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Plus, Tiger Woods drops out of his own charity tournament and refuses to talk to police about his car crash Thanksgiving night.

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It may be a jolly holiday season for U.S. merchants after all. A new report out today from the National Retail Federation predicts Black Friday shopping will spike 16 percent this year. And that is no surprise in the buy now pay later age in the American credit card. Some of the credit card industry's darkest secrets are exposed in a new PBS frontline documentary.

Brown: And frontline correspondent and producer Lowell Bergman is joining us right now to talk more about this.

Lowell, who is the banking industry really targeting? Who's the ideal customer for them? Who are they trying to get to with these offers?

Lowell Bergman, Producer/Correspondent, "Frontline": Traditionally, someone who will run a balance and never pay it off. That's been the model of the most profitable customer for most of the last 30 years. Although because of the economic turndown, you know, great recession that we're in the middle of, the banks are actually shedding a lot of customers who are questionable and riskier and they're looking now for people who can actually pay it off. That's becoming a new model for the industry and we're in that transition right now as well as new legislation that's coming into effect early next year.

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For 23 years, a Belgian man lay trapped inside his own body before a medical breakthrough helped set him free. Doctors said he couldn't think, he couldn't reason or communicate. And they were wrong. Inside, he was screaming, but no one could hear.

Brown: Joseph Giacino is an associate director of neuropsychology at JFK Medical Center in Edison, New Jersey. And he is joining us right now to talk more about this.

And I should tell people you just spoke with his doctor a short time ago. So, you have some really interesting insight on this. First, though, just talk to us about how something like this can happen, you know, 23 years without anybody understanding what was going on.

Joseph Giacino, Associate Director Of Neuropsychology, JFK Medical Center: Sure.

I think, when there's a disturbance in consciousness, very often, the only behavioral signs that one is capable of are very subtle. So there may be movement problems, there may be sensory problems that limit how much one can express their awareness through movement.

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By Ben Finley
Editorial Producer

Finley: Why do you think folks living with HIV/AIDS still face prejudices today?

White Ginder: I think the disease still has misconceptions: How you get it and the kind of people who get it. You know, I think we need to be more tolerant of people and like them for who they are not have them face prejudices.

Finley: Does it ever surprise you when people are still critical or judgmental of those living with HIV/AIDS?

White Ginder: You know, I think it’s only in this country that we have had to face the discrimination on this disease. We cannot look at it as just a disease. Ryan used to say, “Lets make this a disease and not a dirty word.” I think we just can’t seem to get over that hurdle. Only in America has this been a gay-HIV-drug-user disease. It’s everybody’s disease. If you have sex you are at risk. I think it’s so important for people to like a person for who they are and not be judgemental.

Ryan white’s mother, Jeanne White Ginder, with Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, on the day President Obama signed the Ryan White HIV/AIDS treatment extension act of 2009. (Photo by EPA)

Finley: How important do you feel it was for the president to have lifted the travel ban on people living with HIV?

White Ginder: I think that’s a big plus. I know of those rules firsthand because when Greg Louganis was in South Korea for the Olympics the government there would not let Ryan in the country because he had AIDS. So I know of those kind of rules. It was very hard because that’s when he hit his head and I think he would’ve liked to have had the support but, of course, at that time nobody knew. Here in the U.S. to not ever be able to have a World Conference on AIDS because, of course, the people who would be here would have AIDS. It’s such a loss. I think it was a great thing that he lifted the ban. We can all learn from each other. I think these people have a voice, too, and we can learn from one another.

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President Obama is informing top diplomatic and military leaders about his new Afghanistan strategy and has already issued orders putting it into effect. His decision will be made public tomorrow night.

The President still has "full confidence" in the Secret Service, despite the slip-up that allowed an unvited couple into last week's state dinner. The couple and the director of the Secret Service have been called to testify before Congress on Thursday.

The U.S. Senate is back in session debating Health Care reform.

The Supreme Court today ordered a lower court to take another look at its decision allowing the release of photos of U.S. troops abusing Afghan and Iraqi detainees. A new law allows defense secretaries to keep such photos secret.

Bill and Hillary Clinton's daughter, Chelsea, is engaged. Her wedding is next summer.

Crowded planes, long security lines, grumpy passengers. If you are among the estimated 2.3 million Americans who are flying this Thanksgiving, you know the drill by now. Now, add to that something you maybe don't know about, extra fees for your flight. So what is the deal here? Are the airlines trying to squeeze us just to pad their bank accounts, or doing what is necessary to save the industry.

Brown: And Tom parsons, welcome to you.

Tom Parsons, CEO, Bestfares.Com: Thank you.

Brown: So more fees now. What's going on? Explain to us what's happening?

Parsons: Oh, this is the holiday fees. But also we can't just call it holiday fees, we call it peak holiday fees. Holiday, peak, whatever you want to call them, there's 40 days between now and probably Easter. And during spring break, during the month of March, there are 19 of them. They're going to charge us $10, $20, $30 even $50 if you want to come back the Monday after Super Bowl.

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Sometimes it seems parents just can't win. We hear about new dangers like this week's drop-down crib recall, and then we leap into action to try to protect our kids. And then there are stories like in the one's in this week's "Time" magazine about the growing backlash against overparenting.

And you know the kind of parents that we're talking about here, the ones who buy hypoallergenic socks, who have trees chopped down to prevent a stray nut from landing in the pool where an allergic kid swims. That is actually true. Tax teachers to complain about their kids grades. They are called apparently helicopter parents and clearly some of that behavior is way over the top. So how do the rest of us avoid overparenting, if that's what it's all about?

Brown: And joining me now to talk about this Po Bronson, who is co- author of the book "NurtureShock." And also with me Lenore Skenazy, who is author of "Free-Range Kids: Giving Our Children the Freedom We Had Without Going Nuts with Worry."

Welcome to both of you. Po, let me start with you. You just heard some of the examples. How in your view did parenting get so out of control.

Po Bronson, Author, "Nurtureshock": First, we have fewer kids. Single-child families are now more common than two-child families. So all our parental energy and focus and obsession is going into fewer kids. We're more concerned about kids' safety even though they're safer than ever, because of the obsession by the media on abduction stories and child-at risk stories. And very simply when it comes to our obsession with children's success, we should be concerned to some extent because when we went to college, there were six million kids in college. Today, there's 15 million. So it's 2 1/2 times harder to get into those top name-brand colleges. And we kind of have to get away from those name brands and find good education that doesn't maybe have the same name-brand status.

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We're digging into what may be a major security breech last night's white house state dinner.

It looks like a couple of reality TV wanna-be's got past all the layers of security and crashed the party.
Also tonight - why some doctors are raising doubts about a man who was thought to be in a coma for 23 years... But may actually have known what was going on the whole time.
He's now communicating by a way of a keyboard... Or is he?
Plus - what you need to know right now about h-one n-one flu ... And your holiday travel plans.

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