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This week, we begin by talking with Under Secretary of State Josette Shiner on trade, immigration and energy security. Then, we “Meet the Press” and talk with Congress Daily energy reporter Darren Goode. Later on, a small manufacturer from Colorado, Ann Brown, talks with us about health care costs. Then, insight and analysis with the NAM’s Neil Trautwein and Bob Shepler on health care and pension reforms. All this along with music from Joe Jackson and The Beatles

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Professor of Philosophy and Hardy Professor of Legal Studies Walter Sinnott-Armstrong is a philosopher and confirmed atheist who argues that religion is nothing more than a comfortable fiction. His scholarship encompasses work on ethics, philosophy of law, epistemology, and informal logic and he is the author of “God? A Debate Between a Christian and and an Atheist.” In this podcast, Sinnott-Armstrong discusses the reasoning behind his beliefs and talks about the social and political implications of heterodoxy in matters of faith.

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This week, we speak with Washington Times editorial page editor Tony Blankley on the upcoming congressional agenda and then Commerce Under Secretary Frank Lavin joins us on on the Bush administration’s 2006 trade agenda. Later, we hear from “Lean” manufacturing expert Jamie Flinchbaugh on his new book, “The Hitchhikers’ Guide to Lean,” followed by Chevy rep Cheryl Pilcher (from the Detriot Auto Show) on the new Camaro. All this along with music from Dadon Dawadolma, Creedence Clearwater Revival and the inimitable Miss Dinah Shore.

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Today, some fields of medicine rely on advances in technology, especially, say, through enhanced imaging techniques or improved artificial joints. In this podcast, Michael B. Mayor, the William N. and Bessie Allyn Professor of Surgery at Dartmouth Medical School and an Adjunct Professor of Engineering at Dartmouth’s Thayer School of Engineering, talks about how his career has blurred the lines between medicine and engineering, and how he thinks this should be the model for the future.

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On January 5, 2006, President Bush announced that he would ask Congress for $114 million dollars teach languages critical for national security. The proposal included enhancing language instruction from Kindergarten through college. In this podcast, John Rassias, the William R. Kenan Professor of French and Italian, talks about the why this proposal is needed, but he questions the motives behind it.

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