Season 2011 (2011)

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Foster Care, A ‘Lost Boy’ of Sudan
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January 7, 2011

On the eve of Sudan’s historic elections, we profile a “lost boy” who returned to aid his hometown. Plus: medicating foster kids, ...Read more

Gun Control, Haiti, High-Speed Rail
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January 14, 2011

In light of the Arizona shooting, we revisit a story on gun rights. Also: Two Haitian children treated in Boston after the earthqu...Read more

Care for Disabled Adults, Michael Vick’s Dogs, China
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January 21, 2011

This week, we visit with parents struggling to maintain care for their developmentally disabled adult children in the face of budg...Read more

Aging in the Car-Happy Suburbs, Congo, A New 'New Deal'?
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January 28, 2011

Getting older in the car-dependent suburbs, the State of the Union and the state of the Congo. Plus: an animated editorial by Steve Brodner.

Egypt, End-of-Life Care, Alzheimer’s
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February 4, 2011

Amid the upheaval in Egypt, we turn our attention to the political tension between Egypt and the U.S. Also, the defunct “death pan...Read more

Ahead of the Class
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February 11, 2011

As the nation debates how to get the best performance out of students and teachers, Need to Know presents an hour devoted to succe...Read more

The Universe(s), Egypt’s Future, and Fracking
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February 18, 2011

How many universes are there? Author Brian Greene explains. Plus: A fracking update, a look at what’s next in Egypt and an intervi...Read more

Sea level rise, National Guard bonuses, Somali pirates
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January 1, 1970

Episode 8 of Season 2011 premiered on January 1, 1970

Libya’s uprising, the high cost of college sports, Wisconsin’s unions
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January 1, 1970

Episode 9 of Season 2011 premiered on January 1, 1970

Public unions and state budgets, blood transfusions
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January 1, 1970

Episode 10 of Season 2011 premiered on January 1, 1970

Crisis in Japan, stories of academic transformation
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January 1, 1970

Episode 11 of Season 2011 premiered on January 1, 1970

Wounded in war, Arne Duncan, breast cancer research
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January 1, 1970

Episode 12 of Season 2011 premiered on January 1, 1970

Haiti and the Dominican Republic, Medicare, Edwidge Danticat
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January 1, 1970

Episode 13 of Season 2011 premiered on January 1, 1970

The BP oil spill and the Grand Isle one year later, fixing American education
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January 1, 1970

Episode 14 of Season 2011 premiered on January 1, 1970

Chinese drywall, ‘Capitalism 4.0,’ right-sizing Detroit
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January 1, 1970

Episode 15 of Season 2011 premiered on January 1, 1970

Joe Nocera on the Charlie Engle story, Tavis Smiley, free music education in Chicago
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January 1, 1970

Episode 16 of Season 2011 premiered on January 1, 1970

Adoptions in Nepal, Bin Laden economics, the united states of women
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January 1, 1970

Episode 17 of Season 2011 premiered on January 1, 1970

Detainee abuse, broadband in Europe, crisis mappers
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January 1, 1970

Episode 18 of Season 2011 premiered on January 1, 1970

Climate change and tropical disease, Upper Big Branch mine disaster, Stuxnet
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January 1, 1970

Episode 19 of Season 2011 premiered on January 1, 1970

Political storm over tornadoes, Paralympics, shrinking Youngstown
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January 1, 1970

Episode 20 of Season 2011 premiered on January 1, 1970

Paying for war, medicating foster children, childhood obesity
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January 1, 1970

Episode 21 of Season 2011 premiered on January 1, 1970

Clinical trials overseas, legacy of nuclear waste, Brian Greene and the multiverse
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January 1, 1970

Episode 22 of Season 2011 premiered on January 1, 1970

New voter laws, the anti-abortion movement, therapy for Tourette’s syndrome
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January 1, 1970

Episode 23 of Season 2011 premiered on January 1, 1970

Combating IEDs, the ramifications of the Wal-Mart case, the science of happy marriages
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January 1, 1970

Episode 24 of Season 2011 premiered on January 1, 1970

Greece’s debt crisis, congressional redistricting, ‘Page One’ and the New York Times
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January 1, 1970

Episode 25 of Season 2011 premiered on January 1, 1970

Congo’s orchestra, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Sudan, workplace safety
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January 1, 1970

Episode 26 of Season 2011 premiered on January 1, 1970

California nuclear safety, population control, Gloria Steinem
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January 1, 1970

Episode 27 of Season 2011 premiered on January 1, 1970

Famine in Somalia, nuclear waste storage, Eric Cantor and the debt ceiling
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January 1, 1970

Episode 28 of Season 2011 premiered on January 1, 1970

Adult autism, food safety, wealth inequality
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January 1, 1970

Episode 29 of Season 2011 premiered on January 1, 1970

Breast cancer trials, Rick Perry’s ambitions, cyberweapons
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January 1, 1970

Episode 30 of Season 2011 premiered on January 1, 1970

The history of debt, detainee abuse, living with Chinese drywall
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January 1, 1970

Episode 31 of Season 2011 premiered on January 1, 1970

Urban farming in Detroit, consumer finance protection, gold mining in the Amazon
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January 1, 1970

Episode 32 of Season 2011 premiered on January 1, 1970

Texas textbooks, wild horses, hurricanes and climate change
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January 1, 1970

Episode 33 of Season 2011 premiered on January 1, 1970

Water contamination at Camp Lejeune, polls and markets, crisis-mapping
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January 1, 1970

Episode 34 of Season 2011 premiered on January 1, 1970

9-11, Ten Years Later
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September 9, 2011

A special edition on the ten-year anniversary of 9/11. We visit three military families to see how the nation’s longest war effort...Read more

Privatizing infrastructure, government and the private sector
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January 1, 1970

Episode 36 of Season 2011 premiered on January 1, 1970

Creating ‘green jobs,’ the American garage sale
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January 1, 1970

Episode 37 of Season 2011 premiered on January 1, 1970

Chemical pollution and the EPA
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January 1, 1970

Episode 38 of Season 2011 premiered on January 1, 1970

Help wanted
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January 1, 1970

Episode 39 of Season 2011 premiered on January 1, 1970

The politics of resentment
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January 1, 1970

Episode 40 of Season 2011 premiered on January 1, 1970

The nuclear question
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January 1, 1970

Episode 41 of Season 2011 premiered on January 1, 1970

Jobs in the balance
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January 1, 1970

Episode 42 of Season 2011 premiered on January 1, 1970

Creating opportunity
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January 1, 1970

Episode 43 of Season 2011 premiered on January 1, 1970

Coming home: The enduring sacrifice
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January 1, 1970

Episode 44 of Season 2011 premiered on January 1, 1970

The Pentagon: Hard times, hard choices
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January 1, 1970

Episode 45 of Season 2011 premiered on January 1, 1970

Resisting Alabama’s immigration crackdown
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January 1, 1970

Episode 46 of Season 2011 premiered on January 1, 1970

Help wanted: Revisiting Ohio
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January 1, 1970

Episode 47 of Season 2011 premiered on January 1, 1970

Making Congress work
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January 1, 1970

Episode 48 of Season 2011 premiered on January 1, 1970

Mayor under siege
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January 1, 1970

Episode 49 of Season 2011 premiered on January 1, 1970

Christian-Muslim relations in Iraq
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January 1, 1970

Episode 50 of Season 2011 premiered on January 1, 1970

Eye on Iowa
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January 1, 1970

Episode 51 of Season 2011 premiered on January 1, 1970