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An update on what several teams of investigators have determined caused some levees in New Orleans to fail post-Katrina and current efforts to ensure that these errors are not replicated.
Col Lewis Setliff, Army Corps of Engineers, head of Corps task force responsible for rebuilding the levees in New Orleans
Edward Link, senior fellow, civil and environmental engineering,Univeristy of Maryland. director of a Army Corps of Engineers task force investigating the levee failures in New Orleans
Raymond Seed, professor of engineering, University of California, Berkeley and head of an independent investigative task force funded by the National Science Foundation
Diane talks with the editor of an anthology of essays about the struggles and rewards of life with in-laws. They are joined by one of the contributors, author Dani Shapiro.
Ilena Silverman, story editor at "The New York Times Magazine" and coeditor of "What Counts: The Complete Harper's Index."
Dani Shapiro, author of three novels, "Playing with Fire," Fugitive Blue," and "Picturing the Wreck," and the memoir, "Slow Motion."
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