, sounds like science fiction keep this in denial that this is already reality? another way of thinking about this, are we going to be like a previous generation that looked at a science fiction like technology which h.g. wells client atomic bombs, but h.g. wells is the one that came up with the names in the first to come up with the concept. that previous generation to us look at atomic bombs and said, this is not something we have to wrestle with all of the political, moral, military, legal dilemmas that will come out of these until after pandora's box is already open. are we going to do the same? i could be wrong in it that one scientist to work for the pentagon told me i was wrong and this is what he said. there is no real ethical, legal, moral problem that he can contemplate what robots. quote, that is unless the machine kills the wrong people repeatedly. then it is just a product recall issue. now, i'm going to jump into science fiction, then in closing right here which is a couple of years ago the american film institute, the afis gathered a list of the to

there is nothing that you see in these systems is science fiction. nothing is powered by falcon technology. nothing is hollywood magic or fantasy. nothing is powered by teenage hormones harry potter. these are systems already here today. now, to pull back on this, there is something big going on in the history of warfare and maybe even history itself. u.s. military went into iraq with just a handful of unmanned aerial systems, uhs, uav, drums, pilot plains, whatever you want to call them. a handful during the 03 invasion. we now have over 7,000 in the military inventory. our invasion force went into iraq on the ground with zero unmanned ground vehicles. we now have over 12,000 in the u.s. military inventory. now, these packbot predator drones are the model t fords, the wright brother flyers and the term killer app for killer application doesn't just describe what i posted in the industry, the take, a new meaning when you were talking about systems like this becoming armed with everything from machine guns to rockets to missiles, you name it. that's w

i use my life even in my fiction. even in my non-fiction.woe the tides of parents who have a son that wants to be a mem wearist. >> how old are they? >> my dad, 70. my mom, 69. >> my dad is retired. my nom is a retired nurse. >> next novel was, she needed me. that's about abortion. it dealt where the culture wars. the last book, my heart bargain. the theme to that is thoughts of mormanism. >> which one was the biggest seller? >> i think up in the air. that was a different book. it was really a book trying to grapple with a society starting to become infat u waited with mobil phones and business travel. it was set in air planes and airports and ht miss for tur of being published happened. rss it sold very well until 9/11. the cover showed a bunch of businessmen traveling around and one crashing. it didn't sit well. the sales crashed. >> going back to your mom in hassle ton, well-known drug treatment center. did she know you were using drugs? >> i was away at princeton. she had no idea. even funnier i was born in a hospital in akron where alco

. >> if you are six previous books had been fiction. this is non-fiction. why? >> i have noticed in some of the reviews that they find some of the stories that i tell him plausible. that is unfortunate, because the book does happen to be all true unlike other memoirs that have come out recently. this is about a real place, princeton university. it really experience it, might education. i did not know that it would have much relevance to people unless they were assured that it actually happened. >> if you say up front that this is a work of memory concerning events from more than 25 years ago. it tends to be truthful in its narrative. there are, i suspect, a number of inaccuracies. a number of people's identities had been changed in disguise. uncle admiral. >> key was a retired admiral whose job had been to survey the coast of alaska and southern california. he, at four-years old, babysat me constantly when my mother was in school and my mother was at work. i think it was the last time i truly learned, until like that at a princeton. >> i suspect someone might qu

>> we have, what is new with the empress is to be doing fiction. again because it is important to have ideas behind what we do fiction is a place where stories can often be told and interpreted in different ways we started the outspoken author series that combines short fiction from "popular science" fiction writers when they talk about their personal politics whether they are trying to get across and demystify what the science fiction is about. to "the reader" it can be shocking as the author or personal ideas are often covered up by these fictional narratives but it is fascinating. >> host: what are the two books you are starting out with? >> the lucky strike which is an alternative history if the bomb was not dropped. i will definitely not give away the ending or the story but it puts into play how people are responsible for their own actions from below the u.s. soldier or the year man or us as individual consumers the sort of stories say what can happen is when people take control and responsibility for their own actions. the other is more of a

