I briefly hit the mall over the weekend. Judging from the amount of cars in the parking lots, the lines I stood in and number of times I was bumped around, it looked like the holiday shopping season wasn't hurting at all. But one look at the discounts-- some stores offered as much as 70 percent off-- let you know that retailers are feeling a bit desperate this year. In our first hour, we'll talk to Ylan Mui, Washington Post retail reporter, about what ways retailers are enticing customers to pull out their wallets. Then on our opinion page this week, former CIA officer Reuel Marc Gerecht will explain why we should not expect President-elect Barack Obama to follow through on his promises to ban tactics like waterboarding and the use of extraordinary rendition. Gerecht's op-ed titled "Out of Sight" appeared in the December 14th edition of the New York Times.
In our second hour, two Time magazine contributors talk about their 100 Most Influential People of 2008 list. We'll also talk with NPR's Robert Krulwich about who he nominated. And we want to hear your picks. Who in your field has transformed our world in 2008, for better or worse? Okay, BESIDES Barack Obama. Then, we'll talk about the plane crash that happened in Denver over the weekend. A fire chief who was on the scene said it was a miracle no one died. But at the end of the hour, we'll talk with Amanda Ripley, author of The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes who claims that, statistically speaking, plane crashes are survivable.
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