so, for me, it's a time when i began to ask my parents, i began to look around me, i began to research and i found that there was all this, i don't know if this is a word, dimensionality to the story that's inside of me, that's all around me and has always been around me. so it's only natural that when i would pursue a story, just sit down and begin to write, one, it was natural that the characters would normally be japanese american and/or asian american and it would be natural that those events that happened that were seminal, this is one of the core seminal events of a community that shapes everything from that point on. generation after generation. they continued to sort of float up and become part of my story lines. even when sometimes i tried to not go in that direction, it would come up. and what i've even found is as i write characters now, for example in the play after the war, when i write characters that are not japanese american, that are african american, that are anglo american, as in this particular play, i have to be really really conscious of the fact that these charac

i began to sweat.lic minister began repeating the same questions over and over and over again. >> so i said, wait a minute. i said, are you -- are you -- do you think i've committed a crime? and that's when mignini said, yes, we don't think it. we know it. we know you have committed a crime. we have the proof. and you are going to confess to it. >> it sounds very similar to what amanda knox described. >> translator: it is completely different because i interrogated preston, amanda was interrogated by the police. preston wasn't arrested. amanda was arrested. the two things are completely different. they have absolutely nothing in common apart from the fact that i was the public prosecutor in both cases. >> amanda knox describes to her lawyers the very same techniques, aggressive questioning, asking to speculate, confronted with so-called evidence of criminal activity that police didn't have. fearing he would soon be arrested, in 2006 preston fled italy and has never returned. but the tables were beginni

shirt sweatpants and slippers so began his struggle against extreme cold. the temperature was ten degrees below zero. in this experiment his condition is gradually deteriorating. hypothermia. is approaching. stage follows. control of experience a very slow reaction will gradually be drawn back from his. around his. brain. will contract. the final stages of hypothermia. dress myself immediately because there's a certain process. i want all of you to go to some place as soon as you experience some sort of cold shiver. meeting a frosty sunday morning by sitting in the snow wearing practically nothing. physiologist of the practices yoga it's a normal event he demonstrates his own method of overcoming the cold for the other workshop participants it's something of a feat. now it doesn't mean that you immediately stop feeling the cold you will feel the cold in your thermal receptors will be working for you. the only difference is that you will not feel the cold penetrating your body with the heat you're meeting some of you may even be sweating. glad you name it. w

we began to work on it with the idea of stabilizing it and we began archaeological exploration at the site. dung this process we were lucky to locate a panel that would be part of a platform or throne. (narrator) what emerged from beneath 1000 years of rubble was a portrait of three members of palenque's greatest dynas. at the center, pakal grasps a sting-ray spine-- the bloodletting instrument. he is flanked by his grandson ahkal mo' nahb and his heir, upakal k'inich. and on er sienigmatic arling jr-keigur. (guillermo bernal romero) the images of these supernatural beings are really extraordinary. there is an interesting detail in the glyph that identifies them as priestly figures. the jaguar-priests seem to be supernatural mediators in the solemn act of sacrificing royal blood to the gods. (narrator) the ancient maya, once masters of the jungles and highlands of mesoamerica are gradually being understood. what had seemed impenetrable mysteries have yielded to archaeolog decierment, bringing individual kings, queens, and courtiers to life. captioning performed by pilgrim imaging, inc

and they began to use abstract numbers. previously, a token was impressed once for each measure it represented. 12 impressions meant 12 jars of oil. now, the commodity was drawn once. a jar of oil. tokens symbolized numbers. a sphere meant 10, and a cone meant 1. so on this tablet is recorded 10, 11, 12 jars of oil. the number of graphic symbols was expanded quickly, as scribes sought to express more complex ideas. a star shape, to represent god or heaven. a head plus a bowl, for the verb "to eat." over time, the symbols themselves evolved into the wedge-shaped characters called cuneiform. but the greatest advance came when scribes began to use cuneiform to represent the sounds of spoken sumerian. the word "an" meant "heaven" but was also used to represent the sound "an" in words like "anbar," meaning "iron" and "anta", meaning "above." for the very first time in human history, people could make a permanent record of their spoken language. but sumerian hasn't been spoken since about 2000 b.c. how could these markings be rea

