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The Brian Lehrer Show / April 18, 2006

The Brian Lehrer Show

Tuesday, April 18, 2006

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Jason's Voyage

Every summer for 60 years, a top-secret group of about 100 physicists has met near San Diego. Dubbed “the Jasons”, this group advises the government on defense and intelligence matters, offering scientific wisdom that sometimes clashes with political expediency. Also: labor relations and surveillance cameras in New York, results of the STAR study, employment retaliation and your calls.
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New York State of Mind

Beth Fertig , WNYC reporter
and
Juan Manuel Benitez, reporter at NY1 Noticias
- discuss the fine placed on the TWU and other New York City stories

Ann Finkbeiner, science journalist and author, The Jasons: The Secret History of Science's Postwar Elite (Viking, 2006),
- shares the story of a top-secret group of scientists that advises the government

» The Jasons (Viking)

STAR study

Catherine Arnst, senior writer for BusinessWeek
and
Carolina Hinestrosa, executive vice president of the National Breast Cancer Coaltion
- on the STAR study that found that Raloxifene could be used as much as Tamoxifen to prevent Breast Cancer

» "Lilly's Breast-cancer Breakthrough" by Catherine Arnst in Businessweek
» The National Breast Cancer Coalition

Retaliation Tactics

Emily Bazalon, senior editor at Slate
- on the case before the Supreme Court on employment retaliation

Open Phones

laid-off listeners over 50 explain how they handled it

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