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Thursday February 23, 2006

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10:00U.S. Seaport Security

Many security experts say that while U.S. seaports are vulnerable, politicians objecting to an Arab company's likely takeover of key port operations are aiming at the wrong target. Diane moderates a discussion on the politics and the facts of U.S. port security.

Guests

P.J. Crowley, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, retired Air Force colonel, and former special assistant to former President Clinton for national security affairs

Randall Larsen, founding director of the Institute for Homeland Security and author of "Our Own Worst Enemy"

Sen. Chris Dodd, (D-Connecticut)

Mayor Martin O'Malley, of Baltimore, Maryland

11:00Susan Foster: "Women Under the Influence" (Johns Hopkins)

A new study examines substance abuse by American women of all ages, why they get addicted more easily than their male counterparts, and what can be done about it.

Guests

Susan Foster, Vice President and Director of Policy Research and Analysis at The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University.

Joseph Califano, founding chairman of the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. He was special assistant to the Secretary of Defense in the Kennedy administration; special assistant to President Lyndon Johnson; and Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare in the Carter administration.

Dr. Nora Volkow, M.D., director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse/NIH

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