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Television industry insiders predicted there would never be a fourth network competing in the ranks of CBS, NBC, and ABC. The FOX Network proved them wrong: it’s now often referred to as one of "the Big Four." Then, investigative journalists Debbie Bookchin and Jim Schumacher talk about charges that certain rare cancers popping up today may have been caused by polio vaccines back in the 1950s and 1960s. We take a look at some hidden treasure in Russia – meticulously carved amber panels, stolen by the Nazis in 1941 during the siege of Leningrad. No one has seen them since. And Frank McCourt, Marian Seldes, and Isaiah Sheffer celebrate the literary legacy of James Joyce.