this notion has been a staple of science fiction for decades. from the computer that commandeers the spaceship in "2001: a space odyssey." >> i know that you and frank were going to disconnect me. >> reporter: to the semis that take over the truck stop in "maximum overdrive." to the machines that nearly wipe out humanity in the tv show, "battle star galactica." but now, scientists are taking this possibility seriously. and how to make se technological research moves forward in a way t that minimiz the odds of huhumans losing control of the machinenes we build. >> what happens when we have robots smarter than us, 50, 100 year from now? i'm not sure. but ifif we're very lucky, thoh supersmart robots will treat us like pets. if we're very uncky, they'll treat us like food. >> reporteter: we're a ways off. but therere are recent technolological developments th navigate b by y self,,pening han dodoors and finding sockets whe it can recharge without any human n guidance. but professor r totom mimitchel was at that meeting of scientists in california,

so she's been able to put these in fictional accounts that are good stories. we've also done books with him where he interviews his own influences. we've done a book called how shall i live my life where he interviews a wide variety of activists from environmentalists to spiritual folks to doctors to animal rights activists and finds out for himself how people can live in a way that is just live on a planet that is more just in a way we can somehow treat each other in a more humane and fair manner. >> you are primarily a book publisher but also double and other media. do you want to talk about your dvd that you're publishing and disturbing? >> we have tvs and cds as well. the dvds today are all documentary's and we've covered everything from -- we are much

so you in the audience and folks watching this later if this sounds like science fiction go on to the internet and google emp and here are some of the things you should look up and was the american test of designating a weapon in space which blew out a fair part of the power grid in hawaii also does so be a test 184 and finally also look up the carrington event which was triggered by a solar storm. to go back to answer your question emp, a electromagnetic pulse a byproduct of detonating a nuclear weapon. here is a scenario that is terrifying for me with relationship to america the debt and a weapon approximately 250 miles above the center of the united states you do not need a high megaton rainn jlo kilo ton range a little more than what they're curious detonated several weeks ago will do it. the gamma ray bursts when it hits the upper atmosphere t.a.r.p. starts eight the chain reaction. imagine a couple rolling downhill triggers an avalanche by the time it hits the earth service at the speed of light is in electromagnetic discharge its fees to the power grid all of the wiring, antenn

to get across and demystify a bit of what the science fiction is about.r "the reader" it can be shocking as the author or personal ideas are often covered up by these fictional narrative is but it is fascinating. >>host: what are the two books you're starting out with? >>guest: the lucky strike which is an alternative history about what would have happened with hiroshima if the bomb was not dropped provide definitely will not give away the ending but it brings into play how people are responsible for their own actions whether for the soldier or that your man or a says individual consumers the stories say what can happen when people take control and responsibility for their own actions? the other story is a parody of the the left behind a series of books were he gets is an opportunity to blast the right wing born-again christians and we also take great pleasure in blasting. >>host: you are politically left us publisher? >>guest: i am uncomfortable using the terms of left west -- leftist along with right wing because they carry baggage but it to the people

fiction later. a woman in minnesota wrote about women that she knew, basically a women's group in st. paul, and whose stories have never been told. she wrote a novel on based on that called "the girl." it's about a young woman caught up in a bank heist, and that would be a great film, i think, too. but i haven't seen one made from that yet. >> were the guides actually an inducement to tourism? did tourism increase? >> i don't think that people actually measured it at the time because -- that's a good question. i haven't come across any -- i didn't come across any attempt to measure whether they did improve tourism. i think in the stories -- some of the journalists and reviewers came up later they could have spurred some -- particularly along the routes that people wouldn't have been expected to travel much before. but i don't think any of the books were touted for having discovered anything. it was -- right. almost kind of beyond just employing the writers. it was a clinging to a thread of hope for

this is not science fiction. the capability is here. we could be emp today.i don't think to be a paranoid monger. don't read the book but go out there and do the research. go online. look up emp and you think i'm going to say this the second time. look up starfish crime, which was the american test in 1962. look up soviet test 184. that's the data that shows you the potential of what could be done to the united states right now. >> people should read your book, by the way. because it's entertaining and because it's -- it gives one an education. you're a military historian. you also have worked on the history of technology. and my next question is, put those two together, generally speaking in history, any rep developed generally has been used am i right? >> yes, yes. we've all heard the cry throughout history that this new weapon is so terrible, one catapults -- i believe it was a spartan who said hercules what tragedy is valor. when machine guns were projected it's going to be so terrible we're not going to do it. all weapon systems are eventually used. >> a

