The era of school desegregation is coming to a close in America. As busing ends across the country, many schools are becoming more segregated. A recent Supreme Court ruling is likely to accelerate that trend. This documentary presents the stories of people in Louisville, Kentucky, and Charlotte, North Carolina, whose lives were changed forever when they rode school buses across racial lines.

Follow students, teachers, and administrators from Western Guilford High School as they navigate the requirements of No Child Left Behind.

On the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, we visit New Orleans to explore the status of its long road to recovery. Could the preservation and restoration of the city's cultural life provide the most enduring path to its rebuilding? Nick Spitzer, host of American Routes joins Stephen Smith to offer a provocative cultural tour of the city's road to renewal.

These are two remarkable stories, about the struggle for minds and hearts in World War Two. First, a group of Americans who refused to fight volunteered for a groundbreaking experiment in starvation. Then, radio becomes a modern weapon of war.

We spend six months following a lively group of innovators, entrepreneurs, and venture capitalists who are at the epicenter of an American desire for clean technologies - and they seek riches and solutions to global climate change. This is what happens when good deeds grapple with the realities of the free market.

Members of Congress face many temptations from special interests who want to take them on free trips golfing and fishing, or to Bermuda and Wimbledon. But voters are demanding reform.

According to popular history, one hundred years ago this Christmas Eve, shipboard technicians listening for Morse code messages on their newly installed wireless telegraphs heard something incredible: music. Men on ships from the North Atlantic to the Gulf of Mexico made up the audience of the first successful radio transmission of music and voice. Since that first experimental broadcast, music has been the dominant sound on radio.

The early signs of climate change are showing up across vastly differing landscapes: from melting outposts near the Arctic Circle to disappearing glaciers high in the Andes; from the rising water in the deltas of Bangladesh to the "sinking" atolls of the Pacific.

For decades, the United States has been the dominant exporter of pop culture. In the 21st century, it has a powerful new competitor: Japan. Young people across the globe watch anime, read manga comic books from right to left, listen to J-pop, and play with Japanese toys and video games. What's so cool about Japan? Will the ancient nation rise again, this time as the world's leading exporter of fantasy? An entertaining journey, from Tokyo to middle America.

Hurricane Katrina devastated the lives of thousands of people along America's southern coastline. National attention has focused mainly on New Orleans, on how destructive the flooding was and how slowly the city is picking up the pieces. But 90 miles east, in the coastal city of Biloxi, Mississippi, a dramatically different story is unfolding.