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Need to Know is a production of Creative News Group (CNG) in association with WNET. Marc Rosenwasser is Executive Producer. Need to Know is made possible by Bernard and Irene Schwartz, Mutual of America, Citi Foundation, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Foundation, Margaret A. Cargill Foundation, The Corporation for Public Broadcasting and PBS.

A brief history of the birth control pill

The dirty dozen and clean 15 of produce

How much radiation is too much? A handy guide

Steinbeck's The Harvest Gypsies

The true cost of the bank bailout