Roundup

Remembering The Berlin Airlift, 60 Years Later [audio 5 min 19 sec]

This summer marked the 60th anniversary of the Allies' airlift of food and medicine into West Berlin in East Germany, an attempt to avert a potential crisis from a blockade by the Soviet Union.

Warner Bros. Marks 85 Years In Pictures [audio 7 min 19 sec]

In 1923, four brothers formed a motion picture studio that still thrives today: Warner Bros. Film reviewer Richard Schickel has written a book and produced a documentary for PBS, You Must Remember This, to celebrate 85 years of Warner Bros. movie history. Schickel walks through the famous WB back lot with Renee Montagne. Many of the studio's most famous movies were shot on that lot.

In Galveston, Texas, Ike Hits Historic Buildings [audio 3 min 45 sec]

Among the many structures Hurricane Ike damaged or washed away are some historic sites in Galveston, Texas. The famed Balinese Room, where Frank Sinatra once sang, and other landmarks were in Ike's path.

Noah: 'Change' The Rhetoric [video 2 min 34 sec]

The Slate’s Timothy Noah opines on the use of the word "change" by both parties in Campaign '08. Noah also looks at the rhetoric's political history to better understand what it means.

Minneapolis Bridge Reopens Following Last Year's Deadly Collapse [video 6 min 02 sec]

Thirteen months after a bridge collapse killed 13 people in Minnesota, a new 10-lane structure reopens to traffic Thursday morning. Fred de Sam Lazaro reports on the engineering behind the I-35W's multi-million-dollar reconstruction.

Look Back at History's Most Important Stock Market Crashes [video 1 min 54 sec]

The latest crisis is not the first to shake up the global markets. Here is a look at the biggest stock market sell-offs in the last half century.

Eric Foner: 9/11 Wrongly Defined American Freedom [video 3 min 21 sec]

American Historian Eric Foner finds the exclusive American definition of freedom as a direct consequence of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Foner believes that an officially sanctioned definition of freedom -- as found on the White House's website -- to be an illiberal idea. True freedom, he says, allows for competing models.

Lehman files for bankruptcy [video 1 min 52 sec]

Lehman Brothers, the fourth-largest US investment bank, has filed for bankruptcy protection, dealing a blow to the fragile global financial system.

GCHQ 'monitored Omagh bomb calls' [video 3 min 7 sec]

The UK's electronic intelligence agency GCHQ recorded mobile phone exchanges between the Omagh bombers on the day of the attack, the BBC has learned. The BBC's Panorama says the calls were monitored as the bombers drove the car bomb into the County Tyrone town. The attack on 15 August 1998 was the worst single atrocity of the Troubles, and killed 29 people. The Panorama programme has led to calls from bereaved relatives for a full inquiry.

'The Blob' Marks 50th Anniversary [audio 4 min 32 sec]

It's the 50th Anniversary of The Blob, one of a series of low-budget horror/sci-fi films that proliferated in the wake of the Cold War. The themes that made The Blob a hit in 1958 are still the ones that keep it in our consciousness today.

Seven Years Later, Pentagon Set to Unveil Memorial to 9/11 Victims [video 5 min 41 sec]

The Pentagon will unveil a new memorial to Sept. 11 victims Thursday during a ceremony to mark the seventh anniversary of attacks. Kwame Holman reports on the memorial's road to completion and how family members of victims view the day.

Large Hadron Collider: subatomic particles complete first circuit [video 2 min 39 sec]

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the device scientists hope will unravel some of the remaining mysteries of the universe, has completed its first major test after being switched on. At 9.30 am local time (8.30 am British Summer Time), 300 feet below the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva, the most powerful particle accelerator ever built became operational. The £5 billion machine has been described as a 17-mile racetrack around which two streams of protons - building bloc

Historic UK pier destroyed in fire [video 1 min]

An historic Lancashire pier has burned down in a fire during the night. Fire crews were called to the derelict Fleetwood Pier, built in 1910, at about 0430 BST after reports of smoke rising from the roof of the main building. About 60 firefighters tackled the blaze, which they said was already well alight by the time they arrived. Police said the pier was "completely gutted". Investigators will look into the fire's cause later but said it was t

The Bush Legacy: Sidney Blumenthal - part two [audio 13 min 6 sec]

In part two, Blumenthal dissects the Iraq project - an "ideological dreamland" characterised by incompetence. "green zone of the mind" then on to torture and detention policy, the emergence of John McCain, unique challenge for the next president, and the end of an era

The Bush Legacy: Sidney Blumenthal - part one [audio 10 min 55 sec]

Intro - Bush admin as a regime, rather than administration. He goes on to describe the some of the personalities involved, the mis-management of the Iraq project, and the illegitimacy of the foundation of Bush govt on 2000 election.

Frost/Nixon trailer [video 2min 27 sec]

Michael Sheen and and Frank Langella star in a dramatic retelling of the television interviews between David Frost and Richard Nixon

Bulger Case Changed FBI's Role With Informants [7 min 46 sec]

Confidential informants are the lifeblood of law enforcement's effort to fight crime. But the best informants are generally very bad people — ruthless criminals — and while their information helps the FBI crack cases, the practice of using these informants is fraught with risk. A single case in Boston changed the way agents work with these criminals.

Two thousand-year-old wall found in Jerusalem [video 2min]

The southern wall of Jerusalem was built by the Hasmonean Kings during the Second Temple period and is believed to have been destroyed during the Great Revolt against the Romans that began in 66 CE. Israel's Antiquities Authority announced the discovery of the wall, which is believed to have run 6 km around the Old City. It had previously been exposed by an American archaeologist at the end of the nineteenth century, the archaeological body said. The Israel

On This Day: Victory in the Pacific [video 2min]

Japan officially surrendered to the USA on 2nd September 1945, marking the end of World War II.

The Legacy of the Bush Administration [video 5min]

The last one concerned with the problems of the 20th century instead of the 21st, positive economic strategies like the rebate and making democracy a core principle again.