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Healthier Bodegas
Joel Rivera, majority leader of the New York City Council discusses new WIC regulations and the push to bring more healthful food to bodegas plus the editor of a new magazine, "Good."
Healthier Bodegas
Joel Rivera, majority leader of the New York City Council
discusses new WIC regulations and the push to bring more healthful food to bodegas.
Tell Us: What's on the Shelves at Your Bodega?
The List
William Dobson, managing editor of Foreign Policy magazine, talks about the stories that didn't reach the headlines in 2007.
Searching Lists
Paul Boutin, technology columnist for Slate magazine, talks about what the google and yahoo search lists tell you about the American zeitgeist?
Inspector Gadget
Sree Sreenivasan, dean of students & professor at Columbia Journalism School, tech reporter for WNBC-TV and co-founder, of the South Asian Journalists Association (SAJA) talks what's cool and what's not in the world of gadgets.
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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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