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Richard Gardner of Chicago says when he learned that his girlfriend was pregnant, he immediately stopped hanging out with gang members and found work as an evening janitor. Now he's attending nursing school and reaching out to other young fathers.

This weekend, tennis fans around the world will watch the finals of the U.S. Open. Among them will be Dejon Bivens, a tennis player and freshman at North Carolina State University. Dejon fell in love with tennis in high school, earned the No.1 ranking for an 18- year-old in North Carolina, and steadily moved up the list of Top 100 Junior National players in the country. Dejon's foster mom, Deborah Foster-Smith also joins Dick to talk about how Dejon's smile persuaded her to let him move in.

By the time Palestinian Bassam Aramin was 17, he was in jail for planning an attack on Israeli soldiers. At the same time, Yonatan Shapira was an elite pilot in the Israeli Air Force. But somehow each man came to understand the view of the other and they began meeting secretly to find a better way. Also on the show: an inadvertant Freedom Rider.

William Binney has been working in intelligence since the Cold War. As a cryptomathemetician, he helped create a new surveillance system called Thin Thread. When he discovered Thin Thread was being used to spy on American citizens, he spoke up and eventually left the agency.