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The Ethicist: Stealing Thin Air

Host Jennifer Ludden and Randy Cohen, The New York Times Magazine's ethics columnist, answer a listener's ethical dilemma. A laptop computer user wants to know if he should feel guilty for tapping into other people's wireless networks.

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Jennifer Ludden helps edit energy and environment stories for NPR's National Desk, working with NPR staffers and a team of public radio reporters across the country. They track the shift to clean energy, state and federal policy moves, and how people and communities are coping with the mounting impacts of climate change.
Randy Cohen
Randy Cohen was born in Charleston, S.C., and raised in Reading, Pa. He attended graduate school at the California Institute of the Arts as a music major studying composition.
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