by the age of 9, he was already outplaying him. the odds of this gentle lad winning the junior world golf championships at the age of 14? 1 in 16 million. the odds of that same boy then making it to the u.s. and european pro-golf tours? 1 in 7 million. the odds of the "big easy" winning the open championship once and the u.s. open championship twice? 1 in 780 million. the odds of this professional golfer having a child diagnosed with autism? 1 in 150. ernie els encourages you to learn the signs of autism at autismspeaks.org. early diagnosis can make a lifetime of difference.

so what are we saying to those over the age of 74? speak to the evidence and the mapping of the evidence to the task force recommendations. >> and i appreciate that and i will have 38 seconds and i'm going to be partial on my time. par this concern with h.r. 3962, is as we said the public option, the gateway to a one payer system could eventually rationed care. and then a decision made based upon the financial ability of the country to fund care across the spectrum, but also our seniors in our country. and again, this incomplete aspect for 74 b. speaks to the concern that if you're elderly in this country and we get to it one payer system, there will be decisions made not based upon health care, but on cost. i yield back my time. >> thank you. mr. waxman. chairman waxman? >> thank you, mr. chairman. the health care bill that the republicans are complaining about is not law. yet, your agency prevented task force, is in operation. this is set up under -- is it set up under law? >> yes. >> your job isn't to make recommendations to insura

so what are we saying to those over the age of 74? >> i speak to the evidence and the mapping of the evidence to the task force recommendations. >> i appreciate that and i fully got 38 seconds. i'm going to be comfortable on my time. part of this concern with h.r. 3962 is as we said the public option, the gateway to the one payer system. eventually a rationed care, and then the decision made based upon the financial ability of the country to fund care across the spectrum also seniors and our country. and again, this incomplete aspect for 74 speaks to the concern that if you are elderly in this country and we get to a one peer system there will be decisions made not based upon health care but on cost and i yelled back my time. >> thank you. mr. waxman, chairman waxman. >> thank you, mr. chairman. the health care bill that the republicans are complaining about is not law. yet your agency preventive task force is an operation. this is set up under, is that set up under law? >> yes. >> and your job isn't to make recommendations to insuranc

first, over estimating the benefits of what was hailed as the modern age, or mow dirty. which was alleged when i was a youth, was going to solve just about everything. technology, democracy, literacy, science, was going to lay to rest the animosities, maybe even the diseases and we're going to move into a really brave and wonderful new world. called the modern world. well, that didn't happen either. as the sad, sad history of the 20th century, perhaps the most violent century on human record, we can look back on. that did not happen. also, i think those prognosticators did not foresee, weren't aware, of the ability, capability of religions to transform themselves, to draw on their inner substance, their core convictions, but still a just to changes in the world, which they have done over many, many centuries, and indeed many millennia. are religious have an uncanny capacity to do this. we are witnessing that right now. so the second point of the book is this one. that we are now witnessing, not just the renaissance religious traditions, but a fundamental change in the nat

so they calculate 60% of the population will be under the age of 25 at the end of the decade with the need for 100 million new jobs. how are you going to create 100 million jobs and money are losing 50 million jobs? as you said you don't know the ceo who is hiring so there's nothing more dangerous in the world than someone with no hope, no skills, no economic opportunity into much time. do you follow me? the real driver for the taliban, the recruiter is not the ideology. it is economics. so what i have said is we have

by the age of 9, he was already outplaying him. the odds of this gentle lad winning the junior world golf championships at the age of 14? 1 in 16 million. the odds of that same boy then making it to the u.s. and european pro-golf tours? 1 in 7 million. the odds of the "big easy" winning the open championship once and the u.s. open championship twice? 1 in 780 million. the odds of this professional golfer having a child diagnosed with autism? 1 in 150. ernie els encourages you to learn the signs of autism at autismspeaks.org. early diagnosis can make a lifetime of difference. >> and still to come on this year's best of net impact are you ready for some racing? >> all right. here we go. more laps. my man dillon berger, we will go behind the wheel to show racing fans what it is like to go 120 miles per hour. stay right this because net impact is coming right back. >> welcome back to the best of net impact 2009. >> you may remember our report on washington capital's alex ovenchin a player loaded with family and forks he has major endors

ben molina santana passed away at at the age of 58. >> it is like somebody take your heart and threw it in the trash. >> his passing was stunning between games of a youth

