you may know that r.j. julia is now in its 21st year. we think it's an extraordinary bookstore, especially in these times. we know it's a busy world out there, so we're glad you're here. time and again we hear from customers and visitor of all kinds that it is events like these that bring authors from all points of the spectrum to this spot, to this community that make this store special. "last men out" is the book we're here to introduce. i thought i'd begin simply by saying that my daughter is in ho chi minh city now. i skypeed with her this morning. she's a recent college graduate, english major, and she is in saigon to teach english. as you might imagine, it's been an extraordinary experience for a young woman, i'm very proud of her because it was all her doing. i had nothing -- [laughter] i had no say in it whatsoever. [laughter] she got herself there on her own dime, and she's about two months in. spoke with her this morning, as i say, it's on skype, you know, so it's pretty cool to see her. and i asked her last week to visit the r

r.j. the maker of camel, kool, winston and salem says, quote, the anti-smoking message plainly conveys through graphic images and designs intended to elicit loathing, disgust, revulsion, the government's viewpoint that the risks associated with smoking cigarettes outweigh the pleasure that smokers derive from them. do you think r.j. reynolds has a point? is this message just a little too strong and sort of unnecessary, certainly coming from the federal government? >> reporter: get over it, r.j. reynolds. this is a case where slowly but surely their industry is being strangled by more restrictive laws and regulations, whether it's new york where you can't smoke outside, in some cases in parks, australia where you can't smoke on a beach, you can't smoke in any restaurant, in any cafe, in any bar. so to quote the famous old line, me thinks you protesteth too much. >> you don't think it will have an impact. >> it's a picture on a packet. a nasty picture on a packet. committed smokers are not s

government it's like it's taken from a salon and will be without r.j. in grade. seven and of course i'm furious that i know when are we are the ones with the most experience and recycling when i go to bed before. that much they're going to build on what an awful lot and they and i would kill for the foreign companies i dreamed of owning a can cutting factory. come on and i learned a lot but we have less garbage now. and our income comes from recycling trash. in a third world than we recycle eighty percent of the trash we collect a lot of. because we turn garbage into role materials not the good the. bad in more than then we sell it in egypt and abroad and that one thing that. comes along with whom we export to china belgium and france. then they get mad at me for i attended the recycling school but have not felt i was blind as a bundle and i finally learned to read and write. but i'm here i learned safe recycling taxes go up to no adults here and start counting. the totals four hundred. that. there were had me. in a sling everybody struggling for them and with ho

month of got the worst initially expected and we're going to have more information on the job with r.j. is we're going to actually go to the provision area to the exclusion zone and we're going to believe the answer is if it's not clear that they can trace it to the people back in their homes. well there with our team still ahead the unlikely alliance. or thoughts of jews in new york are joining the chorus of palestinians. to the state of israel. plus join our close up team any one of the most beautiful locations of russia's caucasus to use the city of it. some members of the u.s. congress have reportedly received a letter from colonel gadhafi saying he's ready to negotiate a cease fire. that has not been confirmed meanwhile at nato air strikes continue to rock tripoli comes off his daughter filed a lawsuit against the french president nicolas sarkozy and nato for intentionally killing four members of her family and she strike. now considers just a target nato has long insisted that regime change is not an objective. and. says the west clearly doesn't want settlements to live in parts

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the chief of the norris r.j.on later on. he received weeks of care in l.a. and they have been reducing his seizure medication. >> without saying they're going to try a barry bonds he will is in court to postpone a i hearing into the case. he is accused of lying to a federal grand jury when he denied and knowingly taking steroids or human growth hormones. it is only found guilty of one count. but they were deadlocked on the other three counts perry. they will decide what to do with those charters on friday parian. a programming note for this friday on kron 4 we are going to be airing to work hours of dateline 8:00 p.m. then the kron news will be on at 10:00 p.m. now will take look from our roof a little bit more robberies this morning that we had yesterday we will be right back. ♪ [ male announcer ] if you're ready to get more from your tv service than comcast can give, now's a great time to switch to at&t u-verse tv. make the switch! [ female announcer ] call to get at&t u-verse -- now with free hd -- for only 29

to alice's right is rudy penner, institute fellow at the urban institute and holds the r.j. francis urban chair in public policy. previously he was a managing director of the berens group, and also affiliated with enterprise group and held many positions at government, omb, hud, and council of economic advisors. he was the second director. robert d. reischauer, to rudy's right, is president of the urban institute. he was a member of the medicare payment advisory commission from 2000-2009 and was it's vice chair. and he is also one of two public trustees of the social security and medicare trust fund. he's also worked at brookings and was with alice rivlin when she set up cbo in 1975 and also served as the assistance director and dep si director. he was cbo third director from 1989 to 1995 during which time i had the great pleasure to work for him. you maybe expecting me to tell you that doug holtz-eakin who is to bob's right was the fourth director of cbo. this is not true. he was the sixth director. having served from 2003-2005. he came to cbo immediately from the without c