PROGRAM GUESTS

Douglas G. Carlston Founder and Board Chairman of Broderbund Software, Inc., the nation's leader in developing software programs that educate children through entertainment. An honors graduate from Harvard Law School, he founded Broderbund in 1980 and quit his law practice following the success of its first two games. Carlston fostered a culture of creativity that led to the development of many innovative products, including the best-selling "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?" series that teaches geography and history, the "Myst" adventure game, "Kid Pix Studio" and "Print Shop" that teaches art and design skills, and the "Living Books" animated versions of children's classics. His company has utilized interactive electronics, state-of-the-art graphics, animation, and sound to bring the adventure and joy of learning to millions of young people each day.

Charles Kuralt CBS News correspondent and former anchor of "CBS News Sunday Morning." A graduate of the University of North Carolina where he was editor of the school newspaper, he became an award-winning reporter for his local newspaper. In 1957, he joined CBS News and reported from the far corners of the world, including Africa, Asia and all 23 Latin American nations. Kuralt traveled more than one million miles "On the Road," bringing the rural byways and unexplored small towns of America to his loyal viewing audience. He then authored his memoir "A Life on the Road," which became the best-selling non-fiction book of the year. This beloved "laureate of the common man" is the recipient of many honors, including three George Foster Peabody Awards, the designation as "Broadcaster of the Year," and 10 Emmy Awards.

Nathan P. Myhrvold, Ph.D. Thirty-seven year-old Director of Technology at Microsoft Corporation and one of the most influential leaders in American technology. A precocious student, he graduated from high school at age 14 and earned his college degree in mathematics and a masters in geophysics and space sciences at UCLA. Myhrvold then added a masters in economics and a doctorate in theoretical physics from Princeton. Meantime he taught himself programming and began tinkering with computers. He then won a postdoctoral fellowship with physicist Stephen Hawking at Cambridge, took a leave of absence and, with $10,000 from savings and friends, moved to Berkeley to start a software company. In 1986, his venture was acquired by Microsoft and, three years later, he was selected as their chief "technologist." He is now guiding the software giant's charge into the multimedia future.

Antonia C. Novello, M.D. The former Surgeon General of the United States Public Health Service was the conscience of the nation's health establishment. As a little girl from a small town in Puerto Rico, she struggled with a chronic illness throughout her childhood and never knew a year without a hospital stay. She eventually triumphed over illness, which instilled in her a profound compassion and "the dream of becoming a doctor for the little kids in my hometown." Later, as a teenager, Antonia did not tell her mother that she had applied to medical school until after she was admitted "because of a deep fear of failure." She was accepted to the University of Puerto Rico Medical School, graduated in 1970, and earned her master's in public health from Johns Hopkins University. She completed her training in pediatric nephrology and then joined the National Institutes of Health. Novello became the deputy director of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development with responsibility for the coordination of pediatric AIDS research. This inspiring physician and administrator was sworn in as the nation's 14th surgeon general, the first woman and first Hispanic ever to hold that position. Soon after, she launched major campaigns that addressed the special problems of America's youth, overseeing the health of an entire "generation at risk."

Martha Stewart The "Queen of the Home" and America's premier lifestyle authority. Born into a large family, her mother was a school teacher who taught her the basis of cooking, baking and sewing. Her father was a salesman who introduced her to gardening at age three. She went on to be a straight-A student, graduated from Barnard College and became a Wall Street stockbroker. She quit and started a catering business out of her kitchen and the business flourished. In 1982, she published her first lavish cookbook and went on to create a national multi-media empire, including 12 best-selling books, a lifestyle magazine with a loyal audience of nearly 1,000,000 subscribers, instructional videos, and the "Martha Stewart Living" weekly syndicated television series.

Amy Tan One of the nation's leading authors, she was always inspired to write. She earned her masters degree in linguistics, but supported herself as a switchboard operator, A&W carhop, bartender and pizza maker, copywriter, and creator of love horoscopes for a pay-phone service. Her career as a novelist began with her mother's heart attack when she vowed to learn more about her mother's life. She turned to her heritage, "discovered her literary voice," and authored her first novel, The Joy Luck Club, a story of four Chinese mothers and their daughters, all woven into one human tapestry. It stayed on the best-seller list for 30 weeks and has been translated into 23 languages. She followed with The Kitchen God's Wife and The Hundred Secret Senses, a gentle, spirit-filled story inspired by a belief in the supernatural.