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(Studio: Thalia Assuras) Report introduced.
(Studio: Bianca Solarzano) The call for new food regulations in response to the latest outbreak of E.coli at Taco Bell & other restaurants examined; statement from Western Growers about food safety quote; details given about potential financial losses from the E.coli spinach outbreak & food inspections problems. ["Consumer Reports" toxicologist Urvashi RANGAN†- says the produce industry needs help via a pro-active system.] [Food safety specialist Dr. Marc SIEGEL†- talks about the gap in food inspection.]
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(Studio: Thalia Assuras) The final meeting of the 109th Congress noted; statistics on the number of days in session for the 109th cited.
(Capitol Hill: Dan Raviv) What the Congress did & did not complete reviewed; scenes shown about the post-midnight legislation on taxes, oil/gas drilling, trade for Vietnam. [Appropriations Committee Representative David OBEY - comments on the Republicans; calls this "the most useless Congress in modern times."] [Senate majority leader Bill FRIST - comments on the session.] [Citizens Against Government Waste vice president David WILLIAMS†- notes the upside of this.]
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(Studio: Thalia Assuras) Outgoing Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's secret farewell visit to the troops in Iraq, the latest US casualties, a volatile oil deal & President Bush's praise for the Iraq study group report noted.
(Studio: Thalia Assuras) In-studio interview held with Middle East policy analyst Council on Foreign Relations Steven Cook about the ISG report. [COOK - says the report is a rebuke of the administration's foreign policy, but we will have to see what the administration does; comments on the possibility of regional involvement in a proxy war in Iraq; states the Turks are worried about an independent Kurdish state in Iraq.]
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(Studio: Thalia Assuras) Report introduced.
(Baghdad: Elizabeth Palmer) The situation in Iraq reviewed; scenes shown of the daily sectarian violence, including a car bombing in Karbala; details given of the crippling of four provinces by the chronic violence, of the impact of the lack of security & of the US & Iraqi civilian casualties. [Yesterday, Secretary of Defense Donald RUMSFELD - questions the media coverage of the war.]
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(Studio: Thalia Assuras) International Council of Shopping Centers statistics on holiday shopping cited.
(New York: Michelle Miller) The problem of compulsive shopping examined; details given about one woman's 200,000 dollar purchases & her addiction treatment. [Compulsive shopper Amy GAGNER†- explains what shopping does for & costs her; outlines where the money came from.] [Psychologist April Lane BENSON†- comments on the view of this addiction, which is not seen as a real disease.]
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(Studio: Thalia Assuras) Report introduced.
(Paris: Sheila MacVicar) The French solution to family problems due to the problem of a "graying Europe" examined; details given about the entitlement of three year paid maternity leave, child care, tax credits & about the population boom in France. [Lawyer Anne HORN††- jokes about "desperate housewives"; outlines the benefits for her third child.] [Ministry for Benefits & Family Affairs Vincent MAHE†- talks about the emphasis on child care facilities.]
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(Studio: Thalia Assuras) The investigation in Britain into the poisoning of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko updated.
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(Studio: Thalia Assuras) Report introduced.
(Washington: Bill Plante) The strategy of women buying wine examined; scenes shown from inside a wine store, including the labels of "critter wines" & "chick wines" whose sales have been propelled by women. [Two wine-buying WOMEN, Total Wine store manager Kem WINSTON†- say they look at the labels.] [Wine rater Pierre RAVANTI‡- calls the wine terrible; states wine is not snobby.]
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