and i think what we're in right now is a sort of middle ages. i wouldn't call it a golden age. we're all struggling to find our way forward. i think by the middle ages, i mean the empires of big journalism are falling, and rising up are these smaller principalities. and i think they--like the middle ages, there's a time of great confusion and ferment and possibilities and romance. and one thing i'll say is one of the greatest jobs you can have in the world is to be a foreign correspondent. and it's something i got to do for many years for a traditional news organization, and i'm very thankful for that opportunity. we at global post feel like we are about the next generation of foreign reporting. >> ann, when you think about that impact that you can have with your camera--and you know because when you come back, people say they've seen it. and you hear what charles is saying and you do your own--you're on twitter and every place all the time. what about that impact? where is this taking us? >> oh, i think the future is extremely exciting. the dilemma is, how will it look? who's

. >> dan ashley, abc new >> the lenses in our eyes lose their ability to focus around middle age andany folks, that means reading glasses or bifocals. w there is an alternative. carolyn johnson has the story. >> reporter: if youear reading glasses, you probably spend a fair amount of time taking them on and off. but what if a pair of glasses could t you litelly refocus on the fly? >> these are amazg. what they do is give you an adjustable focus. >> reporter: this doctor has begun fitting patients at his clinic with true focals. the glasses look like sometng out of inspector damage jet, but they have a le controlled by a moveable bar at the bridge. >> the way you change the focus isake the bar and move it from right to left. >> reporter: that touch focus design let's this patient read the same page at varied dtances. >> reay things are in good focus. >> reporter: true fcals consist of two lenses, one firm and the other flexible andilled with a clear fluid. the slide changes the pressure on that second lens. >> what it does is actually change the, as i said, changes the swelling of the

for now the main market is middle aged patients like christian who suffer from the common loss of the eye's ability to shift focus as we age. >> having something with an adjustable focal length, which is where you're going, it's a wonderful thing to have. >> reporter: carolyn johnson, abc 7 news. >> technology isn't cheap. the true focals retail for just under $400. the electronic version due out next year is expected to cost more than $1,000 per pair. when we come back, the mysteries cultures of ancient mongolia, @ú t t t tatatpx ok. what if i just had a small slice? i was good today, i deserve it! or, i could have a medium slice and some celery sticks and they would ccel each other out, right? or...ok. i could ha one large slice and jog in place as i eat it or...ok. how about one large slice while jogging in place followed by eight celery... mmm raspberrcheesecake... i have been thinking about this all day. wow, and you've lost weight! oh yeah, you're welcome. thank you! [ female announcer ] yop. with 30 delicious flavors yoplait. it is so good. >>> gengis khan has was a misundersto

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we're middle aged!"y. >> we have a segment this morning about the eight hidden benefits of middle age. that's right. she's showing me her biceps over there. there's a lot of benefits including fewer migraines, greater self-confidence, wisdom, clearer skin. things you may not be necessarily attributing, and we'll get to the bottom of it. >>> also, speaking of migraines, if you suffer from them and you know they can really hurt you and stop you in your tracks, we've got some common triggers we're going to go over including unfortunately chocolate and caffeine. so we'll be talking about that and how to prevent migraines. >> all right. a lot to get to. >>> let's go inside. natalie's standing by at the news desk with the headlines. hi, natalie. >> good morning again, matt and ann and to you. a massive manhunt is under way for two men who escaped from an arizona prison and a suspected accomplice. officials say at least one of them is linked to two murders in new mexico. authorities say they may be near yellows

without the support from the city, aim high would serve fewer middle school age children this summer, many with nothing to do. i would like to conclude with a paid staff and volunteers who are here today in attendance. >> if i could ask all of you to stand up and be recognized. thank you for all that you do. [applause] >> under their leadership, they lead a staff of future educators. they make the magic come to life each summer for hundreds of san francisco youths. the majority returned to the program and gave back to the city. thank you, all of you guys. [applause] >> i am the co-director. i work during the school year. i have been there for 23 or 24 years. many of our students who are not teachers, i have known since they were in kindergarten. of the 23 teachers that we employed the summer, 15 are aim high graduates predict one thing that makes our site special is the number of graduates the comeback of its volunteers. we have 42 students that came back that just wanted to be a part of the program. they were amazing. they did a lot of the work for us. they all hope to be teaching as

