>> a w would help. >> iidot mean to cnge you totally. buof course youad ts novel reignorrespondent thing, all due. ople of this not been cering politics. you uld notet back on the campaign trail fast enough. and with that. buthat part of world would you ke to go to now? buthat part of world would you ke to go to now? i not know whatbout the payments are. i have not tald about it. my visit to chin which was fairly brief -- i was staoned here, and h would i get the news? i would have to learnhe langua, which i probably would not have been very good at. >> i think that helps. i was lucky inhe philiines, because moeople spoke english, and i lrned spanish enough to go to central america to g byhere. i think pershing is a dangeus thing. -- pachuting is a dangerous thing. bill keller from the "new york time got a danrous perception going thereut i was ltle surprise to learn that bill had never been there. i was not sure i w comfortable ving someone, i do not care if i'm the editorr not, writing front-page stories about a country they have never

at is needed, wilensky says, is a fundamental cnge in medical. that means doctorsorking in teams ross specialties, paid not per visit or procedu, but by the bune to treat a patit's disease. >> it's a loof changes and it much tougher than saying we have 7,000 ces we pay physiciansnder medicare and we're ing to take them down by 5% or 10% or $10cross the board. that's the kind ofhing congress this about when they want to save money. >> reporter: if health care reform is to succe, congress may ne to come up with some new ideas and fast. as theaby boomers age, they are requiring more medic care. d analysts agree the country can't wait anotherecade or two to aress rising health care costs. rren gersh, "nightly busines report", washingn. >> suzanne: joining meow with his thouts on healthcare and the economy is uriel roubini. he is theconomics professor at nyu's stern school of buness, who forecaed the housing bubble, way before everyone else. professoroubini, welcome back to nightly business repo. >> pleasure beg with you tonit. >> suzanne: i nt to sta

. >>> theentagon is considering sweeng cnges to the detainee policy acss afghanistan.t is according to a high- level military riew obtained by "in n york times." the concern is tha the air base has become a recruitmencenter for the taban. the air base houses thoshat the u. military considers unlawful combatants. weave this report from shington. >> th airbase is home to the st infamous prison in afghanistan. even the ptures we can show are restricted by the u.s. milary for security reasons. around 600 of the high-value leged prisoners are locd up here. some havealled it afghanistan's guantanamo bay. it is at the center of a major u.s. review of the entire afghan prison system. "the newyork times" first quarter -- first reported on the review. more mnstream priners may ne to be kept serate from those accused oextremism. then there is the ise of abuse. last month, the bbc oke to 27 former detainees. they claim to have been mistreated. >> we were thrown on th ground and shot at for ds and 60 ghts. ias forced to stand. they would not let msleep. the only stopped this when m

do you cnge your mind? >> no. i expect unemployment to go as gh as 11% wch it did in 1981. okay, we came ou of that recessn. if you bght city bk in 1981, you made a ton of money. when you bght it in 1991, prince alawali did. you made 0 million. in 2001, 2002, we had the same phenomon take place. if t banks are not going out of business, if they ear not beg nationalized, youave t own em. i think the upside is that much bier than playing in the densive arenas. >> ws it -- do you think -- let me ask you a two-part question. i think that you say -- think what youay makes like a lot of sense. why is i that all dayhen listed to our network that no one else is willing to stick their neckout and say that this could happen. i know a lot of people must believe it. i think there afraid. >> think ere are different roles fodifferent people. i think the anchors who are fulltime urnalists can't do . >> we have the gsts all day. the guests l day e more cautious and wld say, h uld you ever sell microsof i never heard anyone say sell microsoft in mlife. >> the only ason i sold it -- it's the

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>> the cnges wilbe painful to make bu whe they make them the end result will probably be more vibranthan tod. >> charlie: and they have to do what to survive and be more vibrant. >> they ve to decide the topics they own. the sear rock model with sports re and mens wear here is over. you i'm sure have a sight to check out fincial news, politics i hope us and sports, people establish invidual relations with the sites deded to t our chip in t particular space. the post a any other tropolitan newspaperan'twn multiple spaces they have to died what th're about and go deep andhat matters mo, i think, tn whether you're distributing news print or on e-mail or mobi device. the point of theatters do you own editial space and can you monitize it. >> charlie: are you? >> yes. >> the first six months are defined if theorld can like you more and they hed george bush so aone could haveome and the couries would have reted better he'sandled hill self marvelous especially overseas uerstanding the rious diences. he hasn't been tested yet. he's got thrs great relatiships what do you do with tm when push c

