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ABC News Nightline Building Brains: The Sooner, The Better
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Is it ever too early to begin educating you children? During the first few years of a baby's life, 100 billion neurons are being connected to one another by literally trillions of synapses. If those synapses remain unused, they could be eliminated. Use them and they're there for life. But if they remain unstimulated by sight or sound or touch, then, in the extreme, the brain of an infant will literally shrink. Nightline looks at an educational program in Brattleboro Vermont that teaches parents to focus on their children's developmental years and speaks with a leading expert on the brain and how it develops - Dr. Stanley Greenspan from George Washington University.
ABC News Nightline The Two Towns of Jasper (2 DVD set)
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This is not the documentary that aired on PBS but rather interviews with the directors and the citizens of Jasper that took place in conjuction with the original airing of the program on PBS. It is an excellent companion piece to the documentary but is not the actual documentary itself so considered yourself warned.
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One morning in 1998, America awoke to the story of a staggering hate crime. A man beaten and chained to the back of a pickup truck, dragged three miles until his body was torn to pieces...simply because he was black. The world press came and went, often stereotyping Jasper, Texas as a small town full of redneck haters. Two filmmakers, who had known each other since childhood, wanted to take a closer look. One filmmaker was white, one black. They had talked with each other for years about their belief that the races have trouble talking to one another, and they had an idea. Whitney Dow would film the whites of Jasper. Marco Williams would film the blacks.This product is manufactured on demand using DVD-R recordable media. Amazon.com's standard return policy will apply.
ABC News Nightline Spirituality and the Brain
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The intersection of God and science is often a treacherous place. Witness the running battle over evolution. But some scientists who study the human brain are determined to discover if religious experience can be observed or measured. To put it another way, they are asking, `Is the brain wired for God?' Their experiments involve taking images of the brain from those who are deep in prayer or meditation. The idea is to find out which brain circuits open and close during those moments, and then to ask, `Is there a physical pattern to prayer?' Other scientists attempt to induce a sense of spirituality by stimulating the brain, and some research even examines the concept so central to all religions, spiritual life after death. Whether scientists should even study these things is the subject of raging debate. Many religions stipulate that matters of faith are a mystery beyond the realm of human understanding. And then there is the chicken and egg question: If, indeed, scientists could prove the human brain is wired for religion, then who, or what, wired it that way?This product is manufactured on demand using DVD-R recordable media. Amazon.com's standard return policy will apply.
ABC News Nightline Ryan White Interview
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Two copies, neither worked 1 out of 5 stars.
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I purchased one copy and it didn't work so I returned it and got another. The second copy didn't work either. Both played for about 7 minutes and then played a black screen.
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There is the patent unfairness of a child, already suffering from hemophilia, having to bear the additional burden of AIDS which Ryan White apparently contracted through medical pro-ducts that were supposed to help his blood clotting. There is the fury that any parent would feel, witnessing the disgraceful treatment that Ryan received from some people, and the understanding that many parents would feel the concern, "Are my children endangered by contact with Ryan?" In a rare interview, Ryan and his mother show Nightline what it's like to live with HIV while dealing with the trials of growing up.This product is manufactured on demand using DVD-R recordable media. Amazon.com's standard return policy will apply.
ABC News Nightline America in Black and White: A Question of Identity
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Not at all what I expected. I am a teacher in Miami Dade Public Schools and I used this as a teaching instrument to my high school students. This video did not peak their interest, but it did lead them to question the terms of race, culture, and it's larger sociological constructs. Others wanted to do a DNA test and learn who they are. A nice follow-up and discussion piece would be Alex Haley's "Roots".
