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Teaching Sex to the Developmentally Disabled

Betty Pendler is the mother of a 36 year-old developmentally disabled daughter. Pendler conducts sexuality workshops for parents of the developmentally disabled, teaching them how to talk to their children about sex and relationships.

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Fresh Air with Terry Gross, February 5, 1993: Interview with Steven Weinberg; Interview with Betty Pendler; Review of the films "The Vanishing" and "Sommersby."
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Physicist Steven Weinberg on His Search for a "Final Theory"

Weinberg received the 1979 Nobel Prize for Physics. He's the author of "The First Three Minutes," about the Big Bang. He's currently working on what he calls the "final theory," the search for the ultimate laws of nature--for the final answer to our questions about why nature is the way it is. That search is tied up with work on the Superconducting Super Collider. His new book is called "Dreams of the Final Theory,"

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Michael Berube on Raising a Child with Down Syndrome

Berube is a professor of English at the University of Illinois and is the author of the new book, "Life As We Know It: A Father, a Family, and an Exceptional Child." It's about the birth of his son in 1991, Jamie, who has Down syndrome, and how that has affected his family's life. Berube writes in the introduction, "individual humans like James are compelling us daily to determine what kind of 'individuality' we will value, on what terms, and why."

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