the shells, they went down to cortez -- not lake -- the cortez sea to get, was that mostly hard or brittle? . >> it was hard but not tool hard. the colorado plateau is covered with chert, a glassy rock that is really really good for making tools, making very sharp edges. you find there are pieces of chert all over the place and you can still cut your skin open very quickly with it and it's been sitting out in the open. >> where does chert come from? . >> it's a marine rock that's mostly silica. you find it in these layers, sandstone layers. if you are especially in a marine or water environment, you will find this layer of chert. it's in all colors, purple, green, red, blue. it's a beautiful rock. . >> one thing i wanted to ask you, the review in the paper recently on sunday said that your book is different from all the other books about the anastazi because you brought out some of the non-flattering parts of their culture like violence. how did you conclude that they were a violent culture? . >> well, i didn't necessarily conclude they were a violent culture, i just concluded there was vi

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she walks into the bright vegetable garden, chopped water to life from brittle landscape, leans her hoe against goat wire, admires shoots balanced on turned earth, looks up, fulfilleds a leaves sigh, clouds, hands on her hips, her jaw falls open and a bomb drops down her throat. white. the horizon, a black line against brilliant white landscape, pale blue sky above it, empty except for heat devil blur, a raindrop sound hits a wooden post against cloudless light, another, the lamb, his children, wife, then he drenched in bullet rain. blue. the final moment of night passing, exposes limbs, torsos, heads, breasts, humans, cows, goats, curved and knotted heaps, lays blue against bitten grass. final piece, the title is the headline for a newspaper. anti-war activist immoh lates along kennedy's express way near giant flame of the millennium skull up tour 4 days before november 2006 elections and no one pays attention. everything but the heart reduced to ash. thank you. . >> i just want to thank george for bringing to bear some of the numbers, some of the horrific things that are happening in

he was very brittle. he could be very, very mean to people at times, and whether it was to a waitress in a restaurant or to a guy who had stayed up all night coding, he could just really just go at them and say, "you're doing this all wrong; it's horrible." and you'd say, "why did you do that? why weren't you nicer?" and he'd say, "i really want to be with people who demand perfection, and this is who i am." >> isaacson believes that much of it can be traced to the earliest years of his life and to the fact that jobs was born out of wedlock, given up by his birth parents, and adopted by a working-class couple from mountain view, california. >> paul jobs was a salt of the earth guy who was a great mechanic, and he taught his son steve how to make great things. and he--once, ey were building a fence, and he said, "you got to make the back of the fence, that nobody will see, just as good-looking as the front of the fence. even though nobody will see it, you will know, and that will show that you're dedicated

cold temperatures showedy material made the tank brittle. next billing thing from this web site says cupertino base apple will provide the i watch for sale next year. has blue tooth technology and one and a half inch screen. how cool is that. that's all for now. night line-up next. for collin, sandhya, carolyn, larry all of us here, appreciate your time. see you tomorrow. next newscast at 4:30 am on morning audio . >>> tonight on "nightline," the almighty dollar. they're cheap, they're no frills and they're setting up shop across america more than ever before. but can these bargain stores help you recover from your holiday shopping hangover? >>> one of the most mysterious and sought after artifacts in the bible. one of the greatest treasure hunts in human history. christiane amanpour takes us on a journey in search of the lost art. >>> bette and billy. to

and congress cannot agree on a plan to sort out finances, there will be automatic savage cuts and brittle tax rises. neither side is budging much. >> it is very hard for them to say yes to me. at some point, they have got to take me out of it and think about their voters. >> four weeks, the white house said that if i move on rates, they would make substantial concessions on spending cuts and entitlement reform. i did my part. they have done nothing. >> it would mean automatic spending cuts worth more than a trillion dollars. taxes for the average household would go up by about three and a half thousand dollars. most economists say the u.s. would be put back into recession and global growth could be halved. the u.s. defense budget alone would face a cut of $500 billion. companies like aircraft manufacturers are very nervous. this is already hurting business. >> this is a confidence detractor. and do i really have the confidence to make an investment when i know little about just our uncertainty, but where this is going? >> it is not just the big boys that worry about staying aloft. this ha

the glass apparently shattered becoming brittle from age and temperature. >>> marine biologists are working to keep a six-finned whale alive at breezy point. that's a neighborhood hit hard by hurricane sandy. the 60-foot-long whale is believed to be female and was founded on wednesday. firefighters are spraying her with saltwater. marine biologists are not optimistic about the whale's chances of survival. >>> families are being allowed back into their homes in the neighborhood just outside of rochester, new york. they were forced out on christmas eve after a shooting incident that left two firefighters dead. we have new details about the gunman. >> reporter: the foundation is awe that remains of this home in webster, new york, one of seven burned on christmas eve. speng ler shot at firefighters when they arrived. off-duty policeman john ritter got there seconds after the firefighters. >> there was a lot of explosion and i looked at my windshield and there was ball it hole in front of me. he barked his car up to try to protect firefighters but spengler was able to shoot four firefighters, ki

