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Published on: 2/16/2007
Last Visited: 2/19/2007
Ted Chen discusses the situation with author and Gordon Chang, journalist and author of Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes On the World (Random House, 2006).
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Ted Chen talks with AJ Duffy, President of United Teachers of Los Angeles about the agreement.
The Language of Death[ Listen ]A group of California democrats, including Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez, plan to reintroduce the Compassionate Choices Act in the state legislature this week.The language of the bill does not include the word "suicide."It would allow terminally ill patients, who are of sound mind, to request medication from doctors "to provide comfort with an assurance of peaceful dying if suffering becomes unbearable."Linguist Geoffrey Nunberg joins guest host Ted Chen to discuss the language and euphemisms used both politically and socially, when talking about death.
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Ted Chen talks with Jack Shaw, Capitol Hill reporter with Market News International.
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Speaking with guest host Ted Chen are republican operative and President of Americans for Tax Reform Grover Norquist, and Duf Sundheim, outgoing chairman of the California Republican Party.
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The author joins Ted Chen to talk about the true and twisted psyche of the average American man.
Monday, Feb. 12
Iranian Weapons in Iraq[ Listen ]The Bush administration is accusing Iran of supplying highly sophisticated weapons known as "explosively formed penetrators", or EFPs that have killed more than 170 troops from the U.S.-led coalition.AirTalk guest host, Ted Chen discusses the situation with Middle-East scholar George Perkovich, Vice-President for Studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
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Ted Chen and his guests (Donnalyn Anton, Associate Superintendent, Los Angeles Unified School District; Rodney Wright, the coordinator of the Title 1 and BEST - Building Effective Schools Together - programs at Walter Reed Middle School in North Hollywood; Bill Ring, Chairman of the Parent Collaborative and Chairman of the Ad-Hoc Committee on Parent Engagement Policy Development) discuss the proposed policy.
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Ted Chen talks with NPR's Diplomatic Correspondent Mike Shuster about his new series: "The Partisans of Ali: A History of Shiite and Politics."
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Journalist and social critic Bill Moyers joins Ted Chen about American democracy and the political establishment.
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Ted Chen talks with Salon.com co-founder Scott Rosenberg about his new book Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs and One Quest for Transcendent Software. (Crown), which explores the little-known art of creating software.