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10:00Toy Recall

Another major toy recall renews concerns over consumer safety protection and Chinese imports.

Guests

Renae Merle, reporter, The Washington Post

M. Eric Johnson, Professor of Operations Management Director, Glassmeyer/McNamee Center for Digital Strategies Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth

Edmund Mierzwinski, Director, U.S. PIRG Consumer Program

Nancy A. Nord, Acting Chairman, U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission

David Barboza, reporter for The New York Times based in Shanghai.

11:00Readers Review: "The Good Earth" by Pearl Buck

Diane invites listeners to join a discussion about this classic novel focusing on traditional Chinese culture in the early twentieth century.

Guests

Da Chen, author of two best-selling memoirs, "Colors of the Mountain" and "Sounds of the River."

John Pomfret, editor, Washington Post's Outlook section and author of "Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of the New China" (Henry Holt)

Elizabeth Lipscomb, Thoresen Professor of English, Emerita, at Randolph College, and co-editor of "The Several Worlds of Pearl S. Buck."

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