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning. O'Hara died in 1966 after being struck by a jeep.

Hear actor and producer Paul Rudd and music critic Milo Miles on this edition of Fresh Air. Paul Rudd produced and stars in the new independent film The Ten, which is a series of irreverent vignettes that reinterpret the Ten Commandments for a modern audience. Rudd is also in the film Knocked Up, and he stars in the upcoming movie I Could Never Be Your Woman with Michelle Pfeiffer.

Founder and frontman of the group the Polyphronic Spree, Tim Delaughter and film director and screenwriter Don Coscarelli on this edition of Fresh Air. Tim Delaughter founded Polyphronic Spree, the 23-member ensemble in 2000. Its members range in ages from 15 to 36, and they dress in white choir robes.

Journalists Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele are in the first half and director Todd Haynes and designer Mark Friedberg are on the second half of Fresh Air for today, December 16, 2002. Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele, two-time Pulitzer Prize winning investigative reporters, have written together since the 1970s for several major newspapers and magazines. Their latest piece covers Native American owned casinos and appears in this month's TIME magazine.

Journalist Robin Wright and military expert Deborah Avant on this edition of Fresh Air. Robin Wright works for the Los Angeles Times as the chief diplomatic correspondent. Wright has just returned from Iran, Iraq and Kurdistan. She'll talk about the future of the Persian Gulf if the U.S. goes to war with Iraq and ousts Saddam Hussein. Deborah Avant is an Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at the George Washington University.

Hear novelist Junot Diaz, critic-at-large John Powers, and world-music critic Milo Miles on this edition of Fresh Air. Junot Diaz's new book is The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. The highly acclaimed novel tells both a family and a political story set in the Dominican Republic and the United States. The narrative trips along in a slangy style that mixes Spanish and English.

Jimmy Wales; comics Aziz Ansari, Rob Huebel, and Paul Scheer; and music critic Milo Miles are the guests on this edition of Fresh Air. Jimmy Wales is the co-creator of the interactive online encyclopedia Wikipedia, which was founded in 2001. Readers of Wikipedia write and edit the entries themselves. The site also has its own editors. Some entries, including the one on the "2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict" have been edited more than 4,000 times.

Writer and radio host Garrison Keillor and writer Jhumpa Lahiri on this edition of Fresh Air. Garrison Keillor's new book is Love Me: A Novel. It's about the ambitions of a frustrated writer who publishes a piece in the New Yorker, writes a disappointing debut novel, and ends up penning an advice column in the local newspaper.

In 1945 the U.S.S. Indianapolis was torpedoed in the South Pacific. Nearly 900 men ended up in the water, but after four days fighting hypothermia, dehydration, and sharks, only 317 crewmen survived.

Hear neurologist Oliver Sacks and rock critic Ken Tucker on this edition of Fresh Air. Oliver Sacks' new book is Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain. It's a series of case histories that examine the relationship of music and the mind. Sacks has written eleven books; the most famous are Awakenings, which was made into a film starring Robert DeNiro and Robin Williams, and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat.

Remembering the Cuban Missile Crisis on this edition of Fresh Air. Head of the National Security Archive Tom Blanton helped research information for The Cuban Missile Crisis. In the book, released documents and top-secret files reveal how close the U.S. came to a nuclear entanglement. In 1987, the National Security Archive filed suit against the U.S. government for failing to produce the documents they requested.

Filmmaker Alexander Payne and singer and musician Alvin Youngblood Hart on this edition of Fresh Air. Alexander Payne directed and co-wrote the satirical films Citizen Ruth and Election. His newest film, About Schmidt, is also a social satire. It stars Jack Nicholson and Kathy Bates who have both been nominated for Academy Awards for their roles. About Schmidt is loosely based on the novel of the same name by Louis Begley.

Psychologist Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela on this edition of Fresh Air. Her new book is A Human Being Died That Night: A South African Story of Forgiveness. It's about Eugene de Kock, the commanding officer of state-sanctioned apartheid death squads.

Hear Washington Post senior Pentagon correspondent and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Thomas Ricks, and former Navy Petty Officer Stephen Benjamin, on this edition of Fresh Air. Ricks will discuss his recent trip to Iraq. He is the author of the best-selling book Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq. Then, Stephen Benjamin, who was trained as an Arabic translator and was headed to Iraq when he was dismissed from the Navy under the "don't ask, don't tell" policy.

Author Garry Wills on this edition of Fresh Air. Willis, a Pulitzer Prize winner for Lincoln at Gettysburg, has written a new book criticizing the Catholic Church, Papal Sin.