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Wisdom of the Ages
The mania for school standards has spawned a whole array of new tests of children's intellectual, emotional, and mathematical capabilities. But a Yale researcher now says we've missed the most important quality: wisdom. Also: linguist and lefty hero Noam Chomsky.
Stealing Beauty
Now you can arrive like an emperor and not a rat: Penn Station will be moving to the old Post Office. Architect James Sanders, co-writer of "New York: A Documentary" with Ric Burns and author of Celluloid Skyline: New York and The Movies gives a history on the Penn Station.
Phoning on Forrester
Listeners comment on Forrester’s doubt that a gun control law could have prevented the Maryland serial killer.
A Match Made in ... the Senior Center
Julie Ferman, founder and CEO of Cupid's Coach, a web-based match-making service, pairs up the over-50s.
Chomping Words
Noam Chomsky, professor of Linguistics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and author of On Nature and Language (Cambridge University Press, 2002), discusses his new book and the war on Iraq.
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