Houses floating on the Amazon River in Peru

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The Leonard Lopate Show | May 14, 2010

New Yorker staff writer Patricia Marx talks about the ins and outs of shopping in New York. Plus, our latest Underreported segments look at the Newtown Creek oil spill in Brooklyn and the lawsuit against Chevron filed by indigenous Ecuadorians who claim the oil company has polluted the Amazon river.

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