Just in time for the 2008 election season, Am. Ex. rolls out their 20th-century presidential documentaries online. In May, a new documentary on the life of George H.W. Bush (broadcast May 5-6), followed by docs on FDR, and Truman … in the fall, Carter, Nixon and Reagan.
Democratic Presidential candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton may still be in a dead heat after Tuesday’s primaries in North Carolina and Indiana, because there are not enough delegates to make a difference; but Clinton is gaining on Obama in polls tracking general appeal.
Sam Pollard, director of the new American Masters film “Marvin Gaye: What’s Going On,” describes the process of making the film, what he learned, and what he hopes viewers will take away after watching it.
In India and Africa, vulture numbers are severely threatened. In India, drugs given to livestock are having unintentionally bad effects on white-backed vulture populations; in Africa, the practice of poisoning carcasses is killing record numbers of vultures. More…
In 2003, Gene Robinson became the first openly gay bishop in the Episcopal Church and in the worldwide Anglican Communion. Now Robinson is planning another controversial ceremony: In June, Robinson and his partner Mark Andrew will have their relationship officially recognized at the New Hampshire statehouse.
In the ’50s and ’60s, Cabo Blanco, Peru was a mecca for food and sport fishing. There, the collision of two ocean currents created the perfect conditions the prized billfish. Now the billfish are all but gone from Cabo Blanco–see more about them on Nature’s “Superfish”.
This Saturday and Sunday (May 3, 4), experience Hanami — the Japanese cultural tradition of viewing and cherishing each moment of the cherry blossom season — when the Brooklyn Botanical Garden’s 220 cherry trees enter peak bloom.
This week, a teenage pimp, an immigrant adrift in New York City, and a child with an acrobatic imagination vied for your votes. So which film won?
The American Lung Association’s “State of the Air: 2008″ report released today, found that about 42 percent of residents nationwide live in counties with high levels of particle or ozone pollution.
Prospects have brightened a little for Sen. Hillary Clinton against Sen. Barack Obama. In fact, she’s moved slightly ahead of Obama in the national AP poll and she leads Sen. John McCain by 9 points. Does she have a chance of winning in North Carolina next Tuesday?
