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Characterizing the Court

Nina Totenberg, legal affairs correspondent for National Public Radio, sizes up the third Supreme Court session under Chief Justice Roberts and looks at the role of precedent today.

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Green Light

Jennifer Bogo, senior science editor at Popular Mechanics magazine, and architectural lighting designer Gary Gordon, on why and how people can use compact fluorescent lightbulbs (CFLs).

Popular Mechanics tested a number of CFLs, and you can read their findings here. For more about how and where to recycle CFLs, go to lamprecycle.org. For information about recycling CFLs in New York City, go here.
For a previous Brian Lehrer Show segment on lighting, see "Let There Be Light" here.

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Albania, New York

Stacy Sullivan, journalist and author, Be Not Afraid, for You Have Sons in America: How a Brooklyn Roofer Helped Lure the U.S. into the Kosovo War (2004, St. Martin's Press) tells us about the Albanian community in the region and the reaction to the arrest of the Duka brothers for plotting to attack Fort Dix.

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Nature Nurtured

Michael Gurian, family therapist, founder of the Gurian Institute, an educational training organization, and author of Nurture the Nature: Understanding and Supporting Your Child's Unique Core Personality (Wiley 2007), talks about child rearing and development.

Nurture the Nature is available for purchase at Amazon.com

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Foot Power

In our series on non-car transporation, Colin Beavan, who has vowed to have zero impact on the environment for one year, looks at what it's like to walk from A to B.

Colin's blog, No Impact Man

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