the boys through publs at her at first. later on a couple of teachers didn't want to teach her because she was female. in high school some of the boys stole her notebooks because they didn't want her to graduate. but she did. there's no medicine or clinic or hospital here. before she started working in 2000 in this valley, five to 20 women died in childbirth every year so. she went to two years of training and cost us about $800 and her pay is just over a dollar a day and not one women has died since she's come back and is working there. and now i'll jump forward a bit. when we get hundreds of letters in our office and e-mails and some of the most powerful e-mails are those from our armed forces serving in afghanistan and sometimes iraq. recently i got an e-mail from a colonel. his first name is kris. he's the commander of the saber forces called,fob. ford operating base in north star province in eastern afghanistan. one of the most difficult and dangerous areas to serve. he wrote to me first as a commander but also as a fa

publ discourse. in the presidential debates, there was only one mention of kind na china in chose debates. when they thought that it was unsustainable in terms of debt. president obama's state of the union speech, saying that the chinese can have the drive and so to can the u.s., perhaps the most important metric as you all know, the congressional elections happening this fall are fought around the country. i bet you would not find more than one or two of the 435 congressional relations this fall in which china was in the top five issues. it is a bit early divided case in which china was not part of the u.s. national debate. but if there is fear of & tie chinese tone, there is little evidence of it in the course of u.s. politics. rather i would say, the problem to explain in u.s. china coverage is something you can dd define this way. a measure of the adequacy in rendering a certain topic is whether being in a country, spending time there, feels and seems different from having read about it before. t

one, we need to insure the safety and then we need good publ information about that. i want to come back to that, but i want to go right to this idea of the unified command and who does what. i have been concerned about the ified command, because it soundsto me, like when i heard it, it sounded so cool and command and control and decisive and quit-witted and swift of boat and foot. but when i got, there it was a committee. and it was a committee of koord nays or the and i'm not knocking it, because the enormity of this is something that also quite stunning to see. all of the boats and all that is affeed and the vastness of 7,000 miles of gulf coast shoreline, but who -- ms. jackson, when you make your recommendations, is it the coast guard and this unified command call the shots. are you advisory to the coast guard or could you, or do you have the power to ban or limit the use of dispersants or any other product that you would deem scientifically based would have a negative consequence? what power do you have to act? >> the flashl incident commander is retired admiral

in terms of leadership, in terms of changing the discoue, the public discourse, the international publally coming up with real number and, therefore, eliciting the moral and material support of our friends, in this period of showing we are real and not messing around. >>hank you. let me start by the first point, that you said, we've had the negative press in some cases and we've had the skeicism as well from some cases, whether this assistance, this support and loan, will have to be given to greece or not. if i invert the case, i'd like to remind to everyone that we saw the global crisis starting from one case from, i mentioned the lehman brothers case, in my speech. and then it spilled over to the rest of the world. now a case like that happening with greece, becau greece was in a very difficult situation, when we have the discussions about the ability -- stability agreements, stability and development plan was very difficult and it was not just greece in the case, it was grce and the eurozone and european union and then anyone can imagine what that would have meant for a second helpi

kansas city, kansas, board of publ public utilities projects it's going to drive up their energy costs 25% to their customers. over a near-term basis. that's over the next three years. is that a good thing? >> okay. so let's go back to say, though, the legislation that wasassed by the house, the waxman/marquee legislation, the idea of making it a package is that you deal with any sxweconsequences in te of industries and consumers by -- >> fiair enough. how is kansas city, kansas, going to benefit from this? >> every american is going to benefit by jump starting clean energy, by breaking our dependence on foreign oil and by not warming the planet to the point of catastrophe. all of those are things that need to be dealt with. >> and utility bills go up 25%, their cost of gasoline in their car goesp to them on a near-term basis and maybe some of them see a job opportunity. so by and large, they're going to benefit from this and near-term and a soft economy. >> so the key thing has been how do you protect consumers? we had a rebate to the energy -- you know, to the service providers to in

kansas city, kansas, board of publ public utilities projects it's going to drive up their energy costs 25% to their customers. over a near-term basis. that's over the next three years. is that a good thing? >> okay. so let's go back to say, though, the legislation that was passed by the house, the waxman/marquee legislation, the idea of making it a package is that you deal with any sxweconsequences in te of industries and consumers by -- >> fiair enough. how is kansas city, kansas, going to benefit from this? >> every american is going to benefit by jump starting clean energy, by breaking our dependence on foreign oil and by not warming the planet to the point of catastrophe. all of those are things that need to be dealt with. >> and utility bills go up 25%, their cost of gasoline in their car goes up to them on a near-term basis and maybe some of them see a job opportunity. so by and large, they're going to benefit from this and near-term and a soft economy. >> so the key thing has been how do you protect consumers? we had a rebate to the energy -- you know, to the service providers t