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Monday, March 10, 2008
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    Acquisitiveness Training

    Their first book, Women Don’t Ask, created a sensation. Now, Linda Babcock and Sara Laschever follow up with Ask For It: How Women Can Use the Power of Negotiation to Get What They Really Want. Also, Brooke Gladstone on the record about the rules for going “off the record;” Just how safe is how our drinking water; and should we ban plastic water bottles?

Water Hazard

Associated Press national investigative editor Rick Pienciak and AP national writer Jeff Donn discuss their investigation of pharmaceuticals in drinking water.

Water Bottle Blues

Colin Beavan, 'No Impact Man,' tells us how to avoid using plastic water bottles in day-to-day life. Joe Holtz, general manager and a founding member of the Park Slope Food Co-op, speaks about the Co-op and the vote to remove water bottles from the shelves.

On the QT

The host of WNYC's On the Media, Brooke Gladstone, joins us to discuss what it means to be "off the record," as well as Samantha Power's recent resignation from the Obama campaign.

Acquisitiveness Training

Sara Laschever and Linda Babcock, co-authors of Ask For It: How Women Can Use the Power of Negotiation to Get What They Really Want (Bantam, 2008), explain how women can overcome their own hesitance and society’s expectations to negotiate effectively.

The Ask For It Website
Prof. Babcock's bio at Carnegie Mellon

Admissions 101

Changing demographics, as well as the credit crunch, are affecting who gets into college-- and how they pay for it. We want to hear your tales of college admissions. Was this year really so bad? And how do you feel about going into debt?

A person dressed as a bear to represent a bear market performs outside the New York Stock Exchange on October 6, 200 in New York. Wall Street tumbled after the opening bell as fallout from the credit crisis triggered concerns about the economy and the Dow fell below 10,000 for the first time in four years.

Uncommon Indicators

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The Brian Lehrer Show wants to hear how the economy is affecting the little things in your daily life. Share your stories and photos of the downturn.

Cast your vote for our video contest semi-finalists.

Ray Young, General Motors Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

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.

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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!

(<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexerde/80417539/">alexerde</a>/flickr)

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!

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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.

Video Picks

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Check out some recent video clips of interviews with guests and Brian Lehrer's weekly Web video picks.