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Newscast - Sandra Hong
Sandra Hong reports. Transcript
Transit Security
The reverberations of the terrorist attacks in Spain have been felt along the railways in the United States through increased security. Ben Shaw describes what that looks like, including a comforting word from Mayor Bloomberg that the "funny-looking person sitting next to you may be looking out for you."
Benjamin Harris Shaw reports. Transcript
Taxi Medallions
For only the third time in its history, New York is selling taxi medallions. Joel Meyer reports that the medallions, which are the price of a house, will raise about 200 million dollars and the hopes of "renters" who dream of being "owners."
Joel Meyer reports. Transcript
Former Investment Banker
While the world salivated over Martha Stewart's verdict, the CEO of WorldCom was indicted with little fanfare in the biggest accounting fraud in United States history. Sylvia Gross talks with financial writer Nomi Prins about the high cost of "legal dishonesty."
Sylvia Maria Gross reports. Transcript
Crack Turns Twenty
This year, crack turns 20. The drug itself has fallen out of vogue. But the term "crack baby" is still widely used, although many doctors and scientists insist there is no such syndrome.
Mariah Blake reports. Transcript
Third Graders
If Mayor Bloomberg gets his way, third-graders who can't read will get "left back."
Is this a second chance to succeed or another obstacle on the path to learning? John Kearney reports
John Kearney reports. Transcript
Small Schools
Mayor Bloomberg's re-tooling of the city's schools is about to include the transformation of a dozen, troubled high schools into forty academies. Sylvia Gross talks with some educators who caution that this has been done before ... big schools divided into small schools which were given new names ... but nothing else changed.
Sylvia Maria Gross reports. Transcript
Newscast - Anya Bourg
Anya Bourg reports. Transcript
Adolescents and AIDS: Stan Bernstein
Every 14 seconds, according to a new United Nations report, a young person is infected with AIDS ... and most of them are girls forced to have sex ... either by marriage or violence.
Sandra Hong talks with Stan Bernstein of the U.N.'s Population Fund.
Sandra Hong reports. Transcript
Madrid Bombing - Laura Strickler
One day after the terrorist attack in Madrid ...
coping in Spain and in New York.
Laura Strickler reports.
Sylvia Maria Gross reports. Transcript
Being An Understudy
No matter how prepared you are in life, its a good idea to be ready for the unexpected ... and, even then, prepare to be surprised.
John Boyle describes his Broadway debut.
John Boyle reports. Transcript
Robots
A fleet of robot-driven vehicles races 200 miles ... with no remote control ... across the Mojave Desert and the first robot across the finish line ... in under ten hours ... wins one million dollars. Jacob Goldstein reports.
Jacob Goldstein reports. Transcript
Organic Market
Some local farms are giving up their certification that allows them to claim the food they grow as organic. It is their protest against supermarkets and factory farms capitlaizing on the word, "organic" ... as newly defined by the federal government.
Oliver Hill has the story.
Oliver Hill reports. Transcript
Fishing in Sheepshead Bay
A half-century of party-boat fishing off the shore of Brooklyn is being threatened by stiff government regulations. Josh Payne talks to some who wonder why the rules don't seem to apply to the big guys ... the commercial fishermen.
Josh Payne reports. Transcript
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