as a native new yorker or as a porter rican turned it new yorker he decided after 9/11 tried to figure out why it occurred and he decided to separate himself for you spent time in cairo damascus beirut and tel aviv and his book offers a fascinating account of the people he came to know intimately. the differing views of the arab world, ed bin laden, the same, arab liberals and of the u.s.. the characters the portraits that you come across hour fascinating. the professor at the american university in cairo wants one of the light and university and the egyptian freethinker and a doctor whose feminist aspirations are crushed by the radicalism all-around her and a lebanese christian whose new role model had a call for democracy of the middle east. these portraits of the paint they are quite vivid set against a backdrop of the day including july 2006 has below more. lee draws on his muslim prehistory save their q'uaran and the context of the antecedent to make claims the intellectuals from studied in onward and those democratic and republican ministrations the problems of the moody's still

rican ride a bike or recycle or stop using bottled water i can do this as an individual or consumer. i definitely think we should do those things and that is great but that does not of the category of making systemic change that is like the securities as you grow up to become a responsible adult but they don't take the place of political action. we have come to see that there are different parts and as a consumer parts and a citizen part, the consumer part is spoken to and validated and nurtured from day one and anybody in here knows from day one it is why our kids and grown-ups can recognize different sodas and corporate logos and but you are our city council members are? the consumer part is over developed but this is some park has atrophied. the community part the idea and instead of saying what can i buy differently why not say what can we collectively do to solve the problem at its root? that is what it will take when people say what can i buy differently? i say this solutions that we need are not for sale at the store even at wholefoods. of there and our community is in not civ

under beneath the hispanic, latino, or hispanic organization, you've got a mexican, cuban, puerto ricanot. i was born in puerto rico, all my family is cuban, and on top of that, i'm white. >> i don't know if you've noticed this, but they reintroduced the term "negro" to the black category. when you hear that -- >> like negro or negro? >> negro in english? >> negro is on there? >> exactly! exactly! >> yeah, right there. negro is on there right now? >> why would negro be there? it should be african-american. >> when you hear the word "negro," what do you -- >> slave! >> it's all politically correct. they're trying to include everyone from negro to black or whatever or whatever. >> so you would choose negro before african-american? >> i wouldn't choose negro, no. >> you would choose african-americans. >> but we were called negroes before we were called blacked and it jumped. >> the easiest category in here is white. why is it so easy? because white people also have very diverse -- >> i always wonder why we're always grouped together as white, although i wouldn't necessarily know what i am.

puerto ricans is the same as everybody else but it seemed to have worked out for them but they're not happy about it, by the way. [laughter] >> but they're not so unhappy to vote for full independence either. >> i think the question of future for entrepreneurship is too difficult to throw off in a two-minute answer. my one comment on puerto rico is that there's another example where you see a lot of migration. between puerto rico and the mainland and the husband and so you have to kind of control for that factor in sort of seeing what -- how that exception played out. >> yeah, i'm with you in not seeing other countries right now as being ready to sort of take the mantle of technology frontier away from the united states. i don't like the -- certainly most of the political trends at work as it relates to that in this country. i know this is something jim is working on right now. it's an open question. and there are a lot of obviously spillover benefits that go to other countries because the united states is of the technology frontier. that's part of the conversation that's largely abse

data analysis of claims and payment information and embrace proactive methods of fraud detection per rican d will be a major focus of oig we're currently performing additional review some of which will likely identify improper part d payments that might have them preventive there were stronger protection and prevention programs. there is more to be done to insure the integrity of the t. bear program and we stand ready to assist them in their efforts and i am happy to answer any questions you may have. >> you have to wait a few minutes because we will recess and come back and 20 minutes and then you are on deck and we thank you for your patience. thank you. we are in recess. [inaudible conversations] >> that is enough sun. [laughter] -- but we had some boats and may have more later on bit they do for your patience 84 joining us today. >> thank you chairman darfur and thank you for the opportunity to talk about cms efforts and strategies to improve performance and the quality to elevate the overall accountability's accountability of part d program. the administration cms is committed to ensu

a blossoming experimental culture and devolving new platforms platforms, four -- smart phones and ricanmunity was someone on the other side of the world as easily with the next-door neighbor. but an increase of technology does not by itself guarantee a more informed citizenry. a 2009 study indicates as a country we consume in excess of one point* 3 trillion hours per year be at the production and distribution of a central news and information content has never been in more than doubt. hyper speculation of consolidation and wreaks havoc began early with media and the destruction was compounded by the almost complete it dismantle of the oversight of the broadcasts stations decimating news, news rooms and news media. a new research center report shows a 50% decline in reporting and editing capacity since the 1980's and a 30% drop of newspapers since 2000. the pink slips that have replaced pay stubs for so many journalist and the bell operating state of watchdog journalism have left us it to be frank come on a starvation diet when it comes to nursing the democratic dialogue. the serving of

the therapy in it together with notorious caribbean which is to the south and the puerto rican trenchto the north. and from there, there is more sad trenches and fault lines within that. some are actually mapped out in the 1930's and 1950's but currently there's there is ongoing research going in land, but also within the oceans to identify other seismic fault lines. from there, i just wanted to sort of embrace on the ambassador joseph idea about sort of resilient communities and what it actually means two decentralized systems and networks on the connection be slipped in that work to work with a supporting system within each other. that is really vital to look at a network within a model if another natural disaster was to come. and current states of port-au-prince, we wer looki at several issues in terms of what that looks like a sort of what are the needs. and of course we have been talking about the rainy season that is up-and-coming. but one of the things it needs to be addressed is really sort of mitigation of cleanup of sort of the city infrastructure, clean enough for a and ope

