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Too Close to the Sun?

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Friday, May 06, 2005

Plans for Ground Zero redevelopment are in flux: The Freedom Tower might lose the twists and the spire that were to be its defining features; Goldman Sachs may not build its new headquarters there and the cultural center is on the back burner. Also, does pop culture make us smarter? Technology writer Steven Johnson says it does.

Too Close to the Sun?

Andrea Bernstein, WNYC Reporter
» WNYC News page
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Martin Filler, Architecture critic for House and Garden and the New Republic magazines and contributor to the New York Review of Books
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Greg David, Editor of Crains New York Business
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Open Phones

Listeners
- call in with their thoughts on the redesign of the Freedom Tower
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TV Thinkers

Steven Johnson, Contributing editor for Wired Magazine and author
- on the intellectual benefits of being a couch potato
» Steven Johnson's blog

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Journalism 101

Michael Winerip, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the New York Times and author, Adam Canfield of the Slash (Candlewick Press, 2005),
- on his new novel for young journalists

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