columbus. columbus did not discover america. he opened a pathway.less we start putting those thoughts in and have them explained and connect and defend these things, we are bound to stay in this route we are in. do you have any ideas how we can get out of it? >> the more you can have research and bring out these ideas and argue with each other -- history is not static. it is a vibrant discipline. we should be studying a lot of history early on and arguing about ideas. history is the place to do it. host: we have a twet here. guest: a whole lot of history is a hoax. i have been two sessions and sat there. it was maudlin. everyone has a good time, because, hey, teachers to spend some time out of the classroom and connect with other teachers. but professional development can be as vacuous as the best books. so did some good people. stephanie harvey and janet allen do a great job. but there is money coming into professional development and a lot of services out there. but mainly people need to talk to each other. we have great teachers, and most of them

sandra from franklin county writes -- columbus area. a year ago my partner lost her job. in july she started working part time in the evening which offered no insurance. in october she found full-time work. we're grateful she's now employed. the job has no coverage. while she was unemployed it hurt us tpupbgsly, but we can't afford health insurance now. a friend of mine lost his job last year. after looking for a job, he decided to go back to school. his family found a job. he's happy for that. again, he also doesn't have insurance. maria from montgomery county writes i work in a school and come in contact with families that can't afford basic care for their families please help. we want an america that sees health care as a right for air force. today, mr. president -- as a right for all of us. today i was on "face the nation" a woman i was -- a woman who was there has a contract, an independent contractor. she has her small business. she doesn't have any insurance. she has insurance that she pays a whole lot of money for, but she said five years from now i'm going to be

columbus did not discover america. he opened the gateway. and unless we start putting those thoughts in children's head and have them explained and connect and to send we are bound to stay in the route we are in. do you have any ideas how we can get out of it? >> guest: in today's world particularly in the classrooms that have access to the internet there is so much available for children the more you can have them research and bring out these ideas in class and argue with each other and understand history is not static, steel. it is a very vibrant a disciplined, and the first three grades in most schools is just fabulous. we should be spending a lot of world history early on in bargaining of -- are doing about ideas. this is a place to do it. >> host: we have a tweed here. please ask joy how to proceed with professional development for teachers. how do you read teach teachers? >> guest: professional development is a big thing now and a huge professional development in history. and a whole lot of it is a hoax. i've been to a few sessions. i

this is christopher columbus in his own hand, in his own journal, he said, quote, it was the lord who put it into my mind, quote, -- i'm sorry, prenth sis, i could feel his hand upon me, the fact that it would be possible for me it sail from here to the indies. all rejected it with laughter, ridiculing me. there is no question that the inspiration was from the holy spirit because he comforted me with the raise of marvelous inspiration from the holy scriptures. there are those who say the real lesson of columbus is that it's amazing what you can do even when you don't know where you're going, you don't know where you are when you get there, so long as you get the government to pay for it. but i would submit that there was a creator, a creator as christopher columbus believes, who put this into his mind to sail west and discover this area so that the greatest nation in the history of mankind could rise. now, if you go to the pilgrims who came across, originally from the netherlands to england and to america by way of stopping in england, this is 1620, part of the pilgrims' compact, thes

"lessons in disaster. " here is columbus, ohio. was your favorite book of the year?aller: my favorite book was a book i heard about on "book tv." "50 miles from tomorrow," like an eskimo. it is an insider's view it of alaska. it is a great book. he talks about growing up in alaska and being sent to kentucky for high school. host: what does the title mean? caller: he dropped 50 miles from the international dateline the separates alaska and russia. by any readers of sarah palin "going rogue," i invite him to read this book. host: thank you. 2009 was the 20th anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall. here is a book that is called " tear down this wall." clorox. was a report of the year? -- little rock. caller: the book was reissued in paperback. host: that is ok. caller: "professor and the madman" by simon winchester. the thing i got from it was a tremendous amount of work and time, people who put together all these words and a half to keep doing it all the time. host: and we did cover that. you could go to our web site and take a search for that. good morning to davi

jack hanna, the director emeritus of the columbus zoo, host of "jack hanna wild" on tv. and the kiddies love and adults love it a lot. we do it around the holiday season. we start with a camel? >> yeah. >> larry: we have never started with a camel. >> i like your jacket. you are hip. >> larry: tell us about this camel. >> this is a dromedary camel. it's the oldest animal in the world. thousands and thousands of years. they raise them. this use them for christmas pageants and educational shows. the camel can survive in deserts, several weeks without water. the fat is stored in its hump. some people think it's water. the sandstorms in the desert get real bad. animals' eyes, two eyelids so the sand can't get in their e s eyes. for a person that have camels in the middle east or australia -- by the way, all camels are mostly domesticated. this is one hump for a dromedary camel and two humps for the back camel. the camel is used for everything. it's used for transportation. it's used for food if the camel dies. people eat camel meat. that fur is used for coats. the bones in t

