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Italy’s pandemic survivors, one year later

Correspondent Seth Doane visits the Northern Italian village of Nembro, whose residents were hard-hit by the COVID-19 outbreak last year – an experience that forced the townspeople to reexamine fundamental issues of life and death, solitude and solidarity. Now, how will the survivors in Nembro move on? Source

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“Dear Bob”: Bob Hope’s correspondence with GIs at war

For decades comedian Bob Hope was a true war hero to American military stationed overseas, as he entertained the troops with his USO tour. Less-known was the role he played as a correspondent, answering some of the thousands of letters he received from GIs. Correspondent Tracy Smith talks with Hope’s daughter, Linda Hope, and with Martha Bolton, who together compiled a new book of wartime letters, “Dear Bob…: Bob Hope’s Wartime Correspondence with the GIs of World War II.” Source

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“The Code Breaker”: How CRISPR may revolutionize mankind

Biochemist Jennifer Doudna, who shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the gene-editing technique which has the potential to cure diseases caused by genetic mutations, and Walter Isaacson, author of “The Code Breaker,” talk about the promise of the biotech revolution. Source

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CRISPR and “The Code Breaker”

Visionary biochemist Jennifer Doudna shared the Nobel Prize last year for the gene-editing technology known as CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats), which has the potential to cure diseases caused by genetic mutations. Correspondent David Pogue talks with Doudna about the promises and perils of CRISPR; and with Walter Isaacson, author of the new book “The Code Breaker,” about why the biotech revolution will dwarf the digital revolution in importance. Source

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