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documentaries capture three American history stories    • From
left to right: David Brown, Rick Husband, Laurel Clark, Kalpana
Chawla, Michael Anderson, William C. McCool, Ilan Ramon
(NASA/JPL/Caltech)  |  NCR Today  PBS always has something
interesting waiting in the wings. This week, it will broadcast a
trifecta of significant documentaries.  "The Revisionaries"
(Independent Lens) 10 p.m. Monday (check local listings)  Of all
the films I have seen from PBS's Independent Lens series, "The
Revisionaries" is the most unsettling. It confirms what I have
heard and read over the last few years about the influence of
fundamentalist Christians in public education through the narrow
focus of creationism, or religious belief, over science and the
theory of evolution.  As public school textbooks go in Texas, so
they will go in the rest of the country. Why? Because of the
sheer quantities: Five million school kids represent a lot of
money for publishers, and