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In June 2005, Marcus Luttrell and three of his fellow Navy SEALs set off on a mission in the mountains of Afghanistan. Luttrell's team was ambushed by the Taliban, leaving him the sole survivor. He says the rules of war often get in the way of success on the battlefield.

A small Chinese town, with about 200 factories and 20,000 migrant workers, produces 60 percent of the world's supply of buttons. But Qiaotou's manufacturers are victims of their own success — cannibalizing one another's businesses with cutthroat prices.

Dr. John Marler of the National Institutes of Health talks with Madeleine Brand about Arteriovenous Malformation, the condition that reported caused the bleeding in Sen. Tim Johnson's brain.

Two Philadelphia museums are scrambling to raise $68 million to hold on to a local art treasure. If they fail to reach their goal by a Dec. 26 deadline, "The Gross Clinic," Thomas Eakins' 1875 masterpiece, will be sold.

Scientists studying tumors in Tasmanian devils and dogs have found evidence some cancer cells are being passed between animals through physical contact such as sex or biting. Science reporter and author David Quammen puts the findings in context.

Demond Mullins spent a year in Iraq with the National Guard. When he came back, he felt alienated and angry at what he had seen and done in the war. Now Mullins has found a degree of peace and understanding in higher learning.

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More than six years after al-Qaida was routed from its bases in Afghanistan, intelligence analysts debate whether Osama bin Laden's terror network has recovered from the setbacks it suffered. Some analysts say al-Qaida is a shell of what it once was, but U.S. intelligence officials are not so sure.

As part of our monthly series on ethics in science and technology, we'll look at the growing practice of deep-brain stimulation to treat illnesses that range from chronic pain to Parkinson's disease.

Despite some legislative successes, hopes for bipartisanship expressed by the Democratic leaders and President Bush were not realized in the first session of the 110th Congress. Andrea Seabrook speaks with John Bresnahan, Capitol Hill bureau chief of the Politico newspaper and Ross Baker, political science professor at Rutgers University.