it began its most successful movements to -- it began as most successful movements do not as a product of community organizers but of writers, intellectuals thinkers. it stars and leaders were not barry goldwater and ronald reagan but people like william f. buckley jr., who after assaulting those who no doubt considered themselves his betters, went on in 1955 to found the national review. russell kirk who wrote the seminal "conservative mind," and found a congenial publisher in chicago of all places. milton friedman, george whom hung outl of in chicago and challenged the economics of the day and eventually help us turn the world upside down. some years ago, i talked to the author of "commanding heights," a work in which he points out that the 1950's marked the triumph of collectivism the world over. the era of the five-year plan, government enterprise, and the faith in the wisdom of the state the dominated thinking not just in the soviet union and the socialist countries and scandinavia, in britain as well, and, yes, even in the united states. those were the days for believers in econo

shirt sweat pants and slippers so began his struggle against extreme cold. inside this climate chamber the temperature was ten degrees below zero the volunteer has been in there for about half an hour this experiment his condition is gradually deteriorating he's on the verge of the early stages of hypothermia his body temperature has fallen by about a degree in a huff and a shiver is approaching fast canal the second stage follows his pulse rate will plummet shivering uncontrollably kill experience a very slow reaction to blood will gradually be drawn back from his limbs to concentrate around his vital organs brain lungs and liver. blood vessels in the extremities will contract. final stages of hypothermia. i will now undress myself or mediately because there's a certain adaptation process. now i want all of you to go to some place as soon as you experience some sort of cold shiver. what could be more bracing that meeting a frosty sunday morning by sitting in the snow wearing practically nothing for a physiologist. who practices yoga it's a normal event he d

i began to sweat.er began repeating the same questions over and over again. >> so i said, wait a minute. i said, are you -- are you -- do you think i've committed a crime? and that's when mignini said, yes, we don't think it. we know it. we know you have committed a crime. we have the proof. and you are going to confess to it. >> it sounds very similar to what amanda knox described. >> translator: it is completely different because i interrogated preston, amanda was interrogated by the police. preston wasn't arrested. amanda was arrested. the two things are completely different. they have absolutely nothing in common apart from the fact that i was the public prosecutor in both cases. >> amanda knox describes to her lawyers the very same techniques, aggressive questioning, asking to speculate, confronted with so-called evidence of criminal activity that police didn't have. fearing he would soon be arrested, in 2006 preston fled italy and has never returned. but the tables were beginning to turn for the

that's what i began with. it was the first time i said, this character not necessarily has to be asian. none of these characters necessarily have to be asian. i was of mind opposite of what you are saying happened through the book. what happened was the more i started to research when i discovered warner's, ime wantedo write. i was feeling older as a person and wanted to translate that into a book. when i thought i would write about the care taking situation and wanted to write about a mother and daughter and i thought was there an aging disease? where children grow old quickly. by the time they are 7 or 8 they look like little old people because they age so quickly. the first thing i asked myself is there a version of this disease for older people. does it start later in a person's life? as i'm researching i discover warner's syndrome and that's how it came to be that particular disease in the book. i thought this works because she would have a life before the disease started to age her in the 20's as opposed

host: these press conferences began with wilson 100 years ago. they began taped. the first live press conferences began in 1951 with dwight eisenhower. we continue with jim. caller: any time i hear obama speak, first of all, i can't believe half the words he says, but the news media doesn't challenge him on anything. the first thing he does is blame the republican party "they are not working with me, they are not doing this." but we all know the democrats are doing the same thing. they are telling people lies, not telling the truth. obama, his incompetence as a president, he blames -- this is why i'm not getting things done. he's supposed to be a leader of the people. the news media let's everything go, doesn't -- you know, obama is doing a great job and everything else. the american public knows it is not true. host: jim, thank you for the call. is that tactic different from president obama, president reagan, or president bush? guest: no. all presidents do that. the one point i totally agree with is that the press generally let's presidents say what they want to

