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Federico Fellini's Amarcord gets a theatrical re-release (Janus Films)

At the center of the international AIDS debate are relatively small generic drug manufacturers in poor countries. Companies such as India's Cipla have the ability to produce cheaper, easier-to-take drug cocktails for millions of people, but access is often blocked by trade restrictions and patents.

The country's nuclear safety agency raised the Fukushima Dai-ichi accident to a Level 5 out of 7, putting it on par with the Three Mile Island accident. Emergency workers struggled to cool overheated fuel rods at the plant, while Japanese officials admitted the quake and tsunami had overwhelmed the government and slowed its response to the nuclear problems.

The Obama Administration is proposing a zone approach in the southwest to help solar projects get online.

A Marine's Canine Partner Finds a New Home

Two small businesses have not only weathered the recession well but have actually expanded to new locations.

Iraq's sole cardiac-specialty hospital has survived wars and sanctions, but now only 15 doctors remain and they're in constant peril. And patients are waiting six months or more to undergo life-saving procedures.

An unlikely coalition including ranchers, miners, off-road racers, opponents of big government and the local brothel has succeeded in reviving the Amargosa toad, a warty, speckled, palm-sized creature that just a few years ago seemed headed for extinction.

When her husband returned from serving in the Marine Corps in Iraq, Mary Gallagher said he seemed fine. Then his suicide crippled the family. They found salvation only when they discovered the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors, a military support group.

Airs Sunday, August 1, 2010 at 11:30 p.m. on KPBS TV