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U.S. Army Cpl. Joseph Casiano during a combined cordon and search in Baghdad, Feb. 14, 2007 ( U.S. Army photo)Pushing and Pulling
Even as Congress sets deadlines for troop withdrawals from Iraq, the new surge is on. We will look at how to measure success in the new military push. Also, the design and psychology of contemporary lighting; a “sound map” of New York; the Jazz producer, Nobuko Narita; and are we becoming a Ghetto Nation?
Pushing and Pulling
John F. Burns, Baghdad bureau chief and chief foreign correspondent for the New York Times talks about how to measure the success of the new military push in Iraq, as Congress votes to pull troops out.
Let There Be Light
Marianne Maloney, lighting designer and founder of Filament 33 and Dr. Joan Roberts, professor of Chemistry and chair of the Department of Natural Sciences, Fordham University at Lincoln Center talk about the importance of light
Street Wise
Cora Daniels, journalist and author Ghetto Nation: A Journey into the Land of Bling and the Home of the Shameless(Doubleday 2007) says "ghetto," is no longer a state of class or race.
Ghetto Nation is available for purchase at amazon.com
New York's Audio Ecology
Edmund Mooney, co-founder of the New York Society for Acoustic Ecology, collaborated with Andrea Polli, associate professor of Integrated Media Arts at Hunter College, to create the New York Sound Map, a collaborative audio map of New York's audio environment.
People's Hall of Fame
Nobuko Narita, a jazz producer who runs "Cobi's Place", talks about her induction inducted into City Lore's People's Hall of Fame.
Listen to the other Hall of Fame inductees we’ve interviewed this week:
Pete Benfaremo, the Lemon Ice King of Corona
Renee “Juice” Flowers
Pete Sokolow
Carrie Raiford
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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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