in an article for the new england journal of medicine, three medical professors from boston universityrote -- the article goes on to write -- for more we go to boston where we're joined by george annas, one of the co-authors of the new england journal of medicine article. he is a professor of health law, a bioethics and human rights at the boston university school of public health. he is also a professor in the boston university school of medicine and the school of law. he is the author or editor of 16 books on health law and bioethics. professor george annas, welcome to democracy now! talk about your piece in the new england journal of medicine that he co-authored. >> thank you. the piece is, as she said, a call to the american physicians, especially military physicians at guantanamo, to stop force feeding hunger strikers. this has gone on long enough, almost since guantanamo opened. there have only been to the mass hunger strikes, one in 2006 that was broken in by bringing so- called restraint chairs that look like the old chairs that were used for executions, the electric chairs whe

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wants to keep america safe is retired army colonel and professor of international relations at boston university, andrew bacevich. colonel, thanks so much for being on. ( cheers and applause ) all right, all right. now, when the president talked about getting rid of the a.u.m.f. today in his speech, it almost seemed like he was saying there will come a time when the war on terror will end. >> we would hope so. >> stephen: no, but-- no! ( laughter ) there will always abe time when i could be terrified and-- and in such case, we should be at war with that. ( laughter ) >> we may differ on the fundamental point. >> stephen: we might. you might be wrong. >> i think war is bad. you think war is...? >> stephen: sometimes necessary, sir, sometimes necessary. >> agreed and only when necessary should we choose to go to war. and when we choose to go to war, we really ought to adhere to the provision of the constitution. meaning congress decides and authorizes the president to wage war. >> stephenn but they did. they did. they authorized him. they passed this thing that said go get him! , is ic him! >> i t

. >> reporter: boston university's caroline says calling ocho beelsbeels -- obesity a disease will allow doctors to take charge before it's more. >> this is a step to prompt insurance companies to treat this disease earlier. >> reporter: the ama's counsel on science and public health recommended against designating oc obesity as a disease saying it's too problematic to define when you have people that are over weight but otherwise healthy. 60% of delegates decided to approve the measure. >>> and coming up, how to prevent the next railroad disaster and congress is taking a look but how commodities, treasuries and kcurrencies faird today. >>> jd power and associates out with the latest survey on quality for new cars. topping the list again is porsche which averaged 80 problems per 100 vehicles and gm second and lexus infinity and chevrolet round out the top five. at the bottom of the list toyota scion and fiat and mitsubissubm nissan and mini finished last. >>> 1200 recalls of 2013 cars due to a defect in the backseat. 234 injuries or incidents reported over the faulty seat latch. it's the

>> boston university fellow joseph laycock is an expert on vampirism in the united states.teaches a class on rod ferrell's case. >> does anyone want to take the minority? >> many ritualing are even more outlandish than what rob has said. i've encountered store roifs being taken to a ritual where there's a dead babies are being eaten. it's a buffet where each will move down a line and selecting various bits of dead babies on their plates. the trouble is there's absolutely no physical evidence. >> rod ferrell isn't talking about rumors or childhood fantasies but real events he saw with his own eyes. but so far, law enforcement is not listening. [ male announcer ] running out of steam? ♪ now you can give yourself a kick in the rear! v8 v-fusion plus energy. natural energy from green tea plus fruits and veggies. need a little kick? ooh! ♪ >>> rod ferrell is facing decades of unchanging prison routine, though his life did change significantly in october of 2010. in the prison chapel, he married the woman he'd been corresponding with for two years, gina maria, a former nurse stud

three medical professionals from boston university wrote -- the majority of guantanamo's 166 prisoners are on hunger strike to protest their indefinite detention. 43 are now being forced fed through tubes. the pentagon has sent dozens of medical personnel to assist with force feeding. the military judge presiding cole bombing -- information discussed at the hearing could cause grave damage to national security if revealed. he could face the death penalty for allegedly plotting the bombing that killed 17 sailors on the u.s. warship in 2000. irani and are heading to the polls today to cast their votes for president. the presidential campaign has seen thousands of iranians rallying in favor for reforms, including the release of political prisoners. president ahmadinejad is leaving power after exhausting the two- term limit. turkish prime minister erdogan says that he will hold talks about building a new park before they have talks. protesters now senator erdogan has pledged to honor the outcome of a court case, saying that they will preserve the park. demonstrators have remained in taksim

