i have always been interested in exploring the concept of child prodigies. when i was younger, i wrote a story about mozart as a child. i always love this idea of young people who are able to take control of their lives and bring change at such a young age. one of my favorite books when i was younger was about a boy prodigy who was sent by the military. it is something that has always been interesting. tavis: i am curious about your process. there must be a couple of more books being planned. i thought that might be the case. this is your first. i want to get into your process early on in your career. kind of story, how do you create this world? >> for this book in particular, i was watching les mis on television at one afternoon. i thought it would be really fun to put that into a teenage perspective. what happens if you have a really smart young criminal and a really smart young detective chasing each other? from there, that is where the first seed of the story. the world came from a map that i saw on line about what our world would look like if the oceans

in 1923 it provided the stage for seven-year-old prodigy. he would become one of the premier violinist. bob mackenzie interviewed him two years before he died at the age of 82. >> reporter: in 1985 at the age of 70, meyuin conducted the 48th anniversary concert for the united nations in london. it was one of the crowning performances of a remarkable career. today menuin is in san francisco the city where he spent his childhood. he no longer plays his violin in public but is in great demand. his musical career is now in his 40th year. at the age of 5 he was already playing. by seven he was amazing his teachers. his immigrant russian family struggled to pay for his lessons. at age 8 he amazed the world. playing pieces so difficult most musicians would not dare them play in public. musicians were outstanded and some were even resentful. >> it shows the amateurty in adults that they say, how can he play that way at eight. they should ask themselves why can't i do that at 40. >> how is it that you were able to do that? can you explain it? >> i th

all have the burning prodigiously. because they cut costs during the financial crisis, today, they are awash in liquidity. the 30 companies on the dax have amassed nearly 150 billion euros in reserves. finally, interest rates remain low. it is market environments, germany retains its status as a trustworthy debtor. as a result, the governor -- the government, germany-based banks, and citizens can refinance at rock-bottom interest rates on like their counterparts in eurozone for free countries caught up in the crisis -- periphery countries, the crisis. if growth rates in the emerging markets begin to weaken, 2012 may not be as easy for industry here as 2011 was. >> the founder of the world's biggest mail-order retailer has died in berlin, aged 102. he launched his company more than 60 years ago. today, the group is a global corporation with 50,000 employees. besides real estate interests, it owns u.s. furniture and retail chain creighton barrel creightoncrate and -- crate and barrel. he was with his family when he died

the competition's first finalist as they take on cashier what i saw all eyes are on the brazilian prodigy neymar a little bit of daughters holders are up against the local champions. and the nineteen year old says it's his dream to play against a man who is often compared to barcelona as leo messi in the decider. will face guitarist side of the other semifinal one neymar has been heavily linked passes arch rivals real madrid since september but has opted to stay in his native country at least for time being a move but and a lot of praise from his coach. i believe it's better for him to prepare for his home world cup based in brazil rather than go into europe. anyway by the time the world cup is over i think the people managing just curious do the great job because right now he needs as much experience as a possible know is not the right time for him to go to europe this was don't worry . also lone urban taking a break from their preparations ports for a worthwhile cause the alarmists see jarvey and you will and are the first team stars many youngsters who fled their homes after the devast

finalists as may take on a share what i saw in just under two hours' time all eyes are on the brazilian prodigy neymar the nineteen year old says it's his dream to play against them and he's often compared to barcelona as we all messi in the title decider of also will face qatari side to me other semifinal on neymar heavily linked with passes archrivals real madrid since september but is opted to stay in his native country or at least for the time being a move and a lot of praise from his coach. i believe it's better for him to prepare for his home world cup a student brazil rather than go into europe. anyway by the time the world cup is over i think the people managing just curious do the great job because right now he needs as much experience just as possible and now is not the right time for him to go to europe this was for barcelona taking break a. where preparation sports for a worthwhile cause you know messy in college we all and our first team stars many youngsters who fled their homes after the devastating earthquake and tsunami hit me area last march the players also gave the children

stallman sas the purpose of his career is to campaign for users rights back in the seventy's he was a prodigy a programmer and a part of the newly born hacker community he continued in a software developer career but an attempt to introduce a totally free operating system a true philosopher the launch of the project started the free software movement. running changing and redistributing. computer programs without charge thanks to richard stallman and his brand's most commercial software has. stalled self believes in a static line of lectures and promotes his philosophy around the. i will richard welcome to the show and thank you very much for being with us well first of all you just when you were listening to that intro you said that it's a mistake to confront free software and commercial right one where these are two unrelated questions a programmer is free or proprietary depending on whether the users control the program or the program controls the users whether the program is commercial or not that's a totally different question it's commercial if it's developed as part of a business there

