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Albany, NY – Afghanistan is back in the headlines...with the tensions there, in neighboring Pakistan and in India screaming for attention after Washington's been focused on Iraq. The president-elect has vowed to put more muscle into efforts to stabilize Afghanistan...but what's happening for women there? Reporter Laura Iiyama takes a look behind the scenes.
7:38 Iiyama
As the recession deepens, the unemployment numbers go up and the government struggles to find the magic solution that will stop the slide, Americans are beginning the rethink the way we live. It's all a question of perception - remember? Commentator Linda Lowen revisits an old fashioned notion that's coming back in style.
5:07 Lowen
Linda Lowen is about.com's guide to women's issues.
As part of our National Science Foundation's "The Sounds of Progress" series, narrator Kate Mulgrew introduces us to May Edward Chinn, an escaped slave who didn't let other's perceptions of her define her life.
2:00 NSF #22 Chin
If you'd like to find out more or hear more in this series, visit www.womeninscience.org.
Finally today, it's Artspace. This is a tough one. When I first saw the work of artist Pamela Fingerhut, I had to look away. It's not gruesome or even overtly offensive. Her current collection, which she calls Female Taxonomy, digitally combines images of women and dolls to create a vision of the female form that is somehow deeply disturbing, but also thought provoking.
4:30 Pamela Fingerhut
You can see Fingerhut's work and judge for yourself at her website, pamelafingerhut.com.
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