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The Leonard Lopate Show | Jul 15, 2011

Today, Amy Eddings fills in for Leonard. She speaks with Shelley Pasnik, the Director for the Center for Children and Technology, about how children are using technology and how it's changing family dynamics—for better and worse. Emmy Award-winner and comedienne Judy Gold talks about her return to the stage in "The Judy Show - My Life as a Sitcom." Retired NYPD detective Michael Codella and Bruce Bennett describe the gritty history of drugs and crime in Alphabet City. And Bruce Feiler discusses the many years he spent in the Middle East and looks at the historic youth uprisings in the Arab world.

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