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Chinese Olympic Mascot (Fuwa) lanterns (tamaleaver/flickr)Strategy, Strategy, Strategy
China prepares for the Olympics -- and the onslaught of foreign media. How will it handle the press? Also: we unpack some weak-dollar travel strategies in our latest installment of Unraveling Traveling. Plus, the government recognizes the polar bear as a threatened species, a new park in the Bronx, and political analysis with WNYC's Bob Hennelly and Andrea Bernstein.
Green In The Garden State
WNYC reporters Bob Hennelly and Andrea Bernstein discuss the week's developments in the presidential campaign, including John McCain's recent visit to New Jersey and John Edwards' endorsement of Barack Obama.
Unraveling Traveling: Play To Your Strengths
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Wendy Perrin, consumer news editor at Condé Nast Traveler, joins us every Thursday this May as part of our month-long series on travel. Today's topic: weak-dollar travel strategies. French Riviera too expensive? Consider laying your towel on a Croatian beach! Have any questions for Wendy? Comment below! |
 Travel was the #1 suggestion in our Word of Wisdom segment. |
Read "Dollar Power" in Condé Nast Traveler
Read Wendy Perrin's blog
Olympic Mettle
As China prepares for the Olympics, it must also consider its approach to the foreign press. Minky Worden, media director at Human Rights Watch and editor of China's Great Leap, and Ian Buruma, journalist, author, and professor of Democracy, Human Rights & Journalism at Bard College, discuss China's changing media strategy and other issues surrounding the games.
Event
Ian Buruma and Minky Worden are participating in a panel tomorrow at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs. Details can be found here.
A Polar-izing Issue
The polar bear is now listed as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act due to projections of melting sea ice at the pole. Is this a sign of a changing government position on global climate change? Andrew Wetzler, Director of the Endangered Species Project at the National Resources Defense Council, explains the significance.
It's My Park: Concrete Plant Park
In honor of the It's My Park! Day, a semi-annual Parks & Recreation Department event highlighting New Yorkers' local neighborhood parks, we'll take time in each the next five shows to appreciate a park in every borough. To start us off, Alexie Torres-Fleming, founder and executive director of Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice, talks about the brand-new Concrete Plant Park in the South Bronx.
For more information about "It's My Park!" day at El Parque De Los Niños
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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")
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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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