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Original Airdate: 2008-10-19

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Combat in Afghanistan; bankers discuss plans for government aid to the country's largest banks; Spain's bullfighting brothers, Cayetano and Francisco Ordonez.

Original Airdate: 2008-10-12

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An FBI undercover agent talks about infiltrating the Gambino family; footage of advanced weaponry in action; the Antinori family.

Original Airdate: 2008-10-05

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Some of the Wall Street financial instruments that magnified the economic crisis; an officer talks about Osama bin Laden's narrow escape in Tora Bora, Afghanistan; the race to develop and produce an electric car.

Original Airdate: 2008-09-28

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Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson talks about the nation's economic crisis; Gen. Raymond Odierno talks about the military in Iraq; a look at the Large Hadron Collider.

Original Airdate: 2008-09-21

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The 40th-anniversary broadcast includes interviews with presidential candidates John McCain (R) and Barack Obama (D).

Original Airdate: 2008-09-14

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Experts say dozens of defendants may actually be innocent after a flawed science was used in their convictions; Justice Antonin Scalia talks about his public and private life.

Original Airdate: 2008-09-07

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Author Bob Woodward discusses his new book; actor Alec Baldwin talks about his career and his personal life; blue fin tuna, a popular item on sushi menus, are being captured in rising numbers that threaten to endanger the species.

Original Airdate: 2008-08-31

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Sens. Barack Obama and Joseph Biden discuss their roles and strategies for the upcoming presidential election; some people in vegetative states are reawakening thanks to drug therapies.

Original Airdate: 2008-08-24

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A soldier faces murder charges in the deaths of Iraqi citizens; actor Dennis Quaid talks about the hospital mistake that nearly cost his newborn twins their lives.

Original Airdate: 2008-08-17

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Former CIA covert officer Valerie Plame talks about the leaking of her identity; the use of rape as a weapon in the civil war in Congo; a detective thinks he has solved the mystery of a missing da Vinci masterpiece.

Original Airdate: 2008-08-10

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Officers in the Israeli air force must prepare for anything; a case of insanity on Death Row; a profile of billionaire investor Carl Icahn.

Original Airdate: 2008-08-03

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The success of the kingdom of Dubai; a man's statistics help the Red Sox.

Original Airdate: 2008-07-27

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An infamous Boston mob trigger-man talks about the murders he is believed to have committed; NASA prepares for a manned space flight to Mars; singer Bruce Springsteen talks about his career, politics, and his current tour.

Original Airdate: 2008-07-20

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Searching for a young man who fled his village in Darfur to escape mass murder; a leukemia patient hopes to live long enough to see his potentially life-saving invention in clinical trials; a music program for youth at risk in Venezuela.