a graduate of northwestern university, ambassador chamberlin earned a degree from boston university and attended the executive program at harvard. she serves on the boards of the american academy for diplomacy and the hollings center. she is a member of the trilateral commission. her pieces have been published in "the washington post." she has commented on pakistan and the middle east in interviews with "the newshour," nbc, abc, fox news, and al jazeera. please give a warm welcome for ambassador chamberlin. >> thank you very much. that was far too generous an introduction for a mere introducer. we have a star performer today who we are looking forward to hearing from. i really do not need too much of an introduction for your president, nuchhi currier, who has been president of your club, the women's national democratic club, for nearly four years. you are in for a treat this afternoon, because she will provide the insider's view on what has happened in the historic pakistan national elections only just last week. she was not only raised in lahore, but she was in lahore last week as an e

the magazine mentions copley square, fenway park, boston university.c bombings exposed many hidden shortcomings of the american security and intelligence system. the tsarnaev brothers are believed to have read a 2010 inspire article entitled make a bomb in the kitchen of your mom, which detailed how to make the type of pressure cooker bombs used to carry out the attack in boston. and now boston may be leading al qaeda and yemen to offer new guidance to its followers. >> the message they're putting out to followers in the west, don't come and join us in yemen, stay home, launch attacks there, we will give you how to advice in magazines like inspire, bomb making recipes so that you can do that. >> because inspire magazine is an online publication, it is almost impossible to shut it down. it is becoming a big worry to counter terrorism officials. wolf? >> do you see any evidence at the pentagon that the military is beginning to get more involved in these controversial drone strikes, taking over responsibility from the cia, going after suspected terrorists

he's the head of boston university's center for human genetics. >> the detection of genes and gene defectsbecome critically important because of the massive advances in technology. >> and yet you're prohibited from looking at certain genes. >> we have been stopped from offering some 14 different tests for relatively common conditions. >> stopped by whom? >> i'm really not allowed to talk about them. i'm legally muzzled about that particular subject. >> he can't talk about it, but we can. milunsky can no longer perform gene tests for disorders like muscular dystrophy, polycystic kidney disease, and for a gene that can cause deafness. that's because a company called athena labs sent him a cease-and-desist letter when it found out he was testing people for genes they owned. >> a gene is a natural, living thing. how on earth can anyone allow patenting of a gene? >> he's particularly concerned because we've now reached a point where our entire genetic makeup can be examined in one relatively simple test. >> but you may have problems, because if there is a gene within that bunch that indeed has

. >> reporter: not every economist agrees, of course, boston university's larry kotlikoff. who writes about social security thinks the plusses of working longer are way overblown. >> only a very small share of people over 65 are going to continue to work under the best of circumstances, so it really can't matter much to the macro economy or to our fiscal problems. it's just not a big enough effect. >> reporter: so you don't think this is going to make that much of a difference? >> even if we had another 20% of people in their 60s continue to work through their 70s or 75 it just wouldn't add up to much. it's just not enough people earning enough money, paying enough taxes to matter much. >> reporter: what a surprise, economists disagree! but it's certainly true that many who want to stay in the workforce, simply cant due to poor health, a strenuous job, the need to care for a sick family member, so we just don't know how many will. but says gene steuerle the portion of older people continuing to work has been growing for years. >> the social security administration has consi

rich families go to go no no no no that is not what i wasn't born emerge from when i go to from boston university and carnegie mellon university yes i took off student loans but guess what i also hit the books and also work part time i paid my way as well it wasn't just a student loan watching my ok does whoa and wore a big picture rubble right up to. the shoes. could you take three years for charges three. arrangement three. three. free. download free blog live video for your media project free medio don carty dot com. he. says. back to the big picture rubble joining me marc harrold ben cohen and dutch martin let's get back to it a report was issued earlier this week revealing that women are increasingly becoming the breadwinners in their households while many are applauding the news there are of course those on the far right who are stuck back in the one thousand nine hundred eighteen hundred six hundred twelve hundreds i don't know and don't think women should be much more successful than men take a look at what erick erickson added say about the news. eric your thoughts on this on the study a

two years ago i met with a talent young man named luv sung who studied for his doctorate at boston university and then formed a company. but when he applied for a green card, he was denied, even though he had been educated at one of our universities, was creating jobs in our country, and was helping protect our health and environment. more recently, i received a letter from charles in east providence who says, this issue is close to his heart. and it is. his girlfriend just finished her second master's degree program at johnson and wales university. but unless she finds an employer willing to sponsor her for a visa, she may have to return to her native china. these young people want to stay here and want to succeed, charles wrote. this bill will allow more talented individuals in the sciences and other fields to stay here and contribute to our economy. let me compliment the eight responsers osponsors of this ler their tireless efforts to find a middle ground. this bill is a compromise. no one can say they got everything they wanted. but enbalance, this bill is our best opportunity to fix our

