NWT Full Show, Feb. 27, 2012

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    Carolyn Beeler reports on the FDA’s efforts to end drug shortages, in the wake of the recent pediatric leukemia drug crisis.  Local Senegalese watch their country’s presidential election results with Emma Jacobs.  From the Public School Notebook and NewsWorks, Benjamin Herold visits a South Philadelphia charter school whose expansion is adversely affecting a community center. Peter Crimmins meets the incoming president of Moore College of Art.  Dave Heller talks Derrick Pitts, Chief Astronomer of the Franklin Institute about leap year and the night sky for the coming week.

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