it is true most of these kids are below the age of 17. more and more, the kids are entering middle school and high school. it will be adults. it is a critical question that we have to consider. we have to keep that objective in mind. we are seeing our first beginnings of autistic kids on our campus. you're chairman, chairman kennedy, gets it. we have had a number of discussions. he has called this a tsunami. he said we're not investing in the infrastructure to do with this tsunami. a bill authorizes five-year grants in support of a model program to promote the successful transition of students with intellectual disabilities. there is no specific amount of the rise. i have a letter. i am sure you have seen it. their request $35 million for 2010 to fund these types of programs. as stated, the vast majority of autistic students are currently at community colleges and will attend community colleges because we have open enrollment policies. they reach age 21 and they come to our campuses. we have no effective programs to deal with these childre

kell died in swifton in march of this year at the age of 86. it was a tremendous loss that was felt by his friends and family and the state of arkansas. george kell's enduring popularity is evidence by the fan mail he continued to receive long after his retirement.

the age issue was a huge issue in 1979, 1980. but what ended up happening is that he's traveling and he's going so furious and he's going so fast that the political press traveling with him -- they hang a sign on the bus that says free the reagan 44 because they're so exhausted from the pace set by a man twice their age. but going into the nashua telegraph debate and why it is so interesting, it shows a lot about ronald reagan was that reagan is losing in new hampshire. he needs a one-on-one debate with george bush to make his case of why he'd be a better nominee than george bush. as the debate negotiations are going on, reagan creeps in the polls and now this table is turned so bush wants the other candidates involved. then the federal election commission steps in and says, no, this newspaper cannot pay for the debate. it's an illegal corporate contribution so the reagan campaign steps up, okay, we'll pay the $3,000 for the debate. now you have again the tables have turned again so that this is now the new hampshire -- the nashua

by the age of 9, he was already outplaying him. of this gentle lad winning the junior world golf championships at the age of 14? 1 in 16 million. the odds of that same boy then making it to the u.s. and european pro-golf tours? 1 in 7 million. the odds of the "big easy" winning the open championship once and the u.s. open championship twice? 1 in 780 million. the odds of this professional golfer having a child diagnosed with autism? 1 in 150. ernie els encourages you to learn the signs of autism at autismspeaks.org. early diagnosis can make a lifetime of difference. >>> we now return to "the best damn shocking moments in sports." it was the ultimate example of david versus goliath. tiny chaminade university of hawaii, with an enrollment of 800 students, hosting powerful virginia, ranked number one and led by player of the year ralph sanchez. >> basketball players a tiny college in hawaii fliering high and with good reasons. >> chaminade actually pulled off one of the upsets of the entry, handling the nation's top ranked and previou

by the age of 9, he was already outplaying him. the odds of this gentle lad winning the junior world golf championships at the age of 14? 1 in 16 million. the odds of that same boy then making it to the u.s. and european pro-golf tours? 1 in 7 million. the odds of the "big easy" winning the open championship once and the u.s. open championship twice? 1 in 780 million. the odds of this professional golfer having a child diagnosed with autism? 1 in 150. ernie els encourages you to learn the signs of autism at autismspeaks.org. early diagnosis can make a lifetime of difference. >> and still to come on this year's best of net impact are you ready for some racing? >> all right. here we go. more laps. my man dillon berger, we will go behind the wheel to show racing fans what it is like to go 120 miles per hour. stay right this because net impact is coming right back. >> welcome back to the best of net impact 2009. >> you may remember our report on washington capital's alex ovenchin a player loaded with family and forks he has major endors

the devore -- the age of opportunity sidley appeared. a challenge grant was. that's a possibility for people to apply to. finally get 40045000 of the publications. weho 41,000 -- we'v usually get 4000 or 5000 of these applications. we got 41,000. there were breathtaking in their scope and their breath. we were only able to fund 4%. hopefully, next year, some of these will come back. what are we going to be a will to do to help them? the recovery act money, understandable because it is there to support the economy, lasts for two years. then the big question is what about fiscal year 2011? nobody quite knows what it will be it is surly possible, barring any major change in the economy, that there could be success rates that will fall even further. maybe that is not the way to make this case. the public wants to know that science can be done. what would you do if you have a little more versus a little bit less. we could push the agenda faster on cancer and diabetes. we could go faster in developing treatments for things they have no interest for in the private sec

