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    Politics and the power of a word

    Hillary Clinton has labeled half of Donald Trump’s supporters "deplorables." Trump has said, "Fifty percent of Americans just sit back and do nothing." As the rhetoric of this campaign becomes more divisive than ever, how difficult will be to govern — whoever ends up in the White House?

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    By Warren Olney • Sep 14, 2016 • 52m Listen

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    1. 1:56

      Bayer bids for Monsanto in largest cash deal on record

      Merger mania continues as Bayer, the German Pharmaceutical company, has successfully bid to buy Monsanto , the maker of Roundup and seeds for genetically modified foods.  At $66 billion, it's the biggest cash deal on record.  Jeff McCracken, Executive Editor of Global Deals at Bloomberg News , has more on the mega-merger.

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      Politics and the power of a word

      There's a new word in this year's political vocabulary: "deplorables" -- first used by Hillary Clinton to describe "half" of Donald Trump's supporters.

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      34 min
    3. 42:56

      How the sugar industry skewed nutrition research

      We all know how Big Tobacco influenced research on smoking and cancer. Now it turns out that Big Sugar has influenced research on diet and heart disease -- for 50 years.

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      Warren Olney

      former KCRW broadcaster

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      Katie Cooper

      Producer, 'One year Later'

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      Sáša Woodruff

      Producer, 'To the Point'

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      Paul von Zielbauer

      Co-founder of Geezer magazine, former producer for To the Point and Which Way LA?; former reporter for the New York Times

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    In this episode

    3 stories
    1. 1:566 min

      Bayer bids for Monsanto in largest cash deal on record

    2. 8:3334 min

      Politics and the power of a word

    3. 42:5610 min

      How the sugar industry skewed nutrition research

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