on key but in particular rican strongly confirm with our commitments and priorities we have taken a number the needs for i have been a direct contact with the partner with whom he was contacted to work with and we've worked with other partners to ensure that given good challenging travel situation that they come up with alternative solutions to execute and implement the programs and we're giving them the flexibility to do that. we're committed to seeing through the program. on haiti i appreciate your plans there as well. we have been approximately half of the early relief effort. a large part of that is the department of defense and a large cost including some of marines and the effort to rebuild the port. we're mission critical early activities requiring others to come in and threw recovery reconstructions expects that percentage will go down significantly and working with the range of major bilateral partners but also the world bank to make sure there is a strong plan going forward of station build-up the donor's conference later this month and the u.s. assistance is targeted and a far m

data analysis of claims and payment information and embrace proactive methods of fraud detection per ricanwill be a major focus of oig we're currently performing additional review some of which will likely identify improper part d payments that might have them preventive there were stronger protection and prevention programs. there is more to be done to insure the integrity of the t. bear program and we stand ready to assist them in their efforts and i am happy to answer any questions you may have. >> you have to wait a few minutes because we will recess and come back and 20 minutes and then you are on deck and we thank you for your patience. thank you. we are in recess. [inaudible >> that is enough sun. [laughter] -- but we had some boats and may have more later on bit they do for your patience 84 joining us today. >> thank you chairman darfur and thank you for the opportunity to talk about cms efforts and strategies to improve performance and the quality to elevate the overall accountability's accountability of part d program. the administration cms is committed to ensure we have the bes

now, as a native new yorker, i guess, as a puerto rican turned new yorker, i should say, correct myself, lee decided after 9/11 to try to figure out why 9/11 occurred. and rather than doing what most of us in washington decide to do, lee decided to move to the middle east where he spent time in, among other places, cairo, damascus, beirut, tel aviv, the gulf, and his book offers a fascinating account of the people he came to know intimately, their differing views of the arab world, of bin laden, of hamas, saddam hussein, arab liberals and of the u.s. the characters you come across in this book are fascinating. the salafi professor at the university of cairo, the egyptian free thinker and religious skeptic fascinated by voltaire, lana, the doctor whose feminist aspirations are crushed by the radicalism all around her, the lebanese christian whose new role model was she ran sky and his call for democracy in the middle east. now, these portraits that lee paints, they're quite vivid, are set against the backdrops of the day including the july 2006 hezbollah war. now, lee draws on his knowle

jobs quickly, such as the health-care sector, weatherization, infrastructure and other areas where rican create jobs immediately. finally, we talked about the importance of finding new jobs. we know we can create summer jobs for over 1 million young people at minimal cost, and we want to do that. we need to do that quickly. many young people are helping to pay the bills and buying food for their families. summer is upon us, and we want to try to move forward with the jobs bill for our use. the president was very responsive. we talked about what may or may not be doable, and we intend to look forward to turn this employment situation around and help with our economic recovery efforts. it has worked for some but not for all, so we want to make sure that economic recovery efforts and job creation leaves no one behind. thank you very much. >> [inaudible] >> the president has an agenda for the country. he has an office of urban affairs. he understands the chronically unemployed, the long term unemployment rate could get worse if we do not create jobs and create them quickly. we were very conf

steps to build confidence for proximity talks so that progress can be made towards the come puerto ricans presence i have -- comprehensive middle east peace. there are areas of agreement and disagreement. and that is ongoing. the prime minister arrived a little after 5:30. that meeting concluded a little after 7:00 last evening. the president went back to the residence. prime minister netanyahu remained in the white house and consulted with his staff in the roosevelt room and then requested to see the president again and they returned to the oval house at 8:20 and met for a little more than a half hour. >> on the substance, just one second on that's correct but back to my original question on the handling of this. why did the white house decide to handle it that way that it was so profile? >> this is the way we felt most comfortable. >> was there any concern how it would be perceived by jewish donors, that this was a cold shoulder kind of visit? >> no. look, they spoke for over two hours last night face to face. we have a strong relationship with a strong ally. there are areas that they d

. >> awarmf ricanized bees attacked this man so badly he ran out of his clothes.t least he survived. his 70-pound dog was not as lucky. we'll have the story. >>> check this guy out. no fear of heights here. look closely. he's taking a walk 400 feet in the air with nothing but a half-inch wire under his feet. wait until you hear where his manager was this whole time. >>> you are watching hln on this first day of spring. so glad you're with us. i'm susan hendris. >>> our top story, president obama will head to capitol hill today to make his final case for health care reform. four democratic officials say he plans to talk to the house democratic caucus. and tomorrow the house is expected to vote on the health care bill the senate passed in december. yesterday, president obama told a crowd at george mason university that something historic would happen this weekend. >> and if you believe thatt's right, then you've got to help us finish this fight. you've got to stand with me just like you did three years ago and make some phone calls and knock on some doors, talk to y

we can collaborate that way and then the question is rather more integrated signal missions were ricansive together and that remains to be seen happen is certainly on the table for consideration. i also think, for example 2018 for the mars opportunity is energetically wonderful opportunity to get to mars and obviously there are planning a mission with the europeans. if we ended up sending something as well we should talk about how we manage court made that into a big international mars staff in 2018 and i think there are ways that we could do its that would make a ton of friends so i can say much more than that but we're definitely after considering all these different mechanisms for collaborating. marlee i think we need to be out there soon, more have been friends with the international community because there's a ton of interest there we haven't yet capitalize on. >> the human research program, will humans be able to go up there and was to nancy come out of this on -- [inaudible] >> the human research program yes and we did not put a slide in about that we have a significant augmentat