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WBUR: Here and Now

Produced by WBUR FM in Boston and PRI, Here and Now features fast breaking news, more leisurely analysis, and human interest stories. We also cover the arts: film, theater, music and much much more.

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Here and Now for Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Date: 06/18/2008
Length: 00:43:59

President Bush is calling on Congress to lift the 27-year ban on offshore oil drilling, insisting that when lawmakers do that, he'll lift an executive order his father signed in 1990 that banned drilling. We speak with Wall Street Journal reporter Stephen Power. A new report on transracial adoption claims that a 1994 law mandating social workers take a colorblind approach when placing children with adoptive parents, may not be helping minority children as intended. We speak with Adam Pertman, the executive director of the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute, a research and advocacy organization that published the report. We also hear from Shannon Gibney, an African American woman who was adopted by white parents. As Midwesterners cope again with flooding, we look back at the flood of 1993 with Adam Pitluk. Pitluk's new book, Damned to Eternity: The Story of the Man Who They Said Caused the Flood" tells what happened to James Scott. Scott, who was volunteering in a community

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