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This week on NOW: The government says mammograms are a safe and effective test for breast cancer… but what if your doctor can't spot the tumor? A year-long investigation by THE NEW YORK TIMES, published this week, found that many of the 20,000 doctors who read mammograms lack the necessary skills for the job. NOW presents this report, prepared by Times correspondent Lowell Bergman, reporter Michael Moss and producer David Rummel. Radiological Health Physicist Tricia Edgerton says, "This is life and death, for many women."
Then, we look at a new media campaign aimed at convincing evangelical Christians across America to support Israel's policies. Bill Moyers interviews the two men who have founded Stand for Israel: Yechiel Eckstein, a fourth generation Rabbi and President of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews; and long-time Republican activist Ralph Reed, former head of the Christian Coalition and current chairman of the Georgia Republican party.
Washington, DC is now disappearing into a swamp of secrecy - the bill for the creation of the proposed Department of Homeland Security calls for the Department alone to decide what information the public has a right to know. And… the Department will be exempted from the Freedom of Information Act. It's a pattern with a long history, as producer Sherry Jones presents in a rebroadcast of a NOW segment.
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