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Fans of the PBS children's show The Electric Company will recall a spoof of old radio detective programs; it was called Fargo North, Decoder. This indelible cultural reference aside, North Dakota's largest city has not received much media attention. So when Time correspondents Wendy Cole and Michael Duffy went to Fargo to report this week's story on the expected impact of federal budget cuts, the locals were flattered. "Countless times during my 10 days there," Cole says, "people asked what other towns we were visiting. When I told them none, they had trouble believing that their laid...
...part of an ongoing campaign to promote the public appreciation and understanding of science, Baird Professor of Science Dudley R. Herschbach recently hosted a PBS program, one of the three episodes of the science special, "The Nobel Legacy...
...PBS special, filmed on location, takes Herschbach to a suburb of Stockholm to visit the home and recount the achievements of chemist Alfred Nobel, who developed nitroglycerine, the active ingredient in dynamite...
...contributed to Ken Burns' acclaimed PBS series last year...
...Asked on PBS' MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour Monday why he didn't speak out years ago, McNamara exclaimed: "What should I have said that would not have brought aid and comfort to the enemy? I was the secretary of defense...