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Kenyan Wangari Muta Maathai became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize last year for her work as an environmental and political activist. Her campaigns against deforestation in Africa earned her the nickname: Tree Woman. Now she’s using her new status to further the environmental movement in her country and to pressure the world to achieve the UN Millennium Development goals of reducing poverty.
Drawing A Blanco
Terence Samuel, chief Congressional correspondent for US News & World
- on Governor Blanco's testimony
» US News and World Report
ID Crisis
Michael Powell, reporter for the Washington Post
- reports on the lawsuit over teaching "intelligent design" in Dover, Pennsylvania
» "Intimidation Alleged On 'Intelligent Design'" (The Washington Post)
» The Dover Area School District
30 Issues: Home Health Aides
Michael Aronson, editorial page writer with the New York Daily News,
-says whether to make home health aides city employees is becoming a potent issue in New York's race for mayor
» News & Views in the New York Daily News
Nobel Causes
Dr. Wangari Maathai, Nobel Peace Prize winner and leader of Kenya's Green Belt Movement
- on her work in Kenya helping save the environment
» The Nobel Peace Prize
» Wangari Maathai's webpage
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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.- Comments [40]
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!- Comments [15]
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!- Comments [172]
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.
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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.
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