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From Darfur to Afghanistan: Insider Forum Highlights
For the past four months viewers have been submitting questions to our expert panels on subjects ranging from the Bush Administration's efforts to slows the spread of AIDS in Africa to U.S. Poet Laureate Charles Simic's view of modern poetry. Now, we take a look back at some of the highlights of Insider Forum.
   
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Steroid Report Raises Questions on Baseball's Future
Former Sen. George Mitchell released the results of his 20-month probe into the use of steroids in Major League Baseball last week. Dozens of players, including seven time Cy Young award winning Yankee pitcher Roger Clemens, Andy Pettitte and Miguel Tejada, were named in the report. Two sportswriters answered your questions.
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Experts Assess Afghan Security, Reconstruction
Since 2001, NATO- and U.S.-led coalition forces have battled Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan with mixed results. In 2007, an estimated 2,600 people have been killed, a 50 percent increase over last year. Martin Howard of NATO and Barnett Rubin of New York University answered your questions.
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Actor Rufus Sewell on Stoppard's "Rock'n'Roll"
British playwright Tom Stoppard's latest work, "Rock'n'Roll" explores the revolutionary time of the 1960's in Czechoslovakia. The play focuses on Jan, who returns to Prague from England to find Soviet tanks and a Communist regime. Actor Rufus Sewell, who portrays Jan in the Broadway production, answered your questions.
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Political Turmoil in Pakistan
On Wednesday, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf resigned as head of the army. The move came weeks after he imposed an emergency rule and dismissed part of the Supreme Court. The new court, handpicked by Musharraf, quashed legal challenges to his re-election. Two experts answered your questions.
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A Planet in Drought: Our Dwindling Water Supplies
As classified by the National Weather Service, an "exceptional" drought now covers 26 percent of the South, with some experts saying Atlanta could run out of water by the New Year. Our guests addressed what is happening in Georgia and in other parts of the country as well as what other states are doing to solve the problem.
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Finding New Solutions to Africa's AIDS Crisis
The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR, is designed to funnel $15 billion over five years toward HIV prevention and treatment efforts in Africa and other countries. Ambassador Mark Dybul, U.S. global AIDS coordinator and Paul Zeitz of Global AIDS Alliance answered your questions.
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Supreme Court Renews Death Penalty Debate
The Supreme Court has delayed at least three executions since agreeing to hear a case questioning whether lethal injections constitute cruel and unusual punishment. Virginia Sloan of the Constitution Project and Kent Scheidegger of the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation answered your questions.
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Wildfire Wars: The Story of the California Fires
Nearly 1,800 homes and some 490,000 acres have been destroyed by wildfires in Southern California over the past week. At least 10 people have lost their lives in the powerful blazes. NewsHour correspondent Jeffrey Kaye answered your questions on what it was like to experience the disaster first-hand.
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Two Doctors Explain Drug-resistant Super Bug
A dangerous bacterial infection that's resistant to standard antibiotics killed more Americans in 2005 than the AIDS virus, a recent CDC study revealed. The bug, called methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, has raised concerns in the public and among the medical community. Two doctors answered your questions.
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African Expert Offers Closer Look at Darfur Crisis
An estimated 200,000 people have been killed in Sudan's Darfur region since a brutal civil war erupted in 2003. Millions have been forced to flee their homes and live in refugee camps. Sarjoh Bah, with Global Peace Operations at NYU's Center on International Cooperation, answered your questions on the crisis.
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Party Strategists Discuss Campaign Fundraising
Republican and Democratic presidential hopefuls have recently released fund-raising numbers and the data has held some surprises. With the race on for campaign cash, the intricacies of fund raising and how candidates seek out backers remain hot topics. Our guests answered your questions.
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New Poet Laureate Ponders His Craft
In August 2007, Charles Simic was named Poet Laureate of the United States. Born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, Simic is the author of 18 books and is a Pulitzer Prize winner. He currently writes for the New York Review of Books and is Poetry Editor of the Paris Review. He answered your questions on the state of poetry today.
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Filmmaker Explains Aspects of PBS Documentary 'The War'
World War II took the lives of more than 400,000 American soldiers and affected nearly everyone living in the United States at the time. In a seven-part documentary, co-directors/producers Lynn Novick and Ken Burns got first-hand accounts from survivors around the country. Novick answered your questions.
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Financial Markets Made Easy
Reacting to a tough housing market, job losses and weak retail sales in August, the Federal Reserve cut its benchmark interest rate by a half point on Tuesday. NewsHour Economics and Business correspondent Paul Solman answered your questions on what impact this decision will have on your money.
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MacNeil Comments on MacDowell Artist Colony
Located in Peterborough, N.H., the MacDowell Colony houses artists for up to two months, allowing them to focus on their work. Robert MacNeil, former co-anchor and executive editor of the NewsHour is MacDowell Colony's chairman. He answered your questions about the colony.
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