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>> don't miss any updates from washington journal. start your twitter account today at twutter.com -- twitter.com/c-span wj. >> this week on "the communicators," several bear spectives on a study that measures how brain activity changes due to cell phone use. >> host: joining us on "the communicators" is dr. nora volkow who is the director of the national institute on drug abuse, and recently dr. volkow, you conducted a study on cell phones. what was that study? >> guest: the study was to try to find out the human brain is sensitive to the electromagnetic radiation that is emitted by...

Reactor down and order an inspection. and when it was shut down for refuelling, they discovered a hole the size of a pineapple with a third of an inch between a blowout of that vessel head and safety. >> okay, bottom line, sir, are we safe in this country from nuclear disaster? >> well, you know, i have to say like everybody else that the probabilities are low, but the nrc is reluctant to impose costs on the industry that are reasonable, that would greatly increase safety. and it's had official studies from brook haven, from the national academies. and it should accept those recommendations. i...

intervened. you say neither, i say neither. plus, unintended consequences, what if gadhafi pulls back, abides by cease-fire, and stays onscene? can he survive? plus a top nuclear scientist says the disaster over in japan reminds us over here that the nuclear industry over here in the united states has gained control of the agency, which is supposed to regulate it. the nuclear regulatory commission. in other words, in the nrc, the foxes are guarding the hen house. how do we fix this baby? and the juiciest story of the day for "hardball." it's now likely that michelle bauchmann w...

six months of pre-existing conditions? who is going to cover the medication? guest: people in the pre- existing condition pool have drug coverage, but you need to be in the program. host: tinsley is in the health- care industry. caller:, actually, dr. tinsley. this is hoping that a lot of us doctors are concerned about. a lot of us doctors can no longer afford to take medicaid. i just did it. i miss my medicaid patients. unfortunately, it is a business. i do not make enough money. i cannot a miner says, staff. -- my nurses, staff. my salary has also been greatly reduced. we were maki...

were from south carolina, north carolina, georgia. my mother was from rome, georgia migrated to washington, d.c. my father migrated from southern virginia to washington, d.c. different decades, would never have met had there been no great migration, had they not left the south and landed in the same city. so in some ways i exist because of the great migration and i think i've been in some ways writing it all my life. >> rose: david grossman and isabel wilkerson coming up. maybe you want school kids to have more exposure to the arts. maybe you want to provide meals for the needy. or m...