but in 1981, restraint began to take its toll.h interest rates caused a collapse in the building industry. the high cost of consumer loans put auto dealers out of business and auto workers out of jobs. still, volcker held to his long-term course. consolidating and extending the heartening progress on inflation will require a continuing restraint on monetary growth, and we intend to maintain the necessary degree of restraint. schoumacher: by 1982, the economy had fallen into the deepest recession since the great depression. even the reagan administration was urging the fed to relent. but volcker and the fed board, determined to bring inflation down, held tight. finally, in late 1982, the fed saw inflation drop substantially and eased the money supply. this last week, the federal reserve bank decided to lower its discount rate to 9.5%, the first time this key interest rate has gone below two digits since 1979 and the fifth reduction in just four months. this demonstrates the fed's confidence that inflation and market rates will cont

the prime minister began to suspect that tepco was hiding the truth. he decided to go to fukushima dai-ichi himself. he was later criticized for interfering with the emergency work at the plant, but he says he had to find out what was really going on. >> narrator: at fukushima dai-ichi, the prime minister met directly with the tepco engineers. he insisted they vent the reactors. >> (translated): kan was very angry. the government had given an order. what was tepco doing? but we were trying our best. the valves were hard to open. we were genuinely trying. we just hadn't managed it. >> narrator: the plant manager, masao yoshida, was known for being frank. he knew the radiation near the vents was at potentially fatal levels, but he told the prime minister he'd send in a suicide squad if necessary. >> narrator: the prime minister knew his orders might condemn the men who went into the reactor to death, but he felt japan's future was at stake. >> narrator: but then tepco got some news which meant the venting was delayed yet again. the evacuation of the surr

i began to study and read everything i could find on the japanese culture. the incredible thing was not having everything that went into it and it still became a quiet book. there is a tsunami. there's tv and lep easier and a fire. i call it my zen book i think it's because as i was learning about the japanese culture, all of that started to go into the book. and it gave me the structure of what the book would become, which was very much taking after what a japanese garden it. early on a read about gardens. you don't know where you are going you just read. because japanese gardens are a huge aspect on the culture i started reading on gardens. i love the natural and the idea on how they use the gardens and how much it reads to them i started reading. i read a line like the silk worker line where it embraced me and i thought, that's what i would write about. you never walk from the front gate to the front door in a straight line it's always a curving path in which you discover things along the way. i said, that's it. he lands, he gets off the train and slowly

your calls after this tsunami began snowing hard. and 89-year-old woman showed up at the door soaking wet and shivering. the average's wife gave her dry clothes. after the tsunami water came up the river we had 70 or 80 people staying here. it is a small country temple and the came too crowded. we had nothing to eat for four days. i sent them to an elderly lady's farm down the road for vegetables. 100 people died who lived near the temple. is only a roof in a frame now. the most extraordinary thing happened. survivors began dragging the dad out of the river and bringing them to us. some were carried over men's shoulders. others were put in wheelbarrows for in the back of small trucks. the dad kept arriving. corpses filled fat temple courtyard. it was like a graveyard. they were lying all the way around the center pine tree. we had ceremonies for the dead even when there were no bodies. two families missing, four family members, only one has been found that there are still seven missing. another neighbor found his family, he read in t

the faa says the plane began experiencing trouble after takeoff and had to circle back to make a landing. the fire burned 10 cars, no one on the ground was hurt. i heard it from several people, people were scrambling to move their cars and get away it from. they said a plane was coming in, it banked hard and they said the plane dropped on the lot. the plane is believed to be based in fort lauderdale, the people have not been identified. >>> a meeting of a mind at stanford university. professors, business leaders and policy makes, they discussed tax reform, health care, and the future of the economy in europe, people at the event told us the tone was encouraging. >> the economy is in the process of healing. the economy is better, it has a ways to go, unemployment is a couple percentage points lower than it was. it was the stanford institute for economic research. the summit is in the 10th year. >>> on keat is -- wall street closed a little bit lower. >>> from a u.s. marine to the san jose police force, one of dozens of stories at the police academy graduated a new closs. how this graduati