>> was of hard to transition from history or fiction to non-fiction? >> the question was was it hard to transition from novels? no, no, you are a writer, you are a writer. they are different in so many ways, that you know you start out-- i always start out with a sigh, i don't know why. i say okay, and i know it is going to be a while. you don't just do this stuff like that. it is going to be a couple of years longer. and people ask, what is your favorite book that you wrote? i say, if you have 15 children, which would be your favorite child? you love them all. you love different things and some of you don't-- udall love as much and some of them you love more, but those questions, they are hard questions to answer. i will just give you my answer, that is all. >> i was curious, first off i like all of your books. >> you will be paid later. [laughter] >> obviously vicksburg is much more important battle and much more crucial but what you think it is. all of the press? that is what everybody thinks of coming gettysburg. >> let me ask you this question. ca

. >> glor: six men and women look for recoveries that outdid a fictional tv show. we have most on the complex multiple kidney transplant ever. >> reporter: two years ago the simple pleasure of walking their dog around the neighborhood became a distressing chore for bob and lisa brinkman. >> i normally am a high energy person, two speeds, fast and faster and i was operating on slow to slower. >> reporter: 58 year old bob brinkman's kidneys had begun to fail and he started dialysis 12 hours a week. lisa, his fiance at the time offered him one of hers. she wasn't a match. then a surprise rescue. the chance to be part of the biggest multicity multipatient domino kidney exchange ever, an altruistic donor offered his kidney to anyone in need kicking off a chain on of 16 surgeries. eight people gave their kidneys to strangers so their loved one or friend could get one and where is your kidney now. >> it's in detroit. >> it's the sort of operation that only seems possible in fiction. it was in the story line of gray's anatomy. >> donate kidneys to total strangers, six peop

>> the question was, was it hard to fiction to novels, no.an, you're a writer, you're a writer. they're different in so many ways that, you know, you start out -- i always start out with a sigh. i don't know why. and i say, huh, okay. 'cause i know it's going to be a while, you know, you just don't do this stuff like that. it's going to be a couple of years or longer. and, you know, people ask me, what's your favorite book that you wrote? i say if you had 15 children, which would be your 15 child? you love them all and you love them in different things and some you don't love as much and some you love more. but those questions are hard questions to answer. i mean, i'm not sure -- i'm going to give you my answer. yes, sir. >> yes, i'm just curious, first off i like all your books. they're excellent. >> you'll be paid later. [laughter] >> i'm kind of curious obviously you think vicksburg is much more crucial to the civil war but what why do you think gettysburg had all the press. that's what most people think of. >> let me ask this question, ca

we thought we'd take a closer look and separate fact from fiction.because she's under criminal investigation. >> i do not believe there are any criminal investigations underway at state or federal level against sarah palin or any member of her family. >> in fact, the fbi came out with a rare statement sunday specifically knocking down the rumor, saying we are not investigating her. theory number two -- she's considering lucrative offers to be a tv or radio talk show host. >> she as the opportunity to -- has the opportunity to make a lot more money on the speaking circuit. helping with fund-raising. i don't think she has a specific game plan yet. >> palin is being represented by washington super lawyer bob barnett who negotiated millions in fees for the clintons. sources say she has been offered everything from tv talk shows to radio to paid speaking engagements. theory number three -- she resigned because of family scandal. >> i have known her a long time and i know her character well and i know the character of her husband and her family. and i can

