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April 18, 2006
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Duke Lacrosse Players Arrested and Charged

We have the latest on the early-morning arrests of Duke University lacrosse players charged with raping a college student who worked as a stripper.

Disposable Workers

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New York Times economics correspondent Louis Uchitelle talks about his new book “The Disposable American” and why layoffs are bad for companies as well as workers.

The Next Big One

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We remember the 100th anniversary of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake with a seismologist who is investigating how to predict the next big one.

The Times Picayune’s Peter Kovacs

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We speak with New Orleans Times Picayune Managing Editor Peter Kovacs, about his newspaper winning two Pulitzer prizes for its coverage of Hurricane Katrina.

Lord Buckley

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The “ultra-hipster” American comedian popularized black slang and made it cool for white American teenagers in the 1950s and 1960s.

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