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The Brian Lehrer Show / August 12, 2004

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Thursday, August 12, 2004
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  • Swimming near the west side of Governor's Island (Swim The Apple)

    From Mt. Marcy to the Verrazzano Narrows

    Giovanni da Verrazzano became the first European to set eyes on the Hudson River in 1524 (the Mohicans called it “Muh-he-kun-ne-tuk”). Since then, Rip van Winkle fell asleep on its shores, a mighty river arose at its mouth, and a multinational contaminated it with PCBs. Today the river is on a rebound.

    This Sunday, you can attend the corn festival, contact frill@rcn.com for more information.

    Visit www.NYwiki.com, the encyclopedia based on public contributions. And tune in at 10:40 to hear more. The LMDC reacts to a critical new study by Good Jobs New York, New York goes “wiki”, and Gerald Posner and Dr. Faroque Khan on local terror suspects.

Developing Friends

Bettina Damiani Director of Good Jobs New York on federal money controlled by the Lower Manhattan Development Corp. has been funneled to the organizations and companies of LMDC board members
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Kevin M. Rampe President, Lower Manhattan Development Corporation on the controversy over 9/11 funds

All About the Benjamin

Preston Niblack Deputy Director, Independent Budget Office discusses the Independent Budget Office's report on the distribution of Federal money in downtown New York

New York Information - How You Want It

Ari Paparo creator of Nywiki.com on his user-based encyclopedia about New York
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Dr. Faroque Khan President of the Islamic Center of Long Island, in Westbury, sits on the board of Islamic Society of North America, also a professor of Medicine at SUNY Stony Brook says law enforcement's heavy-handedness has damaged relations with the Muslim Community

American-Born, Al Qaeda True

Gerald Posner investigative reporter and author, Why America Slept: The Failure to Prevent 9/11 (Random House, 2003) on Mohammed Junaid Babar, American Muslims, and Al Qaeda

In Deep Water

Pete Seeger folk singer and songwriter want New Yorkers to utilize the Hudson river
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John Cronin Director of the Academy for the Environment at Pace University and former Hudson riverkeeper

A person dressed as a bear to represent a bear market performs outside the New York Stock Exchange on October 6, 200 in New York. Wall Street tumbled after the opening bell as fallout from the credit crisis triggered concerns about the economy and the Dow fell below 10,000 for the first time in four years.

Uncommon Indicators

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The Brian Lehrer Show wants to hear how the economy is affecting the little things in your daily life. Share your stories and photos of the downturn.

Just Launched! The Uncommon Economic Indicators Video Contest. All the details here!

Ray Young, General Motors Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

The Rocky Road Ahead

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Ray Young, the chief financial officer of General Motors, talks about GM’s bankruptcy.

Then, Damon Lester, president of the National Association of Minority Automobile Dealers, and Greg Williams, former owner of the recently closed Huntington Chevrolet in Huntington Station, NY., discusses the effect GM’s bankruptcy has had on dealerships and their employees.

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Tweet If You Use Twitter

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Farhad Manjoo, Slate's technology columnist and the author of True Enough: Learning To Live in a Post-Fact Society talks about what Twitter means and how different groups use it.

What's your take on Twitter? How do you use it? Comment below!

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Don't Say That, Literally

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John Flansburgh of the band They Might Be Giants discusses the running list the band keeps of "things we can no longer say." (a few examples: "my bad" "don't go there" "one hundred and ten percent" and "voted off the island")

What would be on your list of banned words or phrases? Comment below!

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From Denmark with Love

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Jesper Grunwald, senior managing editor with the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, talks about the Danish economy, biking to work, and why the Danes are allegedly the happiest people in the world.

Judge Sotomayor

Squatting, Then and Now

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As former squats in the East Village make the transition to coops, making homes from abandoned housing is again an issue. Andrew Reicher executive director of Urban Homesteading Assistance Board, Frank Morales an Episcopal priest involved in East Village/Lower East Side squatting and homelessness activism since the late '70s, and Rob Robinson, a leader of the Housing Campaign of Picture the Homeless, discuss the return of squatting.

Video Picks

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