those college students of my vintage will remember the term was introduced by thomas kuhn, a historian of science who wrote a terrific book now, unfortunately, according to my children, not on the reading lists of histories of science. but it was called the structure of scientific revolution and it introduced the notion of paradigm. paradigm being the way of seeing the world, the prism by which or the lens by which theories of reality were interpreted and people interpreted their world. paradigm, for example, as applied by kuhn said during the era when the pyramids were built, the version -- or the reality for egyptians in that time was that the earth was the center of the universe. and that the solar system and other planets actually rotated around the earth. and kuhn's thesis was that sense of what human beings were actually in part explained, this bold construction of something as monumental as the pyramids of giza in a very early period in human history. and then as you go on and he shows that as copernicus demonstrated, in fact, that the earth was not at the center of the universe

before todd kuhn convicted of money laundering embezzlement has to spend six more years in prison that would mean a jail term of fourteen years in total it seems older than serving time for foreign tax evasion. europe's wary of the spread of islamic extremism following the recent arrests for a suspected attack on a danish newspaper that published cartoons of the prophet muhammad it is the latest in a series of arrests across europe throughout the. on the side of consumerism loosening its grip on american society despite the tough economic times some say the growing addiction to shopping has turned into a religion and has to be confronted as we are. reporting next on the sport. welcome to our team sports let's have a look at the headlines for. a new beginning olympic gold medalists and then the demands of it becomes vice president of the russian tennis federation after a tiring from the game just two months ago. taking all the world russia's national rugby team as hard as the other dogs to grapple with the big boys at the twenty eleven rugby world cup. and also down but not out all stra

every kuhn and has a family member abroad to send medicine plus there are organizations like ours that send medical supplies. >> suarez: but gail reed says one of the biggest problems remains the embargo of mode sin from u.s. pharmaceutical companies. >> there are serious restrictions on patented medicines. the latest cancer drugs, for example, have patents that are 20 years and now the pharmaceutical companies are asking for more time for their patents. so these are unaccessible to cuba in regular commercial terms. >> suarez: because of the u.s. government's trade embargo, cuba has created its own biotech industry. some of its strongest successes have come in preventive medicine like vaccines. including one for hepatitis b now virtually eliminated from the country. manuel is an executive for cuba's center for genetic engineering and biotechnology. >> in the sense that it created a great need, yes. it created great suffering but at the same time the embargo created the challenge of trying to resolve our own problems. and we developed an industry capable of producing the very latest med