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25 Episodes 2012 - 2012
Episode 1
Tue, Feb 7, 2012 60 mins
Warren Buffett and his son Howard discuss the future of Berkshire Hathaway. Also: the controversy over high-frequency trading on Wall Street; the proliferation of casinos.
Episode 2
Tue, Feb 14, 2012 60 mins
Former Hewlett-Packard board chairwoman Pattie Dunn; Silicon Valley venture capitalist Tom Perkins, a former Hewlett-Packard director; former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina.
Episode 3
Tue, Feb 21, 2012 60 mins
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is profiled. Also: factory deaths and property damage tied to dust explosions are examined.
Episode 4
Tue, Feb 28, 2012 60 mins
Facebook founder-CEO Mark Zuckerberg; Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen.
Episode 5
Tue, Mar 13, 2012 60 mins
Profiles of billionaire investor Carl Icahn, billionaire philanthropist Eli Broad and Sony CEO Howard Stringer.
Episode 6
Tue, Mar 20, 2012 60 mins
Attorney Kenneth Feinberg, the head of the BP claims fund, is interviewed. Also: the Japanese tsunami; and rescued Chilean miners.
Episode 7
Tue, Mar 27, 2012 60 mins
How companies avoid paying billions in taxes. Also: counterfeit prescription drugs; the Brazilian economy.
Episode 8
Tue, Apr 3, 2012 60 mins
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Also: a profile of Elissa Montanti, who aids children wounded in war zones.
Episode 9
Tue, Apr 10, 2012 60 mins
Wall Street and oil prices; Saudi Arabia.
Episode 10
Tue, May 1, 2012 60 mins
General Electric CEO-chairman Jeffrey Immelt discusses his role as head of President Obama's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. Also: the recession's impact on small businesses in Newton, Iowa; the controversy over raising taxes on the rich.
Episode 11
Tue, May 8, 2012 60 mins
The safety of coal ash; the oil boom in Alberta, Canada; climate change in Antarctica.
Episode 12
Tue, May 15, 2012 60 mins
The theft of more than half a billion dollars from Iraq's Ministry of Defense; gangs involved in organized shoplifting; the multi-billion dollar counterfeit-goods industry.
Episode 13
Tue, May 29, 2012 60 mins
Banks that have lost the home-ownership documents needed for foreclosures; how credit default swaps impacted the economy; the troubled budgets of state and local governments.
Episode 14
Tue, Jun 5, 2012 60 mins
The Yakuza, a Japanese organized-crime syndicate. Also: Greg Mortenson ("Three Cups of Tea"); former Tyco CEO Dennis Kozlowski, who was convicted of stealing millions from his company.
Episode 15
Tue, Jun 12, 2012 60 mins
How the economic recession has affected children. Also: the safety of America's coal mines; the work of Remote Area Medical, which provides free medical care to remote parts of the world.
Episode 16
Tue, Jun 26, 2012 60 mins
Scott Pelley profiles American philanthropist Gregory C. Carr, who is helping to restore Mozambique's Gorongosa National Park; Morley Safer profiles a family that has been in the winemaking business for 600 years; Bob Simon visits a mountain rain forest in New Guinea where many new species are being discovered.
Episode 17
Tue, Jul 17, 2012 60 mins
Cold fusion as a source of energy; the Large Hadron Collider, which may provide insight into how the universe was formed. Also: a profile of physician and Partners in Health cofounder Paul Farmer, who is dedicated to treating the poor worldwide.
Episode 18
Tue, Jul 24, 2012 60 mins
The SEED Public Charter School, a public boarding school in Washington, D.C.; a Bard College program for inmates at a New York prison. Also: educator Geoffrey Canada on his effort to help at-risk New York City kids become college-bound students.
Episode 19
Tue, Aug 21, 2012 60 mins
The computer worm Stuxnet; Chinese espionage in the U.S. Also: how DEA agents captured Russian arms trafficker Viktor Bout.
Episode 20
Tue, Aug 21, 2012 60 mins
MIT professor Nicholas Negroponte on his goal of putting a laptop computer into the hands of every child. Also: the Simon Bolivar National Youth Orchestra of Venezuela; an African orphanage for baby elephants.
Episode 21
Tue, Dec 4, 2012 60 mins
The life of Steve Jobs (1955-2011) is discussed by his biographer, Walter Isaacson. Also: iPad apps that help people with autism to communicate.
Episode 22
Tue, Dec 11, 2012 60 mins
Ruth Madoff, the wife of Bernard Madoff, discusses what their life together was like.
Episode 23
Tue, Jan 8, 2013 60 mins
Why the Justice Department has yet to bring criminal prosecutions against any major player in the financial crisis; the financial collapse of Lehman Brothers.
Episode 24
Tue, Jan 15, 2013 60 mins
The threat to American neighborhoods posed by abandoned houses; the termination of the space shuttle program and its impact on the economy of Brevard County, Fla.; an innovative classroom program for the long-term unemployed.
Episode 25
Tue, Jan 22, 2013 60 mins
Examining the sale of fake stem cells on the Internet. Also: the Fiat-Chrysler partnership; the future of the truffle trade.