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In one of his first official acts President Obama ordered the prison at Guantanamo Bay to be shut down by year’s end. Jane Smith shares her experiences as a guard at the detention center. Plus, art and recession collide in the show "Mend" at a Brooklyn gallery; the latest from London; New York’s budget and the middle class; and following up on label-makers with organizational guru David Allen.
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Settling on a Budget
Amy Traub, director of research for the Drum Major Institute, argues that Governor Paterson's budget is by no means perfect, but it's the best we could have hoped for and reflects the necessary economics of the moment.
Twenty As One?
Felix Salmon, who writes the finance blog for Reuters.com, discusses the G-20 economic summit and what concrete steps may be taken as a result.
Mending Your Way
Tammy Pittman, director of Proteus Gowanus, a Brooklyn gallery and reading room, talks about their current exhibition “Mend” and the practical and philosophical aspects of mending, rather than buying. Artist Donna Maria De Creeft leads a sock-darning workshop as part of the show.
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A Free Tibet
The Chinese government may open up Tibet to foreign journalists again. Robert Barnett, director of the Modern Tibetan Studies Program at Columbia University and author of Lhasa: Streets with Memories, talks about the current state of the Dalai Lama's power and the future of the fight for autonomy ...
Guarded
Jane Smith, a former Army sergeant and guard, talks about working with detainees at a maximum security detention camp in Guantanamo. Her experience--and those of other guards, as well as the detainees--is chronicled in the upcoming documentary Explorer: Inside Guantanamo.
Following Up: Farms
The issue of how new food safety legislation would affect farms came up earlier this week. Patty Lovera, assistant director of Food & Water Watch, clears up some misunderstandings about the Food Safety Modernization Act.
Following Up: The Label-Maker
Following up on a conversation this week about personal organization, David Allen, "personal productivity" guru and author of the 2001 best-seller Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity, explains the importance of a label-maker in getting organized.