the debate intensifies and joined by leon wieseltier, ann-marie slaughter and david sanger and look at issues around the world with tina brown, deanna powell and zainab selbi and there's a film about ray kurzweil about the transcend gentleman and we'll look at that at another date and we'll look at libya and women in 2011 coming up next. but this isn't just a hollywood storyline. it's happening every day, all across america. every time a storefront opens. or the midnight oil is burned. or when someone chases a dream, not just a dollar. they are small business owners. so if you wanna root for a real hero, support small business. shop small. additional funding provided by these funders: captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> charlie: it is a decision that every modern american president must face, whether and how to intervene as libya spirals into a bloody civil war the debate ins tensefide this week and there was a bipartisan support for a no-fly zone with some senators saying the risk of waiting outweigh early action and

when we come back in a minute we'll talk to david sanger of "the new york times" and our own david martin our national security correspondent in just a minute. [ male announcer ] how can power consumption in china, impact wool exports from new zealand, textile production in spain, and the use of medical technology in the u.s.? at t. rowe price, we understand the connections of a complex, global economy. it's just one reason over 80% of our mutual funds beat their 10-year lipper average. t. rowe price. invest with confidence. request a prospectus or summary prospectus with investment information, risks, fees and expenses to read and consider carefully before investing. >> schieffer: back now with david sanger, chief washington correspondent of "the new york times". six years a bureau chief for the times in tokyo. and our own david martin, of course, our national security correspondent. david, what should we be looking for now in the next couple of days? >> well, in addition to the rescue operation, which i'm afraid has been sort of bad news getting to worse, i think that the nuclear plants

. >> rose: and then the nuclear danger with david sanger of the "new york times," olli heinonen, former chief inspector for the international atomic and energy agency and nuclear physicist frank von hip. >> the good news is that the wind has been blowing offshore. but you know, the question is whether does this stand relative to chernobyl. it's way past three mile island already. >> rose: we conclude this evening by looking at the ipad 2 and the future of tablets with walt massberg of the "wall street journal" and david carr of the "new york times." >> the question is, is this going to be the ipod where they still have pretty much absolute domination in terms of players or will it be like the phone where google and others have been able to catch up? i do think they've protected their flake with a very, very impressive 2.0 version of this device. >> rose: japan and the ipad when we continue. who beats the odds and comes out on top. but this isn't just a hollywood storyline. it's happening every day, all across america. every time a storefront opens. or the midnight oil is burned. or when

. >> the trail traces the outskirts of suctiny central valley towns as reedley, selma, and sanger. and as the landscape wakes up around the area, so does business. take simonian farms, for example. just outside thfrno city limits is where you'll find this 20-acre family owned operation that has grown 100 varieties of fruits and vegetables for more than00 years, and doesn't looc to close shop atime soon. especially if the lion of fans the place has earned over the years has anything to say about it. >> oh, my god. just for people to see it. i don't think they've ever seen anything likthis. toee the beautiful blossoms, and the colors, and thcountryside, and what--what it really takes to doing farming. i mean, i think--god, i just-- i just think they get a lot out ofhis. >> blossoms are one of the most visible signs a new crop is on the way. and for about 6 weeks out of the year, you can see this spectacular sight, trees flushed full of blossoms. some have as many as 20,000 per tree. but the one thing yo discover quite quickly about the blossom trail is, besides highlighting the beaut

sanger web site that you got your seed money through the aiw freedom to write fund. what is that? >> it is associated with american independent writers which is a writers organization here in the d.c. area, and the freedom to write fund is a 501(c)(3) that is affiliated with aiw, and we have done very modest fund-raising. we need to do more, but enough to get us up and running and it has been a great sponsorship. >> david stewart is a president of the washington independent review of books. washington independent review of books.com is the web site. >> you are watching booktv on c-span2. here is our primetime lineup for tonight. ..

robert sanger was two years old. his twin, it, it turns i had it to end, he was in perfect health. truth being stranger than fiction, we talk a lot in this book about how genes are activated or inactivate to cause cancer. if you want to find a mechanism to describe this comment to describe the role of carcinogens and entered a genetic after mounties and the idea that there's, they can some kind a family history, you would probably choose to identical twins and one of them would develop cancer and other would not develop cancer. that would allow you to begin to enter the biology of what makes one twin had cancer. and yet i didn't ask for this, and yet of course there is a twin. robert sandler has a twin and, therefore, sets up the capacity for this discussion to happen down the road about the idea of what does a twin mean, what is he claiming in genetic terms. i will come to that. we enter farber's paper, again. and there's reminder how incredible medical writing can be because in a very cold clinical paper there's the story of human beings being killed. whenever doctors exchange me

now it looks like that a lot of brake lights until sanger road exiting milpitas.t there now, folks. we have some scattered showers out there this morning early on but the clouds continue and just a widely scattered shower. doesn't look too bad. we have some good news if you want to see some more sunshine. looks like things are going to begin to dry out as early as this afternoon. we are going to see a little more sunshine. there is a chance of an isolated shower moving through. friday looks dry right now. but if you have plans for the weekend, there is another storm that's developing in the pacific that will bring with it a chance of some rain, especially to the north of the golden gate as we head in toward the latter part of saturday. rain across the rest of the bay area on sunday. >>> welcome back to "the early show." just ahead, dinner, perhaps, in a vending machine? have you guys been there? >> love it. >> vending machine dinners? >> it actually comes out of a vending machine? >> yes, you're not eating a vending machine. >> i had to assault the vending machine