Tuesday April 17, 2007
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Diane and her guests talk about the latest information on the deadly shootings at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University: the university police and administration's handling of the two attacks, what is known about the shooter, and questions from the community and on campuses around the country.
Fox Butterfield, author and former New York Times reporter (38 years)
Susan Riseling, chief of police for the University of Wisconsin at Madison and vice president at large of the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP)
Beverly Amsler, Morning Edition host for NPR member station WVTF in Roanoke, Va. WVTF is a licensee of Virginia Tech University, serving southwestern Virginia, including Blacksburg, Va
The rise of the powerful tobacco industry, how it's battled mounting legal and scientific challenges, and where its future lies.
Allan Brandt, the Amalie Moses Kass Professor of the History of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.