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Evidence is growing that the Republicans are likely to be in serious trouble in Congress during the next election cycle:
In the most ambitious experiment of its kind in the country, California is about to do away with 'social promotion' in schools a move that could lead to 100,000 students being held back a grade in Los Angeles alone:
Two decades after the Islamic revolution, young Iranians aren't convinced that the country is better off, and they don't understand what their parents experienced 20 years ago. They've rallied around reformist President Khatami, hopeful of him improving the current state of affairs. What's resulted is tug of war for Iran's next generation between conservatives and reformers:
The legal and political lay of the land in Chile if Pinochet is returned. Rights people see little chance of prosecution for several reasons:
A grass-roots band with political messages leads into update of Haiti's political situation and prospects:
During soviet rule, Kazakhstan suffered some of the worst man made ecological disasters in history, including the draining of the Aral Sea and the destruction of vast pasture lands for wheat farming. In addition, 500 nuclear bombs were tested at semipalatinsk, releasing more radiation than the US bombings of Hiroshima, and Nagasaki, or the Chernobyl disaster. these experiments ended with independence in 1991 but more than a million people still suffer the consequences:
NBA baseketball begins today:
Movie guide:
Revu, "Payback," starring Mel Gibson:
Revu, "The 60s" on NBC:
What's on TV:
600 years of British Painting at the Denver Art Museum:
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