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Maryland’s Department of Transportation is working with the transportation company CSX to create an intermodal transfer facility south of Baltimore. DOT is considering placing the transfer station in Beltsville, Hanover, Jessup, or Montevideo. Some citizens in the area are concerned about that — we present their thoughts to CSX.

One of the biggest issues in controlling STDs is just knowing who has them. But how do you know if people don’t want to be tested? Dr. Charlotte Gaydos, a professor in the division of infectious diseases at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, has found one way to make testing easy and confidential: let people do it themselves. She talks with Sheilah about the program she co-founded, I Want The Kit, that allows people to test themselves.

Dr. Robert Gallo, one of the first researchers working on HIV and AIDS, about the history of that research.

Listeners respond to our segments about midwifery with birth stories of their own.

A provision in the 2010 Health Care Reform Bill requires that Starbucks tell you that — in terms of calories, not just price. In fact, all restaurants with more than 20 locations will be affected by this. Our nutrition diva, Monica Reinagel, discusses the new provision with Tom Hall. They also speak about the USDA’s move from a food pyramid to a food plate.

This evening, the Baltimore City Council votes on whether to renew a 2007 ordinance that requires developers to include affordable housing units in certain projects. How has it worked so far? We ask bill sponsor Councilwoman Mary Pat Clarke and Mel Freeman, executive director of Citizens Planning and Housing Association, a driving force behind the bill.

What it takes to schedule research time on the Hubble.

Stitchers around the country are making quilts for those who’ve lost family members in Iraq or Afghanistan. We speak with a Maryland woman who received such a quilt, and the national coordinator of the project. Also, Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War member Peter L. Johnston tells Sheilah how America has honored its fallen since 1868.  And Tom Hall speaks with the writer Dudley Clendinen about how ALS is affecting his emotional state, and the emotional state of those around him.