new york university? >> slow food university. >> there is actual slow food university? >> university of the gastroano, ma'amic sciences. they send students around the world to intern. >> is berkeley teaching any of these things? god for bid, stanford? [laughter]. >> all of the forestry programs. i mean, definitely, we have michael pollen at new york university. we have marian nesum. kelly brown teaching psychology. we have to connect in a way. we sort of imagine this event moving around the country. we'll continue to always have something in san francisco. we want to go to chicago, new york, and new orleans and really bring people to experience different parts of the country to pull us together of a slow food nation. >> because of time, i want to wrap this up. we don't have time to talk about the work you have done in edible schoolyards in new orleans. the slow food nation is going to happen in san francisco this labor weekend. how can people get involved, not only slow food nation, but with also get involved in this whole movement? i want to learn more, i have to know

speaking to business leaders at new york university, not far from wall street, geithner promised the reforms would not crimp innovation or competition, jeff. susie, the financial regulatory reforms were signed a few weeks ago by the president, and today geithner said the government will move quickly to put them in place and there won't be layers of red tape. >> susie: the treasury secretary also had a tip for wall street: >> don't wait for washington to draft every rule before you start changing how you do business. get out ahead of the process and out in front of your competitors. >> susie: also talking about the economy today, ben bernanke. echoing his testimony to congress last week. the federal reserve chairman told a legislative conference in south carolina he sees modest economic growth and a long and bumpy road to recovery. he thinks persistent weakness in the housing and labor markets and weighing down the economy. >> jeff: wall street didn't let those worries keep it down today. stocks started august with a powerful rally: the dow jumped 208 points, the nasdaq added 40 and t

well for more on this we can now across live to baghdad to talk to nir rosen now he's from new york university center on law and security and also author of the book aftermath following the bloodshed of america's wars in the muslim world a fourth coming publication thanks very much indeed for joining us now iraq's prime minister has said the country is now independent now the fact that the combat u.s. troops have pulled out of iraq you spent several years in the country so how do the people there now see the end of this u.s. mission for iraqis on the street. outside the centers of power nothing has changed from one day to the next. remains very difficult. full of challenges just to survive just to get a few hours of electricity they didn't see american soldiers in the street in most places really for quite a long time so it's a sort of an artificial milestone that means a lot more to president obama does to the troops that remain in iraq or obviously the iraqi people whose lives are just as desperate and difficult as they were. yesterday or year ago well i think it's also it's also amusing tha

he spoke at the new york university school of business. this is 45 minutes. >> we're pleased to have secretary of the treasury tim geithner. [applause] in the audience, we have the president of nyu, john sexton. [applause] faculty, students, alumni, and members of the new york city business community representing the partnership for new york city. we also have journalists from all for 40 different news outlets. secretary died here, you need no introduction, especially in new york where you were president of the federal reserve bank of new york from 2003-2009. like all americans, we at the stern school are extremely grateful to you and the entire team at treasury for the leadership you have provided in rebuilding the road to ensure prosperity at home and abroad. thank you. before we begin, let me remind you that after his remarks, secretary gunnar will take questions and with that, to is my great pleasure to welcome to the podium, secretary of the treasury tim geithner. [applause] >> thank you, peter henry and john sexton. i had breakfast w

. >> she went to new york's columbia university. they found the genetic abnormality responsible for the disease. since then, research for the cure has stalled. relations with the u.s. have been at an all-time low. the doctor has only been able to visit the village onetime cents. and in this visit, nancy hopes to reach an agreement with the government concerning her research. a representative came to meet her. >> she turned out hurt investigation's unilaterally. we're hoping to sit down with all the necessary paperwork to move forward with a joint project. >> they want two things. one, a regular source of income. and secondly, the commission that nancy wexler enter international team of researchers will return to the village and in search of a cure. the lives of the people of the lake maracaibo have been devastated. will grant, bbc news. >> finally, we have to share this with you. according to police, a man who was shot in the head failed to notice for several years because he was drunk at the time it happened. when the polish man wi

