think anything's more effective than when you take actual recovering people down to the general assembly building. when-when you've got 100 people running around those floors, giving out recovery information, this is what we're doing. we're not only talking about stories, we bring the burning bush to the legislators. this is the situation. this is what worked. this is what needs to be done. very, very effective, and after a while, these legislators start calling us up when they need help. hey, my nephew's got a problem. could you, you know, can i send him over to you? so we're building not only information networks, but actual service networks. these-these politicians are coming to the recovering people for services as equal as they would any other provider out there. so i think that speaks volumes right there. well, and also recovery community centers and other services and places in communities that recovery community organizations have developed are places where the whole community can come and do activities that don't involve alcohol and other drugs, so the prevention message, the prevention

build homes at all. good intentions-- maryland's road to new homes was not paved with them. for over 50 years, general motors assembled products at this detroit plant. it has seen military production, postwar prosperity, and the pressure of foreign competition. millions of cars have been made here. so why, after all those productive years, did gm move somewhere else? the nation's largest automaker wanted the quickest possible return on capital investments, plants and equipment. gm planners wanted new assembly plants to start returning profits in five years. as auto industry analyst maryann keller explains, this system worked with strong sales of large american cars. general motors always had a higher return on investment because they produced the largest cars and dominated that segment of the market. automotion. america on the move, a tremendous display. during the 1950s and 1960s, boom years for american automakers, gm had a 20% yearly return on equity. to keep the old plants efficient, plant managers fine-tuned production processes. if sales were strong and profit margins wide, gm could cover the inefficiency of old

me you can see the buildings of the national assembly and presidential palace against a background of increased tight security pakistanis will go to the polls this saturday in a general election. their votes will decide which side will lead a south asian nation known as one of the most volatile states on the planet. the world is watching closely, too, as the result could also decide the next steps for the confusing alliance between pakistan and united states. pakistan has stood on the front line of the so-called war on terror for more than a decade now. and the country is still on a knife edge with anti-u.s. sentiment strong enough to influence the election's outcome. it was 2001 when the u.s. attacked pakistan's neighbor afghanistan in the hunt for al qaeda leader osama bin laden and aiming to oust the regime. then president pervez musharraf promised to cooperate with the u.s. in return to substantial aid package. but the country has paid a heavy price. insurgent attacks have killed more than 40,000 people during the past ten years. after the killing of bin laden in a suburb of islamabad two years ago, bilateral ties with the u.s. reached a point of no return. pakis