we do of fiction as well as non-fiction growth fiction is classic we have a wide variety of books that have gone out of france that we bring back for the beloved stands and we do a wide variety of nonfiction, "popular science", we have an & that focuses on feminism, piece, justice come african-american interest and latino interest. we do kids' books a fantastic kids series that takes 25 projects and looks in particular at large historical figures benjamin franklin, mark twain and a kid's guide series that looks at historical pieces that are wonderful for educators and home schoolers curriculum then redo serious nonfiction, a journalism piece is that we have anything from finance to pop culture and then we have a fun and the arts and entertainment titles so we embody the spirit of independent publishing. we're not associated with the university it is the parent company to independent publishers group which is a large distribution company that has a wide variety of publishers and chicago review process is the publishing and editorial harm. >>host: we're talking with elisabeth malzahn fro

that may sound like science fiction but was actual battlefield reality. as you will see in the pictures here, that soldier was a 42-pound robot called a pacbot. the letter didn't go to a farmhouse in iowa like is always the story in the movies. it went to a factory just outside burlington massachusetts that alongside of it says all i robot, that is it is a real world factory named after the fictional cizik asimov novel and then also great will smith movie in which robots start out by taking on a day-to-day chores and move on to carry out life and death decisions. now, they tell me i couldn't get a speech at any military facility in quoting here at west point unless i did a powerpoint so you will see slides plate.

he was a teacher of fiction. when i published a book about my life as a student and teacher, mostly conducted at the same institution, he reminded me that he was not a teacher. i found your gracious me more about all those m. hurst year slightly harrowing in the way i fine colleges harrowing. everything is so dear, the neo- gothic buildings, the intelligent and witty faculty, and the shiny eyed students looking up and being fed. all celebrants of the golden days of college. he was careful not to sentimentalize his own, not unhappy years as a harvard undergraduate. about a seminar i once offered divided equally between his work and bill roth's, he professed to being made nervous by the syllabus. just looking at it aroused letters in my stomach. thinking of all that reading, i picture you and your 21 students a bit like those people in jericho's wrath to the medusa, gesturing and staring in different directions while the damn thing sinks under you. he went on to muse, i keep wandering if i were in amherst student,

first of all, fact or fiction, facials are a waste of money? >> that's actually not true.fits. they have benefits both for the body and the soul. they make you feel good. when you feel good your cortisol levels are lower and you look more relaxed because your hormone levels will calm down and you won't have the ruddy, stressed-out complexion. they also have medical benefits, if you do pore extraction and exfoliation, you're going to get rid of blackheads and whiteheads which are precauser to bigger lumps and bumps down the road. you just want to be careful the person knows what they're doing and you're not over-picking and over destroying your skin when you're having the procedures done. >> a chocolate sundae makes me feel good. are there other things we can do if we can't afford facials that might make us look better? >> absolutely. there are home products that you can use. there are topical ingredients that you can look for. microdermabrasion or home exfoliation is very helpful for your skin, as well. putting on moisturizers and sunscreens is really helpful. >> okay, fac

he created a fictional character but the history behind it is accurate. it is a mystery detective in ancient rome during that time especially during the time of julius caesar acosta's. so i've had a lot of fun reading about history and even going to fiction to further information about that great time in terms of age in rome. i think in this time of the barack obama one must read for everybody is the book team of rivals which is the great story of how abraham lincoln on the best of his rivals but then had the intestinal fortitude to bring all those rivals into his cabinet, in each of whom thought he was smarter and he too thought he should be in that swivel chair not abraham lincoln in is a great story and really eliminate a lot about american history. another book i read in this last year so iran military histories. in a wonderful story published posthumously by a great writer on the korean war which not a lot of single volumes on that in

