Series from 2006
Take a look back at some of the most entertaining, shocking, news worthy events of the past and how they relate to the world today.
One of Afghanistan's few women scholars, a young writer and poet, is about to be unwillingly sold for marriage.
The American economy survives because of a highly efficient transportation system that relies on trucks. But the drivers of those trucks are working longer hours and making less money than ever.
The Catholic Church faces hundreds of lawsuits in the wake of the sex abuse scandal. Also, a look at the fight for millions of federal dollars, all over rum.
The Dominican Republic supplies more MLB talent than any country except the US. The lure of big money is so strong, thousands of boys give up everything, including an education, for a shot.
Americans are so over-medicated with antibiotics that drugs once used to save lives are no longer effective. Plus we travel to Norway, a country that makes it difficult to obtain antibiotics.
American high-tech companies have been laying off thousands of workers in Silicon Valley but they're hiring like mad in India.