Episode 1
Aired Jan 2, 2009
Credit card companies use questionable practices.
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Episode 2
Aired Jan 9, 2009
The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and other researchers discuss how climate change affects the world's oceans.
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Episode 3
Aired Jan 16, 2009
California's clean energy plan faces opposition from property owners and conservationists.
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Episode 4
Aired Jan 23, 2009
Baby boomers and retirees in South Carolina talk about how they're affected by the economic crisis.
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Episode 5
Aired Jan 30, 2009
Options for stabilizing the U.S. financial system.
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Episode 6
Aired Feb 6, 2009
Cities across the country sue major national lenders and banks for alleged deceptive and discriminatory lending practices.
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Episode 7
Aired Feb 13, 2009
Whether stimulus money will be spent the way in which it is intended; mass transit in North Carolina.
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Episode 8
Aired Feb 20, 2009
Teen sexual harassment in the workplace.
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Episode 9
Aired Feb 27, 2009
The economic crisis could delay retirement for baby boomers.
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Episode 10
Aired Mar 6, 2009
Sister Dorothy Stang, a Catholic nun from Dayton, Ohio, was killed in the Brazilian Amazon in 2003.
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Episode 11
Aired Mar 13, 2009
Professor Kenneth Rogoff discusses the global economy as the world's economic leaders prepare to meet for the G-20 in April.
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Episode 12
Aired Mar 20, 2009
The people of Nevada deal with unemployment, cuts in Medicaid and other public services.
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Episode 13
Aired Mar 27, 2009
Sheriff Joe Arpaio is criticized for the way he has enforced immigration laws in Maricopa County, Arizona.
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Episode 14
Aired Apr 3, 2009
Many U.S. troops suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder or brain injuries are denied care; residents of Kiribati may become refugees of climate change.
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Episode 15
Aired Apr 10, 2009
Clean coal is coal which can be burned without releasing carbon into the atmosphere.
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Episode 16
Aired Apr 17, 2009
On Thin Ice
A report on global warming includes visits to the Gangotri Glacier in the Himalayan Mountains and Montana's Glacier National Park.
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Episode 17
Aired Apr 24, 2009
A backlog in processing rape kits delays and, at times, denies justice for thousands of American women.
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Episode 18
Aired May 1, 2009
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan eliminates staff at low-performing schools.
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Episode 19
Aired May 8, 2009
Dr. Larry Brilliant discusses the swine flu and high-tech tools that make it easier for scientists to detect global outbreaks.
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Episode 20
Aired May 15, 2009
The largest and most expensive peacekeeping operation is in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where 17,000 U.N. troops protect millions of people.
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Episode 21
Aired May 22, 2009
Robert Lacey visits terrorist rehabilitation camps in Saudi Arabia.
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Episode 22
Aired May 29, 2009
Van Jones, founder of "Green for All," a group that brings green jobs to disadvantaged Americans.
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Episode 23
Aired Jun 5, 2009
Filmmaker Robert Kenner talks about contemporary food processing.
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Episode 24
Aired Jun 12, 2009
The murder of Dr. George Tiller ignites a debate -- whether violence against doctors who perform late-term abortions should be prosecuted as domestic terrorism.
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Episode 25
Aired Jun 19, 2009
College graduates face growing debt because of student loans.
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Episode 26
Aired Jun 26, 2009
Max Rameau's organization Take Back the Land identifies homes in foreclosure and searches for families willing to take on the legal risks of moving in.
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Episode 27
Aired Jul 3, 2009
Families living along the U.S.-Mexico border fence worry about their property and safety.
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Episode 28
Aired Jul 10, 2009
Peace and Prosperity for the West Bank?
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair discusses the effort to bring peace to the West Bank; a former commander of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade talks about his decision to stop using violent tactics.
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Episode 29
Aired Jul 17, 2009
Israelis discuss how war affects their lives.
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Episode 30
Aired Jul 24, 2009
President Barack Obama proposes reform for Wall Street.
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Episode 31
Aired Jul 31, 2009
Fighting Child Prostitution
Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin has launched awareness and crackdown campaigns targeting customers of underage prostitutes.
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Episode 32
Aired Aug 7, 2009
California's clean energy plan faces opposition from property owners and conservationists who prefer renewable energy from local sources.
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Episode 33
Aired Aug 14, 2009
Howard Dean, former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, discuss the economic collapse and health care.
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Episode 34
Aired Aug 21, 2009
The backlog in testing rape kits delays, and sometimes denies, justice for thousands of victims.
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Episode 35
Aired Aug 28, 2009
The needs, challenges and solutions for transporting cargo across the United States.
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Episode 36
Aired Sep 4, 2009
Preventative detention is a government plan that detains suspects indefinitely, without trial or formal charges.
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Episode 37
Aired Sep 11, 2009
Rwandan doctors deliver medicine and counseling door-to-door; Rwandan President Paul Kagame discusses international aid.
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Episode 38
Aired Sep 18, 2009
Surrogacy services and a lack of regulation in the United States may be defrauding couples and victimizing women who are trying to help them.
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Episode 39
Aired Sep 25, 2009
Health care reform in the United States and government proposals that address the issue.
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Episode 40
Aired Oct 2, 2009
Bill Gentile reports from Afghanistan's southern Helmand Province, where he was embedded with the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit in 2008.
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Episode 41
Aired Oct 9, 2009
End of life planning at Gundersen Lutheran Hospital in Wisconsin.
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Episode 42
Aired Oct 16, 2009
A nationwide nursing shortage strains the medical system.
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Episode 43
Aired Oct 23, 2009
Entire communities in Bangladesh are inundated with water.
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Episode 44
Aired Oct 30, 2009
Shai Agassi, founder of Better Place, works with the Danish government to promote the use of electric cars.
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Episode 45
Aired Nov 6, 2009
Author David Sirota talks about populist anger, President Barack Obama's successes and failures and election results.
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Episode 46
Aired Nov 13, 2009
Harvard University Professor Elizabeth Warren discusses the economy and unemployment.
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Episode 47
Aired Nov 20, 2009
Support for family members who care for returning soldiers with traumatic brain injuries.
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Episode 48
Aired Nov 27, 2009
Mohamed Nasheed, president of the Maldives, discusses the climate crisis in his country.
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Episode 49
Aired Dec 4, 2009
Two Oklahoma families struggle with private health insurance problems that have left them unable to get proper medical care.
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Episode 50
Aired Dec 11, 2009
Thousands of military personnel will descend on the small island of Guam as part of the U.S. and Japanese agreement to realign American forces in the Pacific.
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Episode 51
Aired Dec 18, 2009
Door-to-door medicine in Rwanda; Rwandan President Paul Kagame discusses international aid.
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Episode 52
Aired Dec 25, 2009
The high price of higher education leaves many college graduates buried in debt.
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