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This Week on World Report
Tuesday, Nov 25, 9:00 PM ET - Premiere
The Russia-Georgia Conflict: Who's Really to Blame? Natural Gas Cars: Cleaner, but Better? Mavericks: How a Retiree is Feeding the World.
World Report explores a twist in the events that threatened to ignite a new Cold War: what looked like Russian aggression against Georgia this summer may have been something very different. We were in Georgia when the fighting started, and take a fresh look at a foreign policy quandary that's still unfolding. Then, correspondent Greg Dobbs gets behind the wheel and under the hood of a natural gas car. It runs cheaper and burns cleaner, but does one belong in your garage? Finally, we're in Haiti to catch up with a World Report Maverick, a Minnesota retiree whose desire to help hungry kids will lead to 40 million meals delivered around the world this year alone.
| Date | Time | Description |
| Mon., Nov. 24th | 2:00 PM ET | The Real Life "Big Love;" Helping Haiti After a Season of Hurricanes; Mavericks: Sean Tevis - To many, polygamy conjures images of Warren Jeffs and secluded compounds with women in 19th century prairie dresses. But that's not how many polygamists live. World Report was allowed rare access into the lives of "independent" polygamist families who lead outwardly 'normal' lives in quiet suburban communities, ordinary people with an extraordinary secret. Next, we are back in Haiti, which was pummeled this year by four hurricanes. A group of volunteers is trying to stave off a humanitarian catastrophe and Haiti's president is pleading for help. Finally, Paul Beban introduces us to a political maverick, a candidate in Kansas who has changed the way local campaigns are run -- with a cartoon! Available on iTunes |
| Tue., Nov. 25th | 2:00 PM ET | Human Guinea Pigs; Shuttle Endeavour; Miracle in Malawi - For profit clinical pharmaceutical trials have become a big business, and are almost totally unregulated. This has led to a new profession -- human "guinea pigs" who travel all over the country, allowing themselves to be poked and prodded in the name of science. But big ethical questions are being raised, as are questions about safety. Paul Beban goes inside with the "guinea piggers." Next, Greg Dobbs has the latest on Shuttle Endeavour's 15 day mission to the International Space Station. And finally, Leslie Boghosian is in the perennially impoverished African nation of Malawi, where the government has launched a program that, despite initial opposition from the World Bank and many industrialized nations, seems to be highly effective. They are now not only feeding their own people, but they're exporting food, too. What's their secret? |
| Tue., Nov. 25th | 7:00 PM ET | Human Guinea Pigs; Shuttle Endeavour; Miracle in Malawi |
| Premiere! Tue., Nov. 25th | 9:00 PM ET | The Russia-Georgia Conflict: Who's Really to Blame? Natural Gas Cars: Cleaner, but Better? Mavericks: How a Retiree is Feeding the World. - World Report explores a twist in the events that threatened to ignite a new Cold War: what looked like Russian aggression against Georgia this summer may have been something very different. We were in Georgia when the fighting started, and take a fresh look at a foreign policy quandary that's still unfolding. Then, correspondent Greg Dobbs gets behind the wheel and under the hood of a natural gas car. It runs cheaper and burns cleaner, but does one belong in your garage? Finally, we're in Haiti to catch up with a World Report Maverick, a Minnesota retiree whose desire to help hungry kids will lead to 40 million meals delivered around the world this year alone. |
| Wed., Nov. 26th | 12:00 AM ET | The Russia-Georgia Conflict: Who's Really to Blame? Natural Gas Cars: Cleaner, but Better? Mavericks: How a Retiree is Feeding the World. |
| Wed., Nov. 26th | 2:00 PM ET | The Russia-Georgia Conflict: Who's Really to Blame? Natural Gas Cars: Cleaner, but Better? Mavericks: How a Retiree is Feeding the World. |
| Thu., Nov. 27th | 2:00 PM ET | Untreated Casualties Part 2; Drill, Baby, Drill? Inside Offshore Drilling; Viewfinder: Vietnam's Infamous Tunnels - For Veteran's Day, Greg Dobbs continues his reporting about the epidemic of post traumatic stress disorder and suicide in our armed forces. The Defense Department has initiated an aggressive new program to help the huge numbers of soldiers who come back from Iraq and Afghanistan with PTSD. Next, we are in the Santa Barbara Channel off the coast of California. Offshore drilling was a big campaign issue, and will be one of the first big issues confronting the new Obama administration. Oil men say new technology has made drilling safer than ever before. Finally, a World Report Viewfinder, inside the tunnels that the Viet Cong used during the Vietnam war to move supplies and launch attacks. |
| Fri., Nov. 28th | 2:00 PM ET | The Russia-Georgia Conflict: Who's Really to Blame? Natural Gas Cars: Cleaner, but Better? Mavericks: How a Retiree is Feeding the World. |
| Mon., Dec. 1st | 2:00 PM ET | Human Guinea Pigs; Shuttle Endeavour; Miracle in Malawi |
| Tue., Dec. 2nd | 2:00 PM ET | The Russia-Georgia Conflict: Who's Really to Blame? Natural Gas Cars: Cleaner, but Better? Mavericks: How a Retiree is Feeding the World. |
| Tue., Dec. 2nd | 7:00 PM ET | The Russia-Georgia Conflict: Who's Really to Blame? Natural Gas Cars: Cleaner, but Better? Mavericks: How a Retiree is Feeding the World. |
| Tue., Dec. 2nd | 9:00 PM ET | La Oroya: A Poisoned Town, a Billionaire's Profit - The town of La Oroya, high in the Peruvian Andes, is one of the most polluted places in the world. The town is dominated by a massive metal processing plant; 97% of the children have lead poisoning, and twice the arsenic and 6 times the cadmium than the average American child. The landscape, scoured by toxic rain, looks like a moonscape. Who is responsible for the reprehensible conditions? Correspondent Mick Davie traveled to Peru to find out, and learned that the metal processing plant is owned by an American billionaire who promised to clean up the factory, but who many say has only made things worse. Available on iTunes |
| Wed., Dec. 3rd | 12:00 AM ET | La Oroya: A Poisoned Town, a Billionaire's Profit Available on iTunes |
| Wed., Dec. 3rd | 2:00 PM ET | La Oroya: A Poisoned Town, a Billionaire's Profit Available on iTunes |
| Thu., Dec. 4th | 2:00 PM ET | The Russia-Georgia Conflict: Who's Really to Blame? Natural Gas Cars: Cleaner, but Better? Mavericks: How a Retiree is Feeding the World. |
| Fri., Dec. 5th | 2:00 PM ET | La Oroya: A Poisoned Town, a Billionaire's Profit Available on iTunes |
