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The recent bid from a Chinese firm to buy American oil company Unocal is drawing attention to the growing role China is playing in the US economy. Diane and her guests discuss what effects this could have for Americans and for the Chinese.
Bill Powell, senior writer for Time Magazine, based in Shanghai
Michael Wessel, commissioner, U.S.-China Economic & Security Review Commission
Neil Hughes, former senior operations officer, China and Mongolia department of the World Bank, and author of "China's Economic Challenge: Smashing the Iron Rice Bowl"
Marriage has changed more in the past 30 years than in the previous 3,000. A historical study places the blame on love itself. Diane and her guest discuss why we marry, how we stay married, and what happens when a marriage falls apart.
Stephanie Coontz, teaches history and family studies at The Evergreen State Colleg and is the author of "The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap."
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