A "Frontline" investigation of the consumer loan industry, providing insights from industry insiders, politicians, lobbyists, and consumer advocates on the impact of the industry on the U.S. economy, and the effect of federal regulations.
Mobile phones that read your mind? Video games that can cure cancer? Wearable robots that give you the strength of Ironman? David Pogue predicts which technologies will transform our daily lives. These advancements are already taking shape in laboratories around the world, and gadgets that once were purely science fiction are on the verge of becoming as common as the iPhones and Androids Pogue reviews every day.
David Macaulay reviews the design and construction of bridges from the Roman era to modern times. The program is enhanced with animation, drawings, historic photographs and newsreel footage, and includes the segment "Building small" with activities for children.
This videodisc explores the extraordinary story of what happens when a freedom-loving nation outlaws the sale of intoxicating liquor, and the disastrous unintended consequences that follow. The utterly relevant cautionary tale raises profound questions about the proper role of government and the limits of legislating morality. When the country goes dry in 1920, after a century of debate, millions of law-abiding Americans become lawbreakers overnight.