. >> reporter: parking prodigies say there are sure ways to beat parking pain.rough hundreds of satellite images, a firm discovered that spaces in the rows closest to the mall entrance fill first. >> so, they park directly in front of the door but leave spaces open each side. it builds kind of a mountain shape. >> reporter: that means picking a spot closer to the end of the bell curve equals less walking. another rule. critical. experts say park before you park. mathematical probability says during busy times, don't keep driving around. stop near a primo spot with 20 spaces in front of you. based on the numbers, it's almost certain you'll find an open spot? just a few minutes. now, if this strategy holds, we should be waiting about nine minutes for a space to open up. still waiting. the theory worked. victorious! this is the best spot in the entire mall! probably would have been easier had i just taken the bus. matt gutman, abc news, at the evantura mall in florida. >> thank you, matt. and we thank you for watching. we are always on at abcnews.com. don't forget,

late it was a skillet to the head that mocked him out and she micromanaged bruce whom she saw as her prodigy. this kuwait's. schoolmates, teachers, other townspeople in lebanon and they told me that mary - it's had left a mark on bruce, a lasting yet hauntingly marked. so from an early age he was a gifted student however essentially isolated. he never could fit in for whatever reasons yet he got older and older and he demanded both attention and approval and those are two things for the life of birds ivins. he saw these and strange kennon ways and manipulative ways. he's held grudges and pursues them almost invariably anonymously in ways that allow him to elude accountability for his misdeeds. he went to the university of cincinnati it would really cast some of his destiny. he also will have a declined invitation and she forgot bruce never did. the rejection to your membership from that point on he was on a vendetta to harass the torment will leave the institution but other members. this was in full evidence after he received his ph.d. and the university from california. he took to the commi

he said the mouth is absolutely prodigious. then those stands out from the face with an anxious inquiring air as though it was sniffing for some good things in the wind. the eyes dark, full ntp had said come are penetrating but full of an expression which almost amounts to sentiment. this is lincoln at age 52. here is gandhi at the age of 52 as described in the american monthly, july 1922 by an american writer who had met him. gandhi wrote from -- enveloped in blankets, man of middle age or so he appeared, with strong strong -- hair, very large ears, pierce in the center of a loaf, the chin cleve shaven, expression alert, ice penetrating, glance direct. he greeted me with gentle courtesy. his english idiom and accent was perfect. he was not in the least -- his inclination, his inclination was to give me the lead. then there is humor. if callers also noticed by one colleague in lincoln and gandhi. in each case they also ran into an extraordinary capacity to amuse others and to appreciate life's ironies. lincoln of course was a s

one night it was a skillet to the head that mocked him out cut and she saw him as her prodigy. bruce's schoolmates and i interviewed dozens of people who had grown up with bruce in those years schoolmate's college teachers of others, townspeople they told me that mary left a mark on bruce, a lefty to the collapsing or so from an early age bruce was a scientifically gifted student, however he was socially isolated. he never could fit in with whatever reason but yet he craved it as she got older and older he demanded both attention and approval and those are two things for the life of bruce. he thought these things in strange ways and hidden ways to manipulate it. he held grudges and pursued them almost invariably anonymously in ways that allowed him to a lewd accountability for his misdeeds. he went to the university of cincinnati and one is an undergraduate and microbiology and was there as an undergraduate at a very important event took place that would really cast some of his destiny. he asked a will run out for a date and she declined his invitation and quickly forgot about

"i think it's agreed by all party this prodigious number of children in the arms, on the backs or at the heels of their mothers and frequently of their fathers, is in the kingdom of very great additional grievance. whoever could make a fair, cheap and easy method of making the children sound and useful members of the common wealth would deserve so well of the public to have his statue set up for a preserver of the nation." in other words, it would be good for the country to find a use for all the poor kids underfoot and in the way. what is the best use of the poor? jonathan swift went on to offer his own solution. he said "i have been assured a young, healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing and wholesome food. whether stewed, roasted, baked or boiled. i make no doubt it will equally serve in a fricasle or raguost." he suggested eating poor children. he suggested it in order to shock people into thinking about the poor in some way other than their utility or disutility to the rest of society. newt gingrich is not suggesting eating poor children. he's su