the conservative era, the age of reagan was said to be in the. according to liberal writers like ejb on, the once mighty conservative intellectual and political force that had dominated nations debate since the late 1970s had fallen into more of bundy and disarray. a few conservative pundits seemed half inclined to agree. a frequent contributor to national review online sensed what he called intellectual fatigue among his ideological allies. and added, the conservative idea factory is not producing as it once did. another rising conservative commentator, goldberg, comments a column in u.s.a. today in mid- 2008 by quoting the writers you must plan to johnson who said cheer up, for the worst is yet to come. although goldberg went on to insist that the conservative movement had a lot of life left in it, he captured the mood of trepidation, gripping many around him as the election approached. some on the right were more acerbic, patrick buchanan expressed his dismay at the conservative establishment by invoking an aphorism attribute it to eric hoffer

using mammography and clinical breast examination for all women beginning at the age of 40. the test is far from perfect but it's the best way we have to find tumors early. how many lives are enough to make routine screening worth it? how many mothers, sisters, aunts, grandmothers, daughters and friends are we willing to lose to breast cancer while the debate goes on about the limitations of mammography? turning back the clock will add up too many lives lost and too many women finding their tumors later when treatment options are limited. our medical staff and volunteers overwhelmingly believe that the benefits of screening women ages 40 to 49 outweighs its limitations. let's not behave as though we lack a tool with proven benefits to women. again, these are not my words, these are the words of a medical professional as written in "the washington post." i could go on because the american medical news, i pulled this offline, and i want to read some of the things that it says in here. it says taking concern a step forward, the american college of radiology asks that the recomme

so what are we saying to those over the age of 74? >> i speak to the evidence and the mapping of the evidence to the task force recommendations. >> and i appreciate that and i'll have 38 seconds. i'm going to be punctual on my time. par this concerned with h.r. 3962, is as we said the public option the gateway to one payer system, eventually ration care, and then a decision made based upon the financial ability of this country to fund, care, across the spectrum, but also our seniors in our country. and again, this incomplete aspect for 74, bespeaks to the concern that it you are elderly in this country and we get to a one payer system, there will be decisions made not based on health care, add-on cost that i yield back my time. >> thank you. mr. waxman, chairman waxman. >> thank you, mr. chairman. the health care bill that the republicans are complaining about is not law. yet, your agency presented a task force is in operation. this is set up -- is it set up under law? >> yes. >> and your job isn't to make recommendations to insurance

, which of course raises the uncomfortable question, our old age and re-marginalization just around the corner? occurrent explanations of the conservative predicaments tend to fall into two distinct categories. the first stresses the movement's political failures and frustrations during their recent presidency of george w. bush. with the exception of its tax-cutting policies and judicial nominations, bush's administration at least on the home front, now seems to many conservative stalwarts who have been in considerable a degree in liberal republican administration more akin to rockefeller, nixon and reagan. the second cluster of explanations for conservatism's focus is not so much on the external political but on internal factors, that is the structure and dynamics of the conservative movement itself. perhaps the most important thing to understand about modern american conservatism is that it is not and has never been unit focal. it is a coalition which many points of origin and the first tendencies, not always easy to reconcile with one another. n

and after the age of 72, not at all. now, mr. president, that's not health care reform. that's not what the president promised and it is certainly not what congress ought to ascent to do. we can produce health care reform. we can lower the cost. we can give people access. we can give people choices. and we don't have to mandate taxes and hurt business in this economic climate to do it. we have the capability to do something right. and if we pass the mccain amendment, we can go back to the drawing boards and do this right. that is the most important thing that i hope we will do this week in the united states senate. -- senate for the american people and they deserve it. thank you, mr. president. and i yield the floor. the presiding officer: the senator from connecticut. mr. dodd: mr. president, i'm going to ask consent, if i may, that i be allowed to speak for 15 minutes and at that time include a colloquy with my colleague from state of minnesota. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. dodd: i asked my staff to notify me. i want to address a couple of issues. about

goes to the ymca in new hampshire and does pushups and it is all to exacerbate that -- exacerbate the age issue then on top of that you have bush attacking his voodoo economics. this sent to people around reagan around the bend. by the time you get to day trait the man who made the most sense was george bush because he was somewhat more moderate, and had a proven ability to get the votes in the primaries michigan, massachusetts and pennsylvania and more foreign policy experience and a guy who would be best unify the convention. they tend to win in the fall. . . minn national television between walter cronkite and gerald ford and the co presidency and rumors passed from delegate to delegate to network and all night launch a network television and recycled back so you had this day of madness about whether or not there was went to be a dream ticket and co presidency. would they address the convention in unison and at the end of the day ford and reagan, this is now 11:30 am i -- this is the might reagan has been nominated by the republican party. he's tried three times, he finally gets it a