he created a fictional character but the history behind it is all that accurate and it is during that time period during julius caesar and the justice. i have had a lot of fun reading about history and even going through fiction to further informs me about that great time period in terms of and this time of barack obama one must read for everybody team of rivals which is a great story of how abraham lincoln bested his rivals but then have the fortitude to bring them into his cabinet each of them thought he was smarter than lincoln and each thought he should be in the swivel chair. it is a great story and really eliminates a lot of american history. another book i read this last year or so is a book of a number of military histories, the coldest winter which is a wonderful story written posthumously buy a great writer on the victory and more -- korean war and it is well done it and of course, working on the trilogy of the first two books of the second world war and specifically the first volume on the american involvement in north africa of the second book is on the italian campaign wh

this outrageous stories that are stranger than fiction. >>> plus, he's back as bruno.one scene from the new movie is getting a lot of buzz. tonight, the untold story of bruno and the terrorist. that is your "showbiz tonight" news break. tv's most provocative entertainment news show for friday night at the top of the hour.

you, like me, probably assume the musical include a mix of fact and fiction. while the readers of bombay anna will learn that in this case truth proves to be much more remarkable than the a fictional account we know so well. susan morgan is a distinguished professor of english at miami university who has written and researched extensively in areas of southeast asia and victorian women, so bombay anna to it's perfectly into that category. morgan did ten years of research before publishing this book and she quickly discovered that banaa was a woman who truly reinvented herself as she lived her life. when we think about reinventing ourselves we might think about making a fresh start, learning a new set of skills, maybe moving to a new place. anna to all those things and much more. she was born november 26, 1831 as anna edwards in bombay. her mother, who already had one daughter was only 15-years-old when anna was born. her father who died and never met anna was a soldier for the british east india company. are you thinking about the anna of the king and i, the we

it's a fictional book. don't know too much about it but i hear you can apply this book to your everyday life, and so i will be checking that out as well. i've always been fascinated by the search for osama bin laden, and i'm going to be reading a book by michael sure your. he is the former cia agent who was in charge of the unit searching for bin laden. he recently wrote for the washington post. i haven't read any of his books but it reminded me that i should take a look at one of his books. and this one is called marching toward hell, america and islam after iraq. the last book that we will be checking out is called the 15th club. i'm a big golfer and this is kind of a how-to book. it focuses on the mental game of golf. it's written by a sports psychologist bob rotella. and i would recommend it. i started, it's taken a few strokes off my game and i can get all the help i need. so those are the books i will be checking out this summer. >> is the more summer reading list and other program information, visit

fiction can be more true than books about policy or history. my two theme this year our immigration and south asia. i am not going to talk about three paperbacks that are so popular on their own, they really don't need me to support them but i will tell you what they are. one is never land, which has received all kinds of awards, by joseph o'neill, who is part dutch and part irish, and he has -- it takes place in new york, post 9/11. the second book is the green seed literary, i stumble over the name -- literary and potato peel society, which is a book about world war ii. it is a really delightful book about some women who get together and try to think of ways of sabotaging the germans who occupied -- it is part of britain and the nazis occupied the island. and the third book which doesn't need me to promote it is unaccustomed earth. at segways -- that has both johns that ithat segways -- tha johns thatgenres that i want to today. the attempt of the united states to reinvent themselves. the other is the great rise of the salvation riders. lahir

more so than fiction authors. >> do you have a specialized fiction -- because of location?tion has given that specialty focused on political books. >> care what will happen to this space? >> we have a lease for this to become a restaurant. >> in looking at the selection of books you have here. >> people have this information, a lot of that has gone cd-rom and internet online. people are using maps sites, newspaper sales are down, magazines' sales are down, in a lot of cases, private margins are down also. on top of sales being down, the profits are down even on what we are selling. >> independent bookstores in general, it are there any thoughts on their survivability? >> i didn't think i would be one of the things that did survive, and people who have independent bookstores in their neighborhood will support them while they are there instead of lamenting their departure after they are gone. >> what is next for the schuman

