. >> lehrer: and paul solman takes us on a summer tour of the flowers that inspired the verse of emily dickinson. >> fame is a bee-- it has the fall, it has the sting , it has a wing. she was aware that fame is ephemeral. poets are known in one err aunknown in another. >> lehrer: that's all ahead in tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> will your savings be enough to fund your retirement? what will happen if your spouse outlives you by many years? what will happen if you outlive your savings? pacific life knows that tomorrow's questions require planning today. with financial solutions and strength, pacific life can help you and your financial professional develop a plan. pacific life-- the power to help you succeed. and by the alfred p. sloan foundation. supporting science, technology, and improved economic performance and financial literacy in the 21st century. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs st

newshour economics correspondent paul solman has our look. rts harvard commencement 2010 celebrating its newest graduates. and casting a critical eye on those graduates harvard economist bench men friedman, they're more able than ever, he says. and for that reason it's all the more troubling when i think that after they leave us so many of them go into activities that are not economically productive for the country, for society, even just narrowly for the economy. >> reporter: friedman bemoans the fact that three years into the financial crisis, top institutes continue to flock to wall street. at harvard as at other top schools about one out of every four graduates entering the workforce take a financial sector job. >> and in light of how skewed some of the rewards are, today the greatest incentives, ironically, seem to be for institutes to go into those activities in which at least the apparent economic function being served is harder and harder and harder to understand what it is. you don't see any value, you think it is a waste of human re

. >> brown: paul solman has a very different kind of sports story: basketball star lebron james' economic impact on the city of cleveland. >> no one really knew where cleveland was. maybe is it close to new york? is it close to chicago? now lebron james gets on the team. "where you from?" "i'm from cleveland. you ever hear of cleveland?" "come on man, i know cleveland-- lebron james!" >> woodruff: and a conversation with scientist francis collins about cracking the human genetic code 10 years later. >> it is just the foundation of everything with do and we have that information now. so for a scientist, this is incredibly empowering. >> brown: that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour." major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> this is the engine that connects abundant grain from the american heartland to haran's best selling whole wheat, while keeping 60 billion pounds of carbon out of the atmosphere every year. bnsf, the engine that connects us. >> and by the bill and melinda gates foundation. dedicated to the idea that all people deserve the chance to live a healthy prod

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newshour economics correspondent paul solman was the moderator. >> reporter: does the internet encourage people who would not otherwise find each other no matter how kooky their ideas might be to do so to be reinforced in those ideas and make them more as opposed to less narrow minded? >> the mistake is to separate the internet from the general culture. there's clearly a general culture problem with the echo chamber. there's clearly more and more of a failure in america of people of different political persuasions to respectfully and creatively talk about issues. that's both in mainstream media and on the internet. i think the internet is a reflection of an increasingly fragmented world, an increasingly ironically given we're supposed to be living in this social media age, an increasingly lonely, fragmented, isolated age in which we sit in front of our computers. we have less and less physical contact with everybody else. we are more and more convinced of our own ideas. >> i really want to point folks to a new study done by the university of chicago that actually looked at about 1500 new