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10:00China's Three Gorges Dam

China's long dreamed-for engineering feat may be turning into an environmental nightmare. How demand to control flooding and meet China's ravenous energy needs through cleaner means is playing out along the Yangtze River.

Guests

Aviva Imhof, campaigns director, International Rivers

Shai Oster, correspondent for The Wall Street Journal and The Wall Street Journal Asia

Cheng Li, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution's John L. Thornton China Center; professor of government, Hamilton College, a director of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations

Jerome Delli Priscolli, senior adviser at the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers' Institute for Water Resources; member on the board of governors of The World Water Council; editor-in-chief of "Water Policy;" author of forthcoming book "Transforming Water Conflicts."

11:00Laurel Thatcher Ulrich: "Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History" (Knopf)

The author of the phrase "well-behaved women seldom make history' explains the origin of the slogan, what it means to her, and how women have been portrayed throughout history.

Guests

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, 300th Anniversary University Professor at Harvard and author of the Pulitzer Prize winning, "A Midwife's Tale."

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