he analyzes neurons in the visual areas of monkeys and is on the faculty at new york university. he has a dact trut in neurophysiology and psycho physics from cambridge. ted agentsson is professor of vision sign in the department of brain and cognitive sciences at mit where he focuses on topics in human and machine vision motion analysis. he is an expert in many things drug the gestalt theory of perception. he has a ph.d. in experimental psychology from the murts of michigan. nancy kanwisher is the professor of the institute at m.i.t. they have identified developer regions of the brain that plays roles in visual perceptionist specially in face recollect model. pawan sinha is so is yacht professor in neuroscience at m.i. tinchts where he leads the lab. he has done amazing work in india as a part of a project for children who suffered injury or disease to the eye. in answering these questions, once again my cohost, my guide, my professor is dr. eric kandel. he is as you know from our program a noted brain sign test. he's a noble laureate. he's affiliated with columbia, the howard h

i taught at the new york university masters program for six years. but you have to learn the techniques of being a good arts manager and you need a mentor who can really teach you how to do this well. >> who was your mentor? >> i didn't really have a mentor in arts management. i've had mentors in the corporate world. i unfortunately came up exactly i don't think you should. i have no training to do my job. i had to learn it all by making mistakes and hopefully having some successes, but i didn't have any training to do this work and i don't think that's the way it should be. >> biggest mistake you've ever made? >> my father thinks it was even goldman sachs when i was employed there before i went into the arts -- >> is your dad alive? >> yes, he is. both my parents are alive. >> so he still thinks it was a mistake. >> i think he's pretty excited about what i do. i made a lot of mistakes along the way. for example, the kansas city ballet, when i was there, i misdirected marketing funds and i tried to do a marketing program that we really didn't have th

new york city. she holds a master's in public administration from new york university and is a licensed family nurse practitioner. she lives in queens, new york. finally, daniel hawkins is a senior vice president for public policy and research at the national association of community health centers. he provides federal and state policy related leadership. he was the director of a community health center located in south texas was a an assistant -- an assistant to the hhs director during the bush administration. he has been named one of america's most influential health policy makers. thank you all for joining us. why don't we start with you, dan? tell us what health centers are and what they do and who they served. >> thank you. i want to thank the center for american progress. i want to thank ellen-marie for a fabulous report documenting a forgotten side of the benefits that come from the presence of a community health center in a typically low income community. health centers -- this is the 45th anniversary of health centers. they started in the mid-1960's. they were a direct response to a unmet n

she holds a master's in public administration from new york union -- new york university. she lives in queens, new york. and finally, dan hawkins, at the national association of community health centers. it provides membership federal and research, analysis, and leadership. he serves as a volunteer and a director for communities helped center. is an assistant during the carter administration. he has lectured on health policy at harvard, johns hopkins, and other universities. he has also remained one of america's most influential hollis -- a policy makers. >> is my microphone on? dan, what we start with you? tell us about what we're celebrating, and who they assert, and why we take as part of the year to separate them? >> i want to thank the center for american progress, especially ellen-marie whelan, four fabulous report, some documents in a sometimes forgotten side of the benefits that comes from the presence of a community's health centers. health centers -- this is the 45th anniversary of health centers. there were started in the mid- 1960s after direct response to: met

new york city. queens. >> school? >> new town high school. in the city college of new york. then the universitymaryland and ph.d. >> what was your dissertation on? >> james landis, the man who really created the securities and exchange commission, the second chairman of that commission after joseph kennedy. he had a lot to do with financial regulatory law. >> you have a figure in your book that 42% of the members of the congress -- the house and senate -- between 1988 and 2004 -- they lobbied for a living. >> people who left the senate. a large number of people who retire stay in washington, and they use the talents developed while they were in office to promote issues, to represent concerns, giving advice to people on how to get bills through congress. there is a large lobbying contingent in washington, d.c. members used to have a great advantage because the doors were always open to them. their colleagues would invite them in. they could go on to the floor of the house and senate. they could use the dining rooms. that gave them an advantage over other lobbyists. ethics rules have gotten much

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. >> reporter: he wants to go to columbia university in new york to study journalism, but he doesn't see himself returning to new orleans to live. >> wake up. look how hot he is. he's not waking up very easy. this is not about low income. this is not about rich people or poor people. it's about people. >> reporter: it was torture to watch this young mother worry that her infant son was going to die right then and there in her arms on the street. her name is leeann benboom. she was eventually evacuated to wilmington, north carolina, after a cousin spotted her on nbc. the last five years have been hard and now this recession has left her out of work. >> the past year has been very rough. but, i mean, for the first three and a half years things were going pretty well. but now it's completely, like, almost back to where it was with katrina. >> reporter: she wants to return to new orleans, but worries about crime. she says her son, now a healthy 5-year-old, has new orleans in his blood. >> the house, the material things, if they're not there, we can always get those back. >> reporter: tha

