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HIV is Striking Communities That are Overlooked

Doctors Larry Mass and Anthony S. Fauci explain that just like in the past, HIV is striking communities that are overlooked -- this time communities of color in the South.

HIV is Striking Communities That are Overlooked

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    The Controversy Over Teaching Teens About Sex

    S1 E8 - 13m 22s

    A decades-old battle is re-emerging over how sex is presented in the classroom, as the Trump administration gives support to “sexual risk avoidance” programs that promote abstinence.

  • How Napster Stirred Up Entertainment: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    How Napster Stirred Up Entertainment

    S1 E8 - 10m 6s

    Napster, created by an 18-year-old developer, exploded across college campuses across the country in 1999. With a mouse click, music lovers gained free access to their favorite tunes. The record industry took to the courts to shut down the upstart company. But a generation of consumers had tasted instant entertainment on demand, and there was no turning back.

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    Correcting the Myth of the Superpredator

    S1 E8 - 10m 27s

    States are reconsidering life prison sentences of people who were given mandatory life terms as juveniles – a practice since ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. At the time, in the 1990s, a handful of researchers inspired panic with a dire but flawed prediction: the imminent arrival of  a new breed of remorseless teen killers, so-called superpredators.

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