none other than alexander graham bell stepped forward to help.ad invented the telephone just five years earlier when he was only 29 years old. by 1881 the telephone had earned him some money and a lot of fame, but he wanted nothing to do with the company that had grown up around it. he said it was hateful to him at all times, and that it fettered him as an inventor. worse even than the business were the lawsuits against the telephone. therethere were 600 lawsuits agt it, five of which went to the united states supreme court. finally, bell had had enough. he said he was sick of the telephone, and he quit the bell telephone company. bell just wanted to help people. he had lost both of his brothers to superb low sis before he was -- tuberculosis before he was 24 years old, both his wife and his mother were deaf, and he knew he could make life better for people, maybe even save lives. but he worked so hard that his participants and his wife -- parents and his wife were terrified that he would literally work himself to death. when he was working, he w

university tells us that its former president graham spanier who was removed from office last week, brian, can still teach here at penn state. >> peter alexander on campus for us tonight. thanks. >>> now, to presidential politics, and in the demolition derby that's been the republican primary campaign so far, newt gingrich is the latest candidate to be enjoying a surge in the polls. at the same time, he's facing head winds now over what he did for the bailed out mortgage giant freddie mac. our report tonight from andrea mitchell. >> reporter: in iowa today, newt gingrich rising in the polls was using his debating skills to parry charges he's part of the washington money game. >> we just tried four years of ignorance and it didn't work very well. having somebody who actually knows washington might be a really good thing. >> reporter: at each stop he was trying to explain his status. his firm made between 1.6 and $1.8 million from mortgage giant freddie mac. widely blamed along with fannie mae for contributing to the housing debacle. payments that started only months after gingrich's own party forced him out of congress. >> we have many clients

president, this is on behalf of myself, senator graham, senator rockefeller, senator ayotte, senator akaka, senators alexander, baucus, begich, bennet, bingaman, blumenthal, blunt, boozman, boxer, scott brown, sherrod brown, burns, cantwell, carper, casey, coast, conrad, coons, corker, crapo, durbin, enzi, feinstein, franken, gillibrand, grassley, hagan, harkin, heller, hoeven, inhofe, inouye, johanns, ron johnson, tim johnson, klobuchar, landrieu, lautenberg, lee, lug lugar, manchin, mccaskill, menendez, merkley, mikulski, moran, murray, ben nelson, pryor, risch, sanders, schumer, shaheen, snowe, stabenow, test tester, toomey, mark udall, vitter, warner, whitehouse, and wyden. and it's been called up. i ask consent to have it set aside so we can go on and continue with the pending matter. the presiding officer: without objection. without objection, the foregoing request from the senator from arizona is granted. mr. levin: well, reserving the right to object. the presiding officer: the senator from michigan. mr. levin: and i don't object because that is the way we should proceed, going back and forth. i just