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the most appalling types of execution dating from the middle ages, stoning, mrs. small hammadi is now being threatened. -- mrs. mohammeadi is now being threatened. this constitutes the main threat to national security in a key area, proliferation. i want you to understand that france supports the development in strict compliance with international standards of nuclear power generators for electricity. that is what i said during the presidential campaign and this falls under controversy may, but i remain convinced that the civilians nuclear energy and the energy of the future, no nation can have the exclusive right to uphold the technology or the benefits of nuclear energy. iran has every right to civilian nuclear energy. that is why france salutes the power plant that soon will be exclusively and totally supplied by russia. nearly a year ago, in pittsburgh, we revealed the existence of a secret nuclear facility that iran was building for its proliferation activity. i said at the time that we needed to place sanctions on iran if it did not change its policies. we a

it's even more shocking when you see that it's a middle-aged woman. lola's owners found her 15 lahos later. they post the video online. now they have to protect the suspect because she's getting hate mail and death threats. they're pleading to let peace candle the parade. >>> all of the girls, you know, the flower girls can be in. it's a national story. we will update you. peeking of another record-setting moment. >>> this is wild. good things happening when it's warm in the city. no kidding. another rare warm august night in china basin, right, which led to another rare giants game. no howling wind. at the ballpark, hello to you. darin baker, dusty's son, what is he, 3 or 4 when we saw him in the world series? >> he was little. >> almost getting trampled. giants explode for 16 runs. four homers. freddy sanchez, juan uribe, pablo sandoval, buster posey. last night they scored 11 runs. tonight, 16. it's the first time the giants have scored double-didn't runs at home in back-to-back games since 1973. back in india in 1973. >> that was a long time ago.

regime but i definitely know that it's very archaic and more dangerous it's sort of a mixture of the middle ages with a pseudo marxist slogan and this regime is dangerous for the entire world and in my opinion that's the regime we should take for all kinds of sanctions against makes dangerous to threaten them with weapons because we cannot predict their reaction and they also have a several million strong army which can cross the border and this may lead to any number of consequences as an empire mauna kea power which could collapse at any moment or the world economy is slowly recovering in a sleigh due to the economic growth in asia and especially in china how big do you think is the genes for all politics today the third of the work i want to find is said to be the locomotive for the world economy this is why there are a lot of things that depend on china we should give the chinese credit for having created over the last few decades a powerful economy that in addition to everything else is just around the corner from where we are politically i think the chinese are aimed at strengthening their

the motive of the middle-aged man remains unknown. german authorities are investigating two controllers for alleged fraud. the suspects work for a private firm contract by the national handball association. they are accused of forging results using their own for test samples. >> strip prosecutors are investigating criminal complaints against the two officers. they are accused of failing to show up for two handball games in january and submitting samples of their own urine. they allegedly faked the signatures of two players who were shocked when laboratory tests revealed their dna samples were identical. >> my biggest fear was that i could be suspended. that would be disastrous. i was afraid they would not be able to find out what happened and who was responsible. it was very frustrating. the german handball association has called it an isolated incident, but anti- doping officials say it is a huge setback of efforts to expose cheats. >> the corrupt actions of doping control officers could inflict massive damage on the battle against d

an extended use of executions, including the most appalling tide of executions dating from the middle ages, stunning, with which one woman is now being threatened. france considers that we're responsible for her safety. a run fuel violence and extremism in the region and it is considered a threat to international security in a key area for proliferation. i wanted to understand -- i want you to understand that france supports production during -- under international standards. that is what i said in the campaign and a cause controversy but i remain there. civilian nuclear energy is the energy of the future. no nation can have the exclusive right to hold the technologies or the benefits of nuclear energy. peron has every right to civilian nuclear energy. and that is why france solutes -- salutes the bushar nuclear power plant which will be colleague: project field by russia. -- which will be fully fuelled by russia. we needed to impose sanctions on iraq that it did not change its policy. we are at that point now. the security council, the united states, the european union, if and others have

a middle aged woman is seen petting lola before she abruptly tosses the cat into a nearby trash can. lola's owners found her 15 hours later after following her meowing. when they checked the surveillance video they were shocked. they posted this on line. the woman has been identified and she's a bank worker and she'll be questioned by the authorities. death threats were made against her so the police are protecting her. >>> a in your study reveals how many talk, who talks and texts on their phone the most. after looking at the phone bills of 60,000 people, women talk mo men by 22%. they terks more than men, 34%. by race, african-americans talk more about 1300 minutes a month followed by hispanic, asians and whites. researchers say the return african-american talk more is because 25% simply eliminated their home phones. >>> well, we'll be right backeth thnat apde uwi on the fire burning on mount deee below. >>> back to our breaking news right now. lower slopes of mount diablo, 10 acres burning in the town of clayton and the town of contra costa county. you can see the heavy smoke. we'

