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NATURE | Katrina's Animal Rescue | A Happy Reunion | PBS
One family's search for their dog they had to leave behind during Hurricane Katrina is finally over. From NATURE's Katrina's Animal Rescue, airing Sunday, August 19th at 8 p.m. (ET) on PBS (check local listings). Katrina's Animal Rescue covers the dramatic struggle to save the 'other victims' of the Gulf catastrophe. Exclusive footage reveals selfless heroism and amazing stories of survival on the streets and rooftops of Louisiana and Mississippi. For more information, visit http://www.pbs.org/nature
Bill Moyers bids farewell to Karl Rove. The program airs Friday, August 17 at 9 p.m. on PBS. To watch online visit: http://wwww.pbs.org/moyers check your local listings at: http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/about/airdates.html
Could a well-intentioned government program become a cash machine for businessmen bent on enriching themselves at the expense of the disabled? In 1971, Congress created a program to channel federal contracts to charities that train and employ workers who are blind or have severe disabilities. Known as JWOD (named after the law that created it, the Javits-Wagner-O'Day act), it eventually came to have a $2 billion dollar budget. But no one, it appears, was keeping track of where that money was going, until journalists from The Oregonian decided to have a look. What they found was abuse of the system and anemic oversight resulting in a massive bilking of taxpayers and precious few jobs for the genuinely disabled. And watch the full episode when it premieres online, Wednesday, August 15, at 12 noon ET. (Or check your local listings for broadcast dates on PBS nationwide, beginning Friday, August 17.) http://www.pbs.org/expose
View the entire show at http://www.pbs.org/wnet/expose/watch/index.html Watch this preview of "Nice Work If You Can Get It," Exposé: America's Investigative Reports, on PBS. A tip from a legendary Washington Post reporter. A highly sensitive internal government document. Veteran investigative journalists. Scott Higham and Robert O’Harrow, Jr. go “back to school” to learn the ins and outs of government contracting. And with the help of an inside source, get the goods on case after case of failed programs and reveal how the DHS mismanaged taxpayers’ money in its post-9/11 rush to tighten national security. And watch the full episode when it premieres online, Wednesday, August 8, at 12 noon ET. (Or check your local listings for broadcast dates on PBS nationwide, beginning Friday, August 10.) For web-exclusive video and audio features, and to stream other episodes in the series, go to http://www.pbs.org/expose
As internal battles fracture the Palestinian Territories, WIDE ANGLE provides a glimpse inside the conflict as it spirals out of control. In July 2006, seven months after the militant movement Hamas' landslide election victories, the largest hospital in the Gaza Strip became a battlefield. Gaza E.R. follows doctors, nurses, and staff at Shifa Hospital as they struggle in the face of turf wars among Hamas, rival faction Fatah, and powerful families with competing agendas. Gunfights, medical shortages, and disappearing salaries are a daily reality in this gripping portrait of the troubled Palestinian landscape. PBS Airdate: Tuesday, Aug 14th at 9pm (check local listings). For more information please visit http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle
Bill Moyers reflects upon sacrifice, democracy and war. Watch all Bill Moyers Journal episodes online at http://www.pbs.org/moyers Check local PBS listings at: http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/about/airdates.html
The Fringe-toed lizard is custom equipped to handle Death Valley. From NATURE’s Life in Death Valley airing on Sunday, September 2nd at 8 p.m. (ET) on PBS (check local listings). Life in Death Valley captures the simmering cauldron of Death Valley; the hottest, driest place in the US, epic in its beauty but punishing in its brutal extremes. In a scorched landscape marked by endless miles of salt flats, molten rock canyons, and lunar craters, survival is a miracle in itself. For more information, visit http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/deathvalley
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NATURE | Life in Death Valley | Devil’s Hole Pupfish | PBS
Biologists are on a mission to save Death Valley’s most precious treasure – the tiny Devil’s Hole Pupfish . From NATURE’s Life in Death Valley airing on Sunday, September 2nd at 8 p.m. (ET) on PBS (check local listings). Life in Death Valley captures the simmering cauldron of Death Valley; the hottest, driest place in the US, epic in its beauty but punishing in its brutal extremes. In a scorched landscape marked by endless miles of salt flats, molten rock canyons, and lunar craters, survival is a miracle in itself. For more information, visit http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/deathvalley
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