cold temperatures showedy material made the tank brittle.ing from this web site says cupertino base apple will provide the i watch for sale next year. has blue tooth technology and one and a half inch screen. how cool is that. that's all for now. night line-up next. for collin, sandhya, carolyn, larry all of us here, appreciate your time. see you tomorrow. next newscast at 4:30 am on morning it would be my baby, my husband. i wouldn't want to be with anybody else. seriously. >> good answer. >> your wife? >> yeah, my wife and snoop. >> and snoop. there you go. >>> coming up, hundreds of teachers ended up spending part of their break in a controversial lesson of their own. >>> and we'll show you how international politics is stopping capable parents of

[applause] she also makes the best brittle you'll ever taste in your life. marie is not in the room, but she is really behind today's event. she helped with last year's event. have fun. i am reminded that we really are here today to have fun. i think our next speakers are really going to show us the way in that, and then we have a whole afternoon of playing and getting on with things but it is really my privilege not to introduce a lady to you who i have watched really from afar. i have really just had the pleasure of meeting ms. davis in the last few years. i can remember when i first saw her on tv and thought, here is a woman filled with dignity and compassion, so articulate, and she really helped us to understand what was happening in the world. you know, most of you know that ms. davis was the first black female journalist in the west. and she really did change the face and focus of news. she has recently written a book that is very important, both for her but for us, because it really tells the story of her life and all that has gone on in the world she

munger: yeah, they charged the floor,,but they sit there for four hours snapping off pieces of peanut brittlehoving it in their mouth. >> it is our job to run the business the way we can get the most out of it and continue to service the customers with this great candy. the pressure, it may come -- the boss eats a fair amount of candy. liz: cocoa, let me just ask you, cocoa and sugar looking pretty good. can you hedge? can you buy? how tough does that make your business at these prices skyrocket? >> well, over the last five years, you have seen the cocoa market as low as $1500 a metric ton and as high as $3700 a metric ton. currently, we are at about $2500. we ride this roller coaster. we ride ahead. generally, we just work our way through. liz: brad, good luck with the holiday season. >> appreciated. nice talking to you. liz: i have to try one of those polar bear paws. my mother is obsessed. brad kinstler, see's candy, ceo and president. we will be right back. market up 68 points for the dow jones industrials. we are watching this very closely. liz: and eerie, quiet has descended over the ma

comedy has a way of pointing out where we're fractured or brittle or inflexible or intolerant. comedy does that. so today during the 12 minutes i'm up here, if you don't laugh, it's not because i wasn't funny. it's because you are broken somewhere. that happens all over the planet. my disease is cognitive behavior thing you talked about this morning, or lessening the felony con fiction to a misdemeanor conviction thing, that's all good. the addict that you deal with, the criminals, addicted criminal is a little redundant anyway. addicted criminal is like saying intelligent criminal. i always tell the incarcerated population, criminal doesn't mean wrong. criminal means caught. they laugh hard at that right there because they know they got caught and then i'll remind them that if you have a sense of humor if balances unfairness. if life is fair -- one for the normal and one for the rest. normal people hear the word tweak, it means enhance something. normal people see d.o.c., it's short for document. not department of corrections or drug of choice which go together at some point.

shanghai officials say cold temperatures and shod yes materials made the glass so brittle. >> troublere, some scary moments for shoppers in a sacramento mall after reports of gunfire last night. people ran for safety. to started about 5:00 in the afternoon ai. group of 20 teens pushed shoppers and knocked over things creating a lot of noise, sounding like gunfire, sending people scrambling for cover. stores locked down, shoppers afraid of another mass shooting. happen. hid hinld the counter at macy's. and then, i was like, we need Ñkt this mall was reopened but few returns.l was reopened but >>> violent video game makers removed links to gun makers on the web sitd of its popular game. link as loued gamers to brows and purchase some swep ons featured in the shooter games. the violentÑmsdr video games hae come under increased scrutiny. >> popularity of e books rising in the u.s.. a survey says it nearly a quarter of americans over age ⌜cgkve identified themselves as e-book readers. a 7% jump from last year, on the other hand number of printed book readers dropped 5%. few found that for