she is considered a ballet prodigy and performing here in our area.eland joins us live after the break to talk about her upcoming show up next. >>> speaking of shows we will take you behind the scenes a youth dance company in annandale, virginia. and annie there is when fox five morning news continues.  >>> in 2007, misty copeland made history by becoming the third african-american female soloist and the first in two decades at the american ballet theater. you can see her perform in the knit cracker at the kennedy center this thursday through sunday. but what a treat. she is in studio with us right now. it's a pleasure to meet you. >> thank you. >> welcome to washington. >> thank you. >> have you been here before? >> yes, abc comes here almost every year i'm used to being here and i love performing at the kennedy center. >> tell us about this production, american ballet, the nut cracker and your role. >> well, aleksei is the choreographer so this is only our second year doing his version of it and it's really amazing version. it's so different from

in the summer of my sophomore year i went to the a music festival and a lot of prodigy were there and 12-year-olds were playing what i could play. they were 12, i was 17. and i thought i would be playing at nordstrom someplace, fine careers but not for me, and fortunately i wandered into a course in international politics, taught by a soviet specialist, a man who was madeline albright's father, and he opened up the world of diplomacy and eastern europe to me, and all of a sudden i knew i wanted to be a soviet specialist. the first lesson on how you get to where i am is you find something that you absolutely love to do, and so i would say to each and every one of you as students, find your passion. not what job you want. not what career you want. but what going to make you get up every day and want to go and do that. secondly, if you're fortunate, your passion and talents come together, and i went on to become a professor at stanford, and i met -- when i was a young professor in a seminar at stanford, man named brent scowcroft who had been the national security adviseyear to president

and she micromanaged bruce more than her prodigy. pursue schoolmates interviewed dozens of people who would come up with grusin in those formative years. schoolmates, teachers, other townspeople of lebanon. and she told me that every items had left a mark on bruce, a lasting and hunting mark. so from an early age, bruce however was a scientifically gifted student. however, he was socially isolated. he never could fit in for whatever reason. yet he creatine actually as he got older and older, demanded both attention and approval. and those are two teams for the life of veritably anonymously in ways that enable him to elude accountability for his misdeeds. he went to the university of cincinnati and was in undergraduate microbiology. it was there as an undergrad at a very important event ways to cast some of his destiny. he asked a woman out for a date and she declined his invitation. and she quickly forgot about this, but bruce ivins never did. he attributed the rejection to her membership in a sorority called kappa kappa gamma. from

. >> reporter: parking prodigies say there are ways to beat parking pain.mages, spaces in the rows closest to the entrance fill first. >> they will park directly in front of the door but leave spaces open on each side. over time it builds a mountain shape. >> reporter: picking the spot closer to the end of the bell curve equals less walking. another rule, experts say park before you park. mathematical probability says during busy times don't keep driving around. stop near a primo spot with 20 spaces in front of you. based on numbers it is almost certain you will find an open spot within a few minutes. if the strategy hold we should waiting about nine minutes for a space to open up. still waiting. the theory worked. victorious. this is the best spot in the entire mall. probably would have been easier had i just taken the bus. matt gutman, abc news, florida. >> i am too impatient. i don't wait well. >> 9 minutes sitting still. >> i circle. >> the smartest thing. avoid the mall and shop online. and other people, it gets there. i don't understand the mall. the

the summer of my software to something called the aspen music festival schools, which a lot of prodigies repair and there were 12 euros two could play what i could play after only one year. there were 12, i was 17. i decided i would either end up teaching 13-year-olds beethoven or maybe playing at nordstrom someplace. you know, find careers, but not really for me. unfortunately i wandered into international politics than it was topped by specialists. it was madeleine albright's father. and he opened up the world of diplomacy and eastern europe to me and all of a sudden i knew what i wanted to be. i wanted to be a soviet specialist. so the first lesson of how you get to where i am as you find something that you absolutely love to do. and so i would say to each and everyone of you students, find your passion. not what job you want, not what career you want, but what you are passionate about. what will wake you up every day i want to go into that. secondly, if you are fortunate come your passionate tonsil come together and i went on to become a professor at stanford. and i met when i was a

is grant focused his prodigious powers and concentration on his four articles for the century, he beganto think of expanding this initial effort in what became his massive and powerful personal memoirs. it was now grants friend mark twain who entered the picture. twain already greatly famous for his adventures of tom sawyer and other works, was about to publish huckleberry finn. he may grant an offer generous to grant and although speculative potentially very lucrative for himself. he would publish grants them where's or a small publishing firm run by his nephew, charles webster, and get grant $200,000 s. and it ends on his venture. twain, always a man for images, described the arrangement this way. if these chicken should ever hatch, general grants royalties will amount to $420,000 will make the largest single check ever paid to an author and world's history. if i pay the paid the general and silver coins, at $12 per english bound, it will raise 17 tons. has grant continued writing in the summer of 1884, he suffered increasing pain and discomfort in his mouth. by late october, this had

