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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

You may not know his name, but to tens of thousands of Native Americans, Bronson Koenig is their hero. He's a star player on the Wisconsin Badgers, an NBA hopeful, and a member of the Ho-Chunk Nation. And now, he's a Standing Rock protester. Steve Paulson caught up with Koenig just before he joined the protest in North Dakota.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

With plastic surgery business growing dramatically in the United States, liposuction and breast augmentation are the most popular procedures.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Anthony Harkins tells Steve Paulson about the stereotype of the hillbilly and what it has meant to American culture.

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Amy Tan tells Anne Strainchamps about her family history and her mother's belief in fate and the power of their Chinese ancestors.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Shattered by her father's sudden death, writer Helen Macdonald began dreaming of wild hawks.  In an effort to move beyond her grief, she bought and trained a wild goshawk -- one of the world's fiercest birds of prey.   But between the bird and her grief, she became, in her words "more hawk than human."

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Former Vice President Al Gore helped bring global warming into public consciousness. Despite the dire projections of rising temperatures, he says he's still an optimist.

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Allan Gurganus tells Jim Fleming how he first experienced the power of art and why he writes about Capital “T” Truths in his books.

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Andrew Davidson is the author of "The Gargoyle." It's his debut novel and has been described as "an Inferno for our time."

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