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Building bridges
Jeff Greenfield explores why it now takes nearly four times as long to complete infrastructure projects in the United States than it did in the 1970s. The Bayonne Bridge needs to be raised to accommodate the new size of ships. Need to Know looks into why the project has become a debate over government paralysis and environmental quality.
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Dying to get backWhile the number of illegal crossings at the border has plummeted…
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After Newtown: Gone Boy -
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Do No Harm and Danish Medical Courts -
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Ending Paralysis: New Jersey and Germany -
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A Tale of Four Tax Returns -
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The Long-term Care Challenge -
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Frequent Fliers and Healthcare Reform -
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The Family Planning Fight -
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Crossing the line at the border: Update -
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Employment's new look -
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The Road Ahead: Obama's Second Term -
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Main Street Iowa -
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What's at Stake: PBS Election 2012 -
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The Florida Vote -
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Main Street, Pueblo, CO -
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Women's Choice -
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America by the Numbers with Spanish… -
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America by the numbers -
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An Eight-Year War -
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100 Days: Romney or Obama? -
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The Battle for Votes -
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Saving Carla: Childhood Obesity -
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Palau: Paradise lost? -
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Rahm's Grand Plan -
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Living on the Financial Edge -
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Crossing the Line and the Border -
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Braking the Banks -
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Cleaning up the tax mess -
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Poverty in America -
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Nursing wounded veterans -
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America's immigration policy -
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Cambodia revisited, Human rights experts -
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Green jobs and volunteerism -
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California redistricting -
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Main Street: Cairo -
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Food stamps in America -
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Student loans, college and religion -
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Florida, seniors and entitlements -
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The South Carolina Primary -
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Gay marriage, LGBT homeless youth. -
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Main Street: Nashua, New Hampshire -
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Eye on Iowa -
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Iraqi Christians -
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Making Congress work -
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Update on Help Wanted Ohio -
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Alabama's immigration law -
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The Pentagon and budget cuts -
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Coming home: Veterans' stories -
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Is nuclear power safe? -
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Jobs crisis and The Wire's David Simon -
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Regulation and the EPA -
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Green jobs in Michigan, garage sales -
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Tornadoes, paralympic veterans, Sudan
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Mississippi Savings -
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Savings and loans -
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American Voices: Dan Ariely -
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Save USA -
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Taking on poverty in Salinas -
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American Voices: Jerry McGill -
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Remembering the night -
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Echoes of a shooting -
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Outlawed in Arizona -
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Manufacturing Jobs in Alabama -
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The Danish Option -
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Do No Harm: Malpractice in America -
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Interview: Moving fast on renewables -
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Repairing priceless memories -
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Germany's green revolution -
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Hospital Readmissions -
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Katori Hall on Martin Luther King Jr. and… -
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Earning potential -
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Linda Gibbs Web Extra -
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American Voices: Our Bodies Ourselves -
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The family planning fight -
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Oregon Jobs -
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Post Election Essay -
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The 47% -
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Voter ID -
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Muddled Middle -
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Need to Know 9/28/12 -
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Money & Medicine Heart Disease -
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Dignity for all students -
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100 days -
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Interview: Walter Shapiro & Tim Carney -
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Up for grabs -
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Memorable convention speeches. -
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Jeff Greenfield on Ohio's presidential… -
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Saving Carla -
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Border Patrol 2 update -
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Paradise lost? -
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Rahm's grand plan -
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Interview: Ed Rendell -
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Hard choices -
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Crossing the Line -
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Braking the Banks -
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Taking The Initiative -
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Panel: America's immigration policies
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