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A University of Tennessee professor of Medicine has found a link between food and certain diseases caused by amaloyd proteins, like Alzheimer's and rheumatoid arthritis. Dr. Alan Solomon of the UT Graduate School of Medicine led research on foie gras. He tells WUOT's Ann Lloyd these bad proteins are produced when ducks and geese are force-fed grain to enlarge their livers... 
A few months before she was murdered, Amy Latus taped a note to the inside of her desk at Kimberly-Clark's Knoxville office. In part, the note instructed investigators to question her boyfriend Ronald Ball in the event of her disappearance or death. Ten weeks later, she disappeared. And shortly afterward, Knox County investigators found her lifeless body wrapped in a tarp and buried at a construction site. In 2004, Ronald Ball pleaded guilty to her murder. Amy's sister Janine has recently published a memoir entitled "If I am missing or dead". It's a compelling, haunting book that examines the relationship between Janine and her little sister, as well as the cultural and familial cycles of abuse that may have ultimately played a role in Amy's death. On this segment of Dialogue, host Matt Shafer Powell speaks with Janine Latus, as well as Amy's mother Marilyn Willenbrink....
Running for public office isn't nearly as simple as planting a few yard signs, passing out pens in a parade or delivering a couple stump speeches. That's why several Knoxville-area organizations are getting together tomorrow to offer a workshop called "Campaign 101—How to Run for Office". Alan Lowe is Executive Director of the University of Tennessee's Howard Baker Center for Public Policy, one of the groups sponsoring the event...