the lead writer in the massachusets board of education meeting says common core only prepares students for a nonselective community college or nonselective state college. that's not where this country can amendment and frankly, it is a determine in addition of the quality of our standards can have left was the highest quality schools in the country. >> but carol, no one said you isn't overshoot the standards right? doesn't it provo aid base line for america's kids. >> well, it's more complicated than that, and one of the places i would disagree with jim, is connecticut, for example, has standarded that are rated to be quite weak by the fore.com foundation, but the truth is they are right up there with massachusets when you take a look at tempts. and florida which is supposed to have rigorous standards is well below the average. so it's a very very complicated thing. here is my concern, i'm a high school principal, we do extraordinary things we have all of our kids in international back lore yacht english that's a big accomplishment. but as they roll out the standards in new york state,

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. >> the face shelden is admiring on shelden came from a 56-year-old massachusets woman, whose deathave carman her new life. >> you knew that you're getting a face was going to mean a tremendous loss for somebody else. >> i knew that there was somebody out there she has no idea it was going to be her. i knew that she was going to leave family, i knew it is going to be unexpected. >> on february 13th, carman finally got word that a donor face had been found. tell me about the significance of the date? >> by the time i had surgery, it was valentines day. and to me valentines day is the day of love, and it's the day of gifts. i felt strongly that it was a gift for me from her. >> carman and lindsay, thelma and louize. >> yeah. >> we are off to brigham and women's hospital in boston. was it an early morning drive? >> it was in the middle of the night, at 1:30 in the morning. it was very quiet. nobody on the road. really surreal. >> that night, 50 miles away, cheryl was in a coma, kept alive by machines after a massive stroke. tell me a little bit about your mom. >> she was a free spirit.

preserve the stories of those terrible years as thens withed aged and died, boston college in massachusets commissioned the belfast project. between 2001, and 2006, journalist id maloney and former ira member, conducted interviews with those who participated in the conflict. the men conducted dozens of interviews with former pair militaries all done with the promise of confidentiality until death. boston college was founded to serve boston's irish catholic immigrant community, it preserves the recordings in an archive, a british law enforcement agency investigating the crimes of decades past, including the mccon veal murder, sought the recordings as evidence, and used legal and diplomatic leverage with the united states to get them. i don't know there's no basis for charges against men. >> adams was not charged. he says his arrest was politically motivated and aimed at disinstruction, among the parties who have maintained ask uneasy peace, and a changed political relationship since the 1998 accord. the fate is uncertain now, 46 people were interviewed, there are 200 recorded conversations.

take vo --esto de acuerdo a una encuesta realizada por la universidad de massachusets entre mas de 300e al menos 20 por ciento habia fumado marihuana y 65 por ciento habia consumido alcohol durante el pasado mes. --de esta cifra 44 por ciento, afirmo haber conducido un vehiculo. vo cesar --de otro lado investigadore s de harvard encontraron que las personas que estan expuestas a los vapores de pinturas, pegamentos u otros solventes podrian perder la memoria y tener problemas para recordar ciertas cosas decadas despues de haber estado expuestos a estos vapores. los cientificos evaluaron a mas de dos mil personas que habian trabajado bajo estas circustancias a lo largo de su vida. --lo que mas sorprendio a los investigadore s fue encontrar que algunas de estas personas que tenian problemas de memoria ya no habian estado expuestas a los solventes por varias decadas. vo blanca --y algunas personas que viven cerca de casas que estan siendo embargadas sufren de alta presion arterial. --la investigacion se realizo entre mas de mil 700 personas y se descubrio que quienes vivian a una distancia

we are joined by video link from sew massachuset soma. great to have you.aces like united states where we've seen safety regulations put in place, when it comes to coal production in those countries, safety comes first then production. in turkey it's production first. >> it's always been like that. privatization began in the early 1980s. there is no culture of caring for workers safety in this country. at the risk of sounding slightly controversial, i think it has to do with islam to the extent people seem to consider this to be their fate somehow, destiny. so how there's very little demands put on the government or at least in the past to improve worker safety. there's no culture of accountability in this country. >> that's interesting. i was reading a line today. there was an accident in 2010, 30 or 38 miners died. the prime minister said it's the fate of that profession basically. do you think this is part of the bigger picture we're seeing in europe and region where countries are trying to be more self-sufficient, dig up their own commodities instead of