we don't know if 29 immunizations by the age of 2 do have an effect. we don't know that. >> let me share with you the conversation we had on this committee on the iacc. this is a topic that has come up. the communities polarized on this point. we hear from those people who are convinced that vaccines are the problem and those who are convinced it is not. they are both ends of the spectrum. we hear from lots of families with child with autism and they want to do about their next child -- they don't know who to believe or what to listen to. the group of people who feel there is an issue here and we ought to be concerned because there is the relationship between vaccines and awesome -- autism talk to the numbers you increased. there have been 16 studies which demonstrate no relationship. however those are epidemiological studies and you can't rule out the possibility that there is a very small signal there that might have been missed. on the other side of the coin we are hearing from other people, scientists and family members on this committee who are say

remember, this is the end of the gilded age. ve never in our history have we had a bigger gap between rich and poor until just a few years ago during the wall street peak. but you have rockefellers, guggenheim, who hated roosevelt. they said remove went out of the white house they asked morgan what he thought, i from some lion will do his duty. [laughter] >> that's how they felt about him. j.j. hill who built the railroad and rockefeller who built a railroad through the bitter roots. they don't like these national forest designations they are used to get land for free because the railroads have been given an area about the size of new england to build those land grants and certainly with us in montana. they fight roosevelt. there's one more character i should mention before i move on here. you had a united states senator here once named william clark. and he wanted to be the richest man in the world. he was utterly corrupt and fairly honest about his corruption. he made his money in being one of the copper barons of butte, montan

at the age of 10 by myself without speaking the language, without any family here, and those were difficult time thes. i was very, very thankful that a couple took me in, also immigrants here, and raised me as their own child. but ever since then everything in my life was easy relative to that. so i tell people that sometimes the obstacles that you face are opportunities in disguise because in those early days i really thought that what happened to me was somehow a punishment. i couldn't understand why all my friends with with their families that had things that i was used to, and i was in a new country, couldn't speak the language, didn't know the the people i was with, and in the end as it turned out i wouldn't have changed a thing about leaving that day. i realize that, yes, i was in a difficult situation, but, my god, i was in the greatest country in the world with a wonderful set of people who were taking care of me. so my theme in the book is that inside every obstacle there's opportunity if you look for it and if you seize it, the future is yours. >> host: and mr. de la vega has work

dependents will be able to receive coverage up to the age of 26 on their parents' policy beginning six months after the date of enactment. this is one again i hear so much when i'm back home and from e-mails and hrerts, people -- and letters people wanting to keep kids on their policy. insurance companies will be providing -- seniors will have access to dramatic discounts to the purchases of name brand prescription drugs in the medicare part-d program beginning july 1. children under 18 cannot be denied for preexisting coverage. free preventive coverage for seniors. the doughnut hole for seniors, a $500 reduction. again, the issue with medicare, i want to say, when we started this effort to reform health care, medicare was in trouble and could be in serious trouble by 2017. this legislation adds ten more years to medicare. to be specific to alaska, and i'll be brief on this, but i think it is important, many of these issues i laid out are important to alaska but there are quite a few very specific. first remind folks what the impact is currently in alaska. 133,000 alaskans do not curre

he became the youngest senior editor at age 23. in his recent book, "right place, right time", richard brookhiser tells the story of his friendship with william f. buckley jr. he offers an eyewitness account of the conservative intellectual and political ferment that he their chirred and lead. before we began, please make sure that your cell phone are switched off and placed in me in welcoming our guest. [applause] >> it is a pleasure for me to be invited to this event. as a guy who works in this liberal city i am sincere because it is a pleasure for me to be invited anywhere. it does not happen very often. [laughter] [applause] to give you an idea of the strange existence a conservative has in the city, for the longest time, the offices of "national review" was located above a rap music studio. the most interesting part of this juxtaposition is when the weather would get warmer and we would open up the windows, this unmistakable odor would waft up and i regret to tell you that " national review" has been produced in a haze of marij

i have a whole chapter dealing with the drinking age. and at the same time we look at how alcohol has become the major craft movement. it goes along with the whole julia child food movement. we like beer and wine that comes from the vineyards and bourbon that is made in small batches and so on. americans are really change attitude about alcohol and shift it over and something that like to get drunk on to something more we now appreciate. >> looking at the social aspect of a call in america, was it a moral choice at the beginning and now we're moving away from that? >> sorry, i guess can you rephrase that? >> sure. at the beginning, when we look at the beginning of the movement we see this as a moral crusade, if you will. are we becoming, is it still a moral choice to drink or not to take? >> i think most americans today, by the way tutors of adults drink alcohol today, alcohol as long since lost the sin, we don't call it the demon rum anymore. so the sense of alcohol being wrong is largely faded away from american society. most of us drin