. >> in 1993, her team at columbia university in new york found the genetic abnormality responsible for the disease. since then, the search for a cure has stalled. after a failed coup attempts, relations between venezuela and united states have been at an all-time low. in this visit, nancy hopes to reach an agreement with the chavez government of about her research. >> the help minister is keen to sit down with all the -- the health minister is keen to sit down with all the necessary paperwork. >> i asked the villagers what they want most, and answered about things. one, a regular source of income, i believe from the government's of hugo chavez, and szeged that nancy wexler and her team of researchers will return -- and second that nancy wexler injured team of researchers will return and work on a cure. if this deal can be done, perhaps the search for a cure and will start again. will grant, bbc news, venezuela. >> finally, we felt we had to be with this one. according to police in germany, a man who was shot in the had failed to notice for years because he was struck at the time. many

now plans to build a mosque near ground zero in new york we're never going to get universal welcome on my talk show host laurie harshness now as people in the city whether it's fueling anti islamic sentiment. islamophobia is that the new anti-communism this week let's talk about that i suppose there are some parallels. a sort of hatred of foreigners hatred of others. it's a it's a big complex because communism was sort of a government system and islam is more religion but i think you can kind of make some parallels but i think people get scared of a whole culture i think just because so much is on the news and it's scary and it's just it's just bombarded every single day it's like i almost actually i quit like listening to the news if the media that's your job they have to have be. the stories that are going to draw people to watch and then and what are you going to look for things when you're scared out over a small percentage of resume that's tainted for the rest because i'm sure the very good people so we all know this right but still a lot of people are very fearful of the religion

. >> i can go to the university, do my voucher's degree, and i can go back to texas or new york and sitor those exams and once i finish those exams, i can teach. >> yes. that is true. >> reporter: but it's not true. having that degree alone, even if you pass the teaching tests. won't guarantee he can teach in those states. and recently, the government accountability office sent undercover investigators to 15 for-profit schools across the country and found that all of them were misleading students. >> some students are making $700, $800 a day. >> i think maybe the whole orchard is condameinated. there is a systemic problem with the system itself that needs to be addressed. >> reporter: but misleading isn't the worst of it says steve. >> these companies are marketing machines masquerading as universities. >> at a conference in new york, he said the real problem is students who get over $22 billion in federal aid to taernd these schools are defaulting on their student loans at an alarmingerate. in part because they seem to recruit anyone, like benson rollins who lives in a homeless shelter

. >>> we have a new contribution tonight in the age-old stream of research on how birth order influences personality. a study from a delphi university in new york suggests that firstborns tend to be smarter, but younger siblings tend to get better grades and are many out growing, contradicting other studies that said that firstborns tend to be more exto verted. birth order also seems to create tendencies parents cannot alter even if they treat all the kids the same. >>> a war of words that automatically grants citizenship to children born here. >>> plus the president signs a new law aimed at securing the nation's borders. >>> and turned into a pretty nice day. look at that fog back off the coast. our chief meteorologist bill martin will be back with what we can expect this weekend. >>> it funds the hiring of 1,000 new border patrol agents, roughly 200 immigration and customs enforcement agents and another 400 border protection officers. the president said it would target gangs and criminal organizations that operate along the u.s./mexican border. others call it a good first step. >> i introduced a bill that would bring 3,500 border patrol agent

katherine henry is a neurologist at new york university lango medical center and also the author of "es." dr. henry, good morning. good to have you here. >> good morning. >> some 30 million people suffer from migraines, but a lot of us have severe or serious headaches. but what are the actual symptoms of a migraine? >> well, i think the most common symptoms that people have are things like sensitivity to light, sensitivity to noise, also migraines are severe. they're more severe than you usually see with a typical tension-type headache. or the run-of-the-mill headache that you might have. >> they tend to last a little longer, too, right? >> they can last anywhere from 4 to 72 hours. >> and they can be really debilitating to the point where you just want to close yourself in a room. >> absolutely. a lot of women go to bed, shut their eyes, stay on the side. stay on the sidelines. have somebody else take care of their kids, do the cooking. >> yeah. so what are some of the things that can trigger migraines? you hear a lot about foods. >> right. well, it's basically the good things in lif

