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Bill Moyers avoids both extremes in a five-part PBS series premiering this week called Healing and the Mind and in a companion book that has already hit the best-seller lists. Level-headed, curious and skeptical, Moyers is the perfect tour guide. His question: Are our emotional lives entirely separate from our physical lives, or can one affect the other? To some degree, the latter is obviously true. Under mental stress, the heart rate climbs, and muscles tense. Conversely, breathing deeply and relaxing muscles can calm the mind...
...mind. It was not until after midnight that CBS confessed the truth: Univac had correctly predicted Dwight Eisenhower would swamp Adlai Stevenson in one of the biggest landslides in history, but nobody believed it. It is a defining moment in THE MACHINE THAT CHANGED THE WORLD, a surprisingly satisfying five-part history of the computer that starts April 6 on PBS. Crafted from old footage and fresh reportage by a team of veteran Nova and BBC hands, it is less a chronicle of hardware than a loving exploration of the sometimes rocky relationship between the first mindlike machines...
...Reagan came in with very simple and strongly held views," says Admiral Bobby Inman, former deputy director of the CIA. "It is a valid point of view that he saw the collapse ((of communism)) coming and he pushed it -- hard." During the first half of 1982, a five-part strategy emerged that was aimed at bringing about the collapse of the Soviet economy, fraying the ties that bound the U.S.S.R. to its client states in the Warsaw Pact and forcing reform inside the Soviet empire. Elements of that strategy included...
...amounts of time, money and column inches to tackle tough subjects and tangle with public figures. He permitted some reporters to work as long as two years on a single investigative project. The results were an impressive 17 Pulitzer Prizes in 18 years, including one this year for a five-part series on the safety of the nation's blood banks. "Roberts assembled a newsroom that was, pound for pound, better than anyone's," says Charles Eisendrath, director of the University of Michigan's Journalism Fellows Program...
...five-part series on NBC's "Today" show this week includes several segments featuring class discussions and interviews with faculty members and students from Harvard Divinity School, according to a Divinity School spokesperson...