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Role of investors in meltdown, 1/5/2010
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(Professor Tyler Shumway examines ways in which individual investors impacted and reacted to the economic meltdown. His assessment shatters some popular myths and attitudes.)
Christmas Day (2009) Airplane bombing attempt, 1/10/2010
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(Law professor Julian Davis Mortenson discusses the legal issues facing the alleged airplane bomber.)
Women on board, 2/10/2010
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(Public companies in Norway have been negatively effected by a recent law requiring corporate boards to have female membership of at least 40 percent---but not because of gender.)
Equality is not a reality, 3/3/2010
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(Professor Susan Douglas says women have not gained full equality, which is the opposite of what media images tend to show.)
Saturn: Swimming in water, 3/11/2010
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(A conversation with Tamas Gombosi, chair of the Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences, about what the Cassini spacecraft has taught scientists about Saturn's space environment.)
State officials get low marks, 3/20/2010
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(Michigan's local government leaders expressed an alarming lack of trust in state government leaders in Lansing and significant dissatisfaction with their job performance. This distrust raises questions about the ability of state-level officials to produce policy solutions that depend on local implementation.)
Primary-care reforms urged, 3/23/2010
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(Joanne Pohl, a professor of nursing at the School of Nursing, served on a health care panel that issued sweeping recommendations that included increasing the number of primary-care providers, which include general-practice physicians, nurse practitioners and physician assistants.)
Ban on texting while driving, 4/12/2010
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(Dr. Paul Green of Driver Interface Group at the University of Michigan discusses banning texting while driving in Michigan.)
Empathy in College Students, 5/25/2010
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(Research shows that today's college students are less empathic than students were before 2000.)