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The Brian Lehrer Show / July 24, 2002

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Wednesday, July 24, 2002

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Could You Put That in Writing?

And you thought buying a house was the most paperwork you'd ever have to go through. To avoid family feuds over cryogenics, two attorneys tell us everything you'll need to know when someone you care for dies in New York. Also: would irradiation have prevented the recent e. coli outbreak in beef? Should scientists who make viruses from scratch be allowed to make their findings public? And is a petition currently circulating in academic circles anti-semitic or merely critical of Israel?

The Worst Form of Government -Except for All the Others

David Stewart, Economist at the United Nations Development Program and co-author of the 2002 Human Development Report, describes the decline of democracy worldwide.

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Eckard Wimmer, Professor of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology at

Viral Staircase

Eckard Wimmer, Professor of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology at SUNY-Stony Brook, talks about how he made the polio virus from scratch

Winona Hauter, Director of Public Citizen's Energy and Environment and Dr. Christine Bruhn, Director of the Center for Consumer Research at the University of California at Davis disagree on the safety of irradiated foods.

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Kurt Hanson, Media Consultant and Publisher, Radio and Internet, explains the intricacies of internet and satellite radio

Visiting Royalty

John Simson, Executive Director of SoundExchange, (a subsidiary of the Record Industry Association of America) and Jonathan Potter, Executive Director of the Digital Media Association discuss the royalties set for Internet radio

You're Dead... Now What?

Amelia E. Pohl, Esq. and Vincent J. Russo, attornies and authors of When Someone Dies in New York. (Eagle Publishing, 2002), give advice on what to do when your loved one dies in the Empire State

Anti-Semitic Or Just Anti-Israel?

Hilary Rose, Professor of Social Policy at Bradford University, defends her petition drive to boycott Israel from academia
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