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While most of the attention in next month's presidential race is going to incumbent Hamid Karzai and his top two challengers, there will be dozens of other names on the ballot. Abdul Salam is one of them. He earned his nickname "Rocketi" when he was a commander with the mujahedeen fighters and distinguished himself with his uncanny ability for firing rocket-propelled grenades.

Cornelia Wallace was a former beauty queen who became the second wife of segregationist governor George Wallace. The Old Globe's new play Cornelia tells the story of their marriage and was written by Mark Olsen, the creator and writer of the HBO hit series Big Love about a polygamous family in Utah.

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Hardboiled Fun with the Books of Hard Case Crime

In the film, Bernadette (Kathy Baker) cooks up the book club idea as a means of distracting Jocelyn (Maria Bello) from the recent death of her dog. But it quickly turns out that everyone needs a little distraction. Sylvia (Amy Brennemen) has just been dumped by her husband (Jimmy Smits); Prudie (Emily Blunt) has just discovered that her husband (Marc Blucas) cancelled their Paris trip so he can take a client to the NBA playoffs; and Allegra (Maggie Grace), Sylvia's daughter, is trying to cope with her parents' separation. Oh and then there's Grigg (Hugh Dancy), a young man that Jocelyn impulsively invited into the club to round out the group.

What's up will all these celebrities giving their babies unusual names like Apple, Shiloh, or Bronx Mowgli? Well, it's not just a celebrity fad. We speak to psychology professor Jean Twenge about her research into the growing trend of uncommon baby names in America.

Imagine what your life would be like if your days were as immersed in nature as they are in technology. That's a question and challenge posed in Richard Louv's new book The Nature Principle. the new book THE NATURE PRINCIPLE. It's not an anti-technology argument, but rather a suggestion that our urban, high-tech lives are missing something crucially important. Encounters with nature enrich humans in ways we don't even fully understand yet...and those encounters are rapidly disappearing. IRichard Louv's new book, The Nature Principal: Human Restoration And The End Of The Nature Deficit Disorder, expands on his thesis that our society has developed such faith in technology that we don't realize how human capacities are enhanced through the power of the natural world.

Public radio fans may not recognize the name BJ Leiderman (unless they listen closely to credits!), but they likely know his work. Leiderman composed the music that launches NPR shows like "Morning Edition," "Car Talk," and "Wait, Wait... Don't Tell Me." Leiderman is in town for a concert produced by Orchestra Nova.

The Goon panel was appropriately lively. & Powell has a flair for the dramatic, and last year's panel included a staged stabbing of a particularly…

Reaper Reaper is probably my favorite new show of 2007. I might even like it more than Lost . I guess that's an apples and oranges thing. Okay... maybe…