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Wednesday, January 29, 2003

Born in Greece and educated at Oxford, Syndicated columnist Arianna Huffington has been a commentator on American life for many years. She is now leading the charge against Sport Utility Vehicles from her home in SUV central: Los Angeles. In a trawler in the Pacific Ocean, another group of environmental renegades is hoping to alter the planet's climate by dumping iron ore in the sea. Could this really work. Also on the show, the state of the State of the Union.

Shaysed and Confused

Christopher Shays, Congressman (R-CT 4), on the State of the Union address

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Capitol Hill Billy

Bill Pascrell, Jr., Congressman (D-NJ 8), , on the President’s plans for the nation and a Democratic alternative

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Open Phones

Listeners calls on the President's State of the Union speech

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Iron Maiden

Russ George, director and founder of Planktos Foundation www.planktos.com and John Cullen Professor of Oceanography at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada on a new idea to combat global warming: fertilizing the oceans with iron ore

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The Oracle of the Center Right

Arianna Huffington, syndicated columnist www.ariannaonline.com, on her book Pigs at the Trough: How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption Are Undermining America (Crown, 2003)

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