Monday February 25, 2002
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Week of February 25, 2002
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A panel talks about the looming drug control crisis created in Afghanistan when the Taliban fell and poor Afghan farmers became relatively free to plant that country's most successful cash crop: poppies for the production of opium.
Rand Beers, Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement
Martha Olcott, senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Maureen Orth, special correspondent for "Vanity Fair" Magazine.
Invasive plants infest about one hundred million acres in the U.S. each year, costing American industry billions of dollars. Diane and her guests talk about the risks of invasive weeds and how to identify, prevent, and control them.
Ketzel Levine, National Public Radio correspondent, author of "Plant This!" and host of www.talkingplants.com
Lori Williams, executive director of the National Invasive Species Council
Tom Elias, director of the U.S. National Arboretum