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host: we have columbus city, ohio, good morning.ler: i do support the bill but i did want a public option. i will support the bill. i think we need it. i am 76. i enjoy medicare. host: can you tell us why you support the public option? caller: there are so many people without insurance. they are minimum wage workers and they cannot afford the premiums that are being charged right now. the public option would bring that down. host: you are 76, you're on medicare? there has been talk about cuts in medicare in the senate bill or a medicare commission to keep an eye on costs. what do you think about that aspect? caller: the cost oversight is ok but i don't go along with the fears that have been talked about. host: thank you. susan swin isain is back as cspan. host: the centers have been asked to get early and they will be voting from their seats rather than allowing a run on the floor. laurie kellman is telling us this is the first on the senate has voted on christmas eve since 1895. that debate was on matters of employment for former c

it is west of columbus. the county seat is london. for 26 years, i worked hard. carried my own insurance. when i started a home-base business, i started my husband's employer-based job. he had an injure andy went on employer disability in 2006. so i had to find my own insurance. i was turned down by almost every health insurance company because of a preexisting condition which was a heart attack five years ago. the only insurance i could buy was a short-term policy. she got sick, had $40,000 in medical bills from her procedure. she wiped out her savings. today she said i'm unable to buy a major medical policy, too young for medicare and make too much to qualify for medicaid. mary's an example of somebody who would be helped by this bill. she can go on the insurance exchange. she can choose a private company or a public option. and she could make a decision based on what her needs are. whether she wants the private or public. and she knows with a public option that prices will be more stable, that the quality will be better because there will be more competition t

here's columbus, ohio. ron on our independent line. what was your favorite book of the year? >> caller: hello. my favorite book was a book i heard about on booktv, 15 miles from tomorrow by william [inaudible] who was an eskimo and it's an insiders view of alaska. and it's a great look. he talks about growing up in alaska and been sent to kentucky for high school. >> host: what does that title mean? is it about the dateline? >> caller: that's right. he grew up 50 miles an international date line that separates russia. and i would invite any readers out there at palin, going rogue, to look into this book. 50 miles from tomorrow by william hensley. thank you. 2009 march the 20th anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall. here's a book i've were mashed rottenness sired and it's called tear down this wall. the city, a president, and the speech that ended the cold war. good morning to gail on a republican line. >> caller: it wasn't written the theater. it was reissued in a paperback. >> host: that's okay. we'll take that. then the rules a little bit. that's fine. >> caller: it's

jack hanna, the director emeritus of the columbus zoo, host of "jack hannah's into the wild" on tv. and a group of animals that the kiddies love and adults learn a lot. we do it around the holiday season. we start with a camel? >> yeah. >> larry: we have never started with a camel. >> i like your jacket there, though. >> larry: i'm hip, huh. >> you are hip. >> larry: tell us about this camel. >> this is a dromedary camel. the camel's the oldest domesticated animal in the world, they say. in the world. which is thousands and thousands of years. the jacksons here have raised this camel. they use it a lot pour christmas pageants as well as obviously educational shows. but the camel, larry, can survive in deserts. it can survive for several weeks without water. the fat is stored in its hump. some people think it's water. the sandstorms in the desert get real bad. the animals' eyes have two eyelids so the sand can't get inside their eyes. look at the little ears. nature made the little ears. that way the sand doesn't blast their eardrums or get inside their ears as well. remember one thi

here is columbus ohio. from is on the independent line. ron, what was your favorite book of the year? >> caller: hello, my favorite book was a book that i heard about on book tv 15 miles from tomorrows william hensley who is an eskimo and it is an insider's view of alaska, and it's a great book. he talks about growing up in alaska and then being sent to kentucky for high school. >> host: what does that title mean? is it the date line or something? 50 miles from tomorrow you said. calvo that's right. he grew up 50 miles from the date line that separates alaska and russia and i would invite any readers of sarah palin's going rogue to look into this book, 50 miles from tomorrow, by william hensley. >> host: thank you, ron. to those in line marked 20 the anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall. here is a book by romesh ratnesar and it's called quote code hair down this wall is the president and speech that ended the cold war." little rock, good morning, on the republican line what was your favorite book of the year? >> caller: it wasn't wri

