It's your last chance to see the Yangtze river's legendary three gorges. The misty rock walls that have inspired Chinese scoll painters and poets for centuries will be flooded when a dam downstream from the gorges is completed in 2009. The idea is to provide more water for thirsty northen China, but over one million people are being displaced to make room for the project. And later, is it racist or just silly for an underwear company to pay a black man to dance around in his boxer shorts?
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Scott MacLeod, Cairo bureau chief for Time magazine, on the situation in Iraq
Brian Lehrer's Open Phones
Callers on the different views of anti-war organizers versus rank and file members
Attention K-Mart Shoppers
Leon Wynter, author of American Skin: Pop Culture, Big Business & The End of White America (Crown, 2002), on the Joe Boxer commercial
Meet the Parents
Alyssa Katz, editor of City Limits, on parental concern about the Mayor's education plan
Open Phones on Sharpton
Listeners' comments on Al Sharpton's statement that many blacks consider academic achievement "acting white"
Queen of the Dammed
Deirdre Chetham on her book, Before the Deluge: The Vanishing World of the Yangtze's Three Gorges
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