new york though. that's new york. >> reporter: this facility that is being debated all around the world is universally known as the ground zero mosque. what do you call it? >> it should be universally known as a hub of culture, a hub of co-existence, a hub of bringing people together. >> reporter: this is the hub he's talking about: an abandoned burlington coat factory store two blocks from ground zero. you can't see the world trade center site from here. el gamal intends to put in a swimming pool, cooking school, meeting hall and, yes, an islamic prayer room. did it occur to you when you were putting this together that that was two blocks too close to a place that many, many people feel very strongly about? >> not at all. it did not even cross my mind once. >> reporter: why not? >> because i did not hold myself or my faith accountable for that tragedy. >> reporter: el gamal didn't spring this on the neighborhood. he says it took eight years to negotiate the purchase. you don't have your choice of putting this anywhere you want to. there aren't many spots. >> of course not. it's not like you can just walk up and say i wa

there is a heartbreaking study done in new york by princeton university professors who looked at a large group, 1500 employers in new york city, and found that a black african without a criminal record was no more likely to be employed than a white applicant just out of jail. this builds on stereotypes of with the black male is. it means that a disproportionate number of black males are hurting the entire group. when they see a black man, in, they see our incarceration rate. black men are incarcerated at a rate seven times the white men. we know that there are many societal reasons for that to -- for that. they have to carry that record around for the rest of their lives. we have got to do something about that, even if you say, because of the communities they come from creditors become of the crime infested communities, whatever you say. a black man with a record on top of being a black man is in trouble and everybody knows that. yet, do we really want to -- what a whole generation of black men to be unemployable, to have no families? we have got to focus on black men and whether they ha

onhe "newshour" tonight, economist lisa lynch of brandeis university and "new york times" writer david leonhardt assess the latest numbers and the prospects for recovery. >> woodruff: then, paul solman has a report on america's long- term unemployed those out of work for more than 99 weeks. >> i try and survive. i try to find a job in an economy where there aren't jobs that is what i do for a living. >> suarez: cull up nist ruth >> suarez: columnists ruth marcus and michael gerson sitting in for mark shields and david brooks analyze the week's news. >> woodruff: and, betty ann bowser has the story of two, classically-trained chefs giving public school lunches a healthy makeover. >> the issue is not the kids won't eat it. the issue is the adults think the kids won't eat it. and it is almost universal that we see the kids really do eat it >> woodruff: that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour." major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: and the william and flora hewlett foundation, working to solve social and environmental problems at home and around the world. and with the o

universe. she gets a salary, a luxury new york apartment, living expenses, a one-year scholarship to the new york film academy, jewelry, clothes, and, of course, shoes. oh, the shoes. did you watch it last night, bill? >> i did not. my wife was up watching it. i did not. i'll make sure i see her when she comes to new york. they do that and she's on the "today" show. i'll make sure i'm there? >> why? >> i just don't want to be sick that day. >> okay. well, mark your calendar. don't forget. >>> this comes from wvit in connecticut. one family captured a rare vacation run-in they won't be forgetting any time soon. their camping trip in martha's vineyard became extraordinary when they met and spoke with the president and first family at a local bookstore. the president even toot time to sign his book for the boy and he's actually started reading it. >>> and for her back-to-school essay "i met the president and his family". that is very cool. >> i'm veronica de la cruz. this is "early today," just your first stop of the day today on your nbc station. >>> more than 400 couples have descended on argentin

new york. >> joanne, university of wisconsin -- i teach i.t. there. i have a question about google and microsoft in terms of the search engines they control. the search engine data are especially of interest in cyber security. i of wondering what the appropriate relationship between the government's and these private organizations would be? again, we know of the tension between google and the chinese in terms of their relationships and i am just wondering if you could project a future in which these private organizations would be able to run their search engines and still provide information when needed to the government for cyber security reasons? and i think that one is in your field. -- >> i think that one is in your field. >> search engine dated if you think about it is one of the most personal sources of inflation about you, if you use the internet regularly, that exists. your every interest and thought, but you want to read, things you want to buy, every passing fancy and interest and research thing and diseases you worried that you might have,

and there is a heartbreaking study done in new york by a princeton university professor who looked atn large -- 1500 employers in new york city, and found that a black applicant without a criminal record was no more likely to be employed that a white applicant just out of jail. -- than a white applicant just out of jail but this builds on stereotypes of who the black male is. it means that a disproportionate number of black males are hurting the entire group. when they see a black man come in, they see our incorporation -- incarceration rates. black men are incarcerated at a rate seven times a white man. we know that there are many societal reasons for that. but they have got to carry the record around for the rest of their lives. we have got to do something about that. even if you say is because of the communities and they come from, it is because of the crime-infested communities with no jobs, whatever you say, a black man with a record on top of being a black man is in trouble, and everybody knows it. and yet, do we really want a whole generation of black men to unemployable -- to

