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As The Ancestor Told His Tale....
The search for a common ancestor to all life forms—or "concestor" —is the idea animating Richard Dawkins’ latest book. The Oxford biologist took Chaucer as his inspiration, and gave chapter titles like "the Cauliflower’s Tale" and "the Rhizobium’s Tale".
Parting is Such Sweet Sorrow
Bob Hennelly WNYC New Jersey correspondent on NJ Governor Jim McGreevey's farewell address
70 Is the New 68
Timothy Smeeding, Director of theCenter for Policy Research at the Syracuse University Maxwell School, gives his thoughts on the potential and perils of raising the retirement age
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"From Plato to NATO"
Richard Dawkins, Biologist, "Professor of the Public Understanding of Science" at Oxford University author of many books on science, most recently, The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution (Houghton Mifflin,October 2004), gives a history of evolution in the form of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
Gift from the Gods
Lewis Fidler, New York City Councilmember, (D-District 46, Brooklyn), says city schools need to allot more spaces for gifted children
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Glenn Thrush, senior Congressional correspondent for Politico.com, talks about potential replacements for Hillary Clinton in the Senate, once she's confirmed as Secretary of State.
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Mumbai Monday
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The Mumbai terrorist attacks have caused shockwaves that reach communities here in New York. How are south Asian immigrants coping with the crisis? Plus, on January 20th, Barack Obama will become the first black president, but he’s already the most prominent black father in America. Is he setting a new standard for African-American parenthood?
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Alex Kuczynski, New York Times style writer and the author of Beauty Junkies: Inside Our $15 Billion Obsession with Cosmetic Surgery (Doubleday, 2006), talks about her recent NYT Magazine article "Her Body, My Baby" and her experience having a child through a surrogate.
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Poet-activist Maya Angelou, author of Letter to My Daughter (Random House, 2008), on the significance of the Obama presidency and more.
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