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NIMBO (Not In My Back Ocean)

Offshore drilling is on the brain. Jim Presswood, energy advocate at the Natural Resources Defense Council, Rayola Dougher, senior economic advisor at the American Petroleum Institute, and Peter Maas, New York Times Magazine contributor, discuss the immediate and long-term impacts of drilling in U.S. waters.

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Who's Driving the Train

Recent revelations about free E-ZPasses and Metrocards have put the MTA board under scrutiny. Gene Russianoff, staff attorney for NYPIRG's Straphangers Campaign, talks about the board and its perks.

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Personal Democracy: Rebooting the System

For today's segment our ongoing series in conjunction with the the Personal Democracy Forum, we're joined by two participants who have thoughts on the future of voting technology: Andrew Rasiej, founder of PDF, and Allison Fine, Senior Fellow at Demos.

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Do The Right Thing

Dennis McCullough, M.D., author of My Mother, Your Mother: Embracing "Slow Medicine," the Compassionate Approach to Caring for Your Aging Loved Ones, talks about how to avoid "death by intensive care" and other end-of-life issues.

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Holes Found in Swiss Banking

An ex-UBS banker plead guilty this week to helping his wealthy clients cloak their assets and evade taxes. David Henry, senior writer at BusinessWeek, discusses the fallout of this white collar crime.

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Open Phones: Is Email Privacy Overrated?

Do your feelings about email privacy correspond to your generation? People of "a certain age" might be appalled to learn their private emails aren't, well, all that private. But with young people exposing all their personal details on Facebook, is privacy an old-fashioned idea?

Do you consider email privacy important? Do you encrypt your personal emails or keep personal matters off of email? Comment below!

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