Frontline: Syria Behind the Lines

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On December 13, 2000, seven convicts overpowered civilian workers and four guards at a high-security prison southeast of San Antonio. They stole work clothing, a pickup truck, and 16 firearms. Eleven days later, on Christmas eve, they robbed a sporting goods store in Irving, Texas, of $70,000 in cash and checks, at least 25 more weapons, and some more clothing. In the course of that crime, they killed a police officer, Aubrey Hawkins, who was responding to the call of a robbery in progress. Then they disappeared for almost a month. There were hundreds of reports of sightings, no doubt encouraged by the offer of a reward for their capture. Eventually, that reward would rise to half a million dollars. Authorities predicted that because the men were heavily armed, had remained together after their escape, and would all be held to account for the murder of Officer Hawkins, that they would not be recaptured without a fight. It would, authorities predicted, almost surely come to a bloody end. We now know what ultimately happened. One of the men committed suicide, the other six have been recaptured without further injury or death. It played out that way because of a syndicated television program, some skillful negotiations, and a lot of good luck. This is the story of how all of those factors came together. Anchor: Ted Koppel.

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Is venting anger healthy? Are men angrier than women? How can you curb family anger? ABC News investigates why we're all so angry and what we can do about it. Report includes:-Anger Myths: Is venting your anger healthy? Or does gender or age affect how angry you get? -Anger and Narcissism: Can narcissistic tendencies and insecurities lead to anger?-The Angry Comedian: Lewis Black, known as the ''angry comedian," discusses how everyday affairs, from politics to waiting in line at the pharmacy, supply his inspiration for his comedy act. Anchors: John Stossel and Elizabeth Vargas Airdate: 1/25/2008When 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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A hospital claimed that Julie Patrick was inflicting Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy on her son and allowed only limited, supervised visits with her son while his health continued to deteriorate. She denied the allegations of the child abuse and sued for malpractice. A doctor in England secretly taped parents trying to injure their own children. These tapes are rare and direct evidence of a little understood medical condition where parents hurt their own children in order to get attention for themselves. The condition is called Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy. It's named from a famous 18th century German baron known for his bold lies. Cynthia McFadden travels to England to investigate.When 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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A Florida jury ordered the country's five biggest tobacco companies to pay nearly $145 billion to Florida smokers who have developed health problems because of cigarettes. ABC News takes a closer look at the landmark decision. Airdate: 7/14/2000When 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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On the night she broke up with her boyfriend, a Florida deputy sheriff, Michelle OConnell was found dead from a gunshot in the mouth. Next to her was her boyfriends semi-automatic service pistol. The sheriffs office called it suicide, but was it? FRONTLINE and The New York Times investigate this death, and what can go wrong when the police are faced with domestic violence allegations within their own ranks.

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It was one of those magical movie moments, a homeless boy bonds with a 5-ton orca in the film "Free Willy" and helps the killer whale escape from unscrupulous keepers and return to the wild. But that ending was Hollywood fiction. When audiences, including millions of children, learned that the animal that played Willy was an orca named Keiko who was confined to a shallow pool in Mexico, they started a campaign to free him. And that, say some experts, was taking Hollywood too far. As the public began to campaign for Keiko's release, the movie studio hired Dave Phillips, a marine mammal activist, to monitor Keiko's rehabilitation and spearhead the effort to return the whale to the wild. No one had ever undertaken such a project, but Phillips said he knew he had to give it a shot. When Phillips saw Keiko in his pool in Mexico, the orca was underweight and suffering from papilloma virus. Keiko was moved to a specially built tank in Oregon where he swam in sea water for the first time since infancy. Within a year and a half, he'd gained 2,000 pounds and his skin virus had disappeared. Phillips and his colleagues knew how unprepared Keiko was for life in the wild. He didn't even know how to catch a live fish. Still, the Free Willy/Keiko Foundation carried on and hired an Air Force cargo plane to take the whale to yet another custom-made location in Iceland. It cost some $200,000 a month to maintain Keiko in his million-dollar pen and to reintroduce him to the waters where he was b...

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The immigrant experience has inspired one of the richest strands in American literature. The writers in this collection of conversations from "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" discuss how that experience has influenced their writing. Authors include Frank McCourt, Edwidge Danticat, Jhumpa Lahiri, Oscar Hijuelos, Jeffrey Eugenides, and historian Carlos Eire.When sold by Amazon.com, this product will be manufactured on demand using DVD-R recordable media. Amazon.com's standard return policy will apply.