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How do you define race? Is it the color of your skin, the type of hair, or the way you live your life? Is your race defined by society or by scientists or by how you see yourself? ABC News follows one man's experience grappling with the fundamental question of identity. Wayne Nelson is a man who has lived the black experience and has written about the black experience. He has raised his son and daughter to be proud of their black heritage, a heritage he has been proud of himself. So he was intrigued after a seeing a story about a company that offered Ancestry by DNA, a test to find out just how much of him was African. The results were not what he expected at all and it made him readdress the age old question: "Who am I?" The question of race in America is the one that still defines us in a way that no other question does. Correspondent: Jim Wooten
ABC News Nightline Stolen Childhood
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The prevalence of child labor in the world is the subject of a documentary film by Len Morris and Robin Romano called, "Stolen Childhoods." The filmmakers traveled to eight countries to document the stories of child laborers around the world: 12-year-old girls working in gravel quarries in India's 120-degree heat; 8- and 10-year-old boys who make $5 for three months of fishing the tides on the sea of Sumatra; children picking coffee beans in Kenya -- a country where as many as 4 million children are estimated to be working. Sound like the far-off realities of third-world countries? Maybe, but the United States was one of those eight countries that the filmmakers visited. And work is not such a distant reality for the estimated 300,000 to 800,000 children who toil on America's farms. Federal law offers less protection for those children than you might think. It all might make you think twice before you buy that cup of coffee. Anchor: Ted Koppel.This product is manufactured on demand using DVD-R recordable media. Amazon.com's standard return policy will apply.
ABC News Nightline Crisis in Kosovo: 1999
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Armed forces joined NATO allies in air strikes against Serbian forces. President Bill Clinton told the nation he had no other choice. The crisis in Kosovo - how we got there, from the man who delivered the ultimatum.
ABC News Nightline CF Martin Guitar
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CF Martin Senior set out to build every Martin guitar as perfectly as a guitar could be built by a human being. Christian Friedrich Martin was born in Germany in 1796 into a family of furniture makers. The guitar was a new instrument and Martin learned to build them. But, there was trouble. He was not a member of the guild of musical instrument makers. In 1833, he packed up his tools and his family and like so many German immigrants before and after he emigrated to the New World where there were no prohibitions against craft. They finally settled among German immigrants in the eastern Pennsylvania town of Nazareth. From home and then from this factory, Martin evolved a completely new instrument. At first, they were European, small. Over time, as customers wanted more sound, the bodies got a little bigger. To compete with banjos and mandolins, guitar players wanted metal strings instead of gut. That meant a bigger, stronger body, a longer neck for more range. During the Depression, country musicians playing at farm shows and grange halls wanted an instrument a large audience could hear and Martin invented the big, loud Dreadnought. It now defines the American acoustic guitar. The designs have endured and continue to be considered the ultimate design. Anchor: Ted Koppel.This product is manufactured on demand using DVD-R recordable media. Amazon.com's standard return policy will apply.
ABC News Nightline Heart of Darkness: The Democratic Republic of Congo
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A tragedy of historic proportions. A war that has claimed more lives than all other current wars around the world, but outside of Africa, no one seems to have noticed. Nightline covers the war in Congo in this five part series.In the Heart of Darkness: War in the Congo (part 1) Fighting in Congo has involved as many as seven nations, displaced hundreds of thousands of people and killed millions more.
In the Heart of Darkness: Town of Shabunda (part 2) The city of Shabunda and its people have been ravaged by war. Meet a Catholic priest that tries to protect the community from the brutality of the conflict.
In the Heart of Darkness: Kisangani (part 3) Kisangani was once an economic center where many of the country's diamonds were sold.
Heavy fighting has choked off all river commerce for the community, and caused many civilian deaths. In the Heart of Darkness: The Porter (part 4) Nightline spends a day in the life of a Congolese porter. She is an extraordinary woman who is supporting ten children as a roadside carrier. In the Heart of Darkness: The Curse of Wealth (part 5)
At the heart of the continent, the richest patch of earth on the planet. The armies drawn by the wealth plunder, rape and kill. The people fleeing the soldiers are dying in the jungles by the hundreds of thousands.
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ABC News Nightline Ted Koppel's Final Nightline
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On Tuesday November 22, 2005, Ted Koppel signed off for the last time from Nightline, the news program he has anchored for nearly 26 years on ABC News. The broadcast looks back at a series of shows that, over time, has become one of his favorites. Morrie: Lessons on Living was a three-part series that aired in 1995 and told the story of Morrie Schwartz, a retired sociology professor from Brandeis University who, at the time, was dying of ALS, or Lou Gehrig's Disease. Koppel's interviews with Schwartz caught the attention of a former student, sportscaster Mitch Album, who in turn began weekly visits with his professor that led to the national bestseller, "Tuesdays with Morrie".This product is manufactured on demand using DVD-R recordable media. Amazon.com's standard return policy will apply.