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Toni Morrison Stuck In Traffic
Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Author Toni Morrison got swallowed up by a Manhattan traffic jam this morning.

But don’t worry, she’ll join us on Friday.

 
  • J__o__h__n

    Take the subway on Friday.

    • Ashbrook is Phenom

      Ouch! Your words be daggers

      • http://chondeal.com/ khuyen mai

        Yah, me too

  • Ellen Dibble

    Hear, hear.  I had to miss yesterday’s second hour.  I’m in luck!

  • Al Siroisduplessis

    she could not even be on time for a one hour book promotion?

  • Mike B

    In Lincoln, NE where I live bicycle commuting has been pushed the last 2-3 years and it’s working.  Lincoln was already a huge bicycle commuting city but even more so now.  I find that commuting year-round by bike relieves stress, provides for a better quality of life and is super easy on the transportation budget.

    The idea that one can’t commute because they need to wear nice clothes or they don’t want to be sweaty is a falsehood, before my Dad retired he commuted by bike to work and within an hour of getting there he has someone heart open operating on them…Anyone can do it, you just have to want to.

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May 22, 2013
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Apple CEO Tim Cook is sworn in on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 21, 2013, prior to testifying before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Permanent subcommittee on Investigations hearing. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)

Apple in the hot seat. Lawmakers say the company dodged billions in taxes on overseas profits. We’ll look at the world of off shore tax escapes.

May 22, 2013
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A woman carries her child through a field near the collapsed Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Okla., Monday, May 20, 2013. (Sue Ogrocki/AP)

After Oklahoma’s giant twister, does Tornado Alley need to change the way it builds and lives in the age of superstorms?

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May 21, 2013
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Henry Ford sits at the tiller of his first automobile, the Quadricycle, in front of the John Wanamaker salesroom on Broadway between 49th and 50th Streets in New York City in 1904. (AP)

The controversial and brilliant Henry Ford and the world he invented.

 
May 21, 2013
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Detail from the book jacket of "The Unwinding: An Inner History Of The New America" by George Packer. (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

New Yorker writer George Packer’s inside history of the great unwinding of America’s 20th century way of life and where we stand now.

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WIRED’s Bill Wasik On The Henry Fords Of Today
Wednesday, May 22, 2013

He talked about how Google and Tesla are paving the way of innovation and how technological development is related not only to creativity but to environmental responsibility.

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Switching Shows For Our Second Hour Today
Friday, May 17, 2013

Adventures in live radio. Richard Snow, our guest for our show on Henry Ford, was held up — possibly by a faulty Model T? — so we’re running a terrific archive show on great quotations.

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Floyd Abrams On Obama Vs. Nixon
Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Floyd Abrams — one of the country’s leading authorities on the First Amendment — joined us today to talk about revelations that the Justice Department seized two months of phone records from the Associated Press.

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