programs for the national student drug abuse and we have a training program associated with boston university we trained over 13,000 prescribers. we work with state medical societies, sample is a sponsors training and we have as a result of this broader effort that the congress has mobilized. we finding more and more pray ticksers are showing up at the conferences to listen and learn about prescription drug abuse to listen and learn about adequate pain management strategies to listen and learn how to monitor for dev yent behavior and also maintaining the good bans of care. indeed pain is a problem. so we want to continue that effort. we think that's a useful effort. >> thank you, dr. clark. my time is expired. i spent several hours practices your name. >> gent nice the gentleman from virginia. >> thank you. i appreciate it. the doctor, can you please update the as to where the agency stands related to requirements on the food and drug administration safety and innovation act pertaining to public meetings surrounding the scnging of hydrocordon product. you mentioned a public meeting had been h

boston university college of communication. this is the final debate before the special election to fill the senate seat formerly held by john kerry. we have seen the candid it's. if you have been watching television yes seven is seen them on the air. we welcome the democratic candidate and the republican candidate. the goal over the next hour is a focused exchange of ideas that would give voters a chance to see where the candidates stand and some of the issues facing the commonwealth and the nation. and we invite you to join the conversation, join us on twitter . masen. our first round of questions this evening does with the campaign and domestic issues. here is how it works. i will pose a question to a specific candidate. that candid it's 45 seconds to answer, and then we will open it up for of the three men's conversation. by coin toss we will begin tonight with mr. gomez. nice to see you. you offer yourself as a new kind of republican. you point to your business, yet you have given voters a few details. you're running an ad

we both have training programs, nida med and samsa has a training program associated with boston university. we've trained over 13,000 prescribers. we work with state medical societies, sams sponsors state medical society training, and we have as a result of this broader effort that the congress has mobilized, we're fighting more and more practitioners showing up at our conferences to listen and learn about prescription drug abuse, to listen and learn about adequate pain management strategies, to listen and learn how to monitor for deviant behaviors and also while maintaining a good balance of care because, indeed, pain is a problem. so we want to continue that effort. we think that's a useful effort. >> thank you, dr. clark. my time has expired. i didn't get to mr. kerlikowske, and i spent considerable time rehearsing your name, and i won't be able to use it. [laughter] but i yield back. >> chair thanks the gentleman, now recognizes the gentleman from virginia, mr. griffiths for five minutes. >> thank you, i appreciate it. can you please update the committee as to where the agency stands r

but once a week those two worlds intersect when students from harvard university and boston college comehelp inmates earn their geds. >> for them to come in and do it for us as little convicts, i should say, that's a good thing. looking out for us. showing us, you know, there is a world out there. there is help out there. people want to help you. >> girard cohen has been teamed with alexander, a harvard sophomore. >> it's one of these things, you can do the answers in your head probably, just to be sure, because we all make mistakes and try do it in our head, just write it out. it will take five extra seconds, but it's totally worth it. if you're taking a test, each answer matters for the final score. people have a wall about what how they think of prisoners and what this whole community is like and it's just not true. if you work with someone consistently for a while, you really get to know them. that's one of the interesting parts of being here. you're very confident. >> i sure am. i know this stuff. >> all right. i'm going to make you prove to me that you know this stuff on paper. >>

tomorrow he will receive an honorary degree from the university of johannesburg. >>> the boston boston marathon suspect downloaded bomb-making instructions from an al qaeda magazine. 19-year-old dzhokhar tsarnaev has been indicted by a federal grand jury. half of the counts may bring life in prison or the death penalty. he is charged using a weapon of mass destruction to kill and injure people. his older brother was killed by police. >>> new details in the murder investigation involving a former nfl star aaron hernandez. hernandez was formally charged in the killing of his friend odin lloyd and now the ex-new england patriot is being questioned for a double murder that happened last summer. the drive-by shooting happened after a fight at a nightclub in boston. investigators say lloyd might have had some information about that shooting. >>> a new twist in a south bay murder mystery has set a murder suspect three. lucas anderson was arrested for the november murder in of ravi kumra. dna evidence linked him to the killing but anderson was not in monte sereno at the time. police say he was

