>>elliot: i try to travel as cheap as possible. we split rooms as much as we can, just to try to cutcosts down. >>mauney: shoot this year in one week i went from cheyenne on tuesday to livingstone montana wednesday, ubay city california thursday, weatherfrod texas friday and then san antonio i was saturday sunday. >>reporter: and one rule applies to every rider...no show, no dough... >>elliot: we don't' have guaranteed contracts in this sport, you know. if we're sitting at home we're not getting paid. >>reporter: which also means riders are seldom in peak physical condition... >>clarke: it's not one of them things where if you feel sick you're like i'm just gonna stay at hometoday. you've gotta get on no matter what. >>reporter: it must be said a lot of riders did seem to be limping. groin strains and torn ligamentsabound. all the riders wear a reinforced vest, but helmets aren't compulsory...but whatever they'rewearing for one simple reason...the line between one night's triumph >>reporter: .....and another night's trauma is a nar

i think i'll tell elliot that.checking into the hospital on the holidays. hi. that's my dad. except that. and that. i've just been so tired lately. yesterday, when the little man and i were wrestling, he dropped me in 10 seconds. i got him with a power kick. hey. ah. hey! you brought tyler a new ice cream cone. sure. thanks. it's a waffle cone. so, mr. milligan, it turns out you have a pretty serious case of mono. don't you get that from kissing? [a-ha's take on me plays] ah-choo! there are other ways you can get it. ahem. dr. cox. hold that thought, newbie. 1, 2, 3, 4. my new thing is to count just exactly how many people in any given room can kick your ass, and in here, the number is 4. 5, if you count mrs. cross. the other day she went off her meds. sa-lammed him with a cafeteria tray. she came outta nowhere! am i gonna get out of here in time for christmas? tyler's mom isn't around anymore, and i'd really hate to ship him off to his grandparents'. you'll beat santa home. i promise. phyllis, outside. what the he

helen, helen and robert and elliot and the whole family was jewish. and this was a time when, this was, i mean, still remains she was a deep believer, and as many of you might know, opening a body, performing in a topsy after death is considered a violation of sanctity. and helen didn't want her child to be autopsied, but farber was a pathologist and the only way he knew he could learn from this first remission was to perform an autopsy. and so farber had begged helen sandler to let helen to let her open roberts body and perform a normal autopsy. and she had refused, and then finally he had really begged her and said for the sake of medical history, for medical science that he opened his body up. and she had said fine, do it. and she said to l.a., she told me that this decision had haunted her for decades. for decades you think to herself it was the wrong decision. and so i think the finest raise i got from helen santos said in drug to me that the brooke brought her story to a close. she said that now that robert sandler has found a place, a rightful

debbie elliot list of the gulf of mexico and continues to follow developments since the bp disaster. danny has did the story of returning soldiers suffering from traumatic brain injury. we are the opposite of parachute journalism. our reporters have subject matter expertise built up over years, sometimes decades. member stations have the same. still in the growing void in local reporting. over 900 journalist. across nearly 800 member stations prayed that is in addition to npr journalist. they serve communities large and small, and very small. in fact, one third of the stories you hear on npr are produced by member station reporters. they defined the very character of public radio. in national, they cover fort campbell and the role that it has played in iraq and afghanistan conflict. in oklahoma, kosu has reported on the resurgence of math class in the midwest greg -- meth labs in the midwest. frank morris in kansas city is the go to guy for agriculture. stations contribute more than just reporting. they also provide critical life- saving information in times of disaster. on the gulf

on a summer day and seventeen forty one scores of elliot's the natives of the land set out on a hunting expedition into news they spotted odd looking ships on the horizon. those big sailboats milonga to an expedition led by a russian explorers bearing and cherokee. that was how kodiak island made its appearance on russian maps the first colonists were. guided by those maps with landed on the island more than forty years later seventeen eighty four the city of kodiak was the capital of russian america for fifteen years. could be x. streets to serve as a reminder of that time. many of them still bear the names of russian travelers and emergence. there is still the street name a shell a cult who all found good with this why not tell us where we first russian permanent settlement in alaska and then there's still a call son in law. and that can nikolai was. who i was representing the government of russia and also the russian american company. the russian american company was founded in seventy nine. primarily with the hunting and the selling of sea otters which dwelt in a large colonies on t

the first award went to former congressman carle elliot who sacrificed his political career in a showdownlabama's governor george wallace. he was not only the first recipient of the award, but jackie commissioned him to write his memoir for doubeday which she published as "the toes of courage -- "the cost of courage." one other book that falls in this category is the biography of another crew saiding southerner, john frank johnson whose landmark rulings advanced rights for african-americans. for example, by striking down the ban that local authorities wanted to place on the march of martin luther king and others from month come riboud in 1965. frank johnson struck down the ban, the march went ahead, and the biographer made that an important event obviously in johnson's biography. when the book's author after it was published and should say, you know, i was curious, why did you agree to do this book with me? why did you commission it? she said it's simple. i can remember jack and bobby talking about judge frank johnson and how much they admired him. now, this is a slightly -- a different s

debbie elliot lives near the gulf of mexico and continues to follow developments since the bp disaster. danny swerling stayed with the story of returning soldiers suffering from traumatic brain injury. we are the opposite of a parachute journalism. our reporters have subject matter expertise built up over years, sometimes decades. member stations have the same, filling the growing void in local reporting. over 900 journalists spread across nearly 800 member stations -- that is in addition to npr journalists. they serve communities large and small and very small. in fact, 1/3 of the stories you hear on npr programs are produced by member station reporters. they define the very character of public radio. in nashville, wpln covers fort campbell and the role it has played in iraq and afghanistan conflict. in stillwater, oklahoma, kosu has reported on the resurgence of met last through the u.s.. cutbacks in rural police departments, and cattle rustling, which has made a comeback in this top economist. frank morris in kansas city is npr's go to guy for agriculture, reporting on land prices,

debbie elliot list of the gulf of mexico and continues to follow developments since the bp disaster. danny has did the story of returning soldiers suffeng from traumatic brain injury. we are the opposite of parachute journalism. our reporters have subject matter expertise built up over years, sometimes decades. member stations have the same. still in the growing void in local reporting. over 900 journalist. across nearly 800 member stations prayed that is in addition to npr journalist. they serve communities large and small, and very small. in fact, one third of the stories you hear on npr are produced by member station reporters. they defined the very character of public radio. in national, ty cover fort campbell and the role that it has played in iraq and afghanistan conflict. in oklahoma, kosu has reporte on the resurgence of math class in the midwest greg -- meth labs in the midwest. frank morris in kansas city is the go to guy for agriculture. stations contribute more than just reporting. they also provide critical life- saving information in times of disaster. on the gulf coast