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Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Profiles Adam Lanza, the young man responsible for the massacre at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012. Alaine Griffin and Josh Kovner, two reporters from the Hartford Courant, interview various acquaintances of Lanza's to gain insight into the causes of the tragedy. Includes an additional segment, featuring the Courant's Matthew Kauffman, in which U.S. gun laws are discussed, using the Newtown massacre as a focal point....
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
" ... lays bare the science of vaccine safety and examines the increasingly bitter debate between the public health establishment and a formidable populist coalition of parents, celebrities, politicians and activists who are armed with the latest social media tools ... and are determined to resist pressure from the medical and public health establishments to vaccinate, despite established scientific consensus about vaccine safety."--Frontline website....
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
"Judgment day: intelligent design on trial" captures the turmoil that tore apart the community of Dover, Pennsylvania, in a landmark battle over the teaching of evolution in public schools. In 2004, the Dover school board ordered science teachers to read a statement to high school biology students about an alternative to Darwin's theory of evolution called intelligent design--the idea that life is too complex to have evolved naturally and so must...
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Acclaimed director Steve James tells the saga of the Chinese immigrant Sung family, owners of Abacus Federal Savings of Chinatown, New York. Accused of mortgage fraud by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., Abacus becomes the only bank prosecuted after the 2008 financial crisis. The indictment and subsequent trial forces the Sung family to defend themselves, and their bank's legacy in the Chinatown community, over the course of a five-year...
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