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How Will You Be Voting in '06?
A federal law requires that New York State replace its voting machines with new ones by the ’06 elections. But local officials say that’s practically impossible. Will New York miss the deadline, and miss out on federal funding to boot?
Body and Soul
Paul Bloom, professor of psychology and linguistics at Yale University and author, Descartes' Baby: How the Science of Child Development Explains What Makes Us Human (Basic Books, 2004),
on why humans are hard-wired to believe in the supernatural
» Is God an Accident? (Atlantic Monthly, December 2005)
How Will You Vote in 2006?
Bo Lipari, executive director of New Yorkers for Verified Voting
- on the inadequacies of New York's electronic voting machines
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New Yorkers for Verified Voting homepage
The Train Has Left the Station
Beth Fertig, WNYC reporter
- on the transit workers' new contract
and
Stanley Aronowitz, CUNY Grad Center Professor of Sociology, author How Class Works: Power and Social Movement
(Yale University Press, 2003)
- on the pros and cons of the TWU contract
» Stanley Aronowitz's bio and publications
Sending Limbo to Hell
Ed Vacek, Weston Jesuit School of Theology Professor of Moral Thought
- on doing away with limbo
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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 [41]
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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