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Tuesday September 27, 2005

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10:00Food and Drug Administration

Diane and her guests talk about the direction and policies of the Food and Drug Administration, whose top official resigned on Friday.

Guests

David Kessler, former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, currently dean and vice chancellor of the University of California--San Francisco School of Medicine, and author of "A Question of Intent: A Great American Battle with a Deadly Industry" (PublicAffairs)

Dr. Susan Wood, former director of the Office of Women's Health at the FDA

John Calfee, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute

Julie Rovner, health policy correspondent for National Public Radio, author of "Health Care Policy and Politics A-Z," and contributing editor for National Journal's CongressDaily.

11:00Anthony Shadid: "Night Draws Near" (Henry Holt)

Pulitzer-Prize--winning reporter Anthony Shadid joins Diane to talk about his work in Iraq, where he was "embedded" not with U.S. forces but with Iraqi civilians. He talks about what the war looks like through Iraqi eyes.

Guests

Anthony Shadid, reporter for The Washington Post, author of "Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War" (Picador) and winner of the 2004 Pulitzer for International Reporting

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