In the third report in her series on power, NPR's Susan Stamberg talks with linguist Deborah Tannen about the power of language -- in politics, at work and in the home.
Susan Stamberg was one of NPR's "founding mothers" (she also coined the phrase). She joined the network at the time of its inception in 1971, and her career at NPR spanned more than five decades.
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Every summer for the past 15 years, a glacial lake in the mountains outside of Juneau has burst through the ice dam that holds it back. At first, the floods downstream on the Mendenhall River were barely noticeable. Then, something changed.