ABC News Classics 1996 Republican National Convention

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Medical science has progressed exponentially in recent times, but scientists are still left with unanswered questions when it comes to the human body. "Medical Mysteries" looks at some of the rarest disorders and syndromes in medicine today. DNA is typically a reliable way to prove a relationship, but 30 documented cases of a rare condition show that sometimes DNA testing is not foolproof. ABC News reports on two women who are told that they are not the mothers of their children - that their genetic code proves they can't be related. Next, ABC News reports on a disturbing disease that turns normal muscle - the muscles of the neck and arms and chest and legs - into normal bone. At the age of two, Hayden Pfeif's parents noticed a swelling in his head on a camping trip - then Hayden became unable to move his neck. Strange masses were forming on the toddler, and doctors were doing a biopsy when a nurse noticed that his big toes were malformed -- a symptom of a condition called FOP. With only 2500 cases known worldwide, Hayden's doctors hadn't heard of fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP), where normal skeletal muscle and normal connective tissue progressively turns into bone. Finally, ABC News reports on a condition, where senses blend with each other in unusual ways. From a woman can see distinct colors for the musical notes she plays to a pub owner who tastes processed cheese when he gives customers their change, the report features several people whose brains "cr...

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Their annual battle of the bands between Southern University and Grambling State is every bit as competitive as the football game itself. For over 35 years, the Southern Marching Band has been led by the same man, Dr. Isaac Greggs. But to describe Dr. Greggs merely as a band leader or a music teacher would be to miss the point entirely. It's not so much a band as a national institution. One that has graced presidential inaugurations, five Super Bowls and the Rose Bowl. ABC News follows Southern University as it competes against arch-rival Grambling State. Anchor: Chris Bury.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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Imagine chain-locking the refrigerator or fencing in your home so that a loved one does not leave the premises to find food. That's what the Rivera family has to do to keep daughter Maribel from eating herself to death. Maribel, like 30,000 other Americans, lives with Prader Willey Syndrome, a rare disorder caused by a flaw in DNA that, among other things, profoundly affects hunger - creating a sense of never being satisfied. Maribel's hunger is unimaginable, and so is the effect on those who love her. Footage that her sister Mercedes shot for a documentary shows Maribel acting uncontrollable when the ice cream truck drives by her fenced-in house, as well as footage of her begging strangers to buy her a hot dog while at a park. Correspondent: John Donvan Airdate: April 1, 2005When 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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At a certain point -- and it tends to be a moving target even for the very rich -- money takes on a different aspect. It becomes either a means of keeping score or a tool for influencing events. For George Soros, it has long been both. Mr Soros has so much money and a proven aptitude for making even more that it is difficult to simply compare his activities or his ambitions to those of other wealthy individuals. The scope with which Soros employs his fortune is such that he is easily compared to governments, whose very survival he sometimes underwrites or threatens. This is not to say that his investments are less vulnerable than anyone else's. During the slump of Asian, European and US markets, for example, George Soros may have lost as much as $2 billion, on paper at least. There may be many people alive today with a vision of how they would like to change the world. George Soros must be one of only a handful with both the means and the determination to do so. Anchor: Ted Koppel Correspondent: Dave Marash Airdate: 11/5/1997When 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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Are trains across the country ticking time bombs? In January, 2005, when a train crashed into a small town in South Carolina, it unleashed 160,000 pounds of a deadly compound that killed nine people, injured more than 500 others, and forever changed the town. But what happened in Graniteville, SC was not an act of terrorism; it was a devastating example of what can go wrong from the millions of tank loads transporting poisonous chemicals yearly. ABC News reports on the risk of toxic train accidents in America.

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It's been more than 50 years since the United States dropped the atomic bomb on Japan. To this day, Americans know very little about how that decision was reached. Did it shorten the war? Did it save American lives? Was it necessary? Were there alternatives? Did the United States need to be the first and the only nation to use an atomic bomb? Anchor: Peter Jennings Airdate: 7/27/1995When 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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John Kerry's service in Vietnam became a campaign issue when he was running for president in 2004. The group calling itself Swift Boat Veterans for Truth alleged that Kerry had distorted the truth about what happened during the war and questioned whether he deserved the medals he received. ABC News brings viewers accounts from eyewitnesses who have not spoken before: the Vietnamese who fought against him. ABC News went to Vietnam, to the coordinates taken from the U.S. military after-action report from Kerry's battle for which he won the Silver Star. And there ABC News found several people who had either witnessed the events of that day, or in some cases, had actually fought against the swift boats. Do their accounts favor one version or the other? Can these questions be definitively settled? You'll have to judge. Anchor: Ted Koppel Correspondent: John O'Neill ...

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The women in the Davis family have been plagued by breast cancer for three generations. Jennifer Davis decided to utilize new genetic tests to determine if the current generation will suffer from the killer as well. If they test positive, they have an 87% chance of developing breast cancer. What measures are they willing to take try to prevent the disease? Neo-Nazism and its members are using the Internet to draw recruits to their violent cause in Russia. Russian skinheads, who may be responsible for the deaths of about 50 individuals, film themselves beating up the immigrants that are flooding the post-Soviet nation. For women who swooned at the sight of sex symbol Barry White, it turns out it wasn't love, it was science. Correspondents: John Donvan, Dan Harris and Nick WattAirdate: 10/11/2007When sold by Amazon.com, this produ...

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Investigation of the terror attacks CBS news reports that in 1998 president Clinton signed a directive giving the CIA the authority to go after Osama Bin Laden and take him out dead or alive... Foreign operatives told the CIA they tried to kill bin laden last year... Tehran mayor sent condolences to mayor of New York today saying the attack was "not just against New Yorkers but all humanity" congregation looks for hope at upper Ridgewood community church in Ridgewood, NJ stock markets to re-open tomorrow... WTC rescue teams are working in 16 acres of twisted steel and concrete... One of last people rescued alive, port authority cop David Lem, speaks publicly for first time... Giuliani concedes hope is dwindling... 168 firefighters were promoted to replace the firefighters who were killed... Anti-American demonstrations in Pakistan... Pakistani officials say a delegation will go to Afghanistan Monday to tell the Taliban to hand over bin laden... This product is manufactured on demand using DVD-R recordable media. Amazon.com's standard return policy will apply.