ABC News Classics President Reagan's Farewell Address to the Nation

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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. ABC News reports on Danny Ramos Gomez who, since birth, has had excessive hair all over his body due to a condition called hypertrichosis. As children, Danny and his brother -- who suffers from the same condition -- were exhibited in cages and gawked at. Despite his suffering and humiliation, Danny has learned to live with his unique appearance and tells ABC News that he would never cut his hair. Next, meet a little girl named Kasey who also suffers from a rare genetic condition called Porphyria, which makes her a virtual prisoner in her home until the sun goes down. Any direct exposure to sunlight causes third degree burns all over exposed skin. Then, what if people didn't need their stomachs at all? That's what the Bradfield family has learned after having the organ removed to stop a cancer that has claimed at least two earlier generations of the clan. It started with a grandmother, who then passed the unknown deadly genes to seven of her children. But the third generation of men and women in early middle age and younger found a doctor who was able to explain the disease and name the gene that caused it. Out of 18 Bradfield cousins, 11 tested positive for the gene. ABC News reports on the family, the medical sleuthing and the courage...

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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. How could a father not recognize his own children? It's a condition known as face blindness, but people who have it can see faces perfectly well, they just can't process what people look like. ABC News reports on the neurological disorder Prosopagnosia, where people can't distinguish faces -- including their own. Until recently, most Prosopagnosia cases have been the result of stroke or brain injury, but now researchers say there may be a single gene to blame. Then, for most couples their wedding day is unforgettable, but just three days after Sean McNulty married his wife, Amy Harrison, he couldn't remember anything from his life. Sean and Amy were leaving for their honeymoon when he vanished from the airport. After days of searching, Sean was discovered by police wandering aimlessly near an abandoned hotel. But his disappearance was only the beginning of a baffling journey. He had forgotten everything from his past, including his marriage to Amy. Diagnosed with a severe case of amnesia, Sean had to get to know Amy all over again. Can doctors train a tongue to do what eyes can't? ABC News reports on a revolutionary device that could make it possible for blind people to navigate without a cane or a seeing-eye dog. The device is place...

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At the end of the 20th century, all that's left of the Ndoki rain forest in Democratic Republic of the Congo is a few scattered patches. Today, as the result of logging and deforestation, only 6 percent of the earth is covered by rain forests. But these forests contain fully half of all the plant and animal life on the planet. ABC News reports the story of one man devoting his life to preserving the way his fragile fellow creatures live theirs in a land half a world away -- a unique and beautiful place on the African continent which humans have yet to plunder. Anchor: Sam Donaldson. Correspondent: John Quinones.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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CF Martin Senior set out to build every Martin guitar as perfectly as a guitar could be built by a human being. Christian Friedrich Martin was born in Germany in 1796 into a family of furniture makers. The guitar was a new instrument and Martin learned to build them. But, there was trouble. He was not a member of the guild of musical instrument makers. In 1833, he packed up his tools and his family and like so many German immigrants before and after he emigrated to the New World where there were no prohibitions against craft. They finally settled among German immigrants in the eastern Pennsylvania town of Nazareth. From home and then from this factory, Martin evolved a completely new instrument. At first, they were European, small. Over time, as customers wanted more sound, the bodies got a little bigger. To compete with banjos and mandolins, guitar players wanted metal strings instead of gut. That meant a bigger, stronger body, a longer neck for more range. During the Depression, country musicians playing at farm shows and grange halls wanted an instrument a large audience could hear and Martin invented the big, loud Dreadnought. It now defines the American acoustic guitar. The designs have endured and continue to be considered the ultimate design. Anchor: Ted Koppel.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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Casualties of hatred, part one of the "Children of War". Before reaching the age of reason the children of Sarajevo were embroiled in the senseless. Theirs is a legacy of horror in what was Yugoslavia during the war. In this episode of Nightline politics and the geography of the war become secondary. Part two of the "Children of War" focuses on Yugoslavia and the children. At the time UNICEF estimated that 600,000 children inside Bosnia alone had experienced shelling, bombing and shooting at close range. This program examines a different form of violence that has been done to the children of Yugoslavia, the violence of families torn apart, of broken marriages, lost homes, of alcoholism and drug abuse. ...

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The Korean War came right on the heels of World War II, and the world, and this country, was still exhausted by that conflict. Korea, after all, wasn't officially a "war," it was a "police action." In the public consciousness, and to some extent history, it was overshadowed by the wars that came before and after it. There were far fewer journalists there to tell their story. ABC News tagged along with Korean War veterans as they ventured back to Korea for the first time since the war, just past the 50th anniversary of the armistice. Anchor: Ted Koppel Correspondent: Phil Ittner Airdate: July 31, 2003When 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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Unsolved, civil rights murders. Strong evidence, even alleged confessions but no convictions. And no justice for the families left behind. Explosive new developments in a continuing investigation into three murders that have never been solved. They occurred during one of this country's darkest chapters when bigotry bred violence and the law looked the other way. Two black teen-agers offered a ride and then killed in cold blood. An elderly black farmhand shot to death at close range. Decades have passed and their stories have faded. ABC News delves into Mississippi history, searching for answers in the unsolved murders, allegedly committed by Ku Klux Klan members in the 1960's, yielding startling results. Anchor: Connie Chung Airdate: 6/14/2000When 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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Norman Lear had one of the most powerful and influential careers in the history of U.S. television. As a television writer and producer, Lear produced such popular sitcoms as "All in the Family," "Sanford and Son," "One Day at a Time," "Good Times" and "Maude." In 2002, Norman Lear spoke with Ted Koppel on television, corporate greed, citizenship and life.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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Is it a rite of passage, or a series of struggles that can leave lasting scars? Send your mind back to that moment in time when you were trapped between adolescence and adulthood, when insecurity was the dreadful secret that trapped you in a lonely space which you were convinced was your singular affliction. We all had ways of concealing it, or at least dealing with it, of course. Some were blessed with natural grace or good looks, while others used sarcasm or athletic skill. Those with social skills could run with the pack, but there was always the danger that the pack might turn on you. It's a difficult time of life; it always has been. But if the psychiatrists and social scientists are right, it is, in some respects, worse these days than it has ever been, especially for girls. Girls, it seems, have developed the evolution of social nastiness into an art form, to a point at which it is almost dangerous. The need to fit in has become so acute, the social hierarchies so refined that it overcomes and overpowers almost everything else. ABC News also speaks to Rosalind Wiseman, author of "Queen Bees and Wanna Be's." ...