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University in Ghana focuses on changing attitudes about corruption
When Patrick Awuah -- a former Microsoft executive who was educated in the U.S. -- returned to his home country of Ghana, his goal of starting a software company was dashed by the lack of a qualified workforce. So instead he founded...
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Greece sends refugee children to school, stoking anti-migrant resistence
Greece launched a program Monday to provide education to the thousands of migrant children displaced in that nation. But the program is facing resistance from Greek parents concerned about cultural differences and infectious diseases....
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How human traffickers trap women into domestic servitude
More than three million women are forced into servitude as domestic workers every year, often lured to other countries in the Persian Gulf or Middle East under false pretenses. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports on ways...
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How Texas gun owners feel about background checks, red flag laws
In the aftermath of recent mass shootings, calls for expanding gun safety regulations have increased. Although some of these ideas are popular among Americans overall, how do gun owners specifically feel about them? William Brangham...
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How Pittsburgh is test driving tech to make your commute smarter
Robotics experts at Carnegie Mellon University are harnessing technology to address the rush-hour traffic that plagues commuters across the country. Using artificial intelligence and existing infrastructure, their software could reshape...
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College turns its football field into a farm and sees students transform
At Paul Quinn College, where once there was a football field, now there's an organic farm. It's not just a symbol of renewal for this once-struggling historically black college in Dallas; it's where students work to pay tuition. As part...
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Italian olive trees are withering from this deadly bacteria
The Salento region in southern Italy is synonymous with its renowned olive groves, some of which are thousands of years old. But a deadly bacteria, which causes trees to wither, is threatening a critical part of Salento's livelihood and...
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Ethiopia's Abundant Farm Investments
Farms backed by foreign investments are growing with abundance in a country known for famine
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Former ABC journalist says Mark Halperin allegations reflect harmful female objectification in TV news
Numerous women have come forward to allege that political journalist and
author Mark Halperin harassed them while he was at ABC. One of those
journalists, Lara Setrakian, now the executive editor of News Deeply, joins
Judy Woodruff...
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Why Iraq's Biblical Paradise Is Becoming A Salty Wasteland
In addition to recovering and rebuilding after a brutal war with ISIS, Iraq is facing a dire water shortage. Levels in the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers have plummeted, in part because neighboring Turkey built a dam upstream that restricts...
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Erasing the pain and taboo of fistulas
Roughly one million women in the developing world suffer from obstetric
fistula, an injury that results from inadequate medical care and causes
incontinence. But beyond the physical effects, the condition can subject
them to shame and...
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Economics Is Not a Morality Play': Paul Krugman on Managing Financial Crisis
Economics correspondent Paul Solman sits down with economist Paul Krugman to discuss the provocative bestseller "The Great Deformation" by David Stockman and the government's role in mediating economic meltdowns. (see David Stockman June...
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For Great Sioux Nation, Black Hills Can't Be Bought for $1.3-Billion (August 24, 2011)
Nine Sioux tribes have been locked in a land dispute since 1877, when the government broke a treaty setting aside the Black Hills as part of their reservation. However, there is a chance that the Great Sioux Nation's long struggle to...
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Two Students' Brief But Spectacular Takes On Race And Being Underestimated
Shortly before the pandemic, NewsHour traveled to Georgia and spoke with
two high school seniors, Audrey McNeal and Shaylon Walker. Now in their
first year of college, here's their Brief But Spectacular takes on race and
being...
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Why your summer getaway is staffed by foreign workers
At the tip of Cape Cod, the iconic summer getaway Provincetown has a small year-round population that swells when the weather gets nice, welcoming an estimated 4 to 5 million tourists every year. Businesses there depend on foreign...
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Goldman Sachs Part II
Paul Solman examines the inner workings of investment powerhouse Goldman Sachs and how it makes money. (Part 2)
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Could California drought make residents sick?
As California's five-year drought continues, the community of East Porterville has become an epicenter for the state's water shortage. Of the 1,800 homes located in the town, nearly 500 have lost wells that provided water for bathing and...
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Economist Ken Rogoff on whether the U.S. has ever experienced a crisis like this one
The coronavirus pandemic is causing immense economic damage. The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits has surged as businesses nationwide close down and are forced to lay off workers. Has the country ever experienced...
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How Surge In Family Border Crossings Is Complicating Enforcement
In the Yuma sector of the southwestern Arizona border, Border Patrol officials are observing dramatic shifts in the migrant populations they apprehend. In the past, a majority of migrants caught crossing illegally were single men. Now...
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Remembering John Glenn, space pioneer and American statesman
Remembering John Glenn, the Mercury astronaut and former U.S. senator who died today at 95.
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George Kennan Interview (April 18, 1996)
David Gergen talks with George Kennan about his book At A Century's Ending: Reflections 1982-1995.
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Yemen was poor before, but 'the war just finished us'
It's being called the forgotten war. With access for journalists limited and dangerous, Yemen, home to the world's worst humanitarian crisis, goes largely ignored. Special correspondent Marcia Biggs was able to enter the country to learn...
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Earth's Ozone Layer Continues To Recover, Scientists Report
In one of the great environmental success stories of our time, scientists say that a 35-year-old agreement has resulted in the steady and promising recovery of the Earth's ozone layer, a critical protective shield that blocks harmful...