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Transcript: Your Letters: Joss Whedon, Bad Veggies
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LIANE HANSEN
NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday
09-27-2009
Your Letters: Joss Whedon, Bad Veggies
Host: LIANE HANSEN
Time 13:00-14:00 PM
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LIANE HANSEN, host:
Time now for your letters. And first, an apology. Last week, NPR's Lourdes Garcia-Navarro shared her Reporter's Notebook from the West Bank city of Ramallah, where Muslims observing Ramadan were trying to cross into Jerusalem to pray at an Islamic holy site. Ms. Navarro spoke to one pilgrim, whom she described as deaf and dumb. The correct way to refer to a person who is unable to hear and has difficulty speaking is to simply use the term deaf.
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