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  • Richard Harris profiles Ghana's first manufacturer of generic AIDS drugs. It's the brainchild of Yaw Adu Gyamfi, an American-trained Ghanaian who brought together diverse interests to make it happen. The company hopes to produce drugs in Ghana for nations throughout Africa.
  • On the 10th consecutive night of urban unrest that started in Paris' immigrant-populated suburbs, the violence spreads to other French cities. For the first time Saturday night, the rioting reaches central Paris, where scores of cars were burned. And police are hard-pressed to control the attacks.
  • Capote tracks the writer's draining effort to complete In Cold Blood. Dan Futterman, known for acting roles on Judging Amy and Will & Grace, wrote the screenplay. He and director Bennett Miller talk with Linda Wertheimer about the film.
  • As a grand jury's term expires in the investigation of the outing of CIA operative Valerie Plame, special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald schedules a 2 p.m. news conference Friday. Speculation swirls regarding potential indictments.
  • Classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz is also a horror movie fan. He reviews a new DVD collection of the horror films of producer Val Lewton. The films include The Leopard Man, Curse of the Cat People, and I Walked with a Zombie, along with six other films.
  • Manadel al-Jamadi died in Abu Ghraib, just hours after his capture by Navy SEALs and the CIA. His death was ruled a homicide. A special report investigates what happened just before Jamadi's collapse.
  • On a red-hot August night in 1965, the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles exploded with racial frustration. But 40 years after a traffic stop sparked the Watts riots, which claimed 34 lives, little has changed.
  • A new animated series, Loonatics Unleashed, debuts this fall. Early promotions of the show made some fans fear the Loonatics would replace classic Looney Tunes characters.
  • Time magazine reporter Matt Cooper says White House deputy chief of staff Karl Rove was the first person to confirm the wife of an outspoken critic of the Bush administration -- now known to be Valerie Plame -- was a CIA officer. Cooper also says vice presidential chief of staff Lewis Libby was another source for his story on Plame's identity.
  • The Kingdom of Bhutan couldn't be more different from the United States. It's isolated in the Himalayas between India and China. It's a Buddhist country, and is basing its new constitution on Buddhist principles. Recently, commentator Paul Rosenzweig took a trip to Bhutan. While he was there, he found that there is one similarity between the Bhutanese economy and our own: Both countries depend on foreign workers to do low-paying jobs.
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