she joined mi5 as the secretary's straight from school at the age of 16 in 1916. this is her in 1924. she is qualified in her spare time as a barrister and she is the leading soviet expert an officer in mi5. it could not have happened anywhere else in britain. it is a long and i repeat myself, winding path which leads from james sizemore in jane archer to stella rimington but it begin here. that is one of the covers we used. he was a bbc naturalist but we don't use it in a more nowadays. this is ambassador agents, the name at the bottom says puddler but his name was wolf gain. fresen the mi5 understood nazi germany better than anywhere else in britain was that it had penetrated the german embassy. he has been interestingly bizarre career after the second world war but it was before the second world war, so we explain to mi5 that if he would attempt to appease the furer you would make if you are more likely to start the second world war then calmed him down. and then as i discovered when talking on some radio or television program after the last couple of days, i ca

. >> i did nothen i was al gore ig mate, the party platform was to lower the age group for medicare. gs have changed in nine years. in 2000, the federal government was in surplus and paying off the debt not having increased the debt enormously. secondly, medicare was not on the verge of imminent bankruptcy which is now. third, there was no bill on the floor that would extend very generous subsidies to the 55 and 65 years old to allow them to buy insurance and reduce the impact of age in the pricing of insurance policy spreaies. things have changed a lot about i finally got to see the "conn post"interview. though i was against the public option, i was not against health care reform. i did that before the finance committee bill came out with this very large and generous system of subsidies to bring a lower middle income people into the health insurance system. >> were their subsidies baked into that? make sense. when advocates of the public option saw they did not have the votes for the public option, they tried to go down another path. it made no sense. incidentally, i am not the only

by the age of 9, he was already outplaying him. the odds of this gentle lad winning the junior world golf championships at the age of 14? 1 in 16 million. the odds of that same boy then making it to the u.s. and european pro-golf tours? 1 in 7 million. the odds of the "big easy" winning the open championship once and the u.s. open championship twice? 1 in 780 million. the odds of this professional golfer having a child diagnosed with autism? 1 in 150. ernie els encourages you to learn the signs of autism at autismspeaks.org. early diagnosis can make a lifetime of difference. >> joe: well, we are back again with you. watching some great action between both teams. fires here. that is about the 4th time he has brought one of the capitals with his catching glove. sneaking in there, and joining in the attack. here comes ovechkin. and there is the catching mitt of toskala. >> greg: yes. you can see him there with the glove. the calgary native. scores. ovechkin to backstrom, bull's eye! all of a sudden, he comes up with something big. man,

age. maybe the republicans want to raise the age to 75? is really arguing what it means for them to take the position that they have. lowering the age to 55 -- joe lieberman is a panacea for the insurance company. it to be put out on suzanne the money he takes from the insurance lobby. the fact that the democrats have been trying and trying -- the republicans are the ones who should be worried about being voted out of office. i hope the democratic handlers of this come election time will do exactly that. host: just to ted's point, we will be talking about public and corporate spending in politics a little later this morning with bruce freed. here is a tweet. ted from new york city talked about the politics of this. back to "the wall street journal" -- democrats penn 2010 hopes on a bill. part of this article says that mr. obama standing with the american boaters has fallen more dramatically in his first year than any recent president. partly because he was so popular at the outset, but also because voters perceive he has not accomplished mu

if you go to heaven and meet your relatives, will you meet the person with alzheimer's who died at the agef 100 or meet the young teenager? there is no such thing in the deeper reality as a constant entity called a person. when he says 6,000 traffic jam, this that and the other, it's all nonsense. it's a primitive way of looking at it. >> michael, i have a question. why not believe? why are you focusing so much -- because if you're wrong -- >> because his neural networks will not allow him to. >> the question i'm getting at is -- >> bad for the heart as well. bad for you, michael, to be so skeptical. >> i'm not really worried about it. here's why. i think that we would like to believe things that are actually true and although i can't disprove the afterlife, neither can the other side prove it. i think it becomes an article of faith. i think the preponderance of evidence, our brains create these things. consider the god helmet michael persinger's lab i went up and did and had an out of body experience. generated nothing by magnetic fields bombarding my temporal lobes. you can create these

