¿no conoce a sipc - securities investor protection corporation? no importa. se lo deletrearemos.h-century metaphysical poet john donne said, "no man is an island, entire of itself." in fact, as social beings, we are connected. but beyond that...virtually everything we experience -- in nature as well as human activity -- involves a series of connections that link one thing to another. networks, you might say, make the world go round. [ indistinct chattering ] meet raymond price: media tycoon, power broker, and center of attention. this is his party, his network. enter joe smith. he's just crashed the social event of the year and apparently doesn't know a soul. but this is one network joe would like to join. now, if he could only get connected. >> nice party. >> mr. price knows how to entertain. >> you know raymond price? >> no. i'm too low on that totem pole. apparently, even my date thinks so. >> does he know... >> i don't know. but i'm sure he knows somebody who knows somebody who -- well, you know what i mean. >> and he left you just hanging here? >> disconnected. >> joe's work

¿no conoce a sipc - securities investor protection corporation? no importa. se lo deletrearemos.y or loosely organized, interest groups bring pressure on public officials to promote particular policy agendas, which actually enhances democracy by linking citizens directly to their representatives. i'm renee poussaint. most long-lasting interest groups in our society focus on advancing the economic well-being of their members. because their members have an economic incentive, they are likely to be well-funded professional organizations which can employ lobbyists, mount well-orchestrated demonstrations, and conduct massive writing, e-mail, and telephone campaigns -- all designed to bring their concerns to the attention of decision makers. this is crusader, built by united defense. it was an $11 billion artillery system that triggered an intense battle in the spring of 2002 on capitol hill. critics, led by the secretary of defense, called the system a cumbersome cold war relic and a waste of taxpayers' money. after a good deal of consideration, i've decided to terminate the crusader

¿no conoce a sipc - securities investor protection corporation? no importa. se lo deletrearemos.. can you see the red against red? it's time to vote. you have the right to vote. if you're 18 or older and an american citizen, register to vote. you tell them what to do. vote! elections, from city council to president of the united states, we elect men and women to represent us at every level and in every branch of government. the people we choose make critical policy decisions, craft our laws, and judge us in many of our courts. considering that elected officials determine so much about the lives we lead, on what basis do we -- or should we -- choose and support a candidate? i'm renee poussaint. our elected representatives are just that, elected. in order to win, a candidate must campaign to convince the voters that he or she is the best choice for the job. and campaigning requires many critical decisions. should limited resources go to court this group or that? should candidates just focus on their own political ideas or mount a negative attack on the opponent? and how should thor

¿no conoce a sipc - securities investor protection corporation? no importa. se lo deletrearemos.articles. using cutting-edge instruments, aerodyne research can detect tiny concentrations of pollutants in real time, tracking them back to their sources and showing how they evolve hour by hour under the effects of sunlight and weather. in mexico city, luisa molina is leading a group of over 450 scientists in the most comprehensive study ever conducted of one city's air emissions. sampling its plume of pollutants from cradle to grave, the team hopes to learn how the city's pollution affects the surrounding regions and even the global climate. today, the rapid increase of population and industrialization is causing increasing concerns about air pollution. both researchers hope to discover what's causing the most damage and find ways to reduce the human and global impact. [ horn honks ] kolb: one of the real facts that we all have to deal with is that people make pollution, and as the population of the earth grows, unless we're very clever and work very hard, the levels of pollution we

¿no conoce a sipc - securities investor protection corporation? no importa. se lo deletrearemos.all it spectral analysis, but most people call it fourier analysis. of all these sensory experiences, perhaps music more than any other is the one that is most closely associated with mathematics. the greeks believed that beautiful music was mathematically based music and that there was a mystical connection between music and mathematics, that music was actually the mathematics of time. throughout history, music has been at the heart of human culture. its origins were most likely the patterns, rhythms, and tonalities of nature, sounds adapted and organized by humans to create melody, harmony, and rhythm. some of the earliest instruments were as simple as clapping hands. but it was the ancient greeks who first laid the foundations of our understanding of harmonics, how vibrating strings and columns of air produce overtones which are mathematically related. in fact, the word "music" itself derives from the muses, daughters of zeus and patron goddesses of creative and intellectual endeavo

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