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On Monday U.S. Trade Representative Charlene Barshevsky finalized an agreement with China's minister of foreign trade that marks the first step toward China's entry into the World Trade Organization. A panel talks about what's in the agreement and what it could mean for the American economy.
Robert Scott, international economist and director of international programs at the Economic Policy Institute
Winston Lord, former assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
Gina Kolata of the New York Times discusses the influenza epidemic of 1918, which killed as many as 40 million people around the world. Today, scientists are working with long-preserved tissue samples of flu victims to try to learn what made that strain of this common virus so very deadly. Her new book is called "Flu" (Farrar Straus & Giroux).
Gina Kolata, author and "New York Times" science writer
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