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Wednesday September 19, 2001

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10:00The Airlines

The airlines have gone to Capitol Hill to request help with enormous financial losses, demands for increased security, and other problems they are facing. Diane and her guests talk about the future of the airline industry and air travel.

Guests

Neil Livingstone, chair and CEO, ExecutiveAction, an international risk management firm and author of nine books on terrorism

James Fallows, writer for the "Atlantic Monthly"

Deborah McGregor, Financial Times

Bob Crandall, former chairman and CEO of American Airlines

11:00Simon Winchester: "The Map That Changed the World" (Harper Collins)

Author Simon Winchester joins Diane to tell the story of William Smith, who in 1815 published the first geologically correct map of England and Wales. Smith's work became the foundation for the modern science of geology.

Guests

Simon Winchester, writer, historian, and geologist

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