Comments: 0 - Date: January 30th, 2008 - Categories: Uncategorized
The Federal Reserve has reduced a key interest rate for the second time in just over a week, cutting its federal funds rate by a half point to 3 percent. What does this mean for the consumer? Callers share their questions about the country's precarious economic situation.
Comments: 0 - Date: January 30th, 2008 - Categories: Uncategorized
In this week's installment of the Political Junkie, guests discuss Sen. Barack Obama's big win in South Carolina, Sen. John McCain's victory in Florida's Republican primary, and look ahead to two dozen presidential contests coming up on Super Tuesday, Feb. 5.
Comments: 0 - Date: January 30th, 2008 - Categories: Uncategorized
Six years after journalist Daniel Pearl was killed by terrorists while working in Pakistan, his father, Judea Pearl, reflects on what the world learned from the tragic death. His article, "The Daniel Pearl Standard," appeared Wednesday in the Wall Street Journal.
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Comments: 0 - Date: January 25th, 2008 - Categories: Uncategorized
Researchers from the American Meteorological Society are meeting in January in New Orleans, the site of the hurricane Katrina disaster in 2005. Guest host Joe Palca talks with a hurricane scientist about whether there is a clear link between climate change and hurricanes and tropical cyclones.
Comments: 0 - Date: January 25th, 2008 - Categories: Uncategorized
The well known "six degrees of separation" idea traces back to a 1967 experiment that tried to determine how many acquaintances it would take to pass a letter between two randomly selected people. Researchers have updated the experiment for the digital world and report that the finding doesn't hold up.