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Monday April 21, 2008

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10:00Cap and Trade

President Bush recently unveiled a plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions beginning in 2025. Critics say it does not do enough to address global warming. What to do about climate change.

Guests

Kit Batten, Managing Director for Energy and Environmental Policy, Center for American Progress

Juliet Eilperin, reporter, Washington Post

Kenneth Green, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute

11:00Martha Sherrill: "Dog Man" (Penguin)

The remarkable story of a man who helped save the Akita - a breed of Japanese hunting dogs with a four thousand year history that almost became extinct at the end of World War Two.

Guests

Martha Sherrill, author of the nonfiction "The Buddha from Brooklyn" and the novels "My Last Movie Star" and "The Ruins of California."

Jodi Marcus, Co-founder, Vice President and Adoptions Coordinator for Mid-Atlantic Coast Akita Rescue.

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