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Afghanistan Awaits U.S. Strategy Announcement
Ahead of President Obama's planned announcement Tuesday on U.S. strategy in Afghanistan, Judy Woodruff talks to Washington Post reporter Josh Partlow about the president's decision-making process.
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Evidence-Based Medicine Could Hold the Key to Low Health Care Costs
Nurse; White House imageAs the House and Senate continue to weigh a sweeping health care overhaul, Ray Suarez talks to Dr. Groopman of Harvard Medical School and Dr. Berwick of the Institute of Health Care Improvement about how evidence-based medicine could help Congress keep costs down.

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Writer Barbara Kingsolver Discusses the Sustainable Food Movement
Barbara KingsolverJeffrey Brown talks to writer Barbara Kingsolver about the growing popularity of the sustainable food movement. Her book, "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life," chronicles the year her family ate only locally grown foods.
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Reporter's Podcast: Britain Launches Iraq Invasion Inquiry
Former British Ambassador to the United States, Sir Christopher Meyer; Getty ImagesA British inquiry opened this week looking into the origins of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Paul Davies of Independent Television News describes Thursday's testimony that then-national security adviser Condoleezza Rice mentioned Iraq hours after the 9/11 attacks.

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Former FDA Chief Reveals Mysteries of Overeating and Food Cravings
David KesslerFormer FDA commissioner Dr. David Kessler spent the past seven years talking with doctors, scientists and food industry insiders about why people crave fat and sugar for his new book, "The End of Overeating." Tonight on the NewsHour: an encore of this conversation.

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Hungry in America: New Food Insecurity Numbers Are A Wake Up Call
A new report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture confirms that almost 50 million Americans had a hard time putting food on the table in 2008 -- one in seven American households, an increase of 13 million people from the year before.
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Rx for Reform: Decoding the Health Care Debate
President Barack Obama has said that he is aiming to sign a health care reform bill into law by October. Get the latest news on health care reform politics and policy from the NewsHour’s health unit.
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Art Beat
Covering the visual and performing arts, film and literature with multimedia reports and in-depth interviews, correspondent Jeffrey Brown and NewsHour reporters bring the museums and galleries to you.
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Patchwork Nation: American Communities in a Time of Change
Patchwork Nation is a reporting project that explores economic trends in the United States by tracking different types of communities over time with the help of the Christian Science Monitor, local stations and citizen bloggers.
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Making Sen$e: Understanding Credit Card Rules
Learn how new credit card rules affect you and read Paul Solman's answers to high school students' economic questions on Making Sen$e: Your Guide to the Economy.
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Paul Solman Takes Your Questions in 'Business Desk' Feature
From explaining the subprime market to the financial bailout debate, economics correspondent Paul Solman covers the business stories that make news on Wall Street and around the water cooler. In a Web feature, he takes your questions.
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The Exchange: Economic News and Analysis
Explore the latest economic and business news and analysis, including daily 'Business Desk' blog posts from NewsHour correspondent Paul Solman and more.
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Catch Up on the Weekly Analysis of Mark Shields and David Brooks
Missed your weekly dose of political analysis from syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks? Find the full archive here.
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Generation Next
Young Americans are facing tough challenges as job prospects dwindle. Judy Woodruff explored the economy's impact on Generation Next in a series of reports on both NPR's Morning Edition and the NewsHour.
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Learn More About Your World On-air and Online
When the leadership of a country changes hands or a humanitarian crisis sweeps a nation, the impacts can be felt worldwide. Help put these events in context with our in-depth analysis, Web features and education tools.
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Global Health Watch
From coverage of the H1N1 flu virus to the fight against HIV/AIDS in South Africa, the NewsHour's Global Health page offers news and on-the-ground reports exploring health issues around the world.
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Around the Nation: Discover the Best of Public Broadcasting
Which types of businesses are doing well despite the economic downturn? How are food banks coping? Find these and other reports on Around the Nation, a compilation of the country's best local public broadcasting reporting.
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Social Entrepreneurship: Small Efforts Tackle the World's Biggest Challenges
Explore profiles of activists and volunteers across the world who are laboring to solve some of mankind's biggest problems.
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Afghanistan Update
Kwame Holman reports on how U.S. troops thousands of miles away are celebrating the Thanksgiving holiday.

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Thanksgiving in Afghanistan
Judy Woodruff interviews Joshua Partlow of the Washington Post about developments in Afghanistan and how the troops spent Thanksgiving.

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News Wrap
A synopsis of the day's other top news headlines.

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Mumbai Attacks
Simon Israel of Independent Television News reports from Mumbai one year after terrorist attacks rocked the Indian capital.

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Evidence-based Medicine
Dr. Groopman of Harvard and Dr. Berwick of the Institute of Healthcare Improvement debate how evidence-based medicine could help Congress cut health care costs.

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Rethinking Recess
Spencer Michels reports on how one non-profit is showing educators the health and classroom benefits of teaching students how to play nice.

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Food Cravings
Former FDA Commissioner Dr. David Kessler discusses what is behind people's cravings, the subject of his book, "The End of Overeating."

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Holiday Poem
Poet Galway Kinnell reads a holiday poem, "Why Regret?" from his book about "engaging ourselves with the common acts, the ordinary things, the other creatures."

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