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PBS News Weekend Season 2 Episodes

52 Episodes 2014 - 2014

Episode 1

Episode 1

Sat, Mar 8, 2014 27 mins

Included: efforts to make fracking safer by natural gas companies and environmentalists.

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Episode 2

Episode 2

Sun, Mar 9, 2014 27 mins

Included: the Harmony Project, a music program for at-risk youth in L.A.

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Episode 3

Episode 3

Sat, Mar 15, 2014 27 mins

Included: education for impoverished children in Pakistan.

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Episode 4

Episode 4

Sun, Mar 16, 2014 27 mins

Included: the "skills gap."

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Episode 5

Episode 5

Sat, Mar 22, 2014 27 mins

Included: legalizing marijuana.

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Episode 6

Episode 6

Sun, Mar 23, 2014 27 mins

Included: reversing the population drain in the Great Plains.

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Episode 7

Episode 7

Sat, Mar 29, 2014 27 mins

Included: teacher tenure laws in California.

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Episode 8

Episode 8

Sun, Mar 30, 2014 27 mins

Included: Kenya and electronic-waste recycling.

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Episode 9

Episode 9

Sat, Apr 5, 2014 27 mins

Included: unregulated tax preparers.

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Episode 10

Episode 10

Sun, Apr 6, 2014 27 mins

Included: Mexico's burgeoning economy.

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Episode 11

Episode 11

Sat, Apr 12, 2014 27 mins

Included: impoverished people who are jailed because they can't afford to pay fines.

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Episode 12

Episode 12

Sun, Apr 13, 2014 27 mins

Included: the effort in British Columbia to stem the spread of HIV/AIDS among drug addicts.

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Episode 13

Episode 13

Sat, Apr 19, 2014 27 mins

Included: the cost of biologic drugs, which are more expensive in the U.S. than in Europe or Asia.

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Episode 14

Episode 14

Sun, Apr 20, 2014 27 mins

Included: the relationship between small business owners and banks.

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Episode 15

Episode 15

Sat, Apr 26, 2014 27 mins

Included: surveillance technologies that are being developed for the police.

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Episode 16

Episode 16

Sun, Apr 27, 2014 27 mins

Included: the complicated histories of Russia and Ukraine.

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Episode 17

Episode 17

Sat, May 3, 2014 27 mins

Included: Bryan Cranston on "All the Way," his Broadway play about President Lyndon B. Johnson.

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Episode 18

Episode 18

Sun, May 4, 2014 27 mins

Included: the FDIC's actions following the 2008 financial collapse.

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Episode 19

Episode 19

Sat, May 10, 2014 27 mins

Included: an Australian initiative that has raised organ donation and transplant rates.

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Episode 20

Episode 20

Sun, May 11, 2014 27 mins

Included: hauling oil by rail.

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Episode 21

Episode 21

Sat, May 17, 2014 27 mins

Included: the debate over red-light and speed-enforcement cameras in Ohio.

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Episode 22

Episode 22

Sun, May 18, 2014 27 mins

Included: the effort to save the rhinoceros from extinction.

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Episode 23

Episode 23

Sat, May 24, 2014 27 mins

Included: an immigrant family's success story.

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Episode 24

Episode 24

Sun, May 25, 2014 27 mins

Included: Mexico's anti-obesity strategy.

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Episode 25

Episode 25

Sat, May 31, 2014 27 mins

Included: businesses geared to reducing food waste.

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Episode 26

Episode 26

Sun, Jun 1, 2014 27 mins

Included: Indian high-tech entrepreneurs.

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Episode 27

Episode 27

Sat, Jun 7, 2014 27 mins

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Episode 28

Episode 28

Sun, Jun 8, 2014 27 mins

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Episode 29

Episode 29

Sat, Jun 14, 2014 27 mins

Included: the use of nets by commercial fishermen in California.

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Episode 30

Episode 30

Sun, Jun 15, 2014 27 mins

Included: Uganda's anti-gay laws and how they may impact gay people in Kenya.

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Episode 31

Episode 31

Sat, Jun 21, 2014 27 mins

Included: "right to try" laws, which allow terminal patients access to experimental drugs that have yet to gain FDA approval.

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Episode 32

Episode 32

Sun, Jun 22, 2014 27 mins

Included: online lenders that provide loans to small businesses.

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Episode 33

Episode 33

Sat, Jun 28, 2014 27 mins

Included: the agreements between brand and generic drug companies that critics contend delay the introduction of generic drugs to market.

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Episode 34

Episode 34

Sun, Jun 29, 2014 27 mins

Included: whether rap-music lyrics should be used in court as evidence of a defendant's guilt.

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Episode 35

Episode 35

Sat, Jul 5, 2014 27 mins

Included: the 2014 Aspen Ideas Festival in Aspen, Colo.

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Episode 36

Episode 36

Sun, Jul 6, 2014 27 mins

Included: the 2014 Aspen Ideas Festival in Aspen, Colo.

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Episode 37

Episode 37

Sat, Jul 12, 2014 27 mins

Included: digital estate planning.

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Episode 38

Episode 38

Sun, Jul 13, 2014 27 mins

Included: scrap-metal theft and public safety.

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Episode 39

Episode 39

Sat, Jul 19, 2014 27 mins

Included: the ongoing recovery in the Philippines from Typhoon Haiyan, the 2013 storm that was the strongest to ever hit the island nation.

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Episode 40

Episode 40

Sun, Jul 20, 2014 27 mins

Included: technology and behavioral economics.

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Episode 41

Episode 41

Sat, Jul 26, 2014 27 mins

Included: Garrison Keillor is interviewed about "Prairie Home Companion," which is celebrating its 40th year on the air.

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Episode 42

Episode 42

Sun, Jul 27, 2014 27 mins

Included: the Pacific island nation Kiribati and its ban on commercial fishing in its vast marine park.

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Episode 43

Episode 43

Sat, Aug 2, 2014 27 mins

Included: mental-health care and the Affordable Care Act.

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Episode 44

Episode 44

Sun, Aug 3, 2014 27 mins

Included: clothing companies that cater to transgender and gender non-conforming people.

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Episode 45

Episode 45

Sat, Aug 9, 2014 27 mins

Included: water shortages around the world.

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Episode 46

Episode 46

Sun, Aug 10, 2014 27 mins

Included: a career-spanning retrospective of artist Jamie Wyeth's work at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston/

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Episode 47

Episode 47

Sat, Aug 16, 2014 27 mins

Included: a New York library's exhibition of rare artifacts.

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Episode 48

Episode 48

Sun, Aug 17, 2014 27 mins

Included: an interactive museum experience meant to increase museum attendance rates.

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Episode 49

Episode 49

Sat, Aug 23, 2014 27 mins

Included: the job-screening process.

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Episode 50

Episode 50

Sun, Aug 24, 2014 27 mins

Included: the ramifications of the staggering birth rate in the Philippines, where families have little or no access to contraception or family planning advice.

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Episode 51

Episode 51

Sat, Aug 30, 2014 27 mins

Included: author Lois Lowry on the young adult genre.

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Episode 52

Episode 52

Sun, Aug 31, 2014 27 mins

Included: the Paleo Diet is discussed.

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