up and run i wasn't about hurt i just told the muscles in my arm and leg so i got up stretched and began to bump i decided to head in the direction of the departing train and you did the most important thing was not to free. this rare footage from the mid eighty's taken by a soviet documentary crew shows an elderly bearded man in shorts walking through the snow. his name was puffy or even off founder of a semi religious doctrine. for the last forty years of his life ivanoff one nothing but shorts regardless of the season or the outside temperature. wise i want can sure it's to. i believe that anyone in the world can wear just shorts. to shorts or in ephemeral phenomenon but the body which needs to live and breathe the fresh air is another thing she's. i don't want to say that no one can do i believe everybody can they just don't want to because the body feels cold and because it feels cold people try to protect themselves in a physical way. ivanoff believe that the cause of all human disease was people's own delicate nature because of the fact that they had removed themselves from nature

tell us how this program began 20 years ago. >> the program began 20 years ago. our founder was an environmentalist and an activist and an artist in the 1970's. she started these street sweeping campaigns in the city. she started with kids. they had an exhibition at city hall. city officials heard about her efforts and they invited her to this facility. we thought it would coincide with our efforts to get folks to recycle, it is a great educational tool. since then, we have had 95 professional artists come through. >> how has the program changed over the years? how has the program -- what can the public has an artist engage with? >> for the most part, we worked with metal and wood, what you would expect from a program like ours. over the years, we tried to include artists and all types of mediums. conceptual artists, at installation, photographers, videographers. >> that has really expanded the program out. it is becoming so dynamic right now with your vision of interesting artists in gauging here. why would an artist when to come here? >> mainly, access to the m

two days later, he says, rioting or looting began. >> we can see fires.people pounding on gates staying come out and arguing orders to stay in a defensive position not to move out on the streets. >> for sarey it was a turning point in the war. another came the day saddam hussien was captured. that is the day, he says, the insurgency started. >> driving back from tikrit after covering the capture our vehicle shot up on the way back to baghdad. so we realized now, things were changing dramatically. >> he says the failure to mind nuclear weapons of mass destruction didn't take a toll in that first wave, that came later along with questions about what was being accomplished. that is a story we're working on for abc 7 news at 6:00. >> mark, we'll see you then. a group of vet transturned a plaza in front of the federal building into a personal canvas today, using chalk to write the names of u.s. solders. they sate war isn't over for those involved in this 10-year conflict. they apoll jidz for the invasion. >> this is a message to iraqi children who have had the

fifty million years later dinosaurs began to roam the earth and another period of stability began on earth and on the two continents was geologists today called noor asia and goal goal gondwanaland the triassic jurassic cretaceous periods known together as the mezzo of period came to an end sixty five million years ago when a meteor asteroid struck the earth causing the dinosaurs to go extinct during the mesozoic period the planet underwent another period geological on rest and the two continents broken is smaller pieces of land to create the seven continents that exist today. at the same time mountains were created as these cons drifted into each other and plant matter that had been buried underground millions of years before it was pushed even further into the ground and subject to great pressure that pressure and millions of years of time converted all that now underground plant matter into oil coal and natural gas which brings us to nine thousand nine hundred years ago when humans for in europe and asia first discovered coal beneath the surface of the earth and began to burn the

i began my career as a volunteer at wamu back in 1973. by 1979, i had begun hosting the daily morning show. by 1998, i had begun to develop atirstmy voiceegan to wobble, so i went to doctor after doctor, trying to find out, "why the wobble?" at first. >> hinojosa: did you... was there a part of you that was like, "oh, this is just nerves. it's all in my head"? >> yeah, absolutely. >> hinojosa: "the wobbling is just because i get nervous because i'm a woman and i always am doubting myself and questioning whether or not i can do this"? >> but there was part of me that knew something was wrong. so i went to doctor after doctor, who proceeded to put tube after tube down my throat, and then who ended up saying exactly as you've just said, "it's all in your head." >> hinojosa: oh, my god. >> "it's all in your head, nothing to be done." until february 1998. maria, i don't want to frighten you or your viewers, but this is how i sounded: (voice straining): i could barely get a word out. >> hinojosa: oh, my god. >> and on that last day in february

