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(Tripoli: Richard Engel) The odd situation in Tripoli, where residents seem to pretend there is no revolt, featured; scenes shown of the market, a rally in Green Square. [Student Mohammed BASSEL‡, demonstrator Marwan al-ZADI‡- support Kadhafi.] An anti-Kadhafi note passed secretly to the reporter quoted.
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(Benghazi: Stephanie Gosk) The battle between rebels and Kadhafi’s forces over the oil in Brega featured; scenes shown of fighter jets dropping bombs, a gunfight in the sand dunes, a bullet-riddled guest house at the oil facility. [Rebel fighter “AHMED” – says he is ready to die.]
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(Washington: Jose Diaz-Balart) The White House meeting between President Obama and Mexican President Felipe Calderon reviewed; details given about their talks concerning the flow of drugs, arms and money over the border and an agreement opening US highways to Mexican trucks.
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(On the Rio Grande, Texas: Mark Potter) The war on the US-Mexico border between US agents and Mexican drug smugglers featured; scenes shown of scouts swimming across the Rio Grande River, seized marijuana buried in a pit, a raft-load of drugs, a truck driving into the river. [US Border Patrol supervisor David MAIBUAM†- comments on escaping traffickers.] [US Border Patrol supervisor Leslie JAMES†- says he’s never seen trafficking as it is today.]
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) The reverse brain drain from foreigners who are educated in the US but must leave because of the H-1B visa, which allows a limited number of highly trained foreigners to stay for only 2 years, examined; scenes shown from New Delhi of the offices of SnapDeal, which was co-founded by Kunal Bahl††, who was educated at the University of Pennsylvania; statistics on startups with immigrant founders cited. [BAHL – says the guys building the American dream could have been part of the Indian dream.] [Visiting professor Vivek WADHWA††- says we’re strengthening our competitors and weakening ourselves.] [Rapportive co-founder Martin KLEPPMANN†, Campfire Labs co-founder Sakina ARSIWALA†- comment on problems with the immigration system.]
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(New York: Robert Bazell) A CDC study on sleep deprivation reviewed; study findings cited; details given about the problem from people falling asleep while driving. [PEOPLE – comment on their sleep habits.] [CDC Lela McKNIGHT-EILY†- says insufficient sleep has become a public health epidemic.]
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