and in the summer of my sophomore year, i went to the aspen music festival school which a lot of prodigies were there, and there were 12-year-olds who could play from sight what i could play after one year. i was 17. i thought i was going to end up teaching 13-year-olds to murder beethoven, and fortunately, i wandered into a course on international politics, and it was taught by a man jailed joseph carville who was madeleine albright's father. and he opened up the world of diplomacy and eastern europe to me, and all of a sudden i knew what i wanted to be, i wanted to be a soviet specialist. so the first lesson of how you get to where i've, where i am is you find something that you absolutely love to do. and so i would say to each and every one of you as students, find your passion. not what job you want, not what career you want, but what you're passionate about, what's going to make you get up every day and want to go and do that. secondly, if you're fortunate, your passion and your talents will come together, and i went on then to become a professor at stanford. and i met when i was a yo

so she was conducting a lot of her research from her house and through, you know, prodigious telephone calls and outsourcing of people helping her to bring in documents and things like that. and from that she produced this tremendous piece of not only scholarship and research, but also this very inspiring story that was released at the end of 2010, and as you've noted, is loathe the leave the bestseller list. so i think it's just an indication of how people really respond to these stories of the human spirit. and told extremely well, and i suspect that just like her previous book, "seabiscuit," it will just keep selling into 2012. >> since she has chronic fatigue syndrome, doesn't leave the house very often, she can't really go on tour like other authors, correct? >> that's right. but i think it's an indication of just how strong the story was. and also i believe that louis was available for interviews as well, so to hear from him directly is also very inspiring. so even though she herself could not go out and about to promote it, there were work arounds. he did do some interviews as l

through prodigious research, interviews with key players come including the protagonist and along with the very hard work necessary to read a good book, catherine has captured the man in his time and at least in my case, reminded readers how much our political life in our political discourse has changed since bob strauss' heyday. and i think some of us who have lived through that era and say isn't there some thing missing the states? may be a lot. so i really am delighted to welcome a first-time author, catherine the car. she'll tell us a story of how this came to be in a lot more about her famous great-uncle. thank you so much for being here. he saw me welcome catherine. [applause] >> thank you, lissa and everyone at politics & prose and c-span. thank you all for being here. so lissa muscatine and i were talking about how do you read a book about your famous great-uncle and remain in the family and also write an accurate vote. the way i try to get around that was doing a lot of research, especially a presidential library at the national archives. because the uncle bob has a column in

this musical prodigy's life was his music. >> i had a very focused childhood, you know?ry, harmony. ♪ >> reporter: but he wanted more. so he eventually left the conservatory and headed to harvard. >> college was the place to kind of go and explore. >> reporter: and the exploring hasn't stopped since. ♪ >> reporter: at age 56, yo-yo ma continues traveling the world as its musical ambassador. ♪ >> reporter: how old were you when you realized playing the cello is what i want to do with my life, my career, and it's no longer what my parents wish for me? >> probably when i was about 49. >> reporter: why so late in life? >> i'm a slow learner. >> reporter: again, you start -- you get wiser as you get older. >> yeah. >> reporter: was it a certain success or just maturing? >> i think it's when i realized that all of the things i loved about life outside of music had to do with people, my interest in cultures and education and an thorou anthropology in the world could be fulfilled through music. >> reporter: he already created the a silk road ensemble bringing together music from

"local cello prodigy, 17-year-old byron sheffield "won a scholarship tolacello.one heights? way too many. we're not going to make it in time. not if you keep running your mouth. well, you better buckle up. [tires screeching] we found him, warden deihl. we found her son. unless i receive an official stay of execution from the governor, i am duty bound to see this through. my son is dead, agent gideon. i have agents on their way to his house as we speak, and the governor is standing by. why can you not accept the truth? i can. this isn't it. my agents are within minutes of finding her son. alive. i am truly sorry. hold here. what wouldn't you do for your son to give him a life you could never hope to dream of? i am at peace in the knowledge... that my n is free to be whatever he chooses to be. if he knew who you were... do you think he'd choose to allow you to walk in there? if he knew who his parents were... can you imagine the damage my legacy would leave him? can you imagine what he would feel... knowing his mother spent 15 years on death row... innocent of all

members of the hot boy band, go by the names prodigy, rock royal, ray-ray, and princeton.own up. and they have a new single for the holidays. it's called "christmas with my girl." how did i know you'd have a song with my girl in it? "christmas with my girl." they go crazy for you. >> i know. >> anywhere you go. i know you toured with justin bieber. really, really happy for all of your success. >> thank you. appreciate it. >> how is it going, ray-ray? >> it's going great. >> since we last saw you? >> since we were here, we had the tour. really excited. >> you know what i'm really excited about, too? y'all are so respectful. i mean that. you really are. you really talk to your fans about not bullying. >> yeah. >> about doing the right thing. it's really important to you all, isn't it? >> yeah. >> yeah. you do know how it feels. tell me about this -- this is your first holiday song, right? >> yeah. >> tell us what it's about. why does it have girl in it? >> well, we're all -- >> we love the ladies. >> it's all about the ladies. are you ready to hear mindless behavior? [ cheer

