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Would You Survive? (The Leonard Lopate Show: Wednesday, 02 July 2008)

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2 Jul 2008

Would You Survive? (The Leonard Lopate Show: Wednesday, 02 July 2008) 

Most people have fantasized about what it would be like to go through a disaster and whether they would survive. Using respected science and real stories, Amanda Ripley illuminates these two questions in The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes – and Why .

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[20:14]..." over almost 1500 people. Were killed in a stampede in in the Saudi Arabia. "...

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Please Explain: Solar Power (The Leonard Lopate Show: Friday, 27 June 2008)

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27 Jun 2008

Please Explain: Solar Power (The Leonard Lopate Show: Friday, 27 June 2008) 

With the price of oil going higher and higher, alternative sources of energy like solar power are becoming much more attractive! Find out how solar power works, and whether it could help solve our energy problems. Stephen A. Hammer is Director of the Urban Energy Project at Columbia University's Center for Energy, Marine Transportation and Public Policy (CEMTPP) . Richard Perez is Senior Research Associate of University at Albany's Atmospheric Sciences Research Center . We’d like to hear from business or homeowners who have installed solar panels. Are you glad you did it? How has it affected your energy bills? Have you recouped your original investment yet?

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[14:04]..." and we are could be the best solution comes shortly to Saudi Arabia humanity for our generation. "...

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Moderation in the Middle East (The Leonard Lopate Show: Wednesday, 18 June 2008)

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18 Jun 2008

Moderation in the Middle East (The Leonard Lopate Show: Wednesday, 18 June 2008) 

Prominent Jordanian diplomat Marwan Muasher talks about the promises and problems of the middle road approach to reform in the Middle East. His new book is The Arab Center: The Promise of Moderation .

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[1:37]..." of the Arab center although I -- not a major player but Saudi Arabia is seems to be very different society. And then Jordan. That is why I emphasize that you shall feast because if you "...

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Where in the World is Fareed Zakaria? (The Brian Lehrer Show: Tuesday, 17 June 2008)

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17 Jun 2008

Where in the World is Fareed Zakaria? (The Brian Lehrer Show: Tuesday, 17 June 2008) 

Fareed Zakaria , Newsweek columnist, host of Fareed Zakaria GPS and the author of The Post-American World , weighs in on world news.

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[3:38]..." you're in Siberia getting more oil is -- six month process it's Saudi Arabia used to destroy underground tunnel and the -- comes out. And so they have that ability but at the end of the "...

[11:08]..." would you fight the war on terror. Without countries like Egypt and Saudi Arabia and pockets Singapore. You know you'd be you'd be kind of needlessly humiliating and drawing addicted to dip in creating new all "...

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The Kurdish Quest for Statehood (The Leonard Lopate Show: Monday, 16 June 2008)

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16 Jun 2008

The Kurdish Quest for Statehood (The Leonard Lopate Show: Monday, 16 June 2008) 

There are 25 million Kurds throughout the world; they’re the world’s largest ethnic group without a nation. Quil Lawrence writes about the long Kurdish struggle for statehood and its place in Middle Eastern politics in Invisible Nation: How the Kurds' Quest for Statehood Is Shaping Iraq and the Middle East.

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[18:12]..." human rights. He can't even really say that to the country of Saudi Arabia for example it doesn't have a whole lot of effect pressure and that way. The Kurds are really dependent on American approval "...

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Iraqi War Journal (The Leonard Lopate Show: Friday, 13 June 2008)

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13 Jun 2008

Iraqi War Journal (The Leonard Lopate Show: Friday, 13 June 2008) 

Richard Engel , NBC News's award-winning Middle East Bureau Chief, describes what it was like to cover the first 5 years of war in Iraq, from IED attacks to surviving kidnapping attempts. His new book is War Journal .

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[22:06]..." groups and then you have. The Sunni radicals and and people from Saudi Arabia and Jordan Abu Musab -- how he's dead now but others come in and you can. Create a EM a lot more "...

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For Sale: New York Skyline (The Brian Lehrer Show: Thursday, 12 June 2008)

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12 Jun 2008

For Sale: New York Skyline (The Brian Lehrer Show: Thursday, 12 June 2008) 

The proposed sale of a chunk of the Chrysler Building has prompted the question: Who owns the New York skyline? Alex Frangos , Wall Street Journal reporter, and Scott Latham , executive vice president of the real estate firm Cushman Wakefield , discuss.

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[12:55]..." and then who their enemies are so. A building that's owned by Saudi Arabia well Al Qaeda is against the government of Saudi Arabia. So you know it's it just kind of depends how lines up. In terms of regional politics from there I -- David "...

[19:20]..." know CD in now on the coast of the Red -- and Saudi Arabia casting their you know injury go investing in the US capital and -- No out and in Saudi Arabia I think on that and they aren't you know. In their -- real estate but it. Com there's also you know they're "...

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Trading Down (The Brian Lehrer Show: Wednesday, 28 May 2008)

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28 May 2008

Trading Down (The Brian Lehrer Show: Wednesday, 28 May 2008) 

Battered by gas prices, Americans drove 11 billion miles less in March of this year than they did in March 2007. While some people are turning to public transportation, some are turning to transportation of the two-wheeled kind. Wall Street Journal reporter Jonathan Welsh talks about the spike in scooter sales.

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[20:11]..." how our economy now is based on borrowing from China to. -- Saudi Arabia. The hill in the U than any evidence of a real energy policy which nobody has developed yet including the presidential candidates "...

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Human Rights in Iran (The Brian Lehrer Show: Monday, 26 May 2008)

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26 May 2008

Human Rights in Iran (The Brian Lehrer Show: Monday, 26 May 2008) 

Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi , author of Iran's Awakening: One Woman's Journey to Reclaim Her Life and Country , talks about the fight for human rights in her native Iran and elsewhere.

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[7:51]..." democracy citizen in America begin. Democracies -- gradual process if compared with Saudi Arabia Iran may seem democratic but he compared with friends. It may not seem as democratic. What counts is that Iran takes steps "...

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The Al Qaeda Doctrine (The Brian Lehrer Show: Tuesday, 06 May 2008)

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6 May 2008

The Al Qaeda Doctrine (The Brian Lehrer Show: Tuesday, 06 May 2008) 

Gilles Kepel , professor and chair of middle east studies at the Institute of Political Studies in Paris and co-editor of Al Qaeda in its Own Words , talks about the evolution of Al Qaeda through some of the key texts of the major figures from whom Al Qaeda has drawn its direction.

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[4:16]..." this is Al Qaeda political movement. Making political demands US out of Saudi Arabia for example which is implied there. A grievance that we might be able to deal with or is it simply a radical "...

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