Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Tower safety...isn't there an app for that?

Tonight on CIVILIZATION, historian Niall Ferguson explores philosophical and political developments that have enabled the Western hemisphere to dominate the globe for the past 500 years...7pm

Then on FRONTLINE...while some tower climbers say they are under pressure to cut corners, layers of subcontracting make it difficult for safety inspectors to determine fault when a tower worker is killed or injured. Go behind the scenes of the smart phone industry...also this hour: Jon Corzine, former head of Goldman Sachs and political power broker, took over MF Global in the spring of 2010 with oversize ambition and a passion for risk. But after a massive bet on European debt turned sour, the firm lay in ruins, with more than a billion dollars of customer funds missing...FRONTLINE...9pm

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