he didn't read fiction, but people and science. i was there with a doctor, and heaid, whatis impossible. he pointe at theoctor. t doctor said, ty will never make blood in laborato. blood willot be in a lab. you may get gransu-- trafusions. he said it to . i said do a local show from 9:012:00. frank satra too myhow for three hours. nobody is bigger. he says, when is he dark he is not working nextonday. you got him. i said, how? [laughter] i said i am goingack on the air, to promte sinra. the phones are ringing. management calls. he you lost your mind. jackie said it. management call we have an ad inthe miami hald. we call the hotel wehre he is per-- where he iserforming. are you sure he's coming. jackie says h's coming i go on five after:00. nobody went he. the secretaries staye home. three minutess to 9:00, frank get out. he is still ling, jim, nice guy. sinatra says, "who is lry king?" isay, "me." he says, let's go. i walk along and jim says to me, i don't know how you got him, but he pays me not too this. we sit down, and i did s

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what's fact, what's fiction? we're getting all of these mixed reports, certainly when it comes to residential, three straight months, positive signs in existing home sales. what are you seeing? >> i think i was on your program about six months ago. and i think i at the time said i thought by the end of the summer, we would reach equilibrium. it doesn't mean prices of housing go up, but that basically we're moving toward a position where housing prices have stopped going down. >> and you think that's what's happening? >> yes, and now, that's not going to solve miami or vegas or stockton or some of these places where there's extreme overbuilding and intense subprime foreclosures but in the general market, i think we're going to see a slow improvement this fall take it out? >> don't need it. >> so as far as when you look at the residential -- i'll get to commercial real estate in a moment. >> i'm just talking single family housing and the key to everything in my opinion is single family housing. >> why? >> that's wh

really australians are not sure to what make for the fictional man.ll over vienna and a lot of people went to see it at a special screening there yesterday. >> i, as an austrian, did not feel offended. austria only appeared very few times. it was very funny. >> translator: the film was not really located in austria. the hitler jokes were a little bit bad. i did not really like the film. >> it was really a wonderful inspiration. it was so funny. >> austrians say that they're not worried that bruno's character will hurt tourism. they say, look at what the "crocodile dundee" did for australia. >>> senate negotiators are searching for new ways to pay for a health care overhaul. north dakota senator kent conrad says that recent poll opposed paying for health care changes with new taxes on employer-provided health benefits. he says the proposal is unpopular because most people don't know how much their job provided health benefits are even worth. >>> the threat of the next big one may be growing under one of california's major faults. scientists say that th

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this judge is going to have to take control of the case, separate fact from fiction, and every decisionhas to be in the best interest of those three beautiful children. >> larry: i agree with that. everyone agree ws that, neal -- >> the u.s. senate wouldn't. they don't want the judges informed by life experience, they want the opposite. so even though that's the reality -- >> larry: anyone in life separate life experience? >> no, they can't. that's why the whole sotomayor thing is so silly. >> larry: that another thing. >> that's another shot. >> it's true. you've been watching that, you talk about this. the fact is that any judge when making a decision is like anybody else. their life experience -- >> larry: you desire to be fair? >> all judges have life experience. the last thing i want is a judge who went straight from law school to some civil service profession who got appointed. i want somebody either in private practice or made a payroll or had some life experience. >> larry: we have an interesting point next, gentlemen, think about it. do the children have an attorney? do they ne

but i mean, it is a fiction. it is nothing real. i did not write it on my ex- girlfriend or anything. >> it is young people like these to our fans. a they feel politicians and have it a different universe from theirs. it -- they feel that politicians inhabit a different universe than theirs. some of the lyrics are disturbing are reprehensible, but they are expressing feelings shared by many young people. >>> this is "bbc world news." these are the headlines -- iranian security forces have broken up a graveside ceremony to honor protesters killed after the presidential elections. reports suggest widespread arrests. in the last half-hour, nigerian security forces have said that -- have said that the leader of an islamic militant group has been killed while in police custody. >>> in the u.k., a british woman with multiple sclerosis has won the battle to have the law on assisted suicide clarified. she wants to know whether her husband will be prosecuted if she accompanies her to switzerland so he can help her to die. but today, the high

