Monday April 9, 2007
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Attention shoppers: if you're someone who would never consider paying full price, you might want to pay attention to a case currently before the U.S. Supreme Court. Justices are weighing whether to allow manufacturers to set minimum prices for their products. That could mean higher prices or better service -- depending on who you ask. Join Kojo for a look at the debate over "vertical price fixing."
Don Baker, partner, Baker & Miller; and Assistant Attorney General in Charge of the Antitrust Division, (1976-77); Trial Attorney and Section Chief (1966-71), and Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Regulated Industries, Appeals and Foreign Commerce (1972-1975)
Michael Mandel, Chief Economist, BusinessWeek Magazine
It's the stuff of old mariners' nightmares: Earlier this year, fishermen off Antarctica caught a "colossal squid"- weighing a thousand pounds and measuring forty feet. And it was just one of a growing number of intriguing oceanic discoveries. We explore new scientific insights, and how changes in the open ocean may be changing ecology closer to shore.
David Pawson, Marine Biologist; Senior Scientist, Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History
Charles H. Peterson, Professor of Marine Sciences Biology and Ecology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill