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THANK YOU SO MUCH! GRRRR .. I coulda gone back 20 pages of posts and found it, but I just knew I could locate it. I even went to the WNET website 'cause I thought that's who I remember did it, but it's not there that I could find.

NOTE FOR SEPT. 12 AND SEPT. 19

LIFE IN THE BALANCE - PBS - 9/12 and 9/19/05

"IN THE BALANCE, a two-part series from Fred Friendly Seminars examining the political, economic, health and safety issues posed by a terrorist threat. The programs will air on PBS in September - National Preparedness Month.

IN THE BALANCE: BIOATTACK premieres Monday, Sept. 12, 2005 at 10 p.m. and IN THE BALANCE: CITY UNDER SIEGE premieres Monday, Sept. 19, 2005 at 10 p.m. (check local listings).

IN THE BALANCE brings together powerful people who put their values to the test and reveal what they might do when everything hangs 'in the balance.' The unscripted and unrehearsed programs confront people representing different levels of authority and areas of responsibility with riveting scenarios. IN THE BALANCE: BIOATTACK dramatizes a biological attack and IN THE BALANCE: CITY UNDER SIEGE asks participants to deal with a credible rumor of a dirty bomb arriving in a harbor on the Fourth of July.

"The scenarios presented may be hypothetical, but the dilemmas and decisions are real," said Barbara Margolis, series producer. "Each decision has consequences - often contradictory ones - for public safety, for law enforcement, for constitutional rights, for the lives of citizens. The series is designed to spur thoughtful, intelligent and informed discussion on preparedness across the country."

The first program in the series, IN THE BALANCE: BIOATTACK dramatizes a threatened attack intended for a major shopping mall. Moderated by Cynthia McFadden of ABC News, the panel explores the kinds of choices that the media, public officials, health care workers, law enforcement, and citizens may all have to confront in the case of a biological attack. Participants face tough, wrenching questions: Who is in charge of the response? What is more important - the public's right to know, or the government's need to keep operations secret in the interests of national security? Who gets treated first if there's been exposure to a biological agent? Are there enough antibiotics for everyone?

Panelists for IN THE BALANCE: BIOATTACK include Richard Clarke, former senior White House advisor and author, Against All Enemies; Martin O'Malley, mayor of Baltimore; Frank Sesno, CNN Special Correspondent; Congressman Charles B. Rangel, D-NY; Dale Watson, former executive assistant director for Counter-Terrorism and Counter-Intelligence, Federal Bureau of Investigation; James Gilmore, former governor of Virginia; Charles Ramsey, District of Columbia Chief of Police; Susan Allan, M.D., public health director for the state of Oregon and former public health director for Arlington County, Virginia, during the anthrax attacks; and Warren Rudman, former New Hampshire Senator.

N THE BALANCE: CITY UNDER SIEGE moderator and Harvard Law School professor Charles Ogletree navigates panelists through another frightening but entirely credible 'what-if' scenario. With reliable information about a dirty bomb coming into a harbor on the Fourth of July, what steps should be taken? Should the ports be shut down? Would that thwart the plan or just direct it to a different target? How disruptive would it be to the local economy? And, once a suspect is in custody, how far should law enforcement be allowed to go to elicit information? Is torture ever a justifiable or effective option?

Panelists for IN THE BALANCE: CITY UNDER SIEGE include Clarke, Watson and Rudman, along with Dana Priest, national security reporter for the Washington Post; Ahmed Younis, national director, Muslim Public Affairs Council; Frank Keating, former Governor of Oklahoma who held that post during the Oklahoma City bombings; Jamie Gorelick, former deputy attorney general of the United States; and Nadine Strossen, president of the American Civil Liberties Union, among others.

The IN THE BALANCE programs will be the centerpiece of an ongoing community engagement effort designed to expand public awareness about family, workplace and community public safety preparedness. Additional resources, including a discussion guide and educational materials, will be available at www.pbs.org/inthebalance/terrorism.