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Thursday November 14, 2002

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Week of November 11, 2002

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10:00Terrorism Insurance

A discussion on who would be helped by a proposed federal terrorism insurance program, and why it's now taken over a year to get through Congress.

Guests

Jim McIntyre, Washington counsel for the Risk and Insurance Management Society

Travis Plunkett, legislative director for the Consumer Federation of America

11:00John Sulston: "The Common Thread" (Joseph Henry)

John Sulston, 2002 Nobel Prize winner for physiology and medicine for his research on a tiny worm, gives an insider's account of the science, politics and ethics behind the Human Genome Project.

Guests

John Sulston, John Sulston won the 2002 Nobel Prize in Medicine for studies on how cells in a tiny worm are genetically programmed to develop and to die. But he is best known for his groundbreaking work on human DNA.

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