by the age of 9, he was already outplaying him. the odds of this gentle lad winning the junior world golf championships at the age of 14? 1 in 16 million. the odds of that same boy then making it to the u.s. and european pro-golf tours? 1 in 7 million. the odds of the "big easy" winning the open championship once and the u.s. open championship twice? 1 in 780 million. the odds of this professional golfer having a child diagnosed with autism? 1 in 150. ernie els encourages you to learn the signs of autism at autismspeaks.org. early diagnosis can make a lifetime of difference. >>> let's hear it for adrian! >> once you throw it, you're going to catch it. once you catch the ball, spin through the line. spin, spin, spin. having fun? >> yeah. >> having a good time? way to reach out for it! tuck it away with your right. keep it high and tight. when the ball is coming to you, make sure you look the ball in. all right? do that. one, two, three! kids are fans of mine, so anytime i can give back to those kids and, you know, give them some of m

in the digital age you can copy anything. music, story, some day even a book. and you can make hundreds of thousands of copies, the major alcost is virtually zero. this is not good as a business model for people who want to create content and get paid for it. for 300 year ever since the statue of anne was established in britain, people who created something, an idea, a piece of music, piece of art, a photograph, a journal, a book, if it got copied, they had the right to the profits from the copy. that's why we call it copyright. but in the digital age, that notion that you can create content and get paid for it in a digital realm has disappeared. if we're going to have another 300 years of people creating things, writing books, working for newspapers, harry evans, woodward and bernstein, then somehow or another we have to get back to the fact that these people are not just going to do its for the ego or fun. they have to pay the rent, put food on the table. we have to get back to a system, whether your a musician or writer, if people copy your work, you should m

by the age of 9, he was already outplaying him. the odds of this gentle lad winning the junior world golf championships at the age of 14? 1 in 16 million. the odds of that same boy then making it to the u.s. and european pro-golf tours? 1 in 7 million. the odds of the "big easy" winning the open championship once and the u.s. open championship twice? 1 in 780 million. the odds of this professional golfer having a child diagnosed with autism? 1 in 150. ernie els encourages you to learn the signs of autism at autismspeaks.org. early diagnosis can make a lifetime of difference. >>> finally, you know their names, crews by, ovechkin, preair. they are among the les of the top selling jerseys in the national hockey lead, but as chuck found out, blackhawk fans take their passion for hockey jerseys to a whole new obsession. >> reporter: blackhawk fans love their jerseys. how many blackhawk jerseys do you have? >> i have about probably 20. >> reporter: 20 jerseys? >> at least. >> reporter: from pure hockey passion to borderline addiction. you

the number rises to 21% when we look at children below five years of age. igher in the african-american population, hispanics, and children living in female-headed households. we have a considerably large number of children and families at risk. between 2000 and 2007, the number has risen considerably with a 50% increase. another 1.7 million children we are dealing with. the census bureau estimates that over 12 million children are food insecure as measured by generally accepted standards. we know the number will escalate in the current economic situation wic is very effective in reaching this population. 75% of all the wic enrollees are below the poverty level with about 35% below 50%. i would like to focus briefly on some of the risks that exist within this population and the role that wic place. i will try to do this briefly. poverty in general results in poor health. among pregnant women, 60% who enter the wic program have a clinical or medical condition at cert. 30% have obstetrical problem spread 27% are in the and the same number have low weight gain

was told the odd relative might be willing to speak with me after her death which came in 2003 at the age of 106. fined niece and nephew who were kind enough to talk to me were extremely nice. utterly discreet, and appropriately non informative. [laughter] there was another complication in writing about madame chang, the question of language for i have never tried to learn the language of the subjects of my books. i figure you could spend seven or eight years learning a language or writing a book but not both. particularly not at my age. happily, both marie and the empress victoria of germany were born in england and god bless them, they wrote their diaries and letters of the mother tongue. s four madame chiang a great deal was an english and when it came to the chinese are keizai was fortunate enough to find a graduate student through a friend of a friendly young woman who lived and shanghai and did not automatically spout party dogma. with our hurt her, i could not have written this book. looking at the back pages of "the last empress" and of consulting quite a number of archives i soug

