An infrastructure megaproject, Boston’s Big Dig carved out new highway tunnels/routes to ease downtown traffic congestion. The project was greenlit in 1982, but construction didn’t start until 1991. On December 31, 2007, and costing over 14.6 billion dollars, the Dig was finally done. Read/watch more…

After four decades of fly-by probes, orbiters, landers, and rovers, the quest for life on Mars is as tantalizing as ever. NOVA goes behind the scenes of the latest NASA missions to the Red Planet to reveal new clues about Mars. Watch now.

Last week’s Foreign Exchange with Daljit Dhaliwal featured an in-depth interview with the Pakistan ambassador to the U.S., Husain Haqqani. He speaks about Pakistan’s relationship with India, the Mumbai attacks, and much more. Watch.

Two episodes of Worldfocus this week have been dedicated to covering the situation in Israel and the attacks on Hamas on the Gaza Strip, the deadliest in decades. Worldfocus covers the military, healthcare, and diplomatic situations. Program 1, Program 2

One of Eartha Kitt’s last interviews was conducted by Washington Week’s Gwen Ifill for the Historymakers program “An Evening With Eartha Kitt” (airs on Thirteen in March 2009). You can listen to an mp3 of the interview at Newshour, or see a video excerpt. Ms. Kitt passed away on Christmas, 2008.

This week, a former managing director at Standard & Poor’s speaks out on U.S. television for the first time about how he was pressured to compromise standards in a push for profits. Surprising new revelations about the economic debacle, watch NOW.

Daljit Dhaliwal fills in for anchor Martin Savidge.
* Pakistan moves troops to Indian border
* UK’s economy
* Indonesian 4th anniversary of tsunami
* Saving gorillas in Africa
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NBR’s Jeff Yastine finds out how recycling methane gas produced by landfills impacts the environment and the bottom line. Watch report now.

The City Concealed is a new online video series exploring the unseen corners of New York. In our first installment, we take a trip 3.5 miles inland on this rarely-seen waterway that separates Brooklyn from Queens. Watch.

See an interview from 2001 with Pinter, who passed away last week, where he discusses his life’s work and his battle with cancer. Also, Rose interviewed Pinter in 2007, where he talks about Lincoln Center Festival’s 2007 Pinter retrospective. Watch now.