The last Indians of the Mangueirinha reserve are being exterminated with the approval of those who are supposed to protect them. During the 1970s Brazil's vast Amazon region became the site of both intense economic development and national fantasy; seen as a potential source of limitless wealth, it came to represent Brazil's bright future. Yet at least one major problem remaine...
Science historian James Burke roams the Hotel del Coronado, using its services as a metaphor for the neuro-chemical activity of the human brain.
With expert guests:
Dr Eugene Roberts, City of Hope Research Institute
Dr Steven M. Paul, NIMH
Dr John F. Tallman, NIMH
Dr Floyd Bloom, Neurophysiology Lab, Salk Institute
Dr Eric Kandel, Columbia University College of Physicians & Sur...
After living clandestinely in Beirut to escape the Israeli forces, the head of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Yasser Arafat, left Lebanon aboard the Atlantis for a new exile in Greece and then Tunis. He talks about his destiny and the future of the PLO. Saab was the only journalist with a camera admitted on the boat.