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  Career Advice to My Daughter on Graduation Day -- Next Avenue’s Work & Volunteering blogger, Nancy Collamer, offers career advice for the new crop of college graduates: http://to.pbs.org/16vI2LB

  

  May 18, 2013 at 4:00 pm

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  After more than 10 years of failed attempts, scientists have successfully used cloning to create human embryonic stem cells.

  Read more on NOVA Next: http://to.pbs.org/10735zF

  

  May 18, 2013 at 11:09 am

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  Verdi’s classic Rigoletto…in Las Vegas? Spring Awakening director Michael Mayer makes his Metropolitan Opera debut in this adaptation, airing on GREAT PERFORMANCES l PBS tonight at 9/8c. Watch the Act 1 duet online at http://to.pbs.org/13BhrsG

  

  May 17, 2013 at 10:00 pm

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  Mel Brooks never met a stereotype he couldn’t upend. The classic Hollywood cowboy is always white. Mel Brooks’s Hollywood cowboy is black. And his Indian chief speaks Yiddish. Learn more about the art of the Brooks stereotype (and turning it on its head) from American Masters | PBS http://to.pbs.org/13davBX
  
  “Mel Brooks: Make a Noise” premieres Monday, May 20th at 9/8c on PBS

  

  May 17, 2013 at 7:00 pm

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  TONIGHT: PBS' MacNeil and Lehrer look back at the Senate Watergate hearings on PBS NewsHour. What do you remember?

  How Did Watergate Affect You?

  

  Forty years ago, in the summer of 1973, Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer led public broadcasting's gavel-to-gavel coverage of the Senate Watergate hearings -- co-anchoring all 250 hours of the proceedings, and launching the beginnings of what the PBS NewsHour is today.

  May 17, 2013 at 4:00 pm

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  Shown (L-R): Bryony Hannah as Cynthia, Dorothy Atkinson as Jane, Helen George as Trixie, Jessica Raine as Jenny

  © Laurence Cendrowicz/© Neal Street Productions

  CALL THE MIDWIFE (Season 2)

  

  May 17, 2013 at 2:58 pm

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  Shown (L-R): Helen George as Trixie, Miranda Hart as Chummy, Jessica Raine as Jenny

  ©Laurence Cendrowicz/© Neal Street Productions

  CALL THE MIDWIFE (Season 2)

  

  May 17, 2013 at 2:58 pm

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  We just reached 100 submissions for the This Land Is Your Land Project! That's 100 covers for 100 years of Woody Guthrie! See the 100th cover from American Masters | PBS at http://to.pbs.org/11TjmWB. You still have until June 15th to submit your cover!

  

  May 17, 2013 at 10:16 am

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  Do you know a "slacktivist"? That's someone who "likes" causes and posts political stories without taking action. You're not alone: a Pew study found that 17% of politically active people on social media never take other political action online or off : http://to.pbs.org/13vE3uL

  

  May 17, 2013 at 1:00 am

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  Can you name these civil rights pioneers? See if you can name all three. Visit PBS Black Culture Connection to learn more about them and many more at http://to.pbs.org/106veqv

  

  May 16, 2013 at 10:00 pm