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U.S. Army Cpl. Joseph Casiano during a combined cordon and search in Baghdad, Feb. 14, 2007
U.S. Army Cpl. Joseph Casiano during a combined cordon and search in Baghdad, Feb. 14, 2007 ( U.S. Army photo)

Pushing and Pulling

Thursday, March 29, 2007

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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