Jan 02 Health Experts Question Army Report on Psychological Training Mental health experts say a U.S. Army report on training aimed at enhancing soldiers' psychological resilience is flawed. Continue reading
Dec 28 Watch Scientists in Kenya Try to Fend Off Disease Threatening World's Wheat Crop Scientists in Kenya's Rift Valley are taking part in a complicated and protracted global fight against Ug99, a fungal disease called wheat rust that could destroy 80 percent of all known wheat varieties. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports… Continue watching
Dec 27 Watch In Peru, Gold Rush Leads to Mercury Contamination Concerns In remote regions of the Peruvian Amazon, extensive gold-mining operations have stirred major environmental concerns over mercury contamination in fish, fish-eating wildlife and humans. In collaboration with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, special correspondent Steve Sapienza reports. Continue watching
Dec 27 Latest U.S. Home Sales Price Reading a 'Distinct Downer' Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images. It's the monthly moment for Case-Shiller/S&P, the most widely followed index of U.S. housing prices, and Tuesday's numbers are a distinct downer, prices dropping at an annual rate of over 1 percent,… Continue reading
Dec 23 Army's Mental Resilience Program: Your Questions Answered Viewers submitted many questions about our report on the largest psychological program in the Army's history. Col. Marsha Lilly of the Comprehensive Soldier Fitness Public Affairs Office and critic Bryant Welch, a psychotherapist, answer some below. Continue reading
Dec 23 Unlikely Education Leader Links Business and Schools in Morocco Former President Clinton and Moroccan education advocate Mhammed Abbad Andaloussi at the Clinton Global initiative. Photo courtesy Mhammed Abbad Andaloussi. Mhammed Abbad Andaloussi is one of those people with a knack for getting what he wants, at times without even… Continue reading
Dec 23 If It's Not a War on Cancer, What Is It? President Nixon signs the National Cancer Act in 1971. Photo courtesy of the National Cancer Institute. It was President Richard Nixon's "Christmas gift to the nation." On Dec. 23, 1971, he faced a crowd full of congressmen and… Continue reading
Dec 22 Watch Fearing Bioterrorism, Government Panel Asks: What Research Should Be Secret? How much research about the deadly bird flu virus should be available to the public? Ray Suarez discusses the question that many in the science, bioterrorism and national security fields are considering with Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institute… Continue watching
Dec 22 If It's Not a War on Cancer, What Is It? By Jason Kane It was President Nixon's "Christmas gift to the nation." On Dec. 23, 1971, he faced the television cameras in the East Room of the White House and declared "total national commitment" to finding a cure for cancer and the funds… Continue reading
Dec 21 Watch In Morocco, 20,000 Imams Trained to Teach HIV/Aids Awareness, Compassion The taboo topic of HIV, particularly how to prevent it and treat it, rarely surfaces in public ways in Muslim societies, but religious leaders across Morocco are trying to change that. Ray Suarez reports. Continue watching