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Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A tragic accident ends Laura Nelson’s career as a surgeon. After accepting a position as Vice President for Research in a large pharmaceutical company, Laura works to finalize the imminent approval of the company’s groundbreaking new drug. But Jake Harter, a malicious Food and Drug Administration employee, cannot let that happen. He is obsessed with Adawia Abdul, the beautiful Iraqi scientist who discovered the drug. As soon as the drug is approved,...
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Provides insight into Europe's current political and financial crisis, citing such factors as dependence on foreign oil and a lack of a unified foreign policy and making predictions about future prospects while explaining the role of Europe's success in American security.
Pub. Date
[2010], c2000
Language
English
Description
In segment one of this program, ABC News anchor Ted Koppel and correspondent John Donvan investigate the endemic nature of corruption in Russia, where bribery is commonplace and paying protection money is considered a business expense. In segment two, Koppel and billionaire Boris Berezovsky, identified as the unseen force behind Vladimir Putin's rise to power, discuss Berezovsky's recent foray into politics. And in segment three, after providing detailed...
Series
Pub. Date
[2014], c2010
Language
English
Description
This program continues the investigation into the greed and recklessness that drove the world to the brink of financial ruin. Follow the extraordinary bailout engineered by the U.S. Treasury Secretary, Hank Paulson, himself a former CEO of Goldman Sachs. Go behind the scenes to see desperate world leaders at each other's throats. Watch as you see the effects of the economic turn-down that range from unemployment, foreclosure and homelessness, protesting,...
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Waseem Mahmood lost almost everything when his brother broke a confidence and filed a story in the world's highest circulating tabloid newspaper, the News of the World. He feared he would never work in broadcast media again, and history intervened with the events of 9/11, the attack on Afghanistan, and the fall of the Taliban. Headed by Mahmood, a group of local and foreign journalists responded to the events by producing a radio program based in...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The Age of Google, built on big data and machine intelligence, has been an awesome era. But it's coming to an end. In Life after Google, George Gilder-the peerless visionary of technology and culture-explains why Silicon Valley is suffering a nervous breakdown and what to expect as the post-Google age dawns. Google's astonishing ability to “search and sort” attracts the entire world to its search engine and countless other goodies-videos, maps,...
11) That's Cool
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Is it true that if an earthworm is cut in two, it will become two earthworms?
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