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Childhood obesity is a national health crisis and one shared increasingly by other nations. Take Britain for example. Jamie Oliver, the celebrity chef and best-selling cookbook author known as "The Naked Chef," is also a young father. Last year, he grew fed up with the junk food being served to British school children and embraced the issue as a personal mission. He spent the year doing everything he could to get the public's attention including dressing up like an ear of corn and shamed Tony Blair into making this an election issue. He redesigned British school lunches to include more locally-grown produce and retrained cafeteria workers to cook the food, not just simply to microwave frozen preparations. And Oliver, whose energy is infectious, seems to have succeeded in attracting attention. The U.K. Education Secretary Ruth Kelly soon after announced that junk food high in fat, salt or sugar would be banned in schools across England within a year. Next, Oliver turned his attention to American schools. He came to the U.S. to stir up the same attention to nutritionally-challenged school lunch programs here.ABC News reports on Jamie Oliver's shenanigans in trying to convince both Brits and Americans that school lunches need a redesign. ABC News will also speak to Marian Nestle, a nutritionist who has spent a lot of time examining these issues. ...

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Extreme speed bike riding, skateboarding off the back of a car, jumping from building to building... for some teenagers, risk-taking is a cure for boredom. But sometimes this not-so-innocent fun is injuring and even killing teens in search of the elusive buzz. "I do it for the rush. There's no other feeling like it," says teenage BMX rider Kalin Law. But what causes this addiction to risky business, and why are some teens more out of control? ABC News talks to experts and doctors about the teenage brain.As ABC News reports, there are some kids just plain born to take dangerous risks. "Thrill seekers are low in arousal in the nervous system. And they want to get their arousal up, so they seek stimulation... They love intense experience," says Dr. Frank Farley of Temple University, who has studied such behavior for more than 30 years and calls such thrill seekers T-types. He tells ABC News what parents should look for in kids as young as two, so that they can channel them properly. "We wouldn't have created the modern world without our T-types. Because they're the creative, innovative, entrepreneurial, inventive people... The object is to engage them, it's to provide stimulation to compete with the top of the car phenomenon."This "20/20" program also contains the following stories:SambucksPheromonesAnchors: Elizabeth Vargas and John StosselCorrespondent: Jim AvilaAirdate: 12/9/2005When sold by Amazon.com, this product will be manufactured on demand using DVD-R recordable media....

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The Enron collapse, the biggest bankruptcy filing in U.S History. ABC News' George Stephanopoulos interviews former Enron employee Roger Boies, Attorney William S. Lerach, Senator Carl Levin (D-MI) chairman of the subcommittee on investigations and former SEC chairman Arthur Levitt. Anchor: George Stephanopoulos Airdate: 1/13/2002When sold by Amazon.com, this product will be manufactured on demand using DVD-R recordable media. Amazon.com's standard return policy will apply.

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Dr. Nancy Snyderman hears from people who claim they speak in tongues. It is the unrecognizable mix of vowels and consonants which religious believers say is the holy spirit speaking through them to God. She also speaks to religious leaders and social scientists about the practice. Airdate: 10/19/2000When sold by Amazon.com, this product will be manufactured on demand using DVD-R recordable media. Amazon.com's standard return policy will apply.

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The world said ""Never Again!"" after the Holocaust and yet FRONTLINE asks why the genocide in Darfur was allowed. Meticulously chronicled, endlessly debated at the UN, and allowed to proceed unabated for years, more than 200,000 killed and 2.5 million driven from their homes. As governments failed to act, private citizens and celebrities protest the carnage. FRONTLINE profiles the activists, including actress Mia Farrow, to chronicle devastation.

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Teen pregnancy was once the kind of family secret that caused shame and whispering. ABC News takes viewers on this emotional journey today with two pregnant teenagers facing the heart-breaking decision of whether or not to give their babies away. From selecting new parents to letting go of their babies, ABC News reports on the difficult decisions and the intimate process. With unparalleled access, ABC News follows their daily lives at the adoption agency -- the doctor's appointments and counseling sessions, the crying and the heartbreak of the wrenching decision that lies ahead. Viewers witness the touching process they go through to choose and meet the couple they hope will be the "perfect" parents for their children. ABC News is with the girls as they give birth and, within days, face the moment they've thought about so much. Correspondent: Cynthia McFadden Airdate: 7/24/2007When sold by Amazon.com, this product will be manufactured on demand using DVD-R re...

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ABC News enters the world of the paranormal, examining two supernatural mysteries that have believers convinced and skeptics crying "bunk." Penn State student Cindy Song disappeared without a trace. With no strong leads, detectives turned to a paranormal source for assistance. ABC News follows along with North Hollywood 'psychic detective' Carla Baron as she tries to communicate with the missing woman's spirit and finally bring closure to her tragic story. ABC News tells the story of a young Lafayette, LA, boy whose parents believe he is the reincarnation of a dead World War II fighter pilot. At the age of two, James Leininger began to have vivid dreams about crashing in an airplane. He also inexplicably seemed to know details about old fighter planes. After doing some research, parents Andrea and Bruce Leininger became convinced their son had a previous life as James Huston, who was shot down during a mission over the Pacific. ABC News reports why some people-including the dead man's sister-believe this is a completely plausible explanation for the boy's strange behavior, while others says it's hokum. Also, ABC News reports that a Denver-based mining company may have provided funding to a brutal Philippine terrorist group with links to al Qaeda. Allan Laird, a former executive with the Echo Bay mining company-which has since merged with Canada's Kinross Corporation - alleges that, in the mid 1990s, the company paid the Abu Sayyaf and other groups upwards of $2 million ...

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Life, Death and the bottom line, the case against doctor assisted suicide. When you look at this issue from the perspective of a suffering individual, it is difficult not to be moved by the argument that physicians should have the legal right to offer that assistance. ABC News broadens that perspective to include the views of those who fear that legalizing assisted suicide can unleash some very frightening consequences. We're all too familiar with the looming medical crisis that may come some day when tens of millions of baby boomers approach the end of their lives, even as the government's financial resources are not keeping pace. There is likely to be growing pressure to ration health care and to cut costs. Helping a terminally ill person commit suicide is a lot cheaper than caring for that patient during what can be an extended period of dying. ABC News has gathered the views of a number of thoughtful people, nurses, doctors, political activists, people involved in caring for the elderly and controlling their pain, physical and spiritual. These are all people who oppose legalizing physician-assisted dying.Assisted Suicides is a three part set that explores the fight to legalize assisted suicide, including a look into the lives of people fighting for the right to die.

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Medical Mystery - Morgellons Disease: Imagine living with a skin condition in which strange fibers grow inexplicably from sores in your skin, well many people claim they do. It's called Morgellons disease, and today the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced it was launching a study to learn more about this bizarre condition. People with Morgellons say they have fibers and other inorganic material growing out of their skin, but many in the medical field still have doubts about the ailment.This "Nightline" program also contains the following story: Chef's Choice: Grant Achatz, a 33 year-old award-winning chef, was diagnosed with tongue cancer. We profile the tough decisions he faced after his diagnosis.Airdate: 1/16/08Anchor: Martin Bashir