fair and that is the historical name for sri lanka. when you say fair and if they say, you are referring to sri lanka, which is something i'd ever known it has to did know there is a word to describe the place on a dog's back that it can't scratch. i didn't know was that the word gone jet had been introduced by the duke of wellington. all sorts of things on every page you learn about language. for the man who loves between you and me by mary norris. if anybody's interested in books, words, it is a fantastic read. >> is mr. simpson in favor of this democratization of language? >> absolutely. one of the things that is great is his description of himself come in as an outsider. he was on an oxford or cambridge trained in realizing the extent to which the dictionary have been shaved have been shaped by upper-middle-class readers. the kind of people who have a lot of time to read or people who don't necessarily spend a lot of time working. the dictionary had really been shaped by these people who read milk and educationally assorted middleg

from during the conflict. >> sri lanka is still in the early stage of regaining its rightful positionn the region and in the international community. there is still much work to be done in order to redress the wrongs of the past and to restore the legitimacy and accountability of key institutions, particularly the judiciary and secret services. >> the sri lankan government agreed last year to establish a credible judicial process involving foreign judges and prosecutors to investigate alleged war crimes in line with u.n. recommendations. >>> laos will welcome u.s. president barack obama next week when he attends the asean and east asia summits but the two countries share a difficult history. the southeast asian nation became entangled in the vietnam war and millions of unexploded u.s. bombs still litter the country. nearly 50,000 people have been killed or injured by them since the war began, and clearing them will take decades. nhk world's patchaya thanaudom reports. >> reporter: the lush, green landscape of laos can appear peaceful, but the scars of war like these bomb craters are n

. >> these students in sri lanka are on their way to a special library. what makes it special would be surprising to us -- >> room to read is an organization that is opening schools and libraries across the developing world for the poorest of the poor. hundreds of schools, thousands of libraries so that every child everywhere is no longer denied an education because they were born in the wrong place at the wrong time. >> john wood is an amazing guy. he used to be a big executive at microsoft until he went on vacation in nepal. he changed the course of his own life to change the lives of children all over the world. >> when i was growing up in pennsylvania, we had actually a book mobile that came to our town, and we think of this kind of as a nepalese yak mobile. we got our yak loaded with books, and we are about to head off to go to a secondary school here in jomsom to deliver about 500 books to help them start their first library. >> when john with his yak mobile, just look at the reaction. reading isn't just fun, it's a way for them to connect to the wo

. >> these students in sri lanka are on their way to a special library. what makes it special would be surprising to us -- it has books. >> room to read is an organization that is opening schools and libraries across the developing world for the poorest of the poor. hundreds of schools, thousands of libraries so that every child everywhere is no longer denied an education because they were born in the wrong place at the wrong time. >> john wood is an amazing guy. he used to be a big executive at microsoft until he went on vacation in nepal. that's when he saw the desperate need for books and libraries. he changed the course of his own life >> when i was growing up in pennsylvania, we had actually a book mobile that came to our town, and we think of this kind of as a nepalese yak mobile. we got our yak loaded with books, and we are about to head off to go to a secondary school here in jomsom to deliver about 500 books to help them start their first library. >> when john arrives with his yak mobile, just look at the reaction. reading isn't just fun, it's a

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: she has also donated tens of thousands of dollars to other causes like dental care for kids in sri lankaals for children in yemen and school supplies for bay area students. >> when it comes to wanting to do good, every small thing counts. >> reporter: so for raising money through recycling to change the lives of children, this week's jefferson award in the bay area goes to sonali ranaweera. sharon chin, kpix 5. >> each surgery costs $250. at 5 cents a can or bottle you need 5,000 of them to pay for one operation. her family travels to peru this year and she met some children with the corrective surgery not the one she paid for but she still saw firsthand the kind of impact that she is having for these kids. i'm sure sonali has bigger plans. next she wants to get to 100 surgeries so she has to pay for 40 more and then wants to tackle world hunger. >> of course. >> how old is she? [ laughter ] >> she is a teenager with a lot of energy. >> good for her. >> that's great. deserve. >>> you can nominate your local hero for a jefferson award online at cbssf.com/hero. >> all from stuff we throw a

indonesia not trading, singapore, sri lanka, bangladesh and the philippines.ets that are .pen they wish they weren't either because we are seeing the malaise from wall street being taken. by asian markets. have a look at the hang seng off by 2.4%. the retailers up 3.4%. goldman has come through saying you should be buying chinese shares listed in hong kong. they say they have raised their stance on the overall chinese index thanks to a renewed policy easing and regulation and corporate earnings. korea coming under pressure by 18 by 8% -- by 1.8%. and this is down 2% even though we have seen a little bit of yen strength playing on the export companies. fairly positive rate. australia being weighed down today by commodity players, off by 2.1%. look at this selling on the afx 60. it is off 4%. check out the volatility on the and then. have tripled. the selloff in new zealand really quite rare in terms of magnitude. it has only happened three times before since the jay inslee. -- jfz. thecan see the 0 score, circle of the end. that is standard deviations from what

the world was his most recent legacy he tcheemped cause of saving darfur he defended the people in sri lanka. he was outspoken against the iranian nuclear program. and he spoke out for people around the world who were being mistreated. most reclent -- most recently he dedicated himself to the stopping of the mass coffer the syrian people. he called for an international criminal trial against assad, calling him with -- charging him with crimes against humanity. we on the foreign affairs committee have seen documentation of the crimes against humanity what assad has done to his own people he was said his use of gas against the response toe -- our his use of gas against the syrian people was inadequate and i agree. we must take it upon ourselves to live wiesel's legacy. anti-semitism is rearing its ugly head around the world and we have to speak out and condemn it, condemn all other kinds of discrimination as well. so never again, not to jew, not to syrians, not to african-americans, not to anyone. this resolution honors the legacy of elie wiesel and fleekts our commitment to carry his -- refle

white issue where if you scold your country you despite your country and you would be in hungary or sri lankaith the star spangled banner, most people have never liked that song that much. it is difficult to sing. and it is in a style that is outdated outdate terms of poetry and it becomes when this poor man makes a statement about the most important racial issue of our times. >> and not only that is it is a totem when people don't know the words. this is a five stanza poem that is written after the war of 1812 and has nothing to do with the founding of the country and when we were fighting an aggressive war to take canada from the brits and the reason i love the fact that you are here is the third stanza has to do with the fact that slaves were offered freedom if they would fight for britain and 6,000 american slaves took them up on this so francis scott key writes that a home in a country should leave us no more and their blood has washed and their foul pollution and no refuge could save them from the terror of flight and the gloom of grave. could you imagine anybody singing that as a natio