. >> reporter: john bourgeois is the project's executive manager. he's heading up a multi-agency collaboration to turn former, industrial salt ponds back into thriving marshland habitat for wildlife and fish. the ponds, which have lined san francisco bays southern shores for more than a 100 years, used to be owned by the cargill corporation. in 2003, the state, the federal government, and several private foundations acquired them for $100 million, and turned them back into public lands. since then, 3,500 acres, about 25% of the overall project have been restored. to see the results first hand, we hopped on a boat with bourgeois and traveled several miles to one of the first salt ponds that was opened back up to bay waters. >> were entering into what used to be an industrial salt pond. we actually had to cut through this giant levee. what used to be here was a moonscape, hard packed salt. and 8 years later, weve got several feet of mud thats accumulated and with this a new marsh. >> reporter: the restored marshes have quickly been repopulated with wi

the french called the fur traders bourgeois. they would live here, set up his life in this wilderness, and indians would come to him in the spring of the year to do the trading. they would bring their furs that they had been trapping and hunting all winter long, bring them into the cabin, and this was where the trade would happen. they were giving the indians trade goods that were mostly coming from europe. it was technology that was not available to the indians so by this whole trade, the indians went from stone age to iron age. because now they were starting to do things with a lot better tools. for instance, they could now have a tomahawk or ax blade made out of metal. it would be a lot better than a stone they were using before. the beads are coming from europe and will be porcelain and glass. the colors available especially like the dark blues are just not even available in nature. but, also, the ornate glass beads were very desirable to the native americans. they could show they had a very successful year because not only

the french called the fur traders bourgeois. he would live here, set up his life in this wilderness, and indians would come to him in the spring of the year to do the trading. they would bring their furs that they had been trapping and hunting all winter long, bring them into the cabin, and this was where the trade would happen. they were giving the indians trade goods that were mostly coming from europe. it was technology that was not available to the indians so by this whole trade, the indians went from stone age to iron age. because now they were starting to do things with a lot better tools. for instance, they could now have a tomahawk or ax blade made out of metal. it would be a lot better than the stone or whatever they're using before. the beads are going to be porcelain and glass coming from europe. the colors available especially like the dark blues are just not even available in nature. but, also, the ornate glass beads were very desirable to the native americans. they could show they had a very successful year because

in building it, 500 houses destroyed to make way for it, all to celebrate the values of french, bourgeoisopolitan culture and the stability and continuity of its political life. this stability had been undermined by the franco-prussian war and the siege of paris in 1870. then in the following year, 1871, the people of paris seized control of the city. but the commune was overthrown with terrible brutality. [woman singing opera] thousands of people were executed, and the center of the city was left partially wrecked. the opera was begun before the franco-prussian war but only completed after the crushing of the commune. but while the finishing touches were being applied here, just across the city an artist lay in prison. gustave courbet had been a member of the paris commune. he'd been accused of helping destroy the vendome column, symbol of french imperialism. [rumble] courbet came from the country. he came from the jura near the swiss border. he saw himself as a wild man from the backwoods. he was a notorious rebel against establishment values in art. the parisian art world was dominated

levels of wealth, luxury, the sheer volume of things and services unimaginable by the greediest, most bourgeoised by the river. the thing i know for sure about china is that we'll never know china. it's too big, too diverse, too deep. there's simply not enough time. that's for me the joy of china, facing a learning curve that impossibly steep. even if i dedicated my life to learning about china i'd die mostly ignorant. that's exciting. that's too much, and it's changing so fast. ♪ china has a population of 1.3 billion people. and the number of them joining the explosive middle class demanding their share of all the good stuff, the clothes, cars, gas, fuel, it's the engine that might well drive the whole world. >> you like chinese food? >> very much, yes. >> what do you want? >> some good dumplings. >> the professor is an economist and current dean of the college of economics and management. like so many people you meet here, he's chinese but was educated in american universities and has taught at yale, duke and arizona state. >> so you forgive me, economics are not my area of expertise. i wall

