ammunition are flying off the shelves there may be no better illustration of what gerber means by the mead world syndrome and the fact that gun sales have risen sharply during exactly the same period that crime is dropped sharply the majority of the spike occurring over just the past three years alone despite record declines in violent crime across the board crime amy down but for some reason fear doesn't seem to be i've always been pro-gun control and suddenly i'm going. i don't know maybe i should we could fall into chaos well chaos is a good reason to be able to protect yourself you have people that are depressed people have might be upset you know. you feel comfortable you feel like you have a little bit of power you're protecting yourself from americans. going crazy rioting and hurting. i've been through y2k and i've been through nine eleven i have never seen people so afraid the logical question is why well surveys consistently show that upwards of two thirds of the people who believe crime to be a very serious personal problem say they get most of their news from television. this is

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mead-west-vaco was up almost 4%. international paper closed up 3%. one other deal, this one for genoptix, a company focused on diagnosing blood cancers. here's the last 52 weeks, nice big range here. the stock shot up 26% on word of a offer from novartis for $25 per share. shareholders have been on quite a ride over the past year, from over $38 in april to the low teens in september. finally tonight with this rise. j.c. penny jumped 7%, but it hasn't been able to break above $35 for the better part of two years. it will add activist hedge fund manager william ackman and chairman of real estate investment trust vornado, steven roth, to its board. >> tom: and that's tonight's "market focus." >> susie: private sale websites are all the rage when it comes to shopping for discounted luxury goods. sites like gilt, rue la la, and zulily are becoming a major force in retail. their customers pointed and clicked to nearly three quarters of a billion dollars in sales last year, and those numbers are expected to keep growing this year. in tonight's "shop talk,"

doesn't ever make it to afghanistan it goes into the pockets of the experts corruption is one of the mead you reasons for the u.s. dollar not finding its way to where it's actually headed according to transparency international afghanistan comes second only to somalia as the most corrupt country in the world i mean relatives of karzai traveling with unspeakable billion millions of dollars in cash which is of course not not that i know any details but not the stuff that makes people not wonder about corruption the wall street journal the other day had a piece they figured out about ten million dollars a day was simply leaving from kabul airport the afghan g.d.p. gross domestic product is only about thirteen billion dollars that's a quarter of the g.d.p. going out a year just out of kabul airport with the war not going away anytime soon but it looks likely to last for at least three to four more years where we'll billions more of taxpayer dollars and up i think we're going to see them at the gambling tables of abu dhabi by the sound of it i mean this is not situation where the money is goin

meade. and a slew of. welcome back you're also computable to mind your we're talking about documents from the middle east peace process. and a good story. but first let's see what russians think about the conflict. just the talks the release of palestinian documents might change the course of negotiations between israelis and palestinians over sixteen hundred documents detail more than a decade of negotiations between the sides the documents reveal polis teenie a negotiator is where willing to accept israel's annexation of old news jerusalem the public opinion agency a lot of questions to which side of the israeli palestinian conflict they have sympathy sixty four percent said two neither fourteen percent cited palestinians and the nine percent israel is many believe the leaks could rearrange future negotiations. ok and i could change gears a little bit not i have to go to omar here we've talked about israel or tried to talk about israel's involvement in these negotiations they make marks much success in t

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one out of four kids were meading the guideline. for girls it was worse. of them med that guideline. almost half of the activity in practice is standing around, not even running around and plague. only about half of the time is spent in moderate to vigorous activity. 30 minutes of practice time is spent standing around. you don't need to pull your kids out of the forts. they do keep active. that's over competition. all of the kids take the field and whatever they are playing instead of the sidelines. the coach may want only the winners to play. talk to the coach about getting all of the kids to participate. make sure you incorporate family life. don't count on the soccer practices. make sure you head to the park and you participate in other activities like dancing or cycling or getting them out running around in the yard. we have dance parties at our house. that's what we do. that can help you out this morning. again, exercise is great for the kids, about you they are not getting all of what they need from the organized sports. today in the bay. . >>> good

. >> i am barbara meade, one of the osha at politics and prose. the first time that i met simon winchester was about 12 years ago in 1998, and he had come here to speak about his book, "the professor and the madman," the book about the making of the oxford english dictionary. but i tell you, i was just so bowled over by listening to his stories. if ever there's anybody who is a natural born storyteller, it's simon. and so i would just determine that after that that we would have simon back for every book so he could tell us the stories behind every book. and so, this is the seventh time i counted that you have come. and so i hope we can have a lifetime of your telling stories. simon studied geology at oxford, and you could certainly see this in his new book. first of all, he feels the atlantic ocean is so alive that it is perfectly qualifies to have a biography written of it. he says it's alive, capricious, wind, water is, water and waves and wind of animals and birds of ships and man. and further, this is his quote from simon, of all the oceans i