i know no my state, in columbus, they do. are they not doing that enough? is there a way to strengthen that? mr. durbin: the point dr. gawandi makes is that there is this conspiracy of silence, this fear of outing a doctor, you know, a senior -- mr. brown brown: they don't wano speak up. mr. durbin: doctors and nurses aren't willing to speak up, other colleagues are not willing to speak up and they should for the sake of their own profession but certainty the sake of the patients. mr. brown: so you're arguing, senator durbin, that if there was a mechanism that -- an environment where nurses and doctors would be willing to speak up if there was a doctor that -- a surgeon that had a problem with alcohol, that the problem -- this issue would not go away certainly but this issue would be much less serious, the issue of malpractice, the medical errors, the deaths, the injuries that come from some kind of medical error, medical malpractice, would be much alleviated? mr. durbin: i am. and i would see that my time is over. and i would just say -- just thank the sen

by europeans brought with it beginning with christopher columbus tremendous slaughter of native people urge other countries to confront their histories and we may as well do that as well. on health care issue, i happen to think it is a human rights. we may not like or empathize with some people. still, it is a human right as should be education. if someone's house of business were burning down, with the look of their insurance card to decide whether to send the fire department first? people's bodies are sometimes on fire with disease and illness. if we do not believe it to be a public trust are human right, then we have not yet ascended to a sense of human responsibility and social compact to each other. host: let -- back to the president's speech in oslo. the president tried to address history in terms of the evil we have faced in this country and around the world. >> another is nothing week, nothing passive, nothing naive in the greed and lives of gandhi and dr. king, but as the head of state sworn to protect and my nation, i cannot be guided alone by their principals. i face the wor

amber from morrow county, that's an area of the state sort of north central, north of columbus, mount gilliad. she said, "at age 19, amber was disconnected --" this is more a story about her than an actual letter. "at age 19, amber was discontinued and of under her step-father's insurance plan because of her preexisting condition. needing constant medication and treatment for her diabetes, she tried to obtain her own health insurance plan. she was unable to afford any of her treatments because she couldn't get insurance. as a result of inability to treat her condition, she suffered two heart attacks and lost most of her vision. she's 22 years old now. she's now legally blind, has lost feelings in her hands and feet, missing many of her teeth and she has kidney and intestinal problems. she feels lucky now to qualify for government disability benefits. but imagine -- i mean, i don't know amber and i know what -- what her family members sent to us about her, but because she couldn't get insurance, because she -- she was -- she was taken off her step-father's insurance because of a preexi

host: next, columbus, ohio. kim is on the line. caller: i would like to say a couple of things. on what you just said about how they are treating barack obama, it is nonsense. it is frustrating to see how we treat this man who is really trying to save this country. to me, the republicans are a joke. these people with the tea party things -- i think they've listened to the republicans and watch fox news. i do not mean them any harm, but they are easily tracked. how can they talk about barack obama the way they do? after everything they did in eight years. i have many friends who have lost everything. they are totally tricking these people. how is this fair to anybody? the country is in bad shape. there is no time for this political stuff. what i want to add is this -- how can we get our country back when things started so bad for barack obama? how can we have people separate us, like this, at a time when we are in bad shape? guest: there are a lot of people who are unhappy at how the budget we have become. i hope barack obama can fulfil the promises he made when he came in, chang

"lessons in disaster. " here is columbus, ohio. was your favorite book of the year?aller: my favorite book was a book i heard about on "book tv." "50 miles from tomorrow," like an eskimo. it is an insider's view it of alaska. it is a great book. he talks about growing up in alaska and being sent to kentucky for high school. host: what does the title mean? caller: he dropped 50 miles from the international dateline the separates alaska and russia. by any readers of sarah palin "going rogue," i invite him to read this book. host: thank you. 2009 was the 20th anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall. here is a book that is called " tear down this wall." clorox. was a report of the year? -- little rock. caller: the book was reissued in paperback. host: that is ok. caller: "professor and the madman" by simon winchester. the thing i got from it was a tremendous amount of work and time, people who put together all these words and a half to keep doing it all the time. host: and we did cover that. you could go to our web site and take a search for that. good morning to davi

