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Blackout: The Power Outage That Left 50 Million Without Electricity
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Retro Report: In 2003, a blackout crippled areas of the U.S. and Canada, leaving some 50 million people in the dark. Ten years later, we are still grappling with concerns over the vulnerability of the power grid.
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The War on Cancer: From Nixon Until Now
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Retro Report: When President Nixon signed the National Cancer Act many expected quick results, comparing the effort to the one that put man on the moon. After 42 years, what progress have we made?
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Hurricane Katrina Aftermath: In the Shadow - Retro Report
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Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast in 2005, and Louisiana's troubled housing recovery has shaped the response to every major disaster since, including Hurricane Sandy.
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Woman Burned by McDonald's Hot Coffee, Then the News Media
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In 1992, Stella Liebeck spilled scalding McDonald's coffee in her lap and later sued the company, attracting a flood of negative attention. It turns out there was more to the story.
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Olympic Bombing 1996: Richard Jewell, the Wrong Man
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Retro Report: The 1996 Olympics in Atlanta were rocked by a bomb that killed one and injured more than 100. In the rush to find the perpetrator, one man became a target. There was only one problem. He was innocent.
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Walter Reed Scandal: The Battle for Recovery - 2013
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In 2007, the scandalous treatment of wounded soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center shocked the nation. Today, after major reforms, what's changed for America's injured soldiers?
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The Shadow of the Thalidomide Tragedy - Retro Report
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In the 1950s, thalidomide cut a wide swath of destruction across the world, leaving behind thousands of deformed infants, but that was only the beginning of the story.
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Freeing Willy - Retro Report
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In the wake of the 1993 hit movie "Free Willy," activists and fans campaigned to release the movie's star -- a captive killer whale named Keiko -- and launched a story Hollywood couldn't invent.
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The Battle for School Busing - Retro Report
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A story of America's school integration and what happened when the buses stopped rolling.
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The Story of Dolly the Cloned Sheep - Retro Report
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In 1997, Scottish scientists revealed they had cloned a sheep and named her Dolly, sending waves of future shock around the world that continue to shape frontiers of science today.
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The Story Behind the Yellowstone Fires of 1988 - Retro Report
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Summer of Fire: The lessons learned from the summer of 1988 when fires burned nearly one third of Yellowstone National Park continue to shape the way we fight wildfires raging across the West today.
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Test Tube Tomato - Retro Report
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In the 1990s, entrepreneurs and scientists brought the first genetically engineered food to market. The business crashed but biotechnology has flourished far beyond the produce aisle.
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Wild Horses: No Home on the Range - Retro Report
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The decades-long quest to save wild horses has run amok, creating a problem that even swooping helicopters, aging cowboys, camera-savvy activists and millions of dollars can't solve.
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Biosphere 2: An American Space Odyssey - Retro Report
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With dreams of colonizing space, eight people sealed themselves in a glass biosphere in 1991. But they eventually "suffocated, starved and went mad."
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The Tawana Brawley Case - Retro Report
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In 1988, the nation learned the truth about the alleged crimes against Tawana Brawley, but the shocking story was far from over.
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Y2K Bug: Much Ado About Nothing? - Retro Report
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The Y2K bug threatened to wipe out computers and disrupt modern society at the end of the 20th century. We all remember the doomsday hype, but what really happened?
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Crack Babies: A Tale From the Drug Wars - Retro Report
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Retro Report: In the 1980s, many government officials, scientists and journalists warned that the country would be plagued by a generation of "crack babies." They were wrong.
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Legacy of the Tailhook Scandal - Retro Report
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Military sexual assault is not a new phenomenon. A second look at the Tailhook scandal in 1991 reveals what happened then. And what it all means now.
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Voyage of the Mobro 4000 - Retro Report
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The first of our new Retro Report series revisits the 1987 voyage of a barge loaded with New York garbage. It became an international fiasco, but foreshadowed the modern recycling movement.
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