. >> i can go to university of phoenix, do my bachelor's degree, and 100% for sure i can go back to either texas or new yorkfor those exams? >> right. >> once i finish those exams -- >> then you can teach. >> -- i can teach? >> yes, that is true. >> reporter: but it's not true. having that degree alone, even if you pass the teaching tests, won't guarantee that he can teach in these states. >> i'm not supposed to discuss -- >> reporter: recently the government accountability office sent undercover investigators to 15 for-profit schools across the country and found that all of them were misleading students. >> we have some students who are making maybe $600, to $1,000 a day. >> i think the whole orchard is contaminated, like i said. that there's a systemic problem here, with the system itself, that needs to be addressed. >> reporter: but misleading students isn't the worst of it, says steve isman, renowned hedge fund investor who predicted the latest big mortgage crisis. >> these companies are marketing machines masquerading as universities. >> reporter: at a conference in new york, isman said the real proble

jeung, a professor of anthropology at the state university of new york. she received her ph.d. in anthropology at yale university in 2003. she is the author of four books on sex, gender, migration, h.i.v./aids, and the states. her works include "red light," "the lives of sex workers in post socialist china 2009" and "h.i.v./aids through an an throw logical lens in 2009," and she has another book that is coming and not yet published. all right, it is. apparently it is. just released, "sex trafficking, human rights, and social justice." she's done a prodigious amount of work in these areas and a very impressive amount of work. dr. zheng, thank you very much for being with us. >> in the beginning of 1989, the state has launched periodical nationwide anti-trafficing and anti-prosecution campaigns known as a crackdown. to end trafficking and the sex trade. during the crackdown, public security bureau employs a complex system of race to attack the underground brothels, to locate and document traffic sex workers. these campaigns are the prosecutions against women and the women will not

from "the new york times," "at least 70% of the graduates went to the city university of new york needed extra help. "you are very excited with the kids who are crying on graduation day, they are moving on to bigger things, but some assumptions have been largely untested." at the high school for public service in brooklyn, more than 90% of the 80 students to enter this freshman 2003 level graduated with the vast majority of enrolling in college, but more than half needed to take remedial math courses." the question today, how can we used college graduation to have -- hit the president's goals. before we get your calls on that, let's go to jim abrams with the associated press about what is happening in congress and the recent charges against maxine waters. good morning, jim. what is the timeline of things? how is the house expected to act? caller: they are coming in this morning and they have three tests for this one day session. they have the jobs bill so that public workers can retain their jobs. there's also a border security bill. there will also be a proposal from tom price concernin

if you pass the teaching exams, a degree from the university of phoenix, does not guarantee somebody a teaching certificate in new yorkas. we have people who are students at university of phoenix, who were promised that if they went and they borrowed all this money, they would be able to get what they needed so they could teach and get a job. >> it's simply indefensible, chris. it's wrong. it's, can we do better? absolutely. do we train our people to give that kind of misadvice? absolutely not. at the end of the day, we have to get it right. >> reporter: but you have not been getting it right, right? that's why you have to settle with the whistle-blowers that said, i only get paid with people that come in with the loans. and you settled that suit for an amazing amount of dollars. isn't that proof? >> i wouldn't say it's proof. it's certainly proof that we weren't doing as well as we could. we could do better. >> reporter: then, there's the issue of money. the recruiter told our producer, he could take out as much as $35,000 in federal financial aid, in order to pay for school. she said there might even be some money l

the carnegie corporation of new york, the starr foundation, shell international, and the european commission. great decisions is produced in association with the university of delaware. and now, from our studio, here's robert nolan. >> welcome to great decisions. i'm robert nolan. joining us, to discuss the millennium development goals, and the impact of the global financial crisis on the world's poorest countries are noam unger, global economy and development fellow at the brookings institution, and director of the foreign assistance reform project; and jonathan white, senior program officer in the economic policy program at the german marshall fund. gentlemen, thanks for being with us on great decisions. >> thank you. >> in 2000, world leaders gathered in new york city, at the united nations, and charted the way forward for the global development agenda. they came up with what are known as the millennium development goals. ah, what in essence are these goals, and why should americans care about them? >> well, the goals are essentially, ah, focused on reducing extreme poverty in half, ah, cutting hunger in half. and that's important in today's world, be