host: next, columbus, ohio. kim is on the line. caller: i would like to say a couple of things. on what you just said about how they are treating barack obama, it is nonsense. it is frustrating to see how we treat this man who is really trying to save this country. to me, the republicans are a joke. these people with the tea party things -- i think they've listened to the republicans and watch fox news. i do not mean them any harm, but they are easily tracked. how can they talk about barack obama the way they do? after everything they did in eight years. i have many friends who have lost everything. they are totally tricking these people. how is this fair to anybody? the country is in bad shape. there is no time for this political stuff. what i want to add is this -- how can we get our country back when things started so bad for barack obama? how can we have people separate us, like this, at a time when we are in bad shape? guest: there are a lot of people who are unhappy at how the budget we have become. i hope barack obama can fulfil the promises he made when he came in, chang

host: columbus, ohio, go ahead. caller: thank you.ax cut and changes were given where we had less money taken out of our paychecks. , april 14, -- come april 14, will there be a new tax table set up and will that be a tax cut and and have we been misinformed by this? will we be had with a bunch of taxes on what we have paid throughout the year? guest: this is not the first time this happened. this happens twice during the previous president's administration, where in order to stimulate the economy, the government and the treasury adjust to the holdings tables. the whole idea was to give you money in your neck pace a you can spend it and stimulate the economy. that happen in the current administration in the current year, effective april 1. it was called the work to pay credit. that reduced the withholding tables so everybody ended up with more take-home pay. that did not have a corresponding reduction in either the tax rates that will apply to your income or the tax tables. if you are a single individual and your w2 is the only income

by europeans brought with it beginning with christopher columbus tremendous slaughter of native peoplecountries to confront their histories and we may as well do that as well. on health care issue, i happen to think it is a human rights. we may not like or empathize with some people. still, it is a human right as should be education. if someone's house of business were burning down, with the look of their insurance card to decide whether to send the fire department first? people's bodies are sometimes on fire with disease and illness. if we do not believe it to be a public trust are human right, then we have not yet ascended to a sense of human responsibility and social compact to each other. host: let -- back to the president's speech in oslo. the president tried to address history in terms of the evil we have faced in this country and around the world. >> another is nothing week, nothing passive, nothing naive in the greed and lives of gandhi and dr. king, but as the head of state sworn to protect and my nation, i cannot be guided alone by their principals. i face the world as it is

championship run they orchestrated series of at least improbable victories against the defending champion, columbus crew, and the chicago fire, before as has been mentioned here, beating the favored los angeles galaxy in the los angeles soccer cup. in the championship game, the los angeles galaxy struck first with the goal by mike mcgee in the 41st minute of play. many thought that might be it but real salt lake continued to play hard and managed to tie the game in the 61st minute of play with a goal by robbie finley. the game ended in a tie. eventually it went to penalty kicks which real salt lake won by a score of 5-4. real salt lake's victory in the major league soccer cup stands as a testament to what can be achieve through the hard work, dedication, and relentless team spirit. as "usa today" wrote after the game, major league soccer has its most improbable champion in its history, close quote. real salt like's work in the face of adversity is inspiring and commendable. they deserve our praise and i want to applaud the team's players, coaches, management, and its fans who never gave up, all tho

"the columbus dispatch" summed it up when they noted congress has an abysmal public approval rating of 26%, and as of early november, and the smell of quid pro quo certainly doesn't help. it isn't just limited to the domestic press. the irish times noted that, quote, europe's congressman tread a fineline between a legitimate political fundraising and influence peddling, between friendship with lobbyists and outright corruption. now a report compared by the committee on ethics in july and detailed in yesterday's "washington post" has provide add rare glimpse into the cesspool of capitol hill politics. madam speaker, i have here an article, that article referred to from "the washington post," dated october 30 of this year. it notes that seven members who sit on the proningses committee , the subcommittee on defense, are, quote, under scrutiny by ethics investigators. the article notes that, quote, together the seven legislators have personally steered more than $200 million in earmarks to clients of the p.m.a. group in the past two years, and received more than $6.2 million in campaign c

next, columbus, ga., james, who supports the president. caller: i am in the army right now. it bothers me that the american people are not following are president. we're trained to follow our leaders, right, wrong, or indifferent. host: there's an article in this morning's "the new york times" talking about the strain of military service meets the result to go on. they quote the commander of the third brigade, one of the army's most deployed the divisions. your thoughts? caller: i totally agree, yes. i am a leader myself through no matter what, i need to measure my troops are ready. -- need to make sure my troops are ready. it bothers me that the american people do not follow. host: have you been deployed to to iraq and afghanistan? caller: i have been there twice. host: to afghanistan? caller: to iraq. host: are there any plans for you to be part of that 30,000 troops? caller: i am not sure right now. host: thank you for your call. jeremy opposes. caller: i support and defend the constitution. i would remind the previous service member of the first duty is to support and de

