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How Now, Brown Cow?

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Tuesday, December 30, 2003

Muckraker Eric Schlosser made a name for himself exposing unsafe conditions in the fast food business. Now he’s weighing in on the practices that may have led to the recent outbreak of mad cow disease in the Pacific Northwest.

It's a Mad, Mad World

Bill Niman of Niman Ranch Farms, an organic beef and pork producer in California, and Eric Schlosser, author and essayist Fast Food Nation (HarperCollins, 2002)
discussing beef production in the United States in light of the discovery of Mad Cow (BSE).

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Story Time

Diane Wolkstein New York City's Official Storyteller, co-founder Storytelling Center and author, Treasures of the Heart: Holiday Stories That Reveal the Soul of Judaism (Schocken 2003), The Magic Orange Tree and Other Haitian Folktales (Knopf), Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth (HarperCollins)
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Pinching Pennies

Elizabeth Warren Leo Gottleib Professor of Law, Harvard University, author of The Two- Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Mothers & Fathers Are Going Broke with Amelia Warren Tyagi (Basic Books, September 2003)
on how two-income families suffer economically in modern day America.

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Step by Step

Andrew Friedman Organizer and Co-founder, Make the Road by Walking
discussing the achievements Make the Road by Walking made in 2003.

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