. >> this was brittle they knew each other. this was not a random act.was -- portal. >> de is trying to figure the d.a.. the district attorney is trying to figure this out. it was it- described as brutla.. >> the woman was described as beaten and if they're trying to send a message to someone else? it is early investigation. >> still many questions not answered and they say that one of the spot is a husband with three kids and a model parent. >>pam: the man accused of kidnapping and killing sierra lamar was back in court today. 21-year-old antolin garcia torres, once again entered no formal plea to charges he murdered the morgan hill teen in march. he has been held without bail since he was arrested in may. garcia- torres also faces new charges in connection with the alleged attempted kidnapping of several other women. prior to lamarr's disappearance. prosecutors plan to try him on all of the charges together. he will be back in court next month. >>pam: eight children have been born and one special date, 12, 12, 12. in queens. shooting in queens place. k

people don't have that brittle edge that you have.f i had a dog -- >> your dogs are privately wined and dined. but, can you imagine how loud it is. >> i go back to concept of dogs, are not born with oh, bead yen degree -- oh oh, bead yen degre, there is no such thing as a bad dog there are bad owners. neil: you met a dog did you not like? about yes. neil: if your cubical mate took it to work. >> the dog stays conditios conde cube call -- stays within the cubical. and there is a working environment and rules for working environment, where if that dog on a distraction there. they are healthier, people are healthier, they lose fewer workdays because when -- listen when dog gets sick, you go to vet rather than work, that studies have shown that. neil: i don't get you. i don't know. but. >> proof is in relative large numbers. so, pur purina is doing a natioe search for most pet-friendly businesses, a contest, where they search between now and middle of january, you can go to purina.com, submit your story with photos and supporting evidence

. >> it was brittle. the winds have died down. that is the good news.emperatures have cooled down as well. 30 degrees is our temperature at reagan national. that is always the exception rather than the rule. take a look at temperatures across the region. for the most part, we are in the '20s. i am thinking that annapolis is incorrect. the temperature at frederick, 30 degrees. 21 in manassas. 21 degrees in culpeper. we're about 10-15 degrees colder than we were this time yesterday. while the winds calmed down there is enough of a breeze that there is a touch of a wind chill factor. it feels like 20 at the lows. when charles r., 18 and 21 in hagerstown. -- wind chills are feeling like 21 in hagerstown. our average today is 44 for the highs and 29 for our low. we will be right within the ballpark for our afternoon high. we have a little bit of clotting is pushing and from the west. you can see there is a little bit of an area trying to make its way in now. that will clear out. you'll see more sunshine than anything else this morning. clouds will filter in

smokers accumulate less bone in critical areas like lumbar region of the spine and hips, making them brittle. researchers say that is worrisome because 50% of bone growth occurs in adolescence. >>> friends and family organized a flash mob in that amazing show of support for an elementary schoolteacher battling cancer. hundreds gathered in a field outside massachusetts general hospital in boston to surprise the teacher she hasn't been feeling well enough to handle calls and visits they organized a choreographed dance to lift her spirits. the large group spread out to form a giant heart, friends played music in her hospital room so it synced up with routine on the field. >>> news flash for deal hunters, burger king offering whooper this week for just 55 cents, to celebrate the 55th anniversary of the sandwich, good thursday through sunday. here's the catch, you have to buy another whooper at full price. if you buy the full priced one you can get me one for 55 cents. >> wow, okay now that i know. the whooper is 55, holy smoke! >> next the controversial statement about a terrible tragedy involvi

one of the problems with obsidian is that it's very sharp, but it's very brittle and it needs support. keach: the blades would have been used together with this stone which functioned as a cutting platform. and thmaya used this piece of deer antler to drill holes. what an artisan would do is place a little bit of sand in a slurry on a spot of bone, take it and start to perforate it. keach: the drills would have made holes for the jade in these teeth. but one item uncovered had far more significance than mere decoration. widmer: this is a star gorget. it was produced from a marine conch or whelk which was imported from the gulf coast. and it's a very special artifact among the maya. i think -- of course, i'm biased, but it's probably the most spectacular artifact that's yet been found. but let me tell you where my bias lies. this is the symbol of the powatun or the bacabs. these are the gods of the underworld. keach: bacabs and powatuns were the maya gods who held up the earth and the sky. they were also the patrons of scribes. bacabs wearing a star were found carved on a throne in a l

now shanghai officials say cold temperatures and showedy material made the acrylic sheet so brittle it just gave way. >>> well just ahead tonight. frightening new outlook for computer crime next year. why computer crime next year. why the tablet th if. >> the shift smart phones and tablet causing a shift by hackers for malicious attacks and the bad guys are exploiting some of the newest features to too. david explains what kind of attacks you should expect. >>reporter: collectively virus trojan horses and worm called malwear 55 unique ones relessed over the internet daily, 1 per second. they attack network and p c. constant fear bring down the power grid and mass transit but the new target is the mobile device payment system with a simple swipe. bad guy tap in the bank accounts. >> whenever it reaches proximity to another mobile device that has been infected immanuel if you end up doing a financial transaction so essentially you are giving somebody your money away being close to them. >>reporter: senior v p at the internet security company forecasting 2013 will see a big increase in mo

