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Power from the People |
| Episode Number: |
417 - Available on iTunes |
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Germany is moving quickly to develop alternative energy, allowing individual homes to sell excess power to electric companies. Also, Abu Dhabi goes green and an icon of the environmental movement.
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Operation Helmet |
| Episode Number: |
416 - Available on iTunes |
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Battling the military for helmet pads to protect troops against IEDs. Is the drinking water causing cancer at Camp Le Jeune? And learning about the Holocaust firsthand.
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Revolt |
| Episode Number: |
415 - Available on iTunes |
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The Virginia legislature says "no thanks" to federal stimulus money that would have helped some of the state's record number of unemployed. Also, gangs in the military have police worried. Plus, feeding the starving in Afghanistan and a new phenomenon of grocery auctions in the United States.
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Busted |
| Episode Number: |
414 - Available on iTunes |
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Las Vegas now has the dubious distinction of double digit unemployment and a huge number of home foreclosures as the economy goes bust.
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Everyone's Covered |
| Episode Number: |
413 - Available on iTunes |
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In Canada, everyone is covered by medical insurance. But there are often long waits to see doctors or have surgery. Also, an agricultural town where workers who climbed the economic ladder out of the fields are suddenly finding themselves without jobs. And, a conversation on the Middle East with noted scholar Fouad Ajami.
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Meat Market |
| Episode Number: |
412 - Available on iTunes |
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From white tablecloth restaurants to ranches in the Midwest, the economic effect of the recession on the beef industry. Also, noted Harvard law professor Elizabeth Warren.
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The Swedish Model |
| Episode Number: |
411 - Available on iTunes |
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The "Swedish Model" of nationalizing banks is seen as the next step if U.S. banks continue to falter. Also, the simplest explanation of the Obama Administration's banking bailout plan. And lobbyists are mad over new restrictions.
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A Border Runs Through It |
| Episode Number: |
410 - Available on iTunes |
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Few of the thousands of people crossing the Pakistan-Afghanistan border every day are searched or checked. And an Afghan border region where NATO reconstruction efforts are paying off.
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Meltdown |
| Episode Number: |
409 - Available on iTunes |
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Iceland's government collapses after its banks fail. Also, many small, community bankers in the U.S. are whistling through the recession.
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Knocking Heads |
| Episode Number: |
408 - Available on iTunes |
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New science has determined young athletes are risking permanent brain damage if concussions are untreated. Also, professional athletes and brain damage.
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SOLD! |
| Episode Number: |
407 - Available on iTunes |
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Ft. Myers Florida is knee deep in bankruptcies and foreclosures. But even bad economic times can be profitable. Also, the woman in charge of finding the billions in tax dollars given to the banks.
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Yankee, Go Home! |
| Episode Number: |
406 - Available on iTunes |
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The new President of Bolivia promotes coca growth and expels US drug agents. A military school with a questionable past is training soldiers from Latin America. Plus, the US Ambassador to Afghanistan.
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The Castle Doctrine |
| Episode Number: |
405 - Available on iTunes |
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A new breed of laws is rapidly giving Americans more rights to use deadly force to defend themselves and their property.
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Target: Philippines |
| Episode Number: |
404 - Available on iTunes |
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American troops fighting terrorists in the Philippines have become a model for the global war on terror.
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A Dream Fulfilled |
| Episode Number: |
403 - Available on iTunes |
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Many who were living in Memphis when Dr. King was assassinated travel to Washington, D.C. to see their dream fulfilled. And, Civil Rights pioneer Dr. Benjamin Hooks and Van Jones, the guru of "green jobs."
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War Without End |
| Episode Number: |
402 - Available on iTunes |
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The latest from Gaza. Madeline Albright on the Middle East Crisis and J Street--a controversial group of American Jews who are advocating peace.
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The Commander |
| Episode Number: |
401 - Available on iTunes |
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Dan Rather travels to Afghanistan to interview the American general in charge of quelling the growing insurgency. Also a visit to frontline U.S. forces.
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The Most Wanted Man in Iran |
| Episode Number: |
342 - Available on iTunes |
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Meet the leader of a group killing Iranian soldiers along the country's border with Pakistan. The Iranians call them terrorists with ties to Al Qaeda, but the group's leader says they're freedom fighters. Plus a weapon the U.S. wants to use but other countries want to ban.
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Whiz Kids |
| Episode Number: |
341 - Available on iTunes |
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Wall Street is now attracting a huge percentage of graduates from the nation's elite colleges and universities, and some are questioning if this is the best use of this countries brightest young minds. Also, Israel and its amazing contributions to the high tech world. And after another devastating hurricane, questions about whether to rebuild Galveston, Texas.
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Pollution in Paradise |
| Episode Number: |
340 - Available on iTunes |
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One of the most valuable and pristine natural habitats in the world, the Galapagos Islands are now threatened due in part to a flood of tourists. Dan Rather travels to the islands to examine the rapidly changing environment there.
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