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Bush Visits Pentagon, Backing Rumsfeld
President Bush is at the Pentagon today, aiming to counter rising criticism over more pictures and unreleased videos showing Iraqi prisoners being abused by American soldiers.

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Abu Ghraib Outrage Continues as New Photos Released
In the Here & Now political roundtable, experts look at the political implications of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal.

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Families Await Return, and a Soldier's Story
We hear from families with soldiers in Iraq, and host Robin Young meets a soldier on his return to the U.S.

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Chechen President Buried
The Chechen President was buried today, a day after he was killed by a bomb blast during a Victory Day parade. Akhmad Kadyrov was backed by Moscow. His assassination is considered a blow to Russian leader Putin.

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Prisons and Guards: the Psychology of Control
We look back at a landmark study about human behavior in prisons.

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The Standford Prison Experiment

Stanley Milgram (The Connection)

Simulated Prison in ྃ Showed a Fine Line Between `Normal' and `Monster' (NY Times)

Why everyone's not a torturer (BBC)

Mental Aspects of Abuse and War (NPR)
Un-Memorializing King
A city in Florida considers changing the name of a street back to its original name, Sixth Avenue. It is currently called Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue.

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Sun Never Sets on Tupperware
We examine the documentary about the Tupperware empire.

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