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Doctors Add Appeals Process for Kids Waiting for Adult Lung Transplants
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Whereabouts of NSA Whistleblower Unknown as Lawmakers Call for His Prosecution
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioGWEN IFILL: Defenders of expansive surveillance by the government stepped up demands today to go after an intelligence contractor who exposed the secret programs. The target of their ire remained out of sight, as...
Why the Government Should Be Paying You for Your Information
Watch Video What if government paid for the information it collected on its citizens? Jaron Lanier, widely regarded as the father of virtual reality and the author of "Who Owns the Future?", suggests that would be one step toward balancing the...
Why Government Should Be Paying You for Your Information
By Paul Solman Watch Video What if government paid for the information it collected on its citizens? Jaron Lanier, widely regarded as the father of virtual reality and the author of "Who Owns the Future?", suggests that would be one...
Google: We Turned Over Information on a 'Tiny Fraction' of Users
File photo of Google's headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., by David Paul Morris/Getty Images In his first U.S. television interview since the latest news broke of the government's surveillance program, Google's chief legal officer David...
From Lecture Hall to Graveyard
Watch Video Video shot and produced by Elizabeth Shell. Dr. Ronald Stockton has been teaching political science and international relations for decades at the University of Michigan, Dearborn. But rather than sit at his desk, this septuagenarian...