Entire program – January 6, 2010

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Today on The World: The debate over how to fix the way US intelligence agencies process the information they collect; also, why one region in Spain – Catalonia – is considering a ban on bullfighting; plus – Chinese violin-makers are turning out top-quality instruments…and making Italian violin-makers nervous!

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2 comments for “Entire program – January 6, 2010”

  • Alan Fisher

    Shame on you. On today’s broadcast, you said the Earth’s polar diameter is half its circumference. Every schoolchild knows that the diameter of a circle is its circumference divided by pi, about 3.14159…

    And the Earth’s polar cross section is NOT a circle. It’s closer to a not quite circular ellipse.

    Earth’s true polar diameter is 7900 miles. (Its equatorial Diameter is 7937 miles.)

  • http://www.thejohnfox.com John Fox

    Today you interviewed a professor on how to stop would-be terrorists from boarding planes. At the beginning, he strongly resisted racial profiling, criticizing its inefficiency and discrimination.

    But later on in the interview, he mentioned that the fact that the man was “young, male and single” should have tipped airport officials off. My question is this: Why does he consider it discrimination to profile on the basis of race, but doesn’t consider it discrimination to profile on the basis of age, gender, and marital status?

    I would imagine that he would answer that he didn’t mean to imply that he would want to profile according to those categories, but then what was meant by “tipped off”? Should we be “tipped off” when a passenger appears Muslim?