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DNA information that is available on genealogy websites is doing more than satisfying curiosity. Data collected from consumer DNA tests is helping the police to close cold case files, including a long-unsolved murder from the 1980s. But their use to solve cold cases is raising new concerns about privacy protection.
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New Yorker magazine humorist Andy Borowitz takes a look at a thriving industry: bullying.

13:22
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10:27
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11:55
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10:06
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9:54
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11:18
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7:46
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3:58
Andy Borowitz examines how Anita Bryant inadvertently energized the gay rights movement.

18:31
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