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10:00U.S. Gas Prices

Presidential candidate John Kerry proposed an energy plan that would help bring down gas prices. President Bush says high prices at the pump could have been avoided if Congress had passed his energy bill. Diane and her guests talk about the economics and politics of energy.

Guests

Ron Minsk, former special assistant to President Clinton on economic policy

John Felmy, chief economist for the American Petroleum Institute

11:00Dalton Conley: "The Pecking Order" (Pantheon)

A social scientist explains why birth order and gender are not the main reasons why one sibling succeeds while another fails.

Guests

Dalton Conley, is the director of the Center for Advanced Social Science Research and professor of sociology and public policy at New York University. He is the author of "Honky" and "Being Black, Living in the Red: Race, Wealth, and Social Policy in America."

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