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Four Brooklyn police officers are under arrest right now for paying informants with illegal drugs. We hear from a law enforcement expert who says the culture of narcotics policing contributes to this kind of corruption. Also, we continue our series on exercise with a look at strength training, and almost three months into the writers strike there’s a new twist to the plot: who is writing all the soap operas?
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Policing the Police
Four officers in the Brooklyn South narcotics bureau are under arrest for giving drugs to their informants. We look at the details and how much the culture of narcotics policing contributed to it with William Sherman, investigations reporter for the Daily News (which broke the story), and Joe McNamara, former New York City police officer, former police chief of San Jose, and current research fellow at the Hoover Institution.
The Soap Opera Behind the Soap Operas
Soap Opera Digest editor Lynn Leahey discusses how soaps can continue airing original episodes during the writer's strike.
Are You The One? Open Phones
Unemployed listeners call in on how job-hunting is influencing candidate-picking.
Page to Stage
New Yorker staff writer George Packer has turned his 2007 article about the abandonment of Iraqi interpreters into a play Betrayed that starts performances this week. He talks about the play, how the war in Iraq figures into the primary elections, and his most recent New Yorker article about Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, “The Choice.”
Getting Physical
Janet Lee, deputy editor of Shape Magazine and a board member of the American Council on Exercise, joins us weekly in January to talk about exercise and fitness -- this week: the benefits of strength training.
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Happy 150th Birthday, Evolution!
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