host: columbus, ohio. elizabeth, independent caller.as far as being more hard up when you are graduating, i have to say i majored in unemployment many times over the years and now i'm a mother with two daughters who are schooled online. they will graduate two years early at least. host: from high school? caller: they go to school. they have an online school, no black and mortar. host: what is the plan for college? caller: one of the things i wanted to bring up is the fact that one of the things i think would help people get a better idea of of the kind of -- i am sorry, the kind of political system we truly have and be educated more about the united states and what kind of jobs you should do would be to reinvent programs like this the and programs that would be available for high school or even college graduates to give them real world experience in places where they are needed. as volunteers or for credits against their student loans or credits against future education. but so many high school kids come out and don't really understand

lecturn, i'm happy to yield to the distinguished chair of the republican conference, my friend from columbus, indiana, self-described favorite hoosier of mine, my friend, mr. pence. 2 1/2 minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from indiana is recognized for 2 1/2 minutes. mr. pence: i thank the gentleman for yielding. i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. pence: i rise in opposition to the conference report before us today. . it really is astonishing. at a time when american families are hurting, 10% unemployment, now comes before the congress this massive piece of legislation. and the numbers tell the tale. 2,500 pages, nearly half a trillion dollars in spending, 5,000 earmarks on hundreds of pages. now, i know my distinguished colleague on the other side said that the numbers of pages is a -- so what. and i refer to him, i don't think it's about the number of pages. i think it's the size of the bill that will be offensive to millions of americans. when you get down into the details here, military construction and v

columbus, ohio. . . host: dale on the republican line?l before congress right now, the emergency economic tax system, and what this is is a perpetual stimulus for the people and the government. this is bipartisan, and this is basically, this is not hurting anybody. this is supplementing any existing program, and also, this is mixed with paying taxes, and this is a lottery game where there are seven categories. one of them may be for the disaster aid or the oil. host: can i start your right there, and get your thoughts on what we are talking about, with your perceptions as the president is moving to the metal on some issues? caller: i am proud of the president. i am republican but he is working in a bipartisan way. we need something like this very badly right now. we need to have bipartisanship. people do not know this but they need to know this. host: we will talk about this in the next statement with -- in the next segment with stewart baker. i want to talk about the guest of "newsmakers"tomorrow. he will talk to me about issues with glo

dreier: i'm pleased to yield three minutes to the gentleman from columbus, indiana, mr. pence.the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for three minutes. mr. pence: i thank the gentleman for yielding and i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. pence: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise in opposition to the rule and the underlying bill, the so-called wall street reform and consumer protection act of 2009. unfortunately it's been said, there's not much taxpayer protection in the bill and even less wall street reform. i see this bill as nothing more than a permanent bailout and job killer. i relish the opportunity rise in the immediate aftermath of the formidable debating skills of the chairman of the committee, who i respect. both personally and as a colleague. but i respectfully differ with him on this bailout as i did on the bailout he authored last year in the bush administration. mr. frank: would the gentleman yield? mr. pence: i'd be pleased to yield. mr. pence: it was offered by president bush, i did vo

in fact, he told the columbus dispatch that he has warned officials many washington that -- quote -- "with our financial challenges right now we are not in a position to accept additional medicaid responsibilities." i suspect that almost every governor in the country would make that same statement to us here in the senate. and by the way, this is, you know both republican and democrat governors both. i ask mr. president: how can we in good conscience move forward with this bill and the new mandate it places on states? how can we force the states to make the difficult choices that we are unwilling or unable to make here in washington. washington? pass it on to them, we'll pay for it for awhile, then you guys pick up the cost. mr. president, i served the people of ohio as governor for eight years and i was forced to cut my budget in the beginning four times. i'll never forget it. they were out 5,000 people outside my office screaming because we had made it more difficult or increased the cost of tuition for our colleges. mr. voinovich: hi to make countless difficult -- i had to make co

