The Brian Lehrer Show

Acquisitiveness Training

Monday, March 10, 2008

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?

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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?