starting at the age of 9, cedric went to many foster homes, but struggled. after placement, said the epicenter a good camp facility north of killeen where he experienced more abuse. he had a permanent scar on his face after being beaten by a a a supervisor with a shovel. despite his experience,, sater came to me with a smile. he was very jovial and truly loving smile. he liked to go bowling and feed the ducks in the pond near our house. when he had extra energy, he loved to run to the end of the driveway and back. he got along well with the other children in the house, particularly my son, because he always wanted a big brother. they played a lot of basketball. at church, he wanted to be in a play, but there were no more parts for him. he got the biggest smile on his face and said, no part. and the director said, ok, you can play an angel. i knew he was sensitive about food, so i told him he could have any thing in the kitchen, just let me know. he had be your problems, but they were never physical and he was never aggressive. -- behavioral problems, but they

between the extreme voices, on the one hand atheism pronouncing itself and on fundamentalism to look at the agef the earth and not feeling the need to rebel against them. neither of those are places that we want to land, and to have the opportunity in middle ground that professes the harmony and faith and i pointed that out in my book as an alternative. >> i am thinking as the matters, what be the conflict of interest, this was in the last election. >> and i am concerned about it, the integrity of the bio med research is something we can't compromise. the public requires trustworthy data and to have these disclosed and that makes the whole field look less than it should be. and we have to tighten up on that. there is a process in n.i.h. to put out new ideas of how investigators need to be more forthcoming about disclosure, that's a notice of proposed rule making, a government term that will appear in the in fact month or two. it will be a change in the way that n.i.h. in the past has largely left that to institutions. and now n.i.h. will want to have more information about what their investigat

45-74 had either seen or experienced age discrimination in therkplace. abby snay of j.v.s. >> people cannot be discriminated against because of their age, that doesn't mean that older workers aren't losing jobs in large numbers and competing for jobs with people half their age and knowing that their skills may not be as competitive. >> reporter: workers 45+ are more likely to be among the long-term unemployed, those unemployed at least six months. in november over 50% of the older unemployed were out of work for at least 27 weeks, after having worked for decades. like photo stylist sandy gasser. >> we're very good at many other things, excellent as a matter of fact but we're not skilled at looking for work. we've, we've been doing our careers all this long time. >> reporter: moreover, says abby snay. >> the last time they looked for work the whole way of looking for work, all the methodology of job search was completely different. now somebody is telling you, you have to use linkedin and you don't know what it is, maybe your kids, your grandkids

>> so you are out the same age as 56 year old was in 1950. a 9 year austment. t's aretty serious adjustment. >> reporter: ts according to shoven, since people live longer, they shoulretire later. in 1900, the average lgth of tirement for men was 2 years years! men worked until they couldn work, they were al sick and they died within 2 years by 200 retirement length was 20 yrs. >> repter: now not every economist thinks peoplshould work longer. teresa ghilardci, author of when im 64, says the da show that retirement is actuay good for people. >> when women retire the mental well-beg and their physic well-being increases. th're improved. their health impves. you mean theactually live longer >> reporte you mean they actuallyive longer? >> it addso their longevity. and for men, their deterioraon just slows dow so if n kept on working they'll die soer, if they retire ty have longer lives. so oly this idea that we should bworking longer because suppedly were living longer could acally be reversed. ife made people work longer, longevity wod decline. all ofur improvement

moments of our collective history over the last half century, and he preserved his memories for the ages. about five years ago, ted started an oral history project with the university of virginia, and these notes really started to come alive during this oral history project. i think it was through the process of mining his memories during those hours and hours of interviews that had started to reflect on his life in a different, deeper, and more open way. it was during that time that his concept of what his memoirs would be really shifted to something much more personal. and so, a " true compass" was born. ted was well into the project when he became ill, but he was determined to continue. so many others had written their own version of ted's story. it is a candid and personal look at his life as he lived it. as he said many times, he wanted to get it right for history. i hope you will agree after reading it that he did. i want to thank mike barnicle for moderating our discussion tonight and the others participating in it. they have been participants in and students of this country's his

by the age of 9, he was already outplaying him. the odds of this gentle lad winning the junior world golf championships at the age of 14? 1 in 16 million. the odds of that same boy then making it to the u.s. and european pro-golf tours? 1 in 7 million. the odds of the "big easy" winning the open championship once and the u.s. open championship twice? 1 in 780 million. the odds of this professional golfer having a child diagnosed with autism? 1 in 150. ernie els encourages you to learn the signs of autism at autismspeaks.org. early diagnosis can make a lifetime of difference. >>> well, we are just moments away from the caps in toronto, taking on the mapleleafs. you can see a new face in net tonight, by the way. for more on that, we bring in alan may. offensively, youngsters have really stepped up. tonight we see a rookie in net. what should we expect out of the rookie. >> i am surprised they are starting michael now verdict. i think he will do his best. young goalies are usually alert. i expect his a-game. >> you have the caps. they