the court's going to have to have a strong, take control of this case, separate this fact from fiction. and i believe that the lawyers are going to step to the plate and they're continuing to negotiate right now. and at some point, they might even go to mediation. >> larry: if michael, mark, all of this is hypothetical, if michael knew he was going to die, let's say tomorrow, could he have prevented this? could he have done something legally? >> no, i don't think legally you can ever divest the court if there's a battle from making a decision. you can skew it, i suppose, you can set things up. >> larry: like his will says? >> you can lay things out, but you're not going to be able to will your children to somebody. >> the court always has the right to look at the best interest of the children no matter what people say. and that's their job and that's what will happen. >> larry: judge, would you listen to the children in this case? would you ask their opinions? >> absolutely. the children, i would listen to these children, i wouldn't even do it in camera where it's outside the presence

president was pursuing health care reform two of his most formidible foes were harry and louise, a fictional middle aged couple sitting at a kitchen table talking smack about how dangerous it would be to reform the american health care system. harry and louise of course weren't just a freelance actual middle class couple concerned about cutting into the insurance industry's profit margins. they were actors, hired by the insurance agency to try to sink the reform plan. well, incidentally, the same actors who portrayed harry and louise back in 1993 this year have been hired by pro health care reform forces to try to sell the idea of reform. so the corporate interests opposed to changing the system they profit from so handsomely and their allies in the conservative movement have found new actors to sit at a fictional kitchen table and talk smack about how dangerous it would be to reform health care this time. here they are. they're the new harry and louise and this time the reason they say changing the health care system is so scary is because -- you guessed it -- health care reform is really a

you mentioned too big to fail and a list of 500 banks, that's a fiction.here is no list of banks that are too big to fail and it's certainly nothing like 500. but i think giving the fed -- i very much agree with john's points, giving the fed added powers to deal with systemically important too big to fail  we certainly need more transparency and information about what nonbank financial institutions arerdoing. the aig debacle was a big surprise to everyone, but i favor, as nondoes, stripping the fed of its supervisory powers sharply narrowing its focus on monetary policy, preserving the value and integrity of that unit of account and again, virtually all money is privately produced so let's not raise fixes. -- fictions here. >> let me speak to one's account of the unity account. a brief economics lesson, the market prefers a single unitive account. there are very, very market forces that produce it. in fact, its government with its many currencies, the yen, the shekell and the dollar -- all of those various competing units of account are bad for the econom

and non-fiction book titles. >> suarez: looking both at your company, well, i will call you doctor fu take out your diagnostic material,gñ& and looking over the industry as a whole, what's the health of book business right now? >> well, i think that like a lot of businesses we're experiencing the affects of the recession. but i don't think that things are headed toward any kind of an apocalypse. if you look at the latest statistics that show the dollar volume slightly up but the unit sales slightly down, what does that tell you about the market for books in 2009? >> well, the joke is that flat is the new up. but i don't think we should overlook the reality of this. which is that book publishing is basically a form of legalized gambling. and you can't really know what is going to happen. >> legalized gambling, what does that mean to people who want to write books, not just read them? >> what it means is that publisher does make bets. it's a business which doesn't do a lot of market research. it's a business that now uses terms like, what's your platform? what's your track? these are t

neil armstrong, then buzz aldrin walked down the ladder of the lunar module eagle and turned science fiction in to science fact. throughout washington today people have been streaming to the national air and space museum. that's a location of the only remaining piece of original hardware from the apollo 11 moon landing. that's the columbia command module. earlier today the white house, president obama greeted the apollo 11 crew of neil armstrong, michael collins and zz aldrin and earlier in the day at nasa headquarters, they had the opportunity to speak with buzz aldrin and ask him his thoughts on america's progress or lack of it. >> i think we were all caught up with the -- to give a lot of thought to where this would really f in to the future. and i think we are getting back to what nasa and what the country really likes to see and that's exploration. to me, exploration is going to some place you haven't been before. >> and that some place buzz aldrin is talking about is mars, brian. he doesn't like the fact that nasa is in the process of returning to the moon. he wants a new mission, one