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02/15/1999 Hidden Agendas An American Radio Works investigation finds disclosure laws have failed to protect the public from the vested interests of some politicians.
01/15/1999 The Positive Life Adolescence can be rough for anyone, but these four teens face the extra challenge of living with HIV.
06/30/1998 Supreme Court Ruling: Reproduction Called "Major Life Activity" A report on the June 25, 1998 decision that people with HIV qualify for legal protection under the Americans with Disablities Act.
04/23/1998 Experimental Program May Help HIV-Infected Males to Safely Father Healthy Children A Boston program aims to help HIV-positive men and their uninfected female partners have a baby.
03/20/1998 Minnesota Surrogacy Center A Minneapolis lawyer says she will open the first center in Minnesota for surrogate motherhood.
03/18/1998 Deflation History As our economy hints at deflation, we might ask ourselves, "Have we seen this before?"
02/05/1998 Keeping the Brakes on Embryo Research The ban on federal funding of embryo research slows medical advances for the infertile.
01/09/1998 Cloning and Infertility Laws to ban human cloning could have an impact on treatments for infertile couples.
11/20/1997 The Fertility Race: From Barren to Infertile Stephen Smith's ongoing documentary on the social implications of infertility and the advanced reproductive techniques designed to correct the problem.
09/02/1997 Dreaming Awake Narcolepsy affects a quarter of a million Americans. Learn what it's like to suffer from this deceptive disease, and visit a kennel of narcoleptic dogs where scientists unravel the mysteries of sleep. Site includes movies and audio.
06/05/1997 Working Nights Learn about our "circadian rhythms" - the human body's instinctive urge to sleep at night - and hear how sleep researchers and night-shift workers are trying to thwart them.
05/20/1997 Buffalo Bill's Cowboy Band Mike Masterson, a professor of music in Powell, Wyoming, has recreated the repetoire of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. Stephen Smith reports.
02/01/1997 Frances Densmore: Song Catcher Movies, audio, and a Web magic lantern show pull you into the life and work of Frances Densmore whose monumental collection of Native American music from the early 20th century has been deemed a national treasure.
12/01/1996 Shaped-Note Singing A Southern tradition brims with life in the Twin Cities. Hear the sounds of shaped-note singing in this special feature.
09/08/1996 Face of Mercy, Face of Hate Follow a trail of clues through war-ravaged Sarajevo with journalist Michael Montgomery as he unravels the true story of how the war in Bosnia claimed a friend's life.
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