Miles to Go

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Many of the cars now on America's roads get no better gas mileage than the ones we were driving twenty years ago. Meanwhile, other country's cars are leaving ours in the dust in terms of fuel efficiency. How did this happen, and what are American auto manufacturers doing about it?

A former auto industry engineer and NOW correspondent Jonathan Silvers goes under the hood of the U.S. car industry to look at what's being called a colossal failure of American engineering. Does Detroit have a secret weapon waiting in the wings?

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Earn-a-Bike is a program that teaches young people to fix up bicycles, while delivering skills, experience and a sense of community to kids in some of Houston's poorest areas. The kids volunteer to fix up a bike and eventually ride off with one of their own. The idea is the brainchild of four young college graduates with a goal of empowering inner-city youth. Can bikes really move kids out of poverty?

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