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(moriza/flickr)Should Bike Riders Run Red Lights?
Traffic regulations are largely designed for cars, so what rules should bike riders follow? We talk to a writer and cycling advocate who thinks bikes should ignore them altogether. Also, one of America's leading political analysts gives his take on the presidential race and the Republican candidates at the last debate. Plus, sleep-deprived kids; why the Coors/Miller merger is quenching their thirst for less competition; and whether incentive pay drove Joe Torre to leave the Yankees.
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A More Perfect Union
Larry Sabato, founder and director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virgina and author of A More Perfect Constitution: 23 Proposals to Revitalize Our Constitution and Make America a Fairer Country (Walker & Company, 2007) assesses the performance of the Republican candidates at the last debate.
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Should Cyclists Run Red Lights?
Alex Marshall, journalist, author, and senior fellow at the Regional Plan Association wonders if bike riders should have to follow traffic laws, since they're designed for cars.
Bed-Time Blues
Ashley Merryman, attorney and writer who blogs with Po Bronson on his website, contributed to the New York Magazine article Snooze or Lose (10/15/07) is joined by Dr. Mark Mahowald, director of the Minnesota Regional Sleep Disorders Center, to talk about sleep-deprived kids and the price they’re paying for the lost zzzz’s.
Brewing Business
Julie Bradford, editor of All About Beer Magazine on the proposed merger between SAB Miller and Molson Coors.
When a Pay Raise isn't Really a Pay Raise
When do salary incentives motivate workers, and when do they just leave them feeling insulted, like outgoing Yankees manager Joe Torre? Isaac Cheifetz, an executive recruiter, and author of Hiring Secrets of the NFL: How Your Company Can Select Talent Like a Champion (Davies-Black, 2007), compares the pro-sports incentives practice with that of corporate America.
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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 [40]
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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