mr. reeves why is there so little written about science and also, too, i want to ask a process question about since you are writing about people mostly dead and dealing with letters what do you do with conflicting points of view? how can you trust the information? >> well, i think the answer about so little be written about science, and i agree with you about that, is that it is, well there are two reasons. one, there are few people who understand it, so there are very few eminent science writers, and the second is the perception, which i think has a good deal of truth, the public is either not interested or can't really follow this. when you get -- we are post mechanical. earnest referred was the figure of that. everyone in this room could own an automobile and if you broke down and opened the hood and try to fix it you wrote on a typewriter and if it broke you could fix it with a paper clip, now you open a car and don't have the vaguest and god knows what goes on inside a computer. [laughter] so that we really haven't developed a cadre of people who can write about this science, and most pu

reeve's center, marion barry. in this case, it's adrian fenty, district of columbia. i'm beginning to wonder, along with some of the people in my neighborhood, like across the city, if mr. fenty is really for mr. fenty or the district of columbia. >> well, that's a -- >> but the people, we should say, in your neighborhood love this field. it's a beautiful field. >> they might love the field, but i don't know about the name of fenty in the middle of it. >> all right. all right. >> mayors, governors, whenever they move into office, their names go on whatever initiative. >> right. >> so i don't know. >> there's a matter of -- >> proportion. >> what is the purpose? we know he's running and he's not leaving any stone unturned in his never-ending pr campaign, which he lets you know what he wants you to know, which brings us to the fact that his children are going -- one of his children -- one of his sons is enrolled in a school where you would -- if you were a regular district citizen have to wait forever to get in a school. and he was asked the question whether or not he pulled any strings, and he said it was nobody's business, right here on channel 4. it was nobody's busin