Wednesday September 10, 2003
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Kojo travels to the Capitol Hill neighborhood to look at D.C. Police Chief Charles Ramsey’s recent declaration of a “crime emergency.” Is it just another crime spike, or is this crisis here to stay?
A look at how our government would operate in the event of a large-scale catastrophe.
John Fortier, Research Fellow, American Enterprise Institute
Brian Baird, U.S. Representative, Washington (D)
Meet the Scottish professor who's written a best-selling fiction series about a female detective in Botswana.
Alexander McCall Smith, Professor of Medical Law at the University of Edinburgh; Vice-Chairman of the British Human Genetics Commission; and author of "The Kalahari Typing School for Men (Pub: Pantheon)
And why mind-bending puzzles are showing up in job interviews.
William Poundstone, author of "How Would You Move Mount Fuji: Microsoft's Cult of the Puzzle" (Pub: Little Brown)