Summary:
The anthrax scientists
SUMMARY: A story with all the ingredients of an Agatha Christie novel. It involves a bungled examination by the Federal Bureau of Investigation into the 2001 Anthrax letter attacks, a scientist who committed suicide, mental torture, broken marriages, alcohol dependence and some psychotic characters.
Dilemmas for NATO
SUMMARY: Next year NATO turns 60 and as the alliance heads towards this anniversary there are questions over its future.
Some observers argue that NATO is distracted and weakened and, as evidence, point to the conflict in Georgia and the NATO campaign in Afghanistan.
Babcock and Brown
SUMMARY: We all know the blunt verdicts delivered on Australian political players. Well how blunt should they be in the business world?
It´s a question being debated right now in the case of Babcock & Brown, which this week became a casualty of the long-running and developing international credit squeeze.
De-leveraging
SUMMARY: Getting out of debt and recovering from bad debt habits that have been learned over the past 15-18 years: many financial analysts say that this indeed is the debate-we-have-to-have in Australia.
National treasures
SUMMARY: In 1979, the late Iraqi President, Saddam Hussein, said that "antiquities are the most precious relics the Iraqis possess." At the time the dictator maintained one of the most flourishing archaeological collections in the Middle East.
But things changed with the first Gulf War when Saddam Hussein´s men went on a ruthless campaign to destroy relics of Shite culture and then in 2003 more was lost with the looting of the Iraq Museum. This discussion is about what happened next.
Film with Julie Rigg
SUMMARY: Julie reviews Son of a Lion - a new film made by a novice filmmaker with Pashtun people in Pakistan's North West frontier.
