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Archive for January 26th, 2010

transportation

Airport Security

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

Hour 1
The TSA will be installing 150 full body scanners in airports this year and there is another 300 on order. Since the failed Christmas bombing plot, the TSA is tightening security at airports. But are these high-tech scanners the answer? What about the privacy concerns over the revealing images they generate? And, just how onerous will air travel become? We’ll talk about airport security with aviation experts DOUGLAS LAIRD of Laird Associates and ROBERT RAFFELfrom Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.

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author,family issues,health,social issues

Lessons from the End of Life

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

Hour 2
Palliative Care physician DAVID CASARETT has spent a lot of time with people in their final days of life. In his new book "Last Acts: Discovering Possibility and Opportunity at the End of Life," he discusses the choices people make in the their final days and how those choices affect friends and family. This hour, we talk to DAVID CASARETT, an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, about the lessons he has learned from terminally ill patients as they face death.

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