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Schools In

A week into the school year and Randi Weingarten, president of the United Federation of Teachers (UFT) and chair of the Municipal Labor Committee, discusses principal independence and test scores.

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Food for Thought

Diane Brady, senior writer for Business Week and Marion Nestle, professor of nutrition food studies and public health at New York University and the author of What to Eat (North Point Press, 2007), new in paperback, discusses the striking down of a law that required fast-food chains to post calorie counts on their menus.

Marion Nestle's webpage

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Eyeing a Western Aesthetic

Dr. Edmund Kwan, a plastic surgeon from New York, looks at whether Asian women get eyelid surgery so they can look more "Western."

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Republican No More

Thirty-five years after Watergate John Dean, White House legal counsel to President Nixon, comments on the current struggle between the executive branch and Congress, and discusses his new book Broken Government: How Republican Rule Destroyed the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches (Viking Adult, 2007).

Broken Government is available for purchase at Amazon.com.

John Dean will be signing books tonight at the Lincoln Square Barnes & Noble, 66th St. & Broadway, at 7:30PM.

John Dean’s Findlaw.com columns:

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Open Phones: Join Our Democracy Club

We turn to our listeners to find a group of undecided voters that we can check in with regularly over the course of the presidential elections.

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