Television is rife with shows about female spies, whether it's Nikita, Covert Affairs, the Americans, or Homeland. It really seems like spy girls are having a moment on TV, but how true to life are these popular depictions? We turned to former CIA operations officer Valerie Plame Wilson to find out.
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Shulem Deen was a Skverer— a member of one of the most insular Hasidic sects in the U.S. Then he got curious about secular life and the world outside his small village in Rockland County, NY. The community branded him a heretic and expelled him. And his wife and five children renounced him.
Physicist Ronald Mallet tells Anne Strainchamps why he thinks he can use light to bend the fabric of space and achieve time travel.
Thomas Pakenham’s passion for trees has led him all over the world. He tells Anne Strainchamps that trees can be majestic, sacred, and haunting.
Thomas Friedman says the US is falling behind on the global stage.
Elizabeth Lunbeck talks about her book, "The Americanization of Narcissism."
Salman Rushdie tells Steve Paulson that he loved the movie, “The Wizard of Oz” and that he sees it as a parable about home and homelessness.
Comedian and writer Tony Hawks conceived the daft idea of hitch-hiking around Ireland with a small refrigerator.
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