tomorrow he will receive an honorary degree from the university of johannesburg. >>> boston marathonombing suspect dzhokhar tsarnaev is indicted by a federal grand jury. the 30-count indictment includes charges that the brothers conspired to use weapons of mass destruction in the attack which killed three and wounded 260 others. tamerlin tsarnaev died in a shootout with police. dzhokhar could face the death penalty if convicted. >>> and new details in the murder investigation involving former nfl star aaron hernandez. hernandez was formally charged yesterday in the killing of his friend odin lloyd. now the expatriots player is being questioned for a double murder from last year. investigators say lloyd may have been information about that. >>> the discovery of explosives shut down part of doyle drive in san francisco. >> fire in the hole! [ explosion ] >> a bomb squad from travis air force base blew up a 20" shell from the civil war ear yeah yesterday. there is the picture of it. crews found the explosives working on the new road to the golden gate bridge. >> you know, there's obviou

with the fda and the --we have both training , and they have a training program associated with boston university. we trained over 30,000 prescribers. we work with state medical , and wes, training have as a result of this broader effort that the congress has mobilized, we are finding or practitioners are showing up at conferences to listen and learn about prescriptions or abuse, about adequate pain that engagement strategies, how to monitor for deviant behaviors and also while maintaining a good balance of care because pain is a problem. we want to continue that effort. >> thank you. my time is expired. i did not get to mr. kerlikowske, and i spent considerable time cursing your name and i did not get to use it. >> thank you, mr. chairman. please update committee as to where the agency stands related to requirements of the food's drug administrations safety and innovation act, pertaining to the scheduling of combination hydrocodone products? hadmentioned a meeting been held in one of the answers to your questions, you were relying on science instead of of scheduling some of the drugs. can you te

we're if boston, the hub of the universe.ve all of those superstars come in, absolutely means the world to me where we got the bruins trying to get the stanley cup. all we really read is the political section and the sports section up here in boston. for employee to have all of those superstars in has been something i never would have thought in my life could have happened. >> let me talk to you about this city. i've been watching boston for a long time trying to figure it out. i want culture from you. you're from this area. when new york was hit on 9/11, the reaction was we're going to get those s.o.b.s. boston had the reaction, get the people to the hospital. look out for our own. let's support the police. it was very not to sound too lefty about, communetarian. what is the boston mentality, the mats mass mentality? >> it seems different. >> no, i would say we have pretty much the same reaction. >> you're like new york? >> in the same way that the first responders in new york headed towards the trouble, the same thing happe

. ♪ [ roars ] ♪ ♪ [ roars ] ♪ [ roars ] ♪ [ male announcer ] universal studios summer of survival. ♪ >>> welcome back to bostonawks, a win away from hoisting the cup. for the bruins and their fans, the mission is simple. send the series back to chicago. in this sport we speak so frequently about the delivery of hits. what of the ones absorbed? this postseason the blackhawks have been on the receiving end of 830 heavy hits. it is second only to the 856 for the bruins. the cumulative effect was felt by the stars. patrice bergeron was forced to leave the game in the second period. he was taken to a chicago hospital. although he did not participate in today's morning skate, claude julien said he was confident that bergeron would play tonight. for the latest on this situation, let's bring in pierre mcguire. >> thank you very much. the good news for bruins fans park trees bergeron looked pain-free in the warm-up. he was skating well. participated in the three-on-two rushes. the big thing is he was shooting the puck. sometimes guys have a tough time shooting when it is upper body. when it is lower body, sometime guys

we have a chapter in the book called university of can trays. >> anybody can step through harvard. but in the boston area but when you can go to alcatraz. that's right. he was a high school dropout who earned his ged while he was in the air force. where he educate himself was in l can trays. he boasted he read a book a day. became well read. read military history. mack when they hear the -- i think he's in the cleveland crew. [laughter] he knew who he was. took the lesson well. one of the interesting things you could ask about the family dynamic. he's in prison. his brother, billy, at the time is boston college of rule. law school. he's five years younger and determined to help him go straight. host lobbying while at law school to get whitey moved closer to home. get him early parole. and he enlists the dean of the boston college of law school, the to become whitey's prison pen pal. he's writing to whitey. it looks good for whitey. it look like he's trying to turn his life around. so you see this priest who is writing to help him. even within the prison system to do well, he also gets at the time th

. >> just graduated from boston college, did not want to go to the university o maryland or ole miss.pard: fool. >> he had a great experience there and i remember when he was diagnosed in 1993. they told us he would have a good chance another college due to the increase in drugs and dealing with the disease, and gunnar is a great kid, and i see these pictures when he was two and three years old, it's been an amazing story. but sarah still highlights the difficulties we have in the world of cystic fibrosis. >> shepard: the person at home going, i love that kid -- >> the first thing you can do is become an organ donor yourself. that's a lasting legacy that sarah andant will have an owl of us. but secondly i think what you can do is make a phone call. join a change.org, sign a petition. i've called the health and human services secretary sebelius. i understand the situation she is in, too. she wants the medical experts to make these decisions, which i think is prudent on her part, but the fact of the matter is, janet and sarah went the right route. they got a judge to get an injunction t