eliot began to react to what he preserved the orthodoxy of the school. browsing the magazine rack in the library, he saw progress of publications like the nation. why come he asked the library in could the school not achieve some balance in the publication in displayed? why not stop a magazine like the "national review." the culture is dominated by right-wing politics. we do not need to get more of it in our school. in eliot's view, the history teacher personify the schools tilted politics. he was a vigorous and a dedicated teacher but his analyses of the historical movement seemed absurd to him. why do the countries acquire colonies? according to him because countries needed economic markets. who in the helen listened of first colony was in the position to buy anything, she wondered incredulously. he voted for lyndon johnson in the presidential election the first time so the whispers went that he ever cast such a mainstream coach for fear that a victory -- for the conservative republican barry goldwater would bring fascism to america. in eliot's opinion

even before he landed he began to speak on one of the scandals. the pope said he was gravely ashamed about the abuse scandal. >> reporter: president bush did something never done before. greeted the pope. he told reporters on board that he still has trouble understanding how catholic priests could have molested american children. >> i'm deeply ashamed and can't believe this is possible that this can happen in future. >> reporter: the church has paid out more than $2 billion to settle the cases. >> it's good that there's as many good priests as bad priests. >> reporter: but a man told us the pope's word are not enough. >> despite his apology today that he's going to pray and try to stop it he's continuing to put accused predators in ministry because they haven't been convicted. >> reporter: joey piscateli from s.n.a.p. says some accused priests haven't been convicted because of the statute of limitations. as for the pope meeting president bush. >> i think it's just a political photo op is what they're doing. president bush if you look at his record

the wheels of the united states began to turn them. it began to come to life. and monroe thought that the era of good feeling as it was called would last forever and political parties would dissolve. people began moving west. that is the period i would like to be listening to what was going on. in furnishing the house, they were into french. they spoke french at home. they lived in france which he wanted the furniture to come from france and he spent a lot of money bringing things such as the clock that have stood on the mantle since 1818. many of the things he acquired are still in use. you have that that all of the presidents have used since then. when you see our earliest things many of them are in the blue room. so we have the wonderful chairs and sofa in the room. they were acquired by president monroe from france. he was criticizeds for buying french things and not american. they passed a law saying the furniture of the white house must be american manufacturing, if possible. >> the wallpaper is of the same period as the portrait of sam yull monroe. it's

my fascination with 1960s graduates began when i organized -- in 1961. and the first thing they did was in grand central station. and i realized -- a unique group of people. that is about all, i think you so much for coming. i think the corner bookstore for being a wonderful host. and to introduce me. and my editor, kathy and lisa is here. if you have any questions. and asked to please wait until the gentleman with the microphone comes to you. [applause] >> any questions? >> when you spoke with all these people many years after they left the school, what are their feelings? did they see the school as being formative in their lives? do you think they would have become who they were regardless of where they went to school? >> many of the students who went there came from families who were very progressive, left oriented and there is a predilection to that. i know that many of them told me this pull shaped their lives sc and fate fact that back. and people who graduatede scho and fate fact that back. and people who graduated like elliot reacted against this

and so people began to talk about ideas. how is syria going to meet the future?which path is it going to take? and there was an era in which there was an open debate, and a healthy one. >> he was genuinely popular amongst the young people, who hadn't lived through his father and who saw him as a potential reformer. and he kept on telling them that life is going to get better. and they could see fairly dramatic changes, at least for the wealthy. >> narrator: it didn't last. hundreds of activists and intellectuals were arrested. >> the political establishment, the ba'ath party, decided that if this free political debate was going to continue, they were going to lose their heads. and so it was the return of authoritarianism. >> narrator: the damascus spring was over. six years later, another spring. when news of the successful revolts in tunisia and egypt spread, the long-oppressed sunni majority believed their time had finally come. in largely peaceful demonstrations across the country, syrians defied their president, in spite of increasingly brutal attacks by the