of course, dewey was a real prodigy. anyway, it took, i believe, three ballots. and then of course you had to pick a vice president. and he wanted earl warren who was a very popular governor of california, and warren would not agree. four years later, he would, to his regret. but instead, to unify the party, dewey picked the governor of ohio, taft's friend, fellow conservative, a man named john bricker, and one of the slogans was, "the war will end quicker with dewey and bricker." >> let's get to a phone call. marvin in los angeles. go ahead. caller: thomas e. dewey was a reasonably young man in 1953 and he, of course, was very influential in general eisenhower running. was dewey offered a job by eisenhower? after all, his v.p., governor warren of california, was offered the job of chief justice. >> that's a great question. yeah, there is some debate over it. i believe he was informally approached, shall we put it, you know, about the supreme court. when you stop to think about it, really nothing else made sense, except perhaps secretary of state and there he had

>> guest: he was an american prodigy. he was a gifted, notably, astonishingly gifted painter when he was still 18 -- yet 18. he painted several of his major masterpieces when he was still in his 20s. his madam x as its known, his daughters of edward boyt, his -- all done in paris -- excuse me, and all done while he was still in his 20s. there's madam. she was also an american, most people didn't really that living in paris, and this painting was, at the time, considered scandalous because of her pose, her low cut evening attire. there he is, he's a young man standing in his studio with the portrait behind him. c-span: who was mary casset? >> guest: the young woman from pennsylvania who decided she was not just going to be a woman who paints, but she was going to be a painter. that's her self-portrait, a beautiful water color self-portrait, and he became the only american artist who was accepted by and taken in by the impressionists as one of them in paris. this is a painting of her mother. reading the newspaper. this was

a friend of his prodigy georgeus lucas is genius in the church ot looks to his people.twar lucas was getting rid of the digital animation software and hardware division he had.cool steve thought that was really cool. he thought he could make consumers the ability to use th digital rendering. the really never took off. there was one guy working there in charge of making sure it to show off how cool the machines were named john lasseter. he made a couple shorts with a a lamp and then one called 10 toyt and the rest as they say his biography is not history, eventually lisa toy story.ransfv so pixar becomes a ver aboutformative thing in the animation business. >> he has something very profound about that. , which is the string thatng par running pixar simultaneously pue on himve physically.thin and he even says i think that has something to do with my thiu eventually getting cancer.fr ar i don't think that's the h case. i don't think you get cancer fromes working hard.waea he fell to his great stress. goesas driving up to pixar and handling. he is juggling quite a few things.f i think th

>> guest: well, i mean, they are prodigies. they enrich the campus while they, are there.e life. kevin durand was a classic example. he went to the university of texas and was arguably about the greatest basketball player kobe bryant for the mantel. went to the university of texas for one year, loved it and then left and went to the nba. i see nothing wrong with it. you know, he had a great time while he was there. they loved having him. he was exposed to a college campus and got to have one more year of normal youth before he became the great player that he is. you know, i'd like to see them stay two years, frankly. i think if you commit -- i'd like to see a freshman eligibility rules about when kevin durant, texas it's actually a two-year commitment. he sits out one year while he finds his classrooms, and the second year he plays, and then he's out. c-span: we are about out of time. how many kids and your family? >> guest: three. two brothers. c-span: older, younger? >> guest: one twin brother and one year younger so it was sort of like being triplets and outnumbered. c-

i understand her festers fmcma submitted a report into the dock is seen in the her prodigious research support conclusions. fmcma's unsupported assumptions about reduce driver vitality inflate the benefits of the proposed road by $690 million annually. in addition to these three issues there's other unsupported assertions and methodological errors which further inflate the apparent in a fit of the proposed rule. if these problems are corrected i find the new rule would result in a net cost of $320 million annually, rather than a net benefit of 380 million is calculated by the fmcma. i note that mr. jansy stated we had a recommendation that the new rule not include benefits from improved driver health. that is certainly not my position. i just believe calculations should be done based on the most accurate and the best available data. i thank you for your time and encourage you to read my report. >> thank you. that may start with you. mr. jansy said this proposal would create 30,000 jobs we heard from four witnesses that it's going to cost them more money with this new role. yet mr. jans