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This Week in America Guests    Weekend March 24,2012

The number one cause of death among women is not breast cancer.  It's heart disease.  In fact, one in three women will have some form of cardiovascular disease.  Our guest is Mary Macklin a Cardiac Nurse Practitioner and author of "Women Fit at Fifty: A Guide to Living Long".  Mary says women can do a lot to protect themselves and their families from heart disease and while women over 50 are more at risk, heart disease can affect anyone.  A new study reports that women are more likely to die from a heart attack than a man.

How this Shakespeare Educator is turning inner-city kids into the players.  Nick Newlin since 1996 has been working with inner-city high school kids in the Washington D.C. area in affiliation with the Folger Shakespeare Library.  He has created a series of abridged Shakespeare plays called "The 30 Minute Shakespeare".  Hear how Nick has helped inner-city kids with no acting experience put on award-winning productions of Shakespeare plays.