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By several measures, men are in trouble. As women’s participation in the U.S. labor force climbs, men are dropping out in record numbers. Women are also enrolling in college and graduating in higher numbers. Meanwhile, men face higher levels of substance abuse, more overdoses, greater incarceration rates, lower life expectancies, and suicide levels that are nearly four times above those of women. Men could use a hand, supporters argue, lest these...
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The CNN Freedom Project first exposed the horrific practice of organ trafficking in Egypt, with the documentary Death in the Desert. Now we travel to South Asia, to a tiny district in Nepal where hundreds of people have had their kidneys stolen by organ traffickers. The problem has become so widespread, the district has developed the unfortunate reputation as "the kidney bank of Nepal." CNN's Delhi-based correspondent Sumnima Udas leads the investigation...
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Millennials, the cohort of people born between 1981 and 1996, have now surpassed Baby Boomers, those born between 1946 and 1964, as the largest generation group in the United States. How are the Millennials doing? Ranging in age from their late 20s to early 40s, many Millennials fear they lack the financial and emotional standing their Boomer parents had to live full and successful lives. Millennials are America’s most educated generation, but with...
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High Schools That Work is the nation's first large-scale effort to unite educational stakeholders at all levels with the objective of re-engaging what some have called the forgotten majority in U.S. high schools. In this interview, founding director Gene Bottoms, Ed.D., talks with Hedrick Smith about the HSTW program in general and Corbin High School, Kentucky-an exemplary case study-in particular. "If you can help youngsters to begin to connect to...
47) Generation 9/11
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Generation 9/11 marks the 20th anniversary of the September 11th attacks by telling the stories of seven young people whose fathers were killed that day. The film explores how a man they never met and an event they didn’t witness have shaped their world view and the world around them. Their experiences reflect those of an entire generation, whose lives so far have been bracketed by crisis.
48) Arundel Castle
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There has been an Arundel Castle since before the Norman conquest. Home of the Dukes of Norfolk since 1556, Arundel's fortunes rose and fell along with those of the Howard family. The present Duke of Norfolk shows us the splendors of his ancestral home, and tells us why his family history has such an "aura of fatal glory.
52) Good Americans
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During the Cold War years, Asian Americans are simultaneously heralded as a Model Minority, and suspected as the perpetual foreigner. It is also a time of ambition, as Asian Americans aspire for the first time to national political office.
53) Penshurst Place
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Once the home of the unfortunate Dukes of Buckingham, Penshurst Place was confiscated by Henry VIII. The great house was finally given by his son Edward VI to the Sidney family, whose descendent, Lord De L'Isle, lives there today. We walk with him through wings of the many different periods that form Penshurst. We listen to his theory of "conjugal architecture" and the stories of his ancestors.
54) Breaking Ground
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In an era of U.S. expansion, new immigrants arrive from China, India, Japan, the Philippines and beyond. Eventually barred by anti-Asian laws, they become America’s first “undocumented immigrants.”
55) Breaking Through
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At the turn of the millennium, Asian Americans have become the fastest growing population in the U.S. It is a time of tremendous change, as the country tackles urgent debates over immigration, race and economic disparity.
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Beginning in the 8th century, the Celts faced repeated invasions: first by the Vikings and then by the Normans. Weakened by these conflicts, and the ever-changing geopolitical landscape of the continent, they found their culture being absorbed by their powerful neighbors France and England. This film explores the state of Celtic culture from the time of the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century to the last traces of their culture in 19th-century...
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This informative video discusses what religion means in today's society and looks at some of the new religious movements that have evolved. We discuss if contemporary society is moving away from the traditional and historical view of religion or if religion and spirituality is merely changing and taking on new forms. It also includes a definition of substantive and functional approaches to religion. This film resource is produced to prompt discussion...
58) The Mission
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Every year, over 60,000 young missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are sent across the world to preach their gospel. Sundance Film Festival selection THE MISSION follows four Latter-day Saints teenagers from their training in Utah to their missions in Finland, home of Europe’s most private and secular people. Tania Anderson's film tracks these wide-eyed, impassioned teens on their two-year rite of passage, as they struggle...
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In this interview, Robert Slavin, Ph.D., talks with Hedrick Smith about Success for All, a comprehensive, research-based reading and math program for elementary and middle schools. The most important objective, says Dr. Slavin, "is to get every single child to be successful, every single child to master the basic curriculum, to achieve the higher-order objectives that every parent would want for their child and that our society demands." The genesis,...
60) Lupita Nyong'o
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Kenya native Lupita Nyong'o catapulted into Hollywood after her Academy Award winning performance in the film 12 Years a Slave. Now she is one of the most recognizable actresses in the world. Lupita Nyong'o talks about her new-found fame and how her father's political history influences her philanthropic work.