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827: All the King's Horses

The things we break and the ones we can't fix. Prologue: Ira tells the stories of three things that broke–two of them in his own family. (8 minutes) Act One: A teenage whiz kid invents a new toy for Milton Bradley. Then the trouble starts. (28 minutes) Act Two: Reporter Dana Ballout sifts through a very long list—the list of journalists killed in the Israel-Hamas War—and comes back with five small fragments of the lives of the people on it. (10 minutes) Act Three: A skateboarding legend makes a final attempt at a high-flying trick. (6 minutes)

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  568: Human Spectacle

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  306: Seemed Like A Good Idea at the Time

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  564: Too Soon?

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  828: Minor Crimes Division

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  826: Unprepared for What Has Already Happened

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  825: Yousef

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  824: Family Meeting

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  823: The Question Trap

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  822: The Words to Say It