when the mogels came from persia to north india they saw the story telling and thought it was a beautiful art form. they were not engaged with the story but saw the beauty in the footwork and hand movement. they brought the dancers into their courts. they were a form of entertainment. so, i want you to put your imagination caps on. we will go from the forest into a beautiful mogel palace. there are velvet carpets and peacocks walking around. there are beautiful paintings and everyone all of you, the audience have come to enjoy the court and the king sits on his thrown in the corner twirling his mustache and he called for his dancers and they come to the room. you are here to be entertained by them. this is called taught. taught is a highly stylized tuning of the mind and body together. you will see very fast turns ending in sharp stances and things with our eyes and eye brows and our neck, our hands. and you will also hear a language, which you might have heard. this is the language of our dance. it tells us what to do with our feet and our bodies and there is a lot of mask going on. you

persia in new year is the beginning of the spring, everything refreshes.arth. we refresh our friendship even with our enemies. we forget our sorrows and we look to the new year with bright eyes and full of hope, full of hope. let me see what i have in this bag. ah-ha! my brothers, he forgot. in the persian new years, we put seven items on the table. we start with the letter "s," which represents the goodness of the earth. everything that comes from the earth. we celebrate, we celebrate these blessings, we love these blessings so we represent them with seven "s's." this is a sign of health, the apple. please, can you put it there on this table? next, we have --, this is sour but it is good for your health. this comes from any other fruit. this is the vinegar. it was very hard to carry out. oh, -- is good for many things. persians knows for what. this represents wealth. i don't know why. let me see what i have. egs-- eggs, i don't know why we put these. it does not start with s. we put this on kabob. we love this. do you love this? yes, you do. c'mon, this i

members of the baha'i faith commemorate the martyrdom of their founder, the bab, who was executed in persiauly 9th, 1850. bahai's suspend work on this day. >> finally, the vatican has launched a new website and the announcement came this week by way of the first ever papal tweet. >> with some help from vatican officials, pope benedict logged onto to twitter on his ipad and sent out a short message to followers. "i just launched news.va," wrote the pope. "praised be our lord jesus christ." the new website features news from various vatican outlets including its radio and television stations, newspaper and press office. after the pope's tweet, more than 50,000 people now follow the se on twitt. >> that's r program r no i'm bob abernethy. you can also follow us on twitter and facebook, find us on youtube, and watch us anytime, anywhere on smart phones and iphones. there's also much more on our web site, you can comment on all of our stories and share them. audio and video podcasts are also available. join us at pbs.org. as we leave you, scenes from an interfaith worship service held at the was

speaking of hot, jake gyllenhaal might have gotten an adrenaline rush when he did "the prince of persiae season premiere of man versus wild risking his life for that premiere. no safety net, no green screen, just jake inching his way across at thin rope between two mountains in iceland. while he was there he indict the to walk through a walking bli blinding blizzard. july 11th on the discovery channel. kind of sizzling, isn't he? the sound effect for him. you know you love the changen. our next story, is it a good sign for the state of marriage when the founder of e-harmony is saying don't get married? >> that's disturbing. he says the reason is because of the stats, too many marriages are endi ining badly these days. 70% of adults under 30 still want to get married but we're not good at wicking the right partner. i wonder if he's saying we would be better if woe went to e-harmony. got to give him crediting for marketing. switch gears and be prepared to be inspired by this story. we love this young man. 21-year-old college student adam star st starr has been training for years. back at

jake gyllenhaal, he must have gotten quite an adrenaline rush when he did that movie "the prince of persia is going to be on the season premiere of "man versus wild." and he is risking his life for that premiere. no safety net. no green screen. just jake, inches his way on a thin rope above an abyss between two mountains in iceland. oh, and while he was there he decided to walk through a freezing, blinding whiteout, as well. good times, jake. good times. will he live to be in another movie? you'll have to wait and see on "man versus wild," july 11th on the discovery channel. kind of sizzling, isn't he? the sound effect for him. you know you love the bacon, sam. >> love the bacon. >>> let's move on to our next story. is it a good sign for the state of marriage when even the founder of e-harmony is saying don't get married? that's disturbing. and he says the reason is because of the stats. too many marriages are ending badly these days. he said 70% of adults, though, under 30 still do want to get married. but as a culture, we're just not good at making the right partner. i wonder if he's say

>> reporter: jake gyllenhaal transformed his body for "prince of persia." >> is that all you got?rough hours and hours at the gym he got so addicted to working out, he injured himself. heidi montag said to keep herself super fit she goes to the gym a staggering 14 hours a day. they are high-profile examples of extreme exercisers. brooke mor 5 is one, exercise became a habit during a tumultuous time in her life. >> i went through a really heartbreaking breakup with an ex-fiance and, you know, after days of crying, weeks of crying myself to sleep i use the gym as a refuge. i used it as a therapy. i used it as an escape. >> reporter: soon brooke's habit turned into a compulsion now working out close to 30 hours a week. is the driving force behind this 'at the time igs or is it health. >> i think it's a combination of both. i love the way i look. >> reporter: we followed her one sunday which started at 9:00 a.m. with a four-mile hike. three to four times a week you come here to hike. what if you're not here, what do you do instead? >> i'm in the gym. >> reporter: an hour in and i am b

when the mogels came from persia to north india they saw the story telling and thought it was a beautiful art form. they were not engaged with the story but saw the beauty in the footwork and hand movement. they brought the dancers into their courts. they were a form of entertainment. so, i want you to put your imagination caps on. we will go from the forest into a beautiful mogel palace. there are velvet carpets and peacocks walking around. there are beautiful paintings and everyone all of you, the audience have come to enjoy the court and