Join 88.5 WFDD and host Denise Franklin for conversations with local residents who are making or have made an impact nationally - or internationally.
The Health & Medicine Report keeps you up-to-date on cutting-edge research.
And you'll hear the viewpoints of our commentators on movies, books, life, and more.
Voices & Viewpoints is a half hour of radio
you won't hear anywhere else!
Friday, Dec 5, 2008: Carlette Ewell
Carlette "The Truth" Ewell is a professional light heavy weight boxing champion and she just won two new international titles. She started as a street fighter in Winston-Salem but now professional trainers are helping her mold her skills to deliver a powerful punch to opponents in the U.S. and abroad.
Carlette lives in Winston-Salem with her son and is currently training to defend her titles.
In our Health & Medicine Report--college students are mixing up dangerous alcoholic cocktails. Dr. Mary Claire O'Brien is one of the investigators in the study SPARC--which is designed to reduce high risk alcohol related consequences. Researchers have discovered a quarter of college students are mixing alcohol with both energy drinks and alcoholic energy drinks in order to consume more alcohol. This study is getting more than 60-million dollars in federal funding. Dr. O'Brien is at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center.
And media critic Mary Dalton reviews several fall movies including Australia.
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