The Christian Science Church, founded in the nineteenth century, teaches that physical affliction can be healed through spiritual means rather than medical procedures. Membership in the church has declined in recent decades, but some Christian Science practitioners, as they are known, still treat large numbers of people through spiritual healing. Watch the report here. Originally aired 8/1/2008.
“‘The Forgetting: A Portrait of Alzheimer’s” weaves together the history and biology of the disease, the intense real-world experiences of Alzheimer’s patients and caregivers, and the race to find a cure. It won a primetime Emmy in 2004, and is watchable in it’s entirety online, or on the air tonight, Wed. 8/6 at 8pm. The 2008 follow-up program ‘The Future of Alzheimer’s’, hosted by David Hyde Pierce, is also watchable online.
The women driving Asia’s economy
LA’s gangs in El Salvador
In Iraq, Women given a 25% job quota
(originally aired August 2, 2008)
Just days before the Olympic games begin, a haze still stretches across Beijing. The air pollution in China is a powerful reminder of the consequences of China’s recent rapid economic …
Amid the near-daily drumbeat of gloomy economic news, NewsHour economics correspondent Paul Solman has answered questions on the issues topping the headlines, including why banks fail, the job market for new grads, the high price of oil and more. Ask Paul a question here.
Thirteen re-aired Bush’s War Sunday night, Aug. 3; it’s a 4.5-hour epic that’s challenging, controversial, enlightening. It’s the most-watched online program from PBS ever.
You watch it online here, …
Profile of Menachem Youlus, a Torah scribe who has been called the Indiana Jones of rabbis because he has traveled to dangerous places all over the world in his mission to find, rescue, and recover sacred Torah scrolls. Originally aired August 1, 2008.
With former lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who is already serving five and a half years, expected to be sentenced on other charges next month, Bill Moyers takes viewers back to the scene of the crime in this update of “Capitol Crimes,” an acclaimed documentary investigating the Abramoff lobbying scandal. Watch now.
On Tuesday, July 29, 2008, Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens was indicted for failing to disclose gifts he received from VECO Corporation, an Alaska-based oil services company. On Friday, August 1 …
WIDE ANGLE visits the Liberian community on Staten Island and speaks with a psychologist who has worked with war-affected youth in over 15 situations of armed conflict, including Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Columbia, Sierra Leone and Liberia. Watch the story. (for more on Liberians in NY, see New York Voices)
