Modern Love and Fracking in Texas

The Leonard Lopate Show | Feb 18, 2014

Daniel Jones, the editor of the Modern Love column in the New York Times, talks about 10 aspects of love that he’s seen over and over in the 50,000 stories that have crossed his desk in the last 10 years. Plus, we'll take a look at the Eagle Ford Shale in South Texas, which is one of the most active hydraulic fracturing sites in North America and how natural gas drilling has affected air quality there.

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