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When the Tests Fail
Experts say 26,000 deaths a year could be prevented with proper screening for colon cancer. The right kind of screening can save lives, but over screening can make things worse. How to tell the difference? Also, we get reactions to the Democratic Presidential candidates TV debate, look at what to do with the old books you find hard to part with, and get two updates about this weekend's Deutsche Bank fire. Beth Fertig sits in for Brian.
Deutsche Bank Fire
Avi Schick, the governor's chief of downtown development, talks about the fire that took place on Saturday at the abandoned Deutsche Bank building.
Round #....
Rick Klein, senior political reporter at ABC news and author of the Note, talks about the latest presidential debate: the ABC News Democratic candidates debate, Sunday, Aug. 19, 2007, at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa.
Just the Facts: Screening for Cancer
Dr. Arvi Barbasch, clinical oncologist and medical spokesperson for the American Cancer Society and Dr. Elliot Guytia, from the Queens Cancer Center at Queens Hosptial, discuss the importance of cancer screening and early detection.
Take My Books, Please!
What to do with books you won’t re-read? Alina Tugend, regular contributor and writer of the Short Cuts column for The New York Times wrote an essay (Times Select) with some suggestions. She’s joined first by Tom Wayne, co-owner of Prospero's Bookstore in Kansas City, and Fred Bass, president and co-owner of The Strand Bookstore, then by photographer Marc Joseph whose book New and Used (Steidl Publishers, 2006)
explores the aesthetic of used bookstores.
New and Used is available for purchase at Amazon.com.
Click here to see some of the images from the book.
Fire Fallout
The flames are out at the Deutsche Bank building in Lower Manhattan, but the questions are just starting to emerge. Sarah Garland, police bureau chief at The New York Sun, and U.S. fire administrator Greg Cade look at the extent to which standard fire procedures were followed.
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Ray Young, the chief financial officer of General Motors, talks about GM’s bankruptcy.
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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.
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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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