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POLITICAL SCIENCEDo our genes govern who we vote for? As Americans go to the polls in the midterm elections, Tuesday's Dateline heads not for the lobby but for the lab to look at the science of voting. Aaron Lewis joins a research project at the University of Nebraska finding out if we're hardwired to vote a certain way before we're even old enough to think about it. While a roomful of identical twins provides Aaron with the most immediate answers, there's far more science and intense sensory testing involved in what's known as genopolitics. Does more dopamine in our systems make us more liberal in our political views, so more likely to vote for the Democrats? With Barack Obama's popularity plummeting and the chance that he could lose control of the Senate, the election campaigns are in full swing. But could it be that the result was actually decided years ago when each American voter was born?SHADOW OF THE WALLIt now seems unbelievable that a once thriving and cosmopolitan city like Berlin could be divided in two by a wall, leaving residents stranded from family and friends on either side. But it was a reality for millions of Germans after the political pacts following the Second World War fractured and Germany split apart. For 28 years, those left in the communist east faced severe punishment or even death for trying to illegally reach the capitalist west. On Tuesday's Dateline, Amos Roberts marks the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall by meeting three men who each played a pivotal role in its history. Karl-Heinz Richter was sent to a brutal Stasi prison for trying to escape to the west; Hasso Herschel risked everything to dig a tunnel underneath the wall; and Harald Jaeger was an east German border guard trying to stop people like them reaching freedom. They were forced to make difficult choices about their lives at a turbulent time in Germany's history, and although the wall may have gone, the legacy for them lives on.LIFE ON THE LINEIt looks like madness, but one of the quickest ways to get around Manila is on a makeshift trolley on the railway line, dodging between trains. The illegal, and potentially dangerous, mode of transport is an answer to the massive congestion on the streets of the Philippines' capital. To many, it's also a way of life; living by the tracks and earning a living as 'taxi' drivers. Dateline's Mark Davis told their story in this memorable report from March 2010, which is to be screened again on Tuesday to mark Dateline's 30 years on air. Following the original broadcast of this story, a number of viewers donated money to help Henaro Daclison establish a restaurant trolley |
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Broadcast 2014-11-04 at 21:30:00 |
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Classification: NC |
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Behavior genetics -- Political aspects.
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Cost and standard of living.
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Filipinos -- Social life and customs.
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Germans -- Politics and government.
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Twins -- Psychology.
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Berlin Wall (Germany : 1961-1989)
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Germany -- Berlin.
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Philippines -- Manila.
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Nebraska.
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Streaming video
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Rao, Anjali, host
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Davis, Mark, reporter
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Lewis, Aaron, reporter
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Roberts, Amos, reporter
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Jones, Dalias, contributor
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Smith, Kevin, contributor
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