earlier i caught up with sam seeder he's a former air america host from our new york studio and i asked him if this n.b.c. universal comcast deal is a media monopoly. maybe not necessarily in a complete technical sense but it but of course i mean the real problem here is that you have someone who essentially controls a huge amount of the pipes of delivery of content throughout the country and if they have their own product to fill those pipes there's a natural tendency incentive almost an obligation on their part from a business standpoint to favor their own content and what you're doing is you're lessening the amount of voices that the public can hear from your you frankly you're you're hurting the quality of the product and you're also also causing. problems down the road in terms of net neutrality when there is some form of convergence because comcast is is as much an internet provider is it is anything else ok i want to get to that issue of net neutrality but first i want to know you know the people that are opposing this the people that are writing letters to the f.c.c. the people that are taking out ads i hav

the carnegie corporation of new york, the starr foundation, shell international, and the european commission. great decisions is produced in association with the university of delaware. >> now from our studios, here's ralph begleiter. >> welcome to great decisions, i'm ralph begleiter. joining us to discuss the global impact of the financial crisis are roger kubarych, senior fellow for international economics and finance at the counsel on foreign relations. and mark calabria, director of financial relation studies at the cato institute in washington. gentlemen, ter the great depression, i think all of us had the idea that systems were put in place, safety net in place, don't worry about this, it can't possibly happen again. we learned our lessons in the 1930's. and yet, um, were those assurances, if you will, false? were we being deceived? or have the markets outgrown or become more sophisticated than those regulations could handle? >> well ralph, we had several banking systemrises just in the last 30 years. some of the more familiars ones was the uh, collapse of the emerging markets, uh, in the 1980's from over borrowing. then we had the collapse and co

by the carnegie corporation of new york, the starr foundation, shell international and the european commission. great decisions is produced in association with the university of delaware. and now from our studio, here's robert nolan. >> welcome to great decisions. i'm robert nolan. joining us to discuss energy and u.s. foreign policy are michael levi, senior fellow for energy and the environment at the council on foreign relations. and john byrne, distinguished professor of energy and climate policy here at the university of delaware. gentlemen, thanks for being with us on great decisions. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> so, energy independence is something that previous presidents for decades have been talking about, but today it seems that the buzzword really is energy security. what's the difference between the two? michael. >> energy independence talks about a goal of only making energy in america to be used in america without having to import anything. energy security is a much broader concept involving lining up the way we produce and consume energy with our overall security objectives. it's much broader, it recognizes that energy independence isn't p

new york. he studied classical ballet and modern dance at the state university of binghamton, where he began his relationship with choreographer arnie zane. (man) the next thing i knew was that i, like a bshee, was whirling throughout this [...] park, throughout flower beds, looking for coverage so that the bulldozer with the burning logs would not get me. i woke up. in 1974, after living in amsterdam, he cofounded the american dance asylum and in 1982 formed the bill t. jones/arnie zane dance company with his partner, arnie zane, who died in 1988. based in new york city, the ten-member company tours extensively, performing its repertoire of more than 50 works for audiences of approximately 100,000 each year in america and abroad. jones is the recipient, individually and with zane, of numerous awards, including two bessies, choreographic fellowships from the national endowment for the arts, and in 1994, a macarthur fellowship. his company's work is often described as a fusion of dance and theater. jones says his work deals with the fear of difference. his work is also about the joy of movement a

and whether they're born in singapore or paris or seattle or new york, they'll all follow a set of universal stages, as eric alluded to. at three months they'll koo, at seven months they're babble, at a year, a single word, at 18 months two-word combinations and at the age of three full sentences, they will talk your leg off. and so what is it about that magic that they can put to work? and it exhibit what is the biologists have always called a critical period in development. so if you look at your age and assess your skill in acquiring a second language, you see a very dramatic learning curve that's the reverse of what we typically expect. adults with superior cognitive skills typically get better, surpass children at learning things. but in the area of language, from birth to seven years of age, the kids are masters. whether they hear a single language or two or three, they will acquire them effortlessly. but beginning at the age of seven, that begins to decline. age ten, 11 to 15, 17 to 39, past puberty-- which is everyone at this table-- we really don't have the same machinery. the brain