Religious views play a role in Israel's stem cell program. The World's Aaron Schachter concludes the series by examining how the Judaic duty to care for the sick trumps ethical concerns over the rights of embryos created in the laboratory.
The World: The Global Race for Stem Cell Therapies, Part Four: Israel
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The World: The Global Race for Stem Cell Therapies, Part Three: China
China's stem cell program, like the Chinese economy, is moving ahead rapidly. The World's Mary Kay Magistad reports that Chinese research has strong support and heavy investment from the government, and often with knowledge and experience picked up by top Chinese researchers in the U.S. Use of aborted fetuses does not raise much controversy in China's Confucian culture, where human life is seen to begin at birth, not at conception.
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The World: The Global Race for Stem Cell Therapies, Part Two: Britain
For many years now in Britain, a governmental body has strictly regulated all work involving embryos. Clark Boyd turns his attention to Britain's Human Fertility and Embryology Authority, which some scientists consider a model for how the U.S. should regulate this field of research.
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The World: The Global Race for Stem Cell Therapies, Part One: Primer on Stem Cell Research
The World's technology correspondent Clark Boyd delivers a primer on stem cell research, chronicling its history in the United States. Since 2001, the Federal government has funded embryonic stem cell research in the United States -- but with strict limits. There are few restrictions, however, on research conducted in the private sector.
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PRI's The World: The Tony Blair Decade
Tony Blair's last day as prime minister will be June 27, 2007. Ten years at 10 Downing Street is enough, Blair said, for him and for the country. This special half-hour podcast takes a look at the legacy of Tony Blair, his relationship with George W. Bush and his successor, Gordon Brown.
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The World: China - Shifting Influences Podcast, Part IV
President Bush met with President Roh Mu Hyun in South Korea today. The two leaders said they won't tolerate a nuclear-armed North Korea. But they don't agree on how to prevent that. South Korea is long-time ally of the United States. And it's long been wary of China. But these days South Korea seems to prefer China's strategy when it comes to dealing with the North. It just one example of how South Korea has lately been moving closer China. In the last part of our series on China's growing influence in Asia, The World's Mary Kay Magistad reports from the South Korean capital.
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The World: China - Shifting Influences Podcast, Part III
President Bush is in South Korea for the second leg of his East Asia tour. Earlier today, he delivered a speech in Japan, urging China to embrace democracy, just as Japan and Taiwan have done. It's a touchy topic.And the fact that Mr. Bush made these comments in Japan is also likely to upset China. The Chinese hold a deep grudge against Japan for World War II atrocities. And they view a rise in Japanese nationalism with alarm. For its part, Japan is worried about China's growing nationalism and growing military might. The World's Mary Kay Magistad has the third part in our series on how China's rise is affecting US allies in Asia.
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The World: China - Shifting Influences Podcast, Part II
For the past century, the Philippines has maintained strong ties with the United States. But recently, it's been drawing closer to the growing superpower in East Asia -- China. In the second part of our series on China's Shifting Influences, The World's Mary Kay Magistad reports on how the Philippines is finding a new balance between the two countries.
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The World: China - Shifting Influences Podcast, Part I
President Bush heads to Japan today. It's the first leg of his 8-day trip to East Asia. The United States has been the dominant power in the region for more than 50 years economically, culturally, and militarily. But these daysPart IChina is beginning to challenge that role. And some of the United States' traditional allies in the area are starting to get used to the NEW big kid on the block. Today we begin a four-part series on how China's rise is shifting the balance of power and influence in East Asia. The World's Mary Kay Magistad reports from Beijing.
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PRI's The World: China's Environment: Paying for Prosperity
China, the world's largest nation with one of the fastest growing economies, has a world-class pollution problem. In a four-part series, correspondent Mary Kay Magistad examines China's growing environmental crisis and what the country is doing to respond.
Part One: Land of Pollution
China's staggering growth has come at a steep price to its air, water, and soil. But the cause of the pollution is more than mere economic activity. China's political system has exacerbated the problem.
Part Two: China's Green Army
China is experiencing mounting pressure from within to clean up its polluting ways. A burgeoning environmental movement is speaking out and has begun to score successes.
Part Three: Exporting Goods, Importing Standards
The outside world is also pressuring China to adopt better environmental practices. China has found that if it wants to sell goods to the US and Europe, it needs to satisfy the demands of environmentally conscious consumers.
Part Four: Building a Sustainable Future
China has begun to embrace renewable energy. If the nation follows through on its commitment to wind and solar power, the entire world could benefit.