by the age of 9, he was already outplaying him. is gentle lad winning the junior world golf championships at the age of 14? 1 in 16 million. the odds of that same boy then making it to the u.s. and european pro-golf tours? 1 in 7 million. the odds of the "big easy" winning the open championship once and the u.s. open championship twice? 1 in 780 million. the odds of this professional golfer having a child diagnosed with autism? 1 in 150. ernie els encourages you to learn the signs of autism at autismspeaks.org. early diagnosis can make a lifetime of difference. >> jim: lots of physical play inside. neka just picked up her fourth foul for stanford. there's a lot on the line. >> lisa: it's going to get physical. right now we're coming down to the wire. you see post players getting all wrapped up. appel and cain still going at it, like i told from the start of the game. and it's happening on both ends. and that's how neka picked up her foul because her and glory johnson are getting tangled up. it's all about passion. that's what i love

don't have an individual mandate making people buy insurance, the costs relative to the illness and the age, even though we've compressed the ratios, will rise exorbitantly. there's still going to be 24 million people left without health insurance in this count country. there's a $10 billion cost just for the i.r.s. implementation of this bill. there's at least $25 billion in mandates based on the states, unfund mandateed mandates. there's $28 billion-plus new taxes on employers. there's $100 billion by conservative estimates in fraud and medicaid a year and this bill goes after $2 billion over ten years. so we're going to go after $2 billion out of a trillion. not $200 billion, not $20 billion, we're going after $2 billion. there's $118 billion cuts to medicare advantage but only for those people who don't live in the state of florida and a couple other places. if you happen to live in oklahoma, the citizens in medicare advantage are going to lose. there's now over $500 billion in new taxes on americans. there's a quarter of a trillion dollars that's not in this in expense that everybody k

if you go back to 1968, 88% of the kids under the age of 18 live with a married parent. now 69 and falling. divorce rate has doubled from 1960 through 2000 but it has been pretty stable interestingly prayer at the beginning of our country most marriages ended in death but now and by choice. [laughter] 1965 percent of newborns had unburied mothers but today that is one-third. and rising. among african-american is of course, that number is very high as 68 point* 5% but the other races are catching up very rapidly. between 1960 and 2000 number of single-parent families tripled between nine and 27%. cohabitation before marriage that was about half a million americans, of 4.7,002,000. getting close at 10 million by the time we get to the next census. of two-thirds of those born between 1963 and 1974 say the first union was a cohabitation for if you think of that, we know the story. i would give you one small example of my daughter going to a small catholic school. they were asked in an assembly. the boys were taken on a field trip and the boys were asked how many of them wante

it is the question of how fast to the benefits go up. and at what age do you get them. the two most likely ways of adjusting the benefits are raising the retirement age and lowering the initial benefit, the amount you get when you retire, so that it does that go up as fast, it does not increased as fast as wages do. it is structure now so that the initial benefit of everyone here retires rises over time with the wage level. that means is a real increase in the benefits. it does not have to go up that fast. a very small change would mean the social security system could get back in balance quite quickly. >> you've already rage the age to 67. >> we have come about our longevity has gone up more than that. >> so we raise it from 65 to 67, so people retire at an older age and there were before? >> the unintended consequences -- and at the same time, our united states congress and senate is considering changing medicare, have by and between 55 and 65. quite frankly, it by was an employer out there, i would say, goodbye. you just went the opposite direction in terms of extendi

the records and people are doing it, it's about $20 to $25 per transaction to pull the records in the age of computerization and information technology. it doesn't make sense, and all of us know that, but we also know that because we're putting money on the table and incentives in place to help do that, we're going to be able to get additional savings. all of the savings are on top of the trillion dollars of savings that i've already talked about, none of which gets measured when our colleagues come to the floor and air is what a terrible bill this is. c.b.o. has also grossly underestimated savings in the past, and i'm not picking on c.b.o. they've had an incredible hard job. they have done an incredible job. they've been completely overworked on any number of efforts where we've been asking them for the -- the models and naltses. analyses. but it's just automatic in a process that you're going to lose some things. according to the generic pharmaceutical association, in 1984, it was predicted that the hatch-waksma-waxman act would sr country $1 billion in the first decade. now generic med