Maybe going national was to help me realize that I have important work, or that this work is important. Which is it? And I vacillate between letting this be the most spectacular moment ever and getting goose bumps tomorrow, or trying to treat it like

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I think Miami Vice was really hot at that time. And we had sent Don Johnson so many letters and we had tried to send him sunglasses like he needs a pair of sunglasses, and Teddy bears and flowers and cards and chocolates and everything. Nothing seeme

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We do a show based on somebody's mother. You know, my mother said she saw ,and wed end up doing it. Who has comments about the stories they just heard? Raise your hand. We go to beauty shops where we all, you know, got our hair done and got your nail

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Within a year of Fidel Castro coming to power, the capitalistic economy in Cuba has crumbled. Che Guevara is directly involved in seizing land. Foreign interests are nationalized. Thousands of Cubans are leaving, relations with the U.S. sour, and Cub

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Over the next 18 months, hundreds, some say, thousands of people are executed by firing squad. The killings helped cement Che's terrifying reputation Both of them, they are killers, they are murderers, Castro has killed thousands of people, and Che G

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After a two-year-hit-and-run war against the forces of the Cuban president Fulgencio Batista, a guerrilla force led by Fidel Castro and Che Guevara has now gained control over Cuba. In Havana, it will be Che's job to keep the new revolutionary govern

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Fidel Castro and his rebel army, now over about 800 men begin to move through Orien province, while Che attacks army garrisons using psychological guerilla tactics to scare away the enemy. By Monday, at one of the morning, 12:01, to one shot into the

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He was pretty rough, he was not known for his delicacy. Along with his doctors duties, Che proves himself repeatedly on the battlefield. Its been said in more hands-on fashion than Fidel. Che was a true model in front of us. While Fidel looks for a p

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When Che finally reunites with Fidel Castro and the others, he's shocked to see how small the group is. Only 17 of the original 82 men on board the Granma, amongst them, Che and the Castrol brothers, Fidel and Raul were amongst the survivors. The inv

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They anticipate a 5-day journey. Che writes a letter to his mother, informing her of his actions. Hilda is to mail it if he should die in battle. In essence, saying his last goodbyes to Hilda and his young daughter that if he survived he would see th

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Mexico had a historic standing as one of the countries on the flank of the United States, who had stood up to Yankee imperialism at the turn of the century. Ernesto reconnects with his Cuban friends and is introduced to Raul Castro. After serving 22

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The Soviets agree to buy what the Americans want. They needed weapons, so Soviet Union started to sell their old Soviet tanks and some fighters, airplanes. The Soviets also supplied them with oil, which US-owned refineries in Cuba refused to process.

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But it does share the giant panda's taste for bamboo. Southwest China's red pandas are known for their very strong facial markings, which distinguish them from red pandas found anywhere else in the Himalayas. Like the monkeys, they were isolated in t

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On the far side of the great Nujiang gorge, the plant hunters made a remarkable discovery. Far from the tropics, they seemed to be entering a steamy, vibrant tropical jungle--the forest of Gaoligongshan. The flora here is unlike anywhere else in the

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In glorious color, he recorded the plant life he found on special photographic glass plates. Sending thousands of specimens back to the West, the plant hunters changed the gardens of the world forever. Rocks success was born of a massive effort, for

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The Dai now live in the borders of tropical Vietnam and Laos, but their legends tell of how their ancestors came here by following the rivers from mountain lands in the cold far north. Lying at the far eastern end of the Himalayas, the Hengduan Mount

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Beneath billowing clouds in Chinas far southwestern Yunnan Province lies a place of mystery and legend. Of mighty rivers and some of the oldest jungles in the world, here hidden valleys nurture strange and unique creatures, and colorful tribal cultur

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Four months of daily rainstorms sustain luxuriant vegetation. The arrival of the monsoon awakens one of the forest's most extraordinary moisture-loving inhabitants. The crocodile newt is one of the most unusual of the many amphibian species found her

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The mystery is that these forests are growing well outside the tropics. By rights, none of this jungle or its animals should be here. These are bear macaques. They're found only in tropical and subtropical jungle. With a tiny home range of just a few

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Though incredibly strong, bamboos have hollow stems, a perfect shelter for any creatures which can find a way in. This entrance hole was made by a beetle, but its being used by a very different animal--a bamboo bat, the size of a bumblebee, its one o

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