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There’s a new epidemic in the United States, and as of 2017, more than 2 million teenagers are involved. They’re using e-cigarettes, otherwise known as vaping. Recently, the FDA created a new education campaign to warn teens about the risks of vaping. It is an extension of the “Real Cost Youth E-Cigarette Prevention Campaign.” It will also place warning ads in 10,000 high school bathrooms across the country. Dr. Vaughan Rees joins us today to discuss this epidemic and ways that we can spread awareness. Dr. Rees is the Director of the Center for Global Tobacco Control and a Lecturer on Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health.

Some parents start applying their children to college while they are in pre-school. But most parents don’t know the first thing about college applications. Currently, thousands of seniors in high schools across America, are slowly coming to the realization that they need to start applying to colleges. Today we have Anna Costaras and Gail Liss, the writers of The College Bound Organizer, as they share with us the secrets of how between their two families, they successfully sent six children to college.

In Twelfth Night, Shakespeare writes, “Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.” And his plays themselves are great whether that greatness is natural, achieved, or forced. Shakespeare is arguably one of the most famous and important figure in the fine arts so today we are speaking with Fred Adams, founder of the successful Utah Shakespeare Festival, about theatre and the impact it has in our lives.