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Minority Rules
At some selective schools, certain Asian-Americans are categorized as “over-represented minorities.” We talk about what that means for education and racial justice in America. An expert on the middle east discusses Syria and the Iraq war, and we explore hydropower on the Hudson. Also, proving diversity is better than homogeneity; and listeners vote for the most important stories in the news this week.
What’s News and What It Means, and Why It’s Important.
Brian talks about what's in the news and what it all means.
And Syria?
Rami Khouri, director of a public policy think tank at the American University in Beirut and editor-at-large of the Daily Star in Beirut, discusses the role of Syria in the current tensions with Iran.
Water Works
Dean Corren, director of Technology Development for Verdant, and Beth Fertig, WNYC reporter talk about the use of hydropower in New York City.
Beth Fertig's hydropower report
The More the Merrier
Scott Page, professor of complex systems, political science and
economics at the University of Michigan and the author of
The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies
(Princeton University Press, 2007), says he can prove diversity beats homogeneity -- in the lab and in life.
The Difference is available for purchase at Amazon.com
Minority Rules
Jeff Yang, columnist at San Francisco Chronicle.com, and author on Asian-American issues, weighs in on whether Asian-Americans are overrepresented in selective schools.
From the WSJ: Is Admissions Bar Higher for Asians?
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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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