for geographers like george lovell e goodews is tempe byace ground.e outlook for doña magdalena's he can only hope for a change in the balance of people to the land that supports them. the inequitiesesult from three cycles of conquest, lasting over 500 years. as maya population continues to grow, a ck of nd reforjust sures greasoci ueaval lasting over 500 years. in guatemala. captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org

george lovell heads off to study the dominant industry of the highlands.lly it is marked by tall trees g low shruike is. eh, r... porías o toaganquets po translatoronig quetzalen narrator: eightquetzales-- $10 a day-- iseager wage by a standar onoffee pofhe violenceke this,vt it and grion.ross guatemala. just three perce of guamalas by the m960s controlledwo-thisofhe ae . atel gw co perce of guamalas by the m960s he h cal,ledwo-thisofhe ae . most are cash crops for export. verywho pportoy rerns on the small remaining land. squalid using, impoverishing wages and liand ofir own led many indians and with that desireheir , came conflict. in new milnnium but the underlying the gureproblems remain. ma't have enough lan who will soon reach to childbearing age.re isin willir culture and economy change toncourage family planning? aturrent rates will they access to birth control? the cwillow doubletion in just 24 yea, compared with 120 years for the u.s. economics, religion and the lack of bih control mean tt fertility rates remain as high as they haveeen for centur

. >> stephen: okay so, this is your-- this is your character jim lovell from apollo 13. >> no, stephen, she's a girl. >> stephen: yeah, but her name tag says jim lovell. >> well, you know, he is an american hero, and oscar-denied hero. (laughter) there you go, commander. >> stephen: all right. tom-- (applause) tom, i got to say, that the costumes obviously are great but are there any costumes that are not -- >> trick or treat. (applause) >> stephen: and what are you supposed to be. >> i'm a fedex employee. (laughter) >> stephen: okay that is clearly your character from cast away. >> nobody, it's not, hey, let's get some candy for your bucket. there you go. >> stephen: oh come on, tom, tom, tom. (applause) look at that. >> i know, i know, isn't it great. and it's so simple to makement you probably have a volleyball at your house, or just steal one from the local high school. and then just use the blood in your body, and it's a real penney pincher. >> stephen: thank you, thank you very much, thank you. (cheers and applause) >> stephen: tom, that's great, but listen, if you want to talk a

. >> is a learning lovell wage, an entry-level. kids are going to high-school. living at home.hn: now it is illegal. >> you seeing academic credit is a fair substitute? john: there is bureaucratic demand to get credit? >> absolutely. if you say and exchange you offer academic critic that is fine. in exchange i will not be paid over a small amount that is fine. john: no money or no credit? >> it is fair. once you make a demand for credit they may say i don't want the hassle. john: abc always were in june with democratic thinking. they decided we will pay everybody $10 per hour. that is great f those who got the job. but they cut them in have. >> exactly. i would rather see the opera -- oortunities negative not at all. that is the unintended consequence. >> steven greenhouse, you mentioned wealthier students can take advantage of unpaid internships. what about those students whose still save money to take a vantage? >> is great if they can. who pays their rent in manhattan? >> i worked for several summers. >> that is great. >> earlier talking abot they don't realize vocational sc

a bit of at lovell, bum then at 10:00 a.m. it really started to pop. i've got speaking with aroundists, retailer, whether it's mavs. pretty good. make not agrees the overial sales are expected. and some early aggravations, most have appeared to have pushed those frustration aside. the majority of people who got here were the full-time employees. but a very good response. >> they were planned leading up to -- but walmart ceo says that actually only 26 protests occurred. many didn't even include walmart employees. and in fact he set -- they missed that scheduled shift. matt values thinks that macy's is the clear winner. i have to say i've seen an automatic lot of macy's backs myself. i'm happy that the leap pad 2 is very hard to find the. >> they won't get any more in? >> they will, but probably not day is the probably. so the inventory they probably out. >> courtney reagan, thank. >>> hoping that holiday sales -- as we manipulationed jane wells is at a best buy outside los angeles. jane, it's no secret that best buy has seen better days. we'll have to s

lower employment plus a significant amount of inflation so you come into world war ii with a high of lovell's of household debt and by the time the war was over it was well under what they had been so you saw the problem. it the problem is excessive indebtedness you want a strong economy. some people have a chance to pay down the debt. it is not a sugar high but essential nutrients. >> there are other factors like poor savings and that meant after the war people had very strong balance sheets they could spend that the same time part of the problem of the great depression we had to move people from agriculture we had then a success on the 19th century then we still had people working and farming and today we have 2%. we had to move them into manufacturing rural to urban. but with the war they had to because that is where they had to go. we began to equip people for the new middle of the century industrial economy. then we have the g.i. bill to give them the education that made them students for the new economy. not only the government was spending but it was restructuring making a prepared for

we do not know what we are talking about so we have to because we are not up to speed in terms of lovell and knowledge about what we should be about when we legislate. that is the first thing. it is congress's responsibility to do the oversight. there is some in russia. that concern a lot of -- there is some inertia. that comes from a lack of oversight. health research should be removed from the pentagon. ted stevens started that. they wanted a special project. before he left he was against special health research in the pentagon because he saw how it took funds away from the pentagon and diverted it to everything other than the purpose. i am for the breast cancer research. why should we be running it in the pentagon? we have one of the leading scientists in the world running nih today, who has made major changes in breakthroughs. we cannot trust our best professional to do all of our health research? we have to put it inside the pentagon? we have a layer of bureaucracy on. top of it the bid. you raise great points. it does not call it looked at. there is under shut. we have a prostate p

white house and the conversations that you alluded to, we have been seeing meetings at the staff lovell. those will continue probably in the days and weeks ahead. what we're really looking for is to see if there is substantial progress coming to a framework that they can put together for a deal before christmas, which is the next deadline people seem to be setting up. >> as you know, republicans opening up the door to a possibility of raising taxes at a certain level. democrats being pressured by republicans to put on the issue of entitlements. where does that stand at this point? >> that is something that has been talked about throughout these conversations going back for a couple years. since we started all this, there are long conversations that involve the republicans saying they would come to the table. in exchange for some sort of reform of entitlement programs, maybe some indexing. some people want to raise the retirement age. all those sorts of things that are not necessarily popular with the democrats. we are seeing more of the same, it is a question on whether or not each side

french up up, inevitability of death and made -- meaning of good in this immortal with a high as lovell of the detainment economic agree more as a bookseller i am struck out easy would be for james patterson to rest on his laurels. but is dead garners the gratitude and respect from all of us who love the literary life how we can develop the next generation of readers. with his work to champion books and reading from good james patterson awards to his website the mud to scholarships, ricky their donations of hundreds of thousands of books to the troops overseas he passes on his books and supports those who does the same. in an essay written for cnn he had a call for action asking parents to become active participants to change they're reading habits of their kids. when receive them induce he would be with us this year i was more than thrilled. was also not surprised is prairie resend was not to promote his books but instead to make this celebrating the notion of family reading. that is the we will do. mr. patterson and will come out to say some words then we will engage in a conversation