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| Alabama | 3:58 | Alabama offers visitors insight into the horrors that provoked the civil rights movement. Alabama's black heritage trail is your guide. It also has a place in the US's space triumphs. For those old enough to remember, the first lunar landing created lasting impressions. | No | |
| California Part 1 |
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3:13 | People settled the hills and high desert of western U.S. more than a century ago, searching for gold, silver and copper. ut eventually the gold ran out, and so did the people. Most towns simple crumbled away, but some, although they are called ghost towns, are not entirely dead. | No |
| California Part 2 |
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3:14 | About four hours north of San Francisco on Highway 1 is Mendocino, a lumber town built in the1850's. When the timber industry declined, the town went into a deep slumber for decades until the 1950's when artists began moving here. | Yes |
| Chicago | WinMedia Real QuickTime MP3(audio) RealText (585 words) |
4:03 | Chicago, the Windy City, home of the fabulous skyscrapers and bendable to the gusty wind. The city is known world-over for the best blues. And read world-over for its news. This is the way Chicagoans have begun their days since 1847 with the Tribune. | No |
| Hawaii Part 1 |
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3:32 | The lesser-known Hawaiian island of Molokai has none of that. In fact here, horses and cattle outnumber tourists. The golf courses are uncrowded, the beaches are often deserted. The century old Molokai ranch covers one third of the island. | Yes |
| Hawaii Part 2 |
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4:20 | The Hawaiian island of Maui has got a lot to offer including adventure for example biking down Maui's Haleakala crater has become a big hit. From the summit to sea level 10,000 feet in 38 miles. | Yes |
| New Mexico | WinMedia Real MP3(audio) RealText (775words) |
4:39 | Architect Michael Reynolds created the Ｅarth Ship concept over 20 years ago at his test sight in Taos, New Mexico.On a tour you learn that these earth ships are not just some pie in the sky technology. | Yes |
| Wyoming Part 1 |
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4:41 | This Wild West state has an abundance of both wildlife and frontier history. In Cody, Wyoming, an hour east of Yellowstone, you can learn about the West's most famous character, William Frederick Cody, better known as Buffalo Bill. | Yes |
| Wyoming Part 2 |
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4:42 | Every winter, skiers from around the world flock to Jackson Hole Wyoming for the steep slopes and the soft powder. But far below the ski lifts is a valley that's home to thousands of wild animals that many people rarely see. | No |
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| Conserving Cambodia | 4:25 | Cambodia, a country ravaged by centuries of conflict and two recent decades of brutal civil war claiming the lives of millions, is now receiving attention of a different sort. The country's leadership announced creation of Central Cardamons Protected Forest. | No | |
| Cross River State |
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5:20 | It's the only place in the world where you can find big three primates: the chimpanzee, the mandrill, and the big river gorilla. What was once a small part of a lush rain forest stretching across Africa is today threatened by on-going commercial logging. | No |
| Storm Chaser |
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4:49 | A tornado is one of the most ferocious natural phenomena. The whirlwinds, sometimes reaching 400 kilometers an hour, sweep across the high plains of the United States every spring, many times bringing deaths and destruction in the past. | No |
| Wind Power |
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4:33 | They stand on a Pennsylvania hill top, turning sleepily in the wind. These towers have little relationship to the old, romantic windmills of the past. They are wind turbines, engines that generate a million watts of electricity, a perfect example of form following function. | No |
| Dust in the Storm | WinMedia Real MP3(audio) RealText |
4:39 | That wind, blowing across the dessert, continent and sea, isn't ill wind literally, spreading tiny microbes, bacteria, viruses, fungi, some potentially dangerous around the planet. | No |
| Space Science Topics | WinMedia Real MP3(audio) RealText |
4:08 | On February 1, 2003, a tragedy struck the Space Shuttle Columbia. While returning from its six days' mission in space, Columbia broke apart during re-entry into the earth's atmosphere. All 7 crew members died. | No |
| Biometrics | WinMedia Real MP3(audio) RealText (388 words) |
2:51 | It's one of the newest weapons in fighting terrorism, while helping passengers get through border control more quickly. The eye scan uses a sophisticated digital device that recognizes people by their iris, the colored part of their eye. | No |
| Disaster in India | WinMedia Real MP3(audio) RealText (583 words) |
4:06 | This is Bhopal City, India, twenty years after the world's biggest industrial disaster. On December third, 1984, 8,000 people died immediately here, when tons of poisonous gas leaked from a storage tank at a Union Carbide pesticide factory. | No |
| Robotics | WinMedia Real MP3(audio) RealText (276 words) |
3:09 | The organizers at Japan's Aiichi World Expo, have assembled the very latest in robot technology to impress the hundreds of thousands of visitors they're expecting. This is the receptionist who'll greet them when they arrive. | No |
| Kilby - Inventor of IC | WinMedia Real MP3(audio) RealText (280 words) |
1:50 | Electrical Engineer Jack Kilby created the integrated circuit in 1958, soon after he started work as a researcher at Dallas Based Texas Instruments. The breakthrough shrank complex circuitry onto a tiny square of silicon. | No |
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| Technology for Natural Conservation | 4:59 | One of the fundamental components of any successful conservation program is the precise tracking of a specific group of animals. This enables research or study the movement and population changes of a specific group of animals. Digital technology makes this tracking process easier and far more accurate. | No | |
| The Search for E.T. | WinMedia Real MP3(audio) RealText |
4:37 | There are many people who argue that with some billions of stars in the universe there must be people with intelligence or civilization. They could have a communication system similar to our radio or TV. Two scientists are using the Internet in their project to find the real evidence of life beyond our world. | No |
| Simulation(CAD) | WinMedia Real MP3(audio) RealText (871 words) |
5:00 | There are computer games like "Ribbon" that allow us to explore a make-believe world in great detail. There are others, like "SimCity," that allow us to build an entire community. In the future, architects and city planners will use software that allows them -- and us -- to visit the world of tomorrow before it even exists. | No |
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| Columbus Day |
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1:25 | Columbus Day in the United States is a federal holiday, which means a day off for many Americans from work and school. Traditional activities include parades and church services. In past years, people have reenacted the voage and the first interactions between native peoples and Europeans. | No |
| Remembrance | WinMedia Real QuickTime MP3(audio) RealText |
2:42 | Christoper Reeve soared to fame in 1978 with his block-buster role with the man of steel, Super Man. and his mild man of outer ego, Clark Kent. The film and its three sequels made more than 300 million dollars at the box officce, and made Reeve an international star. | No |
