>> obviously the sherlock holmes, arthur conan doyle, those were important to me. the father brown mysteries were among the first mysteries, i started off with sherlock holmes, fodder brown, agatha christie, and in seventh grade, somebody told me crime and punishment was a murder story, that sounded good. that launched me into reading really serious grown-up books. it was really good. it really is a terrific mystery and a great novel. >> in 2009 the book industry is going through some great changes. your entire career has been in books. what do you see in the future of 4 books? >> mixed feelings about it. i grew up in the print culture. been coming from working-class background, many generations before then, books, educated through books, was a way up and out. now computers have replaced that in a lot of ways as a key to success in multiple careers. i love books, i love the feel of them, i love the different sizes. one of my objections to the kindle is it homogenizes everything, they all look alike. this is an electronic reader that you can download text and use th

. >>> plus, is brad pitt being brought in by producers to rescue the new sherlock holmes movie? >> the yankees look to stay hot and a wild finish you have to see to believe from the nfl. you're watching "early today." is >>> good morning. welcome back to "early today," everyone. i'm dan kloeffler. here are some of your top headlines this morning. anti-war activists at the university of california-berkeley are calling for the firing of law professor john yu. the former bush administration official cowrote legal memos that critics say were used to justify the torture of suspected terrorists. >>> the highest-ranking criminal judge in texas is on trial facing allegations of professional misconduct. all for refusing to hear a last-minute appeal from a prisoner on death row. according to reports, an appeal was headed for judge sharon keller's office near closing time, but she refused to stay late. that prisoner was put to death that same evening. >>> journalism, dangerous work perform that's if you ask one cameraman in taiwan. he was covering last week's typhoon when he was swept away

let's be sherlock holmes. the visual did not lead to a conclusion. there's something biologically. can do that these days. >> they are doing all kinds of blood tests and so on. apparently there are certain genetic disorders where you can have both male and female hormones or, sounds, this is not a master died or you have both sex organs. this is just the crumbs sounds. -- chromosomes. you might be a man on the inside but look like a woman on the outside. she would have an dominos like a man, she would be straight like a man without the kurds. -- she would have and domino muscles like demand. i cannot understand it. i have to find out. bill: why do you care? >> the rules require that you compete and the gender that you are born with. bill: she have it for certificate that says she is a girl? >> if she is a man, do we pay attention? bill: when you are growing, you are not a man or woman, you are a baby. you are born and the birth certificate says -- she gets a birth certificate and it says she is a girl. >> she's dead is little girl. bill: then she is a girl. >> what if genetics say

i've got the sherlock holmes pipe. so maybe he doe't smoke a pipe at all, it's simply just an interrogation technie to throw the farmer, send him more to hell. and so what do you thi, christoph. he goes he doesn't smoke a pipe a all. it is simply an act of theatr >> want to determine wha attribute theerman people share with the beast. >> it would be the cunning an predatory instinct of a hawk. >> but if e were determe what attributes thejews share with aeast would be that of the rat. if a rat wer to lk in here right now as i'm talkin, would you treat with this a bowl of this licious milk. probably not. >> i didn't think so. you don't like them. you don't really knowhy you don't like them. all you know is yo find th repulsive. consequently, a german soldier concts a search of a house suspected hiding jews. where does the hawk look? he looks in the barn. he lacks in the attic, h looks the cell arhe looks evewhere he would hi. but there ar so manyplaces that woun't occur to a hawk to hide. the reason the fuhre h ought me