his family was so found of him, as you can see, when i saw him at the -- in columbus with his family. he was diagnosed in february 2010 with multiple my low massachusetts gene's doctor recommend a combination of standard treatment and clinical drugs. gene's insurance company threatened to stop paying for the care otherwise covered under the policy if he took his doctor's advice and enrolled in the clinical trial. if that's not rationing, mr. president, i don't know what is. gene died in june of this year never having the chance to participate in the cutting-edge research that might have saved his life. gene wrote before he died, i don't want my health options limited by insurance companies concerned with the bottom line rather than the medical research my doctor prescribes. mark runyan also from ohio faced the same barrier. mark was being treated for multiple myeloma with standard care. his doctor recommended a new drug that might help him recover quicker. the insurance company refused to imply. another terrible lost opportunity. the clinical trial would have helped us learn more abou

one generation something bigger than anything we've seen in economic terms since the arrival of columbusnd though the world. this is an extraordinary event in poverty alleviation and trade and opportunity for all of us but if it becomes a force in factor making all these other sustainable challenges all the more difficult to tackle. it might require new approaches, new solutions. to help us think about this let me turn first to amy. climate is an area of your expertise. do you think that international approaches, global governance, sometimes it is called, or perhaps on display in full flower copenhagen offers the best chance for tackling a problem like climate and related ecosystems not to just get caught in one aspect of it. >> absolutely. i think international agreement -- >> can we hear her in the back row? if you can hear her, stand up. >> not that i can see you. [laughter] i think an international agreement is essential. we need this to give the rules to be able to price carvin owls well as to understand what the risk and return is for business because the business is going to be un

. >> when we played columbus, it was like a pretty packed house, and starting in that game, i it was like the best feeling work like such a big feeling of accomplishment, like everything my family and i have been through. >> you watch him after 15 years behind, i will show you he was involved, unbelievable. not just one, almost two guys, you know, oh, feel good. >> it has been a pretty good year for the chicago fire, they may have had in the playoffs, and the team is hoping for bigger things in their future. >>> now let's talk baseball. what a season it was for the philadelphia phillies. one of the things that always feeds the philadelphia phillies is their fan support, which is always off the chart. by the way, they had more than 50 sellouts at sipsens bank park this past season, but this next story takes fan support you might say to a whole new level. as sportsnet philadelphia reports, one couple's love of the phillies truly became a matter of life and death. >> reporter: don has seen hundreds of phillies games, but it's the one he didn't see that he'll always remember. don and his

host: columbus, ohio. elizabeth, independent caller.aller: as far as being more hard up when you are graduating, i have to say i majored in unemployment many times over the years and now i'm a mother with two daughters who are schooled online. they will graduate two years early at least. host: from high school? caller: they go to school. they have an online school, no black and mortar. host: what is the plan for college? caller: one of the things i wanted to bring up is the fact that one of the things i think would help people get a better idea of of the kind of -- i am sorry, the kind of political system we truly have and be educated more about the united states and what kind of jobs you should do would be to reinvent programs like this the and programs that would be available for high school or even college graduates to give them real world experience in places where they are needed. as volunteers or for credits against their student loans or credits against future education. but so many high school kids come out and don't really unde

company z, you take, columbus, ohio. they can do it legally. so the obvious question is, if this isn't on the square in items of competition from health insurance companies, are these companies in fact paying out the kind of mean they should? i'm going to see if i can find a chart here. the staff was nice enough to bring them here. well, i can't. they're great charts but i can't find the one i'm looking for at this moment. according to the information for the national association of insurance commissioners, in 2008, medical malpractice insurers charged 11.2% in premiums but only paid out $4.1 billion in losses. in other words, they took in $7 billion more than they paid out in losses. that's a loss ratio of 36%, which means they're basically collecting $3 for every $1 that they pay out, pretty close. how does that compare to the rest of the insurance industry? well, it turns out that private automobile liability insurance had a loss ratio of 66%, payout of $2 out of every $3. homeowners, $72%. workers comp insurance, 65%. these medical malpract

transforming our understanding of the amazon and with the americas really looked like before the time of columbus and the level of sophisticated civilizations that existed. and i just want to end this talk with a little story, not such a little story but the story that the indians told me. here's a picture of the indians. one of the amazing things when i was doing this trip is that a lot of the tribes they don't have written records the of oral histories and these oral histories are passed down for generations with incredible precision and they are almost like a thick palms and to my astonishment they had one about fawcett and his party because they were among the first white men they had ever seen who come into that area and this oral history has been translated by anthropologists from the language and it maintains the epic rhythms of this and i just want to read it to you in closing. i should say before i start one of the things about these oral histories the had incredibly precise details and things i only knew about again because i had these letters and they described even the equipment and f