This week on a NOW (PBS 9pm EST):
* The sheriff of Wall Street. David Brancaccio goes behind the scenes
with Eliot Spitzer, New York state's chief law enforcer in TOP COP.
* In evolution we trust? Scientist and controversial thinker Richard
Dawkins on the boundaries between science and religion in American
politics. A Bill Moyers interview.
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TOP COP
As New York's chief law enforcement officer, Eliot Spitzer has taken on
the titans of Wall Street to get a fair deal for Main Street. His
far-reaching investigations have uncovered fraudulent practices in some
of the nation's biggest companies and helped restore transparency and
honesty to industries that provide important products and services to
regular Americans-mutual funds, prescription drugs, insurance. David
Brancaccio goes inside the motivations and investigations of one of the
nation's most feared and respected attorneys general, the man they call
"the sheriff of Wall Street." "The market...must be maintained and
supported by rules of law," says Spitzer. "When we see criminal wrong
doing that cuts to the core and is central to the way business is being
done, I feel that we've got an obligation to address the larger issue."
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RICHARD DAWKINS
Richard Dawkins is one of the most controversial thinkers in the world
today. His book THE SELFISH GENE describes in stunning detail a world
where the mission for all life is nothing more than to replicate itself.
Just as the long-simmering battle over how evolution is taught in
America's schools is heating up again, Dawkins' most recent book, THE
ANCESTOR'S TALE, sheds light on the most compelling aspects of
evolutionary history and theory. Bill Moyers gets perspective from
Dawkins, a prominent zoologist, on critical thinking and on the backlash
against the very notion of evolution. "Among things that science does
know, evolution is about as certain as anything," he says. "And...is
accepted by responsible educated churchmen, as well as scientists."
Richard Dawkins is the Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public
Understanding of Science at Oxford and his other books include: THE
EXTENDED PHENOTYPE and THE BLIND WATCHMAKER, for which he won the Royal
Society of Literature Award and the LOS ANGELES TIMES Literary Prize.
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NOW WITH BILL MOYERS continues online at PBS.org (www.pbs.org/now). Log
on to the site to learn more about reforming the insurance industry; to
find a state-by-state map of insurance bureaus; to get a timeline of the
battle over evolution; to read more from Richard Dawkins; and more.
Also, respond to the NOW Online's Quote of the Week at
http://www.pbs.org/now/php/quotes.php
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