#101 - Imagining New Worlds
Cancun, Mexico looks remarkably different to international tourists, Mayan descendants who farm their fathers' land, Mexicans who find employment at resorts, and global corporations that see opportunity for investments. Geographers call such contrasting experiences of different people in the same region "geographical imaginations."

#102 - Reflections on a Global Screen
Some countries fear that the rapid globalization of the media will homogenize culture, forcing out programs that reflect their own values to make room for Hollywood's. But globalization is a two-way street: Hong Kong stations can transmit their local broadcasts to Chinese populations in Europe and the U.S., just as CNN can offer worldwide coverage from Atlanta.

#103 - Global Firms in the Industrializing East
In the early 1960s, multinational companies attracted by a highly skilled and cheap labor force turned Singapore into a major manufacturing center. Just a generation later, companies in Singapore delegate labor-intensive work to Malaysia and Indonesia while bringing in new business in research, development, and finance.

#104 - Global Tourism
Examines the paradox of tourism, which offers opportunities for local development but can destroy native cultures and environments, in three countries. Hawaii has the most mature tourism industry, the product of decades of development that preserved little of its indigenous culture, and Malaysia is following a similar path. Meanwhile, Borneo is developing "ecotourism," catering to more intrepid travelers.

#105 - Alaska: The Last Frontier?
Those who don't call Alaska home often perceive the 49th state as a pristine wilderness, not considering the indigenous peoples who have inhabited the area for centuries. Ongoing conflicts in Alaska highlight the difficulties of balancing the needs of indigenous peoples and wilderness with economic development and modern life.

#106 - Population Transition in Italy
Although Italy is the spiritual center of the Roman Catholic Church, which opposes artificial means of contraception, the country has experienced the fastest and most extreme decline in fertility ever recorded. Some attribute the decline to consumer materialism; others blame the underdeveloped welfare system. Whatever the cause, the consequence is an aging population with fewer young people to support it.

#107 - Water Is for Fighting Over
Along the parched California-Nevada border, various groups with compelling but competing interests claim the water of the Truckee River Basin. The burgeoning Reno-Sparks area needs water to sustain the community, but high levels in a reservoir are destroying the cui-ui fish of a local Paiute tribe. Farmers need irrigation water for crops, but the government seeks water farther downstream for a wetlands area. These conflicts illustrate how scarce natural resources can shape a community.

#108 - A Migrant's Heart
Jatinder Verma, a man of Indian descent who was born in East Africa and came to England at the age of 14, travels back to India and explains how he is caught between two worlds, struggling to preserve his cultural heritage while being acculturated into his adopted country.

#109 - Berlin: Changing Center of a Changing Europe
Berlin's emergence as Germany's new political capital symbolizes the end of communism and a transformation occurring throughout the country and continent. Many of the issues Germany now confronts—such as the shift of considerable resources to rebuild eastern Germany and the rise of neo-Nazi sentiments—are seen in microcosm in Berlin.

#110 - The World of the Dragon
Examines developments in the Far East, especially China and Japan, that disrupt simple notions of East vs. West, challenge Western accounts of globalization, and may have dramatic consequences for the West. A look at "overseas Chinese" explores the role they play in the transnational network of the Chinese business world.