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04
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If the battle for the presidency comes down to how the West is won, New Mexico's large Hispanic and Latino electorate could tip the vote...
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September 26th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
Ten years after the bloody genocide that killed an estimated 800,000 people in just 100 days, Rwanda’s women are leading their country’s healing process and taking their society forward into a different future. This report reveals the challenges facing them and their country as Rwanda struggles to build the peace that has eluded the country for almost 50 years. Watch now. (Originally aired July 21, 2004).
September 11th, 2008 at 7:21 am
In 2006, Democratic Republic of Congo held its first elections in 45 years — supported by more than $450M from the United Nations. This documentary paints a nation haunted by war, threatened by corruption, and trying to move to a democratic and more promising future. Watch. (Originally aired September 12, 2006).
September 8th, 2008 at 2:14 pm
*Africa’s rapidly changing environmental landscape
*”The Promise of Freedom:” a video report about an aid worker who helps Iraqis start new lives in the U.S.
*The social and environmental consequences of urbanization
August 27th, 2008 at 10:50 am
Can the quality of healthcare in developing nations be transformed by the same principle that makes fast food such a success here? NOW travels to Kenya to continue ongoing coverage of an enterprising idea: franchising not burger and donut shops, but health services and drugs in rural Africa. Watch here. (Originally aired: 8/22/2008).
June 27th, 2008 at 10:36 am
In April, two lions died in the Mara Reserve on the border of Kenya and Tanzania shortly after eating contaminated hippo meat. According to an annotated summary in the Mara …
June 16th, 2008 at 2:05 pm
Last year in Kenya, deadly post-election ethnic clashes killed more than 1,000 and displaced 600,000. Kenya used to be one of the stablest nations in Africa. Religion & Ethics talks …
June 12th, 2008 at 11:56 am
Fuel costs and supply shortages have caused a spike in food prices across Africa — prompting calls for an agricultural revolution on the continent. Former U.N. chief Kofi Annan discusses …
June 9th, 2008 at 10:33 am
Now that it’s hot as, well, Africa here in New York City, the gorillas at the Bronx Zoo’s Gorilla Forest will be out and about their leafy habitats.
May 16th, 2008 at 10:43 am
During the past century, the rhinos of Africa and Asia have been pushed out of their habitats and hunted nearly to extinction for their horns, which are believed — erroneously — to possess healing properties.
May 13th, 2008 at 11:37 am
“A Walk to Beautiful” tells the stories of rural women who make their way to Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, seeking treatment for obstetric fistula, a life-shattering complication of childbirth that was once common in the pre-industrial United States but that is now relegated to the poorest regions of the world.
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Friday,
October
10
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04
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In this profile, Neal Shapiro, president of Thirteen/WNET, interviews Ellen Futter, the president of the American Museum of Natural History.
Friday,
October
10
, 2008
03
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Selected press items featuring WNET.org, its programs, projects and services from the period Friday, October 3 through Thursday, October 9.
A group of WNET executives were...
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