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>> what we ce away with is he s a to keep cnge at the forefrt of his work and change the forefront of what the congress aten to do. what he's very clear about, i u fix the problem tha most afflict black and brown people, you actually fix the countrys a whe. we have fght for, to raise the floor in this society. we have fght for blk people because historicly that flow was defined by the way that black pele were treated. but each time weraised the flor we actuallyimproved the country for allpeople. just take our first issue, right. 100 years ago we were founded here in manhattan, to end lynch mob justice. when we shamedhe country o of that practice, we made life better for blacks,or tholics who were the second most diriminate, for jews, cowboys that's partlyhat he was talking about last night. we engage thesessues and most december prettil afflict black anbrown people and life gets better for all ople and the couny as a whole. >> charlie: jessjackson saidhat's the last years of fighting for equity and accession i think becomes t xt century struggle. >> and he's very right. wee at a momen

at could we don your judgment to cnge that particular position?i'msure the president and medvedev a putin have discussions exactly ont topic. you're right, mort. irans one of the critical issues we have to face and russian cooperatiowould be tremelhelpful. but i think it's a god sign that the president has been able to get this agreement with effect through afghastan and talk about start taty and as vice president biden said a few months ag try to reset the relationship and gack into pructive relationship. ultimately, e president has to be able to convince the russians that if their self-interest, i think he can, to help us with iran. iran is muchloser to russia. they he contacts with russian territoriemuch cser to iran thanhe united states. so i think this progss on this front, but not as dramac. >> senator ree i'm going to talk to you. i know u're on the banking committee and i know you got ba from visiting your home state rhode island whe unemployment is among t five highest in the cou. what are your thoughts right now on the potential need r a

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. >> ifil: but with cronkite's passing also comes t certainty that me things will cnge forever. and joining me now to flect on cnkite's legacy and the news busess he left behind are: todd gitlin, a professor o urnalism and sociology columbia unirsity-- he is also the author of 12 books onedia and society; and onof our own, robin macneil, the forer co- ahor of the newshour. welcome to youoth. robin, i wnt to pick up with what mr. cronkite said to you allhose years ago looking back forrd, rward back at e news business. whereoes walter cronkite fit in th continuum? >> well, i tnk he's unique. he ca of age when tevision was coming of age in journalism. he brought unique credentials to that. he didn't become an chorman and then become a journalist. he became an anchorman after he had been, ad a very solid career as a reporter. he didn't have to ptend to be anything he wasn't. and heame at a ti when the three network ne shows virtually held tntire nation, nation'sattention eve evening at a time when still lots of famies gatred at supper time in a family conclave. also, eachity in the

that because the separation is enly aware of the cnge in the deficit outlook andhe allenge it's facing. >> rose: to have a deficit-neutral alth care bill wh would heave to do to change in terms of h origina prosals? >>ell, to their credi, they originally... ey've always said that the bilshould be deficit neutral. it just that en theampaign for health care really began, that was notne of the fit things that was out of anyone's mouth. and, by the way, had been serving theri would have pursueit the way they did. w that the deficit outlook has become carer to them- and i nt to emasize,hey're keenly aware of is-- they've been stressing above all the deficit... nessity for deficit neutral tilt in other words, they've alwayseen in that ace but they've said this is paramount. one of the reasonshat the bill is proving to b a gre struggle, althougi believe ultimately they'll getone, is because paying for under the congressional budget fice scoring system you'r faliar th so that is certifiably paid for is proving difficult. cause this is going to cost approximately $1 trilln over ten years and fi

people who sdy the brain, most of us, would argue that any mental cnge -- there is always a corresponding brain change, and thisn fact is the main goal of the enterpre -- to expln all mental functions including ings like self-awareness in terms changes in neuro but returning to plasticity, one of the main evidences for this in my lab is in amputees. phantom lim. it turns out the is a comple map of t surface ofthe body on the surfa of the brain. every brain is represented on a particar point and it also tus out that the map not perfect, it's distord so the ha is right next to the fe in that map. what we find is wh you amputate the arm,the question is, is there a ho in the brain corresponding to therm and the answer is there is no hole. thinputrom the face now takes overhe region that once belonged to e hand. so you touch the guy on the face, he is an amtee, you touch the guy on the face, he wi say, "oh, my god, you're touching my phantom lb" and we were spooked out by this the first timee saw it, then we realized wt was going on, the inpufrom the face, the skin is enervatinghe hand area th

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