Frontline: Harvest of Fear

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Are genetically modified foods a vital scientific breakthrough that will help to end world hunger and reduce global pollution, or are they “Frankenfoods” that will ruin health and provoke environmental disaster? NOVA and FRONTLINE present the first in-depth TV investigation of the perils and potential of this powerful new technology. Public televisions’s highest rated public affairs series, FRONTLINE has been nationally recognized with Emmys, Peabody Awards, and duPont-Columbia Awards. FRONTLINE investigates a broad spectrum of important events and the year’s most critical issues.

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Toxic Pesticides Recommended in the 40s! Garden Wise DVD by the Monsanto Corporation

• Title: Garden Wise
• Year: 1940
• Run Time: 24:55
• Audio/Visual: Sound, Color

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A somewhat shocking vintage film, Garden Wise was a promotional film made by the Monsanto Corporation (still in operation) to advertise their latest fertilizer: Krillium. This pesticide is actually worse than it sounds: it’s chiefly made from polyacrylamide, which is horribly toxic to humans and no longer allowed! In stark contrast, the film is narrated by a beautiful woman with a lovely voice as she serenely discusses her hopes and dreams of achieving the perfect garden. This documentation of nasty pesticides and 1950’s optimism makes Garden Wise a striking classic movie.

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She Hate Me

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A whistleblower now unemployed and desperate for cash accepts an offer to be a sperm donor for his ex-girlfriend, now a lesbian. He is soon inundated with offers from other lesbians while his former employer questions his ethics.
Genre: Feature Film Urban Comedy
Rating: R
Release Date: 6-JUN-2006
Media Type: DVDAmazon.com
In a long and varied career, She Hate Me is easily one of Spike Lee’s most unusual films. On the one hand, it’s a drama. On the other, it’s a comedy. Then there’s the structure: a crazy quilt made up out of several different stories. Even the style is a patchwork incorporating animation and pseudo-documentary–in the vein of Lee’s 1986 hit She’s Gotta Have It. It all revolves around one John Henry “Jack” Armstrong (8 Mile’s Anthony Mackie), a successful executive at a biotech company much like ImClone (the one that brought Martha Stewart down). When Jack blows the whistle and loses his job, ex-fiancée Fatima (Ray’s Kerry Washington), who left him for another woman, offers the now-penniless Jack $10,000 to impregnate her. All goes well, so they set up business together, and he proceeds to impregnate countless gay women, including mafia princess Simona (Monica Bellucci). If there’s one thing that keeps it all together, it’s Mackie, who handles the many changes Lee puts him through with admirable aplomb. –Kathleen C. Fennessy

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Charlie Rose

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First, a conversation with Gov. Mike Easley, Republican of North Carolina, about his policy agenda for his state, which focuses heavily on economic improvement and public education. Easley discusses the importance of coordinating primary and secondary level instruction with college education. Then, a discussion with James Levine of the Metropolitan Opera and choreographer Mark Morris, Artistic Director of the Mark Morris Dance Group, who discuss their new interpretation of Christoph Gluck’s “Orfeo ed Euridice”, a union of opera and modern dance.

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Charlie Rose with Hamilton Smith, Francis Collins, Harold Varmus, Arnold Levine, James Watson, Nicholas Wade, William Haseltine, Arthur Caplan & J. Craig Venter

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Episode five of the special series “Mapping the Human Genome.” A panel of experts discusses the ethics and implications of the Human Genome Project. They are: Dr. Craig Venter, president of Celera Genomics; Dr. Hamilton Smith, in charge of creating a DNA library for Celera Genomics; Dr Francis Collins, molecular geneticist and director of the National Center for Human Genome Research Institute at the National Institutes of Health; Dr. Harold Varmus, president of Rockefeller University; Dr. James Watson, molecular biologist and co-discoverer of the double-helix structure of DNA; Nicholas Wade, science reporter for The New York Times; Dr. William Haseltine, chairman and CEO of Human Genome Sciences; and Dr. Arthur Caplan, director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania.

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