levels of wealth, luxury, the sheer volume of things and services unimagined by the greediest, most bourgeoishe city split by the huangpu river, a tributary of the yangtze. in the older section which features the bund and the newer built-up section of pudong. the thing i know for sure about china is that i will never know china. it's too big, too old, too diverse, too deep. there's simply not enough time. that's for me the joy of china, facing a learning curve that impossibly steep. the certain knowledge that even if i dedicated my life to learning about china i'd die mostly ignorant. that's exciting. it's too much. and it's changing so fast. ♪ china has a population of around 1.3 billion people. and the number of them joining the explosive middle class demanding their share of all that good stuff, infrastructure, the clothes, the cars, the gas, to fuel them as well, it's the engine that might well drive the whole world. >> you like chinese food? >> very much, yes. >> okay. what do you want? >> of course. some good dumplings. >> professor xiao lin is an economist and the current dean of the c

he keeps -- bourgeois. he keeps gold coins in his council. if this difficult the region as a vaccinated. of all the metaphors adjusted in the clinical pages of dracula, disease is one of the most obvious. dracula arrived in england just as a new disease might arrive, on a boat. he summoned towards the rats in his infected evil spreads to the first woman he bites to the women she feeds on unwitting that night. what makes dracula terrifying and what takes the plot of the story so long to resolve is that he is a monster whose monstrosity is contagious. germ theory was widely accepted by 1897 when dracula was published, but only after having been ridiculed earlier in the century. the suspicion that microorganisms of some sort cause disease have been around for so long that the figure was already considered outdated by the time louis pasteur demonstrated the presence of germs in the air with his court and on court flasks of sterile broth. among the vampire hunters to pursue dracula, sterilizing his coffin so he cannot take refuge in them are two d

growth has done that, but i think this is a populist, bourgeois government.nese characteristics. these people do need to be looked after, and if they do not, they could go nuts like the people in hong kong. security seems tighter than ever around tiananmen square these days. it is time now to have a look at the top corporate news. is trying to whether china. they are predicting that global sales of luxury goods will rise of the slowest rate in five years. the australian government is hoping to raise 5 million aussie dollars in the sale. they are selling assets, to rate in the budget deficit of more than $40 billion. volkswagen is recalling cars in the u.s. and china. they have to fix the rear suspension defects in some jet models. --jetta models. thi announcement comes after china investing i -- investigates volkswagen after receiving complaints. . mitsubishi airport -- you should be she airlines is rolling out a new jet. -- mitsubishi airlines are rolling out a new jet. what is so special about the jet? >> the main thing is money, operating costs. while the

dreams that you could actually realize, and as was said by a french observer at the time, francois bourgeois, and he was the diplomat for france who arranged the louisiana purchase, and he came back to see america in 1830 and he marveled at it. he said, "i saw a former president walking along the sidewalk." he thought that was the most amazing thing and he said the government of the united states has no model in ancient or modern times. so the united states demonstrated possibilities, much as magellan demonstrated that the world wasn't flat. magellan didn't make the world round. he simply circumnavigated it. so my book argues that there were three, in a way, generic principles that were a part of what happened, and i call these access, arbitration, and transparency. i think it's better than life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, because those have too much of an american flavor, and these are really world values and they took place alongside another great geopolitical transition, the transition by which nations replaced empires. this happened, and this has happened over a period of man

a policy emphasis on things that say, if you do the right things, i call this like the american bourgeois synthesis, if you do the right things it should be possible for you to get ahead. it should be possible for you to stay connected to the labor market. looking at policy through that lens, things like wage subsidies which reihan talked about, i've talked about. things like trying to get the long-term unemployed back to work through tax rebates or what have you, those are things that say you are doing the right stuff and therefore we have an obligation to you. if you're not doing the right stuff, then we don't. if you're not trying to work, we don't have an obligation to support you. that we're all in this together but it has to be two-way. i don't think either party has captured that space yet and that is a very fruitful place for the republicans to go. >> tell me how wage subsidies would work. >> look, there is a problem right now is that you have americans who are not competitive with chinese workers or whatever. or they're not competitive at the level that their parents worked at. s