a tahoe estate once owned by billionaire howard hughes is on the market now for $19.5 million. that property sits on a 5.5 acre plot along tahoe's north shore. it dates back to 1934. here's a little factoid for you. marilyn monroe is rumored to have had a tryst with hughes at the home according to the chase international press release announcing that the house is on the market. the main home on the property is a five-bedroom four-bath log cabin. >> it looks great. but $19 million? >> no time soon. >> no way. >>> checking brakes and rebuilding engines just a few of the assignments on the lesson plan and the students are only in high school. the auto shop class at alhambra high school is so cool, they even won top honors in an auto competition. and that's what makes alhambra this week's "cool school." >>> reporter: students are getting their hands dirty at alhambra high school in martinez. in auto shop class, they get real-world experience, diagnosing mechanical failures, understanding electrical systems -- >> replace the gaskets. >> reporter: -- and mains nance. >> some of them

it's in the book because the effect, we know it had -- the producer was howard hughes, a very, very ease centric billionaire who lived in las vegas, and he was freaked out by this, and he was, and he was someone who lived close by the testing range, and vegas is not far, and he fought the campaign to move tests from nevada to alaska, and eventually they were. actually, two of the biggest nuclear tests done in history, underground tests were done in alaska in one of the country's oldest natural reserves. that's why it's in here. oh, golly, that's it. i don't know how to go back, but that's okay. i'll read a bit more for you, and i'll get off the topic of military uses and talk about civilian uses. first is deadly detours of nuclear medicine. of course, it's a success story, but there's one of two cases where it didn't go the way it should have gone, so on september 29th, 1987, thereto brazilian province, and government officials there with an announcement that passed the city with a 1.3 million inhas been tans needed to be evacuated. he encysted op speaking personally with the minister of

howard taft. he was a former president of the united states. you get chief justice charles hughes who was a former presidential candidate. at one time, i think the supreme court had three former united states senators with hugo black and harold burton. then justice powell was a former president of the bar association. thurgood marshall was the chief litigator for the naacp. before coming on the court, they were giants of public life. now we have a situation where the immediate past experience of the court's membership with the exception of justice kagan, they all come with sometimes extensive experience on the court of appeals. do not get me wrong. i love court of appeals judges. i wonder when the supreme court draws from this narrow band of the immediate prior experience whether we're missing something in terms of the court's ability to relate to some of the larger aspects of american life. if you get a former appeals court judges whether it becomes more technocratic as opposed to those in times past. is this a danger? >> you were very delicate the way you phrased this. you have

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