between the more than picture of how the universe began -- modern -- and the ideas we develop in the middle ages by a certain group of jews, it's called kabala, which means tradition in hebrew. that had this picture the universe start friday a point and they said it in a somewhat different way. what they said was, that god withdrew from a little place and made room for us, for our universe to come into existence and so the withdrawl of god is create created -- which then became filled with something that was not god and that is the universe. >> and this by the way was one of the reasons why evil could exist in the universe in their theory because that was the place from which god withdrew. >> what do you mean by the cosmickeur boris? >> or borea is a snake that swallowed his tail. >> is that myth? >> of course it's middle call. it's not a snake. it's a ser pent. it's a middle call sort of snake but what we are doing is -- mythical -- using that as one of the symbols we use in our book to try to give pictures that people can grasp and work with and in this case, we are using it to represent all t

pre-war generations now things are changed to the point where even the middle aged people have grown up after world war two ok i'll question to you will now now days many western countries one of the best examples are greece greece portugal spain they are reducing their welfare programs they're cutting the programs the citizens have to obviously to tighten the belts. do you think it will have consequences on the people in the values of the people will they from now on have to think once again about survival rather than self-expression in the short run certainly the no one likes these measures are very unpopular and the government in greece as you know is extremely unpopular to the point where some of the hiding the it's. it's a real crisis the values are another thing the immediate reaction is we hate it but the basic values don't change that for us mostly values change during your first twenty years use bit of basic personality that doesn't change very much afterwards so the basic values won't change overnight if what happens is the start of a decade or two decades of severe. severe

so-called study tested more than 5000 middle age men and women over seven years. research shows that women who drank wine 4 or more times over two week period in moderation obviously scored better on cognitive tests to those who drank only one glass during that same time frame. one reason may be due to the antioxidant in wine. another reason could be the alcohol itself which helps blood circulation again in moderatio moderation. we have the sport sports. >> alcohol is helping circulation i should be einstein. i should be brilliant. giants fans were getting nervous but sanchez calmed even down for one tonight any way. you can rest. he restored order for ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ j-e-l-l-o ♪ j-e-l-l-o ♪ j-e-l-l-o ♪ j-e-l-l-o ♪ j-e-l-l-o ♪ j-e-l-l-o [ child giggles ] got the mirrors all adjusted? you can see everything ok? just stay off the freeways, all right? i don't want you going out on those yet. and leave your phone in your purse, i don't want you texting. >> daddy... ok! ok, here you go. be careful. >> thanks dad. >> and call me--but not while you're driving. we knew this day w

also know that most medications are tested in clinical trials, not using older adults but using middle-aged people or younger, healthy individuals, or if there's a chronic illness, not necessarily for children and not necessarily for seniors. and their metabolism, their pharmacokinetics, as we say, change dramatically as we age and as we get larger, as we put on weight, as we lose weight, all of those factors. so, yes, maybe seniors are reluctant to ask the pharmacists. i think the pharmacists are a key here because, in, just my personal experience in a retail pharmacy, actually one of the things that they really enjoy, and it's one of the reasons they became pharmacists, is to counsel patients and to let them and to share the knowledge that they have rather than just arguing with insurance companies over the phone. beverly? yes, in regard to our seniors again, i want to point out that as far as the pharmacist is concerned, we can go back to the pharmacist and ask questions later on. they are there for us to make use of them, and they enjoy doing that, like you were speaking of earlier. don

a 12 week study of middle aged men and women found dieters who drank water before meals three times aunds more than those who didn't. it seems logical that water can help fill us up and curb our appetite, but until now there's been very little scientific information out there to back it up. >> this is an inexpensive and effective way to help with the obesity epidemic. >> reporter: diet drinks can also help suppress your appetite, but registered dietitian tara miller says they don't have the other benefits of water. >> water because of the hydration effect can also help you with other goals you might have like staving off headaches, fatigue, irritability. >> reporter: as for how much liquid we should drink every day, medical experts say nine cups for women, 13 for men. most people don't. >> i don't drink enough water. you know, i know that. >> reporter: experts say by the time you feel thirsty, you're actually dehydrated. so keep sipping and you may lose weight along the way. manuel gallegus, cbs news, new york. >>> i will drink to that. i'm betty nguyen. this is the "cbs morning news.