S12.E11 ∙ Episode #12.11

Forced Absence is a story of love and hatred, greed and vengeance,custody and visitation battles, in a family court system being exploited by husbands, wives, and live-in partners seeking to destroy one another.

They're stubborn, impulsive and paranoid. They take huge risks and have trouble planning ahead. In someone thirty years old, this behavior would be considered pathological. But in a teenager, it's normal. "You know, once, once individuals get to be age 16, 17 they look pretty much like they will when they're adults. But their brains don't," says Dr. Elizabeth Sowell, a brain researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles. She says that new imaging technology is offering a never-before look inside the teenage brain, and that what we see is revealing a lot about why teenagers act the ways that they do. The new science is forcing researchers to rewrite the textbooks, and in the process, they're rewriting the parenting books, too. We've always known that launching a teenager into the adult world requires great patience, love and attention. But it also helps if parents UNDERSTAND. Watch ... "The Teenage Brain."

Bo Jackson ranks as one of the most popular athletes among kids. In this video profile see Bo as a high school athlete through his college years to his professional career.

The film is set on the campus of Hampden-Sydney College during the 2002 Tiger football season. Walter Simms has lived on the campus of H-SC for 28 years and has been an integral part of the community, the college and their football team. He is an icon at the prestigious, all-male Virginia school, where he has touched the lives of generations of young men and inspired an entire community. This season in particular is very special to Shorty. His beloved Tiger football squad is poised to make the playoffs for the first time in 26 years, he is being inducted into the Hampden-Sydney College Athletic Hall-of-Fame and he is celebrating his birthday on the day of the final game of the regular season against the Randolph-Macon Yellow Jackets - a 107-year rivalry known simply as "The Game". What makes this year particularly memorable is that the life expectancy for someone with Down syndrome is 55. Walter Simms will be 56. The film's climax takes place on November 16th, 2002 at "The Game". The 108th meeting between the oldest archrivals in the South: Hampden-Sydney vs. Randolph-Macon. After weeks of rain the field is in barely playable muddy conditions. After three hard fought quarters, the game is knotted at a zero-zero tie going into the game's final fifteen minutes. Will the Tigers beat the Yellow Jackets to make Shorty's birthday wish come true?

A look back into the first thirty years of Disneyland's history. Featuring old news footage of opening day back in 1955, with Walt Disney himself, giving a speech. There is also a celebration, in different sections of the park with some very special musical guests, including Roy Clark, David Hasselhoff, Marie Osmond, Donna Summer, and many others. Also, some guest appearances by stars of NBC programming, Harry Anderson, The Cosby Kids, and more. Hosted by John Forsythe and a young Drew Barrymore. Good Music. Great Finale. The Magic of Disney. Enjoy it.

A film that further explores the artists' fusion of culture, environment and politics. Christo and Jeanne-Claude's fight for permission to surround eleven islands in Miami's Biscayne Bay with 6.5 million square feet of bright pink fabric, interwoven with their struggle to wrap the Pont-Neuf in Paris and the Reichstag in Berlin.