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Photographer ASHLEY GILBERTSON has covered the war in Iraq for the past several years, mostly for the New York Times. His new book,Whiskey Tango Foxtrot is a collection of the best of his photographs. Gilbertson recently was awarded the Robert Capa Gold Medal from the Overseas Press Club for his coverage of the U.S. invasion of Falluja.

LOUIS MASSIAH, founder of Scribe Video Center, joins Marty to talk about his latest project, Precious Places, which includes 41 short films of oral histories about Philadelphia neighborhoods.

America's new energy plan explained. President Bush signed into law a new energy plan that will require better mileage in cars and require the production of non-petroleum fuels such as corn based ethanol. We'll talk with DAVID TILMAN a professor and chair of ecology at the University of Minnesota about how the new law will impact our lives from the gas pump to the grocery store.

The Hollywood writers??? strike is in its 7th week. We talk about the work stoppage and its impact on television with DAMON LINDELOF, creator and head writer of the series Lost, and television critics DAVID BIANCULLI and MELANIE McFARLAND.

Does the 2nd Amendment give an individual the right to own a gun? In 2008, The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to hear arguments whether a municipal handgun ban violates the 2nd Amendment. At stake, legal observers say, is whether the Constitutional right to bear arms meant it for the National Guard or for individual citizens. We'll debate this with DAVID KAIRYS, a law professor at Temple University and SANFORD LEVINSON a law professor at the University of Texas-Austin.

We talk about the Mitchell Report on steroid use in baseball with veteran sportswriters FRANK FITZPATRICK and BOB FORD. Both have written frequently over the years about doping in sports.

The latest on the 2008 Presidential election. We'll talk with DICK POLMAN, the national political writer for The Philadelphia Inquirer. He has been tracking the latest events on his political blog The American Debate available at Philly.com. Also we'll check in with Time Magazine's Nation editor AMY SULLIVAN about Time's latest poll on the Presidential election.

The story of identical twins separated at childhood for a secret nature vs. nurture experiment. The children, two girls, were adopted into families who were unaware of the nature of the study and were also never told that their child had a twin. Three years ago the two met for the first time. We'll talk with the twins PAULA BERNSTEIN and ELYSE SCHEIN who are co-authors of Identical Strangers: A Memoir of Twins Separated and Reunited.

A report issued last week by the Urban League of Philadelphia concludes that huge racial disparities still exist in the City, particularly when it comes to economic opportunity, education,employment and health. We talk about the report, its findings and recommendations with PATRICIA COULTER of the Urban League of Philadelphia, KIA GREGORY who writes for the City Paper, and PHOEBE HADDON, professor of law at Temple.

Stephen Sondheim???s award winning musical, Sweeney Todd has made the move to the big screen. The movie, directed by Tim Burton and starring Johnny Depp in the lead role, opens on Christmas Day. We talk about the story, the music, and the challenges of bringing Sweeney Todd to stage and film with DAVID FOX who teaches theater at the University of Pennsylvania, and TERRENCE NOLAN, of the Arden Theater who won a Barrymore award for his 2005 production of Sweeney Todd.

AMY SEDARIS loves to entertain and she does it with unusual flair as descriped in her new book, "I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence." Amy is a baker, comic, writer and co-creator of Comedy Central's "Strangers with Candy," and one half of the playwriting team "The Talent Family" (with her brother, David).

Reporter roundtable discussion on this week's biggest political stories. We'll talk with two veteran Capitol Hill journalists, SUSAN MILLIGAN who covers Congress for The Boston Globe, and A.B. STODDARD, associate editor of The Hill newspaper.

Best-selling author and columnist ANNA QUINDLEN has a new novel, "Rise and Shine." It's the story of two sisters that explores issues arising from fame, success and the search for what's really important in life. She's here with Marty talking about the book and important issues of the day.

Humorist JOHN HODGMAN. You may recognize him as Mr. PC in Apple's current Mac versus PC television commercials, but he is also a contributor to public radio's This American Life, and a regular on Comedy Central's The Daily Show. His book The Areas of My Expertise" has just been released in paperback. He appears tonight at Philadelphia Free Library at 7pm as part of the 215 Festival.

We get reaction to the school shootings near Lancaster from WITF news director SCOTT GILBERT, DONALD KRAYBILL, professor at Elizabethtown whose research focuses on Amish culture, and Princeton professor KATHLEEN NEWMAN, author of Rampage: The Social Roots of School Shootings.

Bringing healthcare to America's inner cities. We talk with JOHN RICH, who was named one of this year's MacArthur Genius Fellows for his work addressing the health care needs of one of the nation's most ignored and underserved populations--African-American men in urban settings. Rich is currently professor and chair of the Department of Health Management and Policy at Drexel University in Philadelphia.

The Hewlett-Packard scandal is front-page news but what does it tell you about the corporate board room? We talk with BusinessWeek reporter LORRAINE WOELLERT. Then, what have companies and their boards learned from the recent corporate scandals. We hear from University Delaware professor CHARLES ELSON. Alan Tu guest hosts.

We talk with MICHAEL CORRIERO author of Judging Children As Children: A Proposal for a Juvenile Justice System. Since 1992, Corriero has been the presiding judge in the Youth Part of New York City's adult criminal court. He says, children are developmentally different from adults and the current trend of automatically sending minors charged with violent crimes in adult court is hurting society in the long run. He says judges should be given more leeway to assess whether the young offenders get a 2nd chance and sent down to juvenile court.

In her new novel, The Keep, writer JENNIFER EGAN explores issues involving creativity, writing and the wired world in which we live -- all set against the backdrop of a Gothic castle. Egan's previous novels are The Invisible Circus and Look at Me, which was a finalist for the National Book Award

As the number of homicides in Philadelphia increases, we talk with criminologist DAVID KENNEDY about strategies used by other cities in the United States to curb violence. Kennedy is Director of the Center for Crime Prevention and Control at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice.