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October 3 - 7, 2005
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Friday, October 7,
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Nobel
Peace Prize
Kwame Holman narrates a report on Friday's announcement that
the International Atomic Energy Agency and its director, Mohamed
ElBaradei, won the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize.  
Jobs
Picture Jeffrey Brown looks at the unemployment fallout from Hurricane
Katrina. Then, Brown speaks with Louisiana Secretary of Labor John Warner Smith
in Baton Rouge and Mark Vitner, the vice president and senior economist at Wachovia
Bank, about the implications of the unemployment numbers. 
China
Rising Paul Solman of WGBH-Boston presents the third part of a special
series on China, where he explores the influence of Mao Zedong on modern China.
 
Cancer
Vaccine Margaret Warner speaks with Dr. Elizabeth Garner, a gynecological
oncologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, about the effectiveness
of an experimental vaccine to prevent cervical cancer.  
Shields
and Brooks
Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist
David Brooks discuss the nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme
Court, President Bush's speech on terrorism and other political
developments.  
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Monday, October 3,
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Supreme Choice President
Bush nominated Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court Monday to fill the seat of retiring
Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. Kwame Holman reports on the president's choice.
Then, Gwen Ifill leads a discussion about Miers' career with David Jackson
of the Dallas Morning News and Susan Karamanian, associate dean at George Washington
University Law School.   Finally,
Margaret Warner discusses
the initial Senate reaction to the Miers nomination with Democratic Sen. Charles
Schumer of New York and Republican Sen. John Cornyn of Texas.   First
Day in October Ray Suarez speaks with Jan Crawford Greenburg, national
legal affairs correspondent for the Chicago Tribune, about Chief Justice John
Roberts' first day on the job.  
Terror
in Bali Indonesian authorities were seeking the public's help Monday
in identifying three suicide bombers who killed at least 22 people in the nation's
beach resort of Bali on Saturday. Ian Williams of Independent Television News
reports from Bali on the attack. 
Artful
Storyteller Jeffrey Brown looks back at the life of award-winning
playwright August Wilson with actor Anthony Chrisholm, who performed in six of
Wilson's plays, and Kenny Leon, who directed and acted in several of Wilson's
plays.  
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