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Christine Todd Whitman, head of the Environmental Protection Agency, is leaving her post after more than two years of highly charged debates that often put her at odds with others in the Bush administration. Experts examine President Bush's environmental record…

Ray Suarez reports on the findings and remaining questions in the space shuttle Columbia disaster investigation and then follows up in a discussion with Jerry Grey of the American Institute of Astronautics and Donna Shirley of the University of Oklahoma.

Margaret Warner discusses DNA with Eric Lander, director of the Whitehead Institute's Center for Genome Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a representative of the Human Genome Project.

Investigators continue to look for answers to the space shuttle Columbia disaster. Terence Smith discusses the latest evidence with Anthony Weiner, a member of the House science committee; and Lori Garver, a former associate administrator for policy and plans at…

NASA released copies of an e-mail by one of their engineers, which warned of catastrophic consequences to the shuttle Columbia from the piece of foam insulation that struck the shuttle during liftoff. Ray Suarez discusses the investigation and NASA's safety…