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Guest host: Susan Page
Recent research suggests a correlation between moderate levels of lead in the blood of children and violent behavior in adulthood. This is among the new findings that are making scientists concerned that the "safe" level of lead in a child's bloodstream may be significantly lower than previously believed. A panel talks about new research and what we know about the effects of lead in humans.
Dr. Gray Goldstein, Kennedy-Krieger Institute
Rick Nevin, economist with ICF Consulting
Dr. Deborah Cory-Slechta, professor and chair of environmental medicine at the University of Rochester
Guest host: Susan Page
Journalist William Adler examines the effects of globalization on the average worker by focusing on a single assembly line job at Universal Manufacturing Company, and on the three women who have held this job as factory work has headed south from New Jersey through Mississippi to Matamoros, Mexico.
William Adler, author and journalist
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