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| Animal Hospital High-tech health care comes to veterinary medicine—radiology to surgery, intensive care to sports medicine. |
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| Brain Eater, The Scientists scramble to understand the devastating ailment known as mad cow disease. |
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| Crocodiles! Scientists examine the life of the crocodile, a creature that has changed little since the time of the dinosaurs. |
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| Deadly Shadow of Vesuvius The shattered remnants of the Roman city of Pompeii bear witness to the risk that the people of Naples still face today. |
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| Into the Abyss A daring expedition attempts to retrieve several "black smoker chimneys" from the seafloor a mile and a half down. |
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| Island of the Sharks Visit Costa Rica's Cocos Island, which boasts more sharks per cubic yard of water than perhaps any other place on the planet. |
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| Leopards of the Night NOVA's state-of-the-art camera equipment reveals the nocturnal hunting behavior of leopards in Zambia's Luangua Valley. |
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| Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude How the quest for a reliable method to find your way at sea was solved by an 18th-century English clockmaker. |
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| Mysterious Mummies of China Three-thousand-year-old mummies with long blond hair and blue eyes are unearthed in a remote Chinese desert. |
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| Night Creatures of the Kalahari Beneath the grassland plains of the Kalahari lies a hidden world of rare and exotic animals. |
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| Perfect Pearl, The Once a rare gem produced by an accident of nature, the pearl is now the product of careful human engineering. |
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| Search for the Lost Cave People Caves lining a rugged canyon deep in the Chiapas jungle hold clues to the little known Zoque people. |
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| Secrets of Easter Island A team attempts to recreate the original islanders' success at moving and erecting giant moai statues. |
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| Special Effects: Titanic and Beyond NOVA goes behind the scenes in Hollywood, where the art of illusion meets the science of perception. |
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| Supersonic Spies The race to build the world's first supersonic passenger airliner leads to a massive Cold War espionage effort. |
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| Terror in Space Russian and American astronauts experience life-threatening problems aboard the aging Mir space station. |
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| Tracking El Niño Scientists struggle to understand the El Niño phenomenon, second only to the seasons in its effect on global weather. |
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| Truth about Impotence, The NOVA reports on new hope for victims of erectile dysfunction. |
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| Warnings from the Ice What does it mean that over the past half century, the coastal ice on the Antarctic Peninsula has been gradually disappearing? |
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