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i'm looking for the brittle brothers. i don't know what they look like, but you do, don't you? got my wife and they sold her but i don't know who took her. >> that means we visit every plantation until we find her. >> once the final burden, brother,alize dead in the dust, i agree to give you your freedom, and i'll take you to rescue your wife. >> where are we going? >> yeah! whooo! >> you have my curiosity. but now you have my attention. >> how do you like the bounty hunting business? >> i like the way you die, boy. >> he is a rambunctious sort, ain't he? >> what's your name? >> django. >> rose: i am pleased to have quentin tarantino back at this table. welcome. >> thank you. it's good to be back at this table. >> rose: where did this movie come from? >> well, i had the idea for it-- not a story, but i kind of had the idea for about eight years or so. and the idea was in its simplest form was a man who was a slave during the antebellum south, before the civil war, who would get free through some circumstance which i hadn't figured out yet. and then he would become a bounty hunt

they become brittle. well, it's the same thing to so many domains and no word to it and it came to me that, hey, everybody fears black swans. not necessarily bad. a lot of things to gain from stress, disorder, the unpredictable. >> give me an example of a system that wants stress, that benefits from trauma. >> well, a good system that benefits from an uncertainty, whether two systems, take both of them. to get a good idea. the reason we are not eating tonight, i'm going to a restaurant. the reason i'm not eating soviet style cafeteria food because every failure in the restaurant business improved the food on the table. it's bad for the restauranteur. we have to be human about things but the failure rate in the business determines the quality of the service you're going to get. you know, transportation is very, very safe. you know? air transportation. why? because there's never, never, never a plane crash that doesn't improve the safety of the system. and happening now for ever since -- >> every time the s

experts say the glass became brittle after long time usage and low temperatures. >> could you imaginet in front of it though? >> yeah. that would be a little different and scary. >> not us. >> wow. >> you got a wow out of billy? >> yeah. he is off camera just to the side here. >> big story, then. >> it is. >>> all right. to weather around the bay area. we have a nice dry break. that's our big weather headline right now. it's dry, yeah, you can put away the umbrellas. we're in between storm systems right now. it is going to be cold, grab a jacket and the showers are returning tomorrow afternoon. we are watching a low pressure system off the coast. it could bring us a good chance of showers friday in the afternoon and looks like it's going to stay unsettled through saturday. so if you have any travel plans over at sfo this is actually a good day to hit roads. no delays at the airports over at sfo, for the most part, clear skies, not much fog, high in the low 50s. different story in airports around the country. we have snow, rain, a lot off? in concerns 36 degrees and rain in houston. an

but in marine animals it makes their shells and skeletons brittle.he more acidic the water, the harder it is for corals to grow their skeletons. that leaves them more susceptible throughout their lives to other stressors like disease. there is also evidence that its harder for corals to reproduce when the ocean is more acidic. >> that means that if a coral dies, there is less likelihood that a baby coral is going to be able to replace it in the future. >> sreenivasan: scientists have been running lab experiments to see how coral reefs will react to the dual impacts of increased warming and acidification. so what's happening inside, why are they in these tanks? are there differences between the tanks? >> we are controlling light to the amount of light that's coming into the system or into the tanks and we're able to control that and then we are also controlling the amount of co2 that's in the tanks so we are pumping in co2 to elevate it to conditions that are predicted for 2100. >> sreenivasan: so these corals are in a way living in the future? >> yea

sreenivasan: ocean acidification acts a lot like osteoporosis-- the condition that causes bones to become brittle in humans. for oysters, scallops and other shellfish, lower ph means less carbonate which they rely on to build their essential shells. as acidity increases, shells become thinner, growth slows down and death rates rise. >> with oysters, the vulnerable stage that dissolves in these corrosive waters in the very, very young stage. they're using a form of calcium carbonate to build their shell that dissolves really easily. >> sreenivasan: on the east coast growers are starting to worry that they'll be hit next. new bedford, massachusetts is america's top producing fishing port and sea scallops-- another species vulnerable to acidification-- makes up 77% of their production. >> shell fishing is really a way of life for many of those families and much of that community and taking that away kind of further homogenizes our country. we could see changes in the demographics of the community as working families move away and look for other opportunities. >> sreenivasan: sarah cooley studies the