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at the time i got caught boston children's hospital, chicago children's. i could've gone there. but university of minnesota in that. that's what is at stake. your fortunate i don't have a vehicle screen here and i'm not subjecting it to her depressing powerpoint presentation. and not powerpoint presentation i described the financial problems were facing. but i don't need a powerpoint. i do like to talk about numbers to detail what is the root cause of our problem here in this nation. to me i can describe it verbally. far too many americans have either forgotten, but quite honestly what is far more sad is forever tied to foundation premise of this nation. our founding fathers who we revere these geniuses, these giant, they came from dictatorial monarchies and aristocracies. they understood we need government. were not angels. we need to be governed. they understood government wasn't here to solve our problems and government by and large have something to fear. they neolithic group because they witnessed it grow. they notice government through our freedoms necessarily receded and so today becaus

university. >> and do we know why she was in boston for the race? >> reporter: for her daughter.he went to the marathon to see her daughter run. her daughter's a student at harvard. we have a picture of her with her daughter actually that she sent us today. this is before the marathon. before her daughter had gone out for the run. now, amanda was hurt, though. she had to go to the hospital that day for some pretty severe cuts and lacerations on her leg. she had that hearing loss i mentioned. but other than that she checked out okay. she actually said she was so busy helping erika that she didn't even know she was hurt. but her hair was really badly singed, anderson. so she had to have it cut. in this family photo you can see with her son and her daughter it was taken some time after the marathon, you can see her hair there is a bit shorter. >> so you called her up about a reunion with erika. how did she react? >> reporter: she was so emotional. she was so choked up on the phone. she said that she has been thinking about erika since the marathon. she had no idea what happened to h

universal studios summer of survival. >>> three people were killed and 264 others were injured in the boston marathon bombings.ter the attack, the last of the injured, erika brannock, was released from the hospital yesterday. lee woodruff spoke with brannock and her sister who was also injured in the bombing. >> reporter: this photo of nicole gross, taken just moments after the first bomb went off has become an iconic image of the attack. she and erika had come to the marathon to cheer on their 57-year-old mother, carol downing. >> i remember being flown back and there was instant silence and then i was scared for dear life that another bomb was going to go off and that that's how i was going to die. >> i just looked straight up and had a conversation with god and i said i'm not going, i'm not done yet. >> nicole, a runner herself, trained her mother for the race. >> i was almost at the finish line. then we heard that there was a bombing and i tried to text my kids and i didn't get an answer. it was sheer panic for me then. >> reporter: with the help of strangers, downing located nicole at brigham and women's

boston. because of my parents work and the opportunities they gave me, my brothers and i were all blessed to go to harvard university. it was intense. i stayed there for college, for law school, and i also have a master's in public policy there. those are subjects i decided to study in part because i was very interested in public service and public policy issues and government. i ran for office in part because i wanted to serve the city and really protect all that is so special about what san francisco is. >> we've been talking for years about how important it is to build new neighborhoods, to develop affordable housing, make sure we have transit-oriented sustainable green development that really is worthy of a 21st century san francisco. what we're doing today -- and, frankly, what we're doing this year will have impacts on the city for decades to come. thank you all for being part of this, and i look forward to that mid-cutting. i moved to san francisco 15 years ago for all the reasons that we all love our city. our cable cars. our hills. the diversity of our neighborhoods. and have loved every minute of being her

boston. that was yesterday. the two friends were roommates at stanford university. collins announced publicly last april that he's gay. >>> and everyone loves a long shot, especially at 14-1. if you have a bet on it, even better. palace malice became the unlikely winner of the 145th running of the belmont stakes yesterday winning by more than three lengths. the 3-year-old colt came into the race having won only one race in seven starts when he managed to beat the more heavily favored winners of the kentucky derby and the preakness. >>> and finally, serving up revenge against the toughest judge on reality tv happened during last night's finale of "britain's got talent." as two men sang "the impossible dream," a woman rushed to the front of the stage and began throwing eggs at simon cowell. she was not part of the act. this was the real deal here. it turns out she was a contestant on last year's show. she's a viola player. it's funny. she said afterwards, listen to this one, in hindsight, i realized it was a silly thing to do. >> in hindsight? >> in hindsight, yeah. >