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PRI's The World: Cities of the Poor - A Four Part Series
Favelas - Shanty towns - Squatter camps - Bidonvilles. They go by different names in different places, but the vast slums of the developing world share many traits - grinding poverty, rampant disease, and surprising ingenuity. In this four-part series, we explore the forces that have created these burgeoning informal settlements, and we examine strategies for improving the lives of the earth's billion slum dwellers.
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PRI's The World: Congo civil war
The civil war in Congo officially ended in 2003 but despite the peace deal fighting has continued. One of the most gruesome features of the conflict is the widespread use of rape as a weapon. Jeb Sharp visited a hospital where rape victims are cared for.
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The World: Cuba Stories Part III - Life and Music
Elizabeth Ross visits a vintage 1940's recording studio in Havana and Lisa Mullins checks out Cuba's classic cars. Then it's a night at the ballet where Cuban aficionados of the pas-de-deux are just as fanatical as sports fans - or maybe you'd rather spend the evening at the San Carlos de la Cabana Fort. Lisa Mullins also visits the Shrine of Saint Lazarus at El Rincon and takes us to a park in Havana that features a statue of John Lennon.
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The World: Cuba Stories Part II - The politics of Cuba
U.S. relations with Cuba have been strained since Fidel Castro seized control in 1959. For more than 45 years Washington has imposed a trade embargo against Cuba. Lisa Mullins speaks with reporter Stephen Gibbs about the challenges he faces as a journalist in Castro's Cuba. The diplomatic tit-for tat between the United States and Cuba continues. The US Interests Section in Havana has put parts of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on display - Cuba has more physicians per capita than almost any other nation. Havana also sends many doctors to other countries. But experts worry that those countries are relying too much on Cuba's medical help. Also Lisa Mullins meets with Mario Coyula, one of Cuba's most respected architects.
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The World: Cuba Stories Part I - Hemingway's Cuban Home
Lisa Mullins visits Finca Vigia, the decaying former estate of writer Ernest Hemingway. The American author spent two decades of his life on this farm just outside of Havana. You can still find folks who remember him. American preservationists have now been given permission by the US government to restore Hemingway's former home.
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The World: Hiroshima's Survivors: The Last Generation, Part III and IV
We conclude our look at survivors of the atomic bomb blast that destroyed the Japanese city of Hiroshima 60 years ago this week. The World's Patrick Cox travels to Los Angeles to talk to survivors who now live in America. He concludes the series in Hiroshima, exploring the deep and lasting effects the attack has had on those who lived through it. You can find pictures, transcripts and more information at http://www.theworld.org
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The World: Hiroshima's Survivors: The Last Generation, Part I and II
Part One and Part Two of a special series from The World. Sixty years ago a U.S. warplane dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Three days later, Nagasaki was also hit. In less than a week, Japanese forces surrended, and the war in the Pacific was over. The two bombs killed 120,000 people outright, and close to 250,000 more over time. The World's Patrick Cox traveled to Hiroshima to meet the last generation of survivors.
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PRI's The World: The United States and Iran Series
There are a number of countries at the top of America's list of foreign policy concerns. Iraq is obviously one of them. Another one is Iraq's next-door neighbor, Iran. Right now the United States is worried about the possibility that Iran might develop nuclear weapons. But President Bush is just the latest US president to worry about Iran. On November 4, 1979, during the Carter administration, Iranian revolutionaries stormed the American embassy in Tehran and took dozens of US diplomats and marines captive. They held them for more than a year. Relations between the two countries were destroyed. To many Americans it seemed as if the confrontation came out of nowhere. That's not the way Iranians saw it. They remembered 1953, the year the CIA organized a coup in their country. It resulted in the overthrow of Iran's prime minister Mohammed Mossadegh. Iran has never forgotten that injustice, just as the United States has never forgiven Iran for taking Americans hostage. In our four-part series The World's Jeb Sharp takes an in depth look at the history of US policy towards Iran.
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PRI's The World: Liberia Series
One year after Africa's first elected female head of state, President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, started the massive job of rebuilding war-shattered Liberia, her government has made a good start but still faces huge challenges. The World's Jessie Graham traveled to West Africa to report from Liberia.
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The World: Myanmar's Hidden AIDS Epidemic - A Two Part Series
The AIDS virus thrives on ignorance and powerlessness. People who don't know how to protect themselves... or don't have the means to do so... often fall victim to HIV. What's true for individuals is also true for nations. And one nation in Southeast Asia provides a lesson in how silence and oppression can spread AIDS. That nation is Myanmar -- formerly called Burma. The World's Orlando de Guzman reports.
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