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Previous Reports: 2001


BY ORIGINAL AIRDATE

Nov. 22, 2001

The Monster that Ate Hollywood
(60 minutes) The box office is booming. New international markets are opening weekly. Amazing advances in technology hold the promise of new delivery systems. ... (more)

Nov. 15, 2001

Saudi Time Bomb?
(60 minutes) President Bush says that if the nations of the world are not with us in the war on terrorism then theyíre with the terrorists. ... (more)

Nov. 08, 2001

Gunning for Saddam
(60 minutes) As Americans are confronted by acts of bioterrorism, powerful forces in the nationís capitol believe Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is to blame, for this and ... (more)

Oct. 25, 2001

Trail of a Terrorist
(60 minutes) On December 14, 1999, Ahmed Ressam was detained at the U.S./Canadian border when an alert customs agent became suspicious of Ressam's hesitant answers to her ... (more)

Oct. 18, 2001

Dangerous Straits
(60 minutes) Since the terrible events of Sept 11th, the United States has worked hard to put together a worldwide coalition against international terrorism. Where will ... (more)

Oct. 09, 2001

Looking For Answers
(60 minutes) The attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon was not only the most devastating terrorist attack in history, it was also the biggest ... (more)

Oct. 04, 2001

Target America
(60 minutes) Last month, the nation's top leaders gathered to decide the U.S response to the September 11 terrorist attack. Some of the same individuals were ... (more)

Sep. 13, 2001

Hunting Bin Laden
(60 minutes) Osama bin Laden is charged with masterminding the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in East Africa, believed to have had a role in ... (more)

Jun. 05, 2001

Blackout
(60 minutes) Power shortages. Rolling blackouts. Skyrocketing utility bills. California's power disaster has made "energy" a national front-burner issue. The state's power crunch has affected everyone from ... (more)

May. 15, 2001

LAPD Blues
(60 minutes) All is not well inside the Los Angeles Police Department. The worst corruption scandal in the force's history has devastated a police department once ... (more)

Apr. 24, 2001

Harvest of Fear
(120 minutes) A gene from a jellyfish is placed in a potato plant, making it light up whenever it needs watering. Rice plants are genetically transformed ... (more)

Apr. 10, 2001

Medicating Kids
(60 minutes) Today, millions of American children are being prescribed powerful behavior modifying drugs such as Ritalin, Prozac, Adderall. But are these medications really necessary-and safe-for ... (more)

Mar. 27, 2001

Organ Farm
(120 minutes) Imagine a world where every patient who needed an organ transplant could receive one right away. Such a future is promised by xenotransplantation, the ... (more)

Feb. 27, 2001

The Merchants of Cool
(60 minutes) FRONTLINE journeys into the world of the marketers of popular culture to teenagers. They spend their days sifting through reams of market research data. ... (more)

Feb. 13, 2001

Hackers
(60 minutes) Designed to facilitate the free exchange of ideas, the Internet has become home to confidential-even classified-information from virtually every nation in the world. Financial information, ... (more)

Feb. 06, 2001

Saving Elian
(60 minutes) On November 25, 1999, a five-year-old Cuban boy was plucked from the shark infested waters off Florida, and what began as a Thanksgiving story soon ... (more)

Jan. 30, 2001

Juvenile Justice
(90 minutes) Should teenagers who commit serious crimes be tried as juveniles or adults? What happens to young offenders who reach the 'end of the line' ... (more)

Jan. 16, 2001

The Clinton Years
(120 minutes) He was a masterful campaigner - a skilled politician whose command of the issues and ability to connect with an audience impressed seasoned politicos and ... (more)