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Tuesday October 2, 2007

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10:00Food Prices

Food prices are hitting new highs. A look at how energy costs, federal subsidies, and a growing middle class worldwide are reducing end of year grain inventories and driving up grocery bills.

Guests

Bruce Babcock, professor of economics and the director of the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development at Iowa State University.

Dan Morgan, special correspondent, Washington Post and fellow, German Marshal Fund of the United States

Lauren Etter, reporter, Wall Street Journal

11:00John Elder Robison: "Look Me in the Eye" (Crown)

Author discusses his troubled childhood and living with Asperger's syndrome.

Guests

John Elder Robison, author and owner of J E Robison Service, a company which repairs and restores fine European automobiles.

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