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in this month's issue of "the atlantic" author and single woman kate bolik explores the changing rolemance and family and acknowledge the end of traditional marriage as societiest highest ideal." maria agrees. >> i'm not bothered by being single because i don't consider that a negative fate. >> reporter: so why are more women choosing to be single? according to kate bolik, a major factor is the rise of women in the workplace, "as women have climbed ever higher, men have been falling behind." so instead of marrying down, women choose to stay single and successful. >> i wanted to be a writer. i wanted to have freedom. i've wanted to live all over the world and that's what i've ne. >> reporter: and experts agree, sarah brokaw is a therapist and author of "fortytude, choosing to make the next decades the best years of your life." >> i have not been married, don't have kids and sit back what have i accomplished if i did not reach the traditional milestones? the way i look at accomplishment is to have a real sense of curiosity about life. ♪ i'm every woman >> reporter: for now maria and her

a half minute incident from when they lost air speed to when the plane crashed into the south atlantic. the authoritiess of the first two minutes of the final transcript. now, the author in his book, has given us more insight into frankly, the disorientation, the confusion between the two co-pilots flying the plane and the captain, who had just come back urgently from his rest break. listen to the last few seconds. just before the aircraft does hit the ground. the captain says, watch out, you're pulling up. am i pulling up, says the co-pilot. we're pulling up. we're 4,000 feet up. come on, pull. come on, pull. pull, pull. then you get to this last poignant piece where it says, damn it, we're going to crash. and there was a final comment on the tape which came from the pilot saying, but what is happening? and that is really, wolf, the story of this. the pilot's flying did one thing. the captain knew they should be doing something else, but he wasn't sitting at the controls, wolf. >> these transcripts were not supposed to be released yet. what is air france saying about them? >> fume and fury. complete d

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the atlantic, or wired, or seen the two episodes he wrote of law & order. in a conversation with charles mann we have got separate interdisciplinary thicker and writer, richard rodriguez. richard is the author of a book that is about race in america. his books are close at hand on my bookshelf. we missed him here. we're very lucking coax him down from san francisco, where he is finishing a book on the influence of the desert for the experience of god, for the jew, the christian, and the muslim. i'm so pleased and honored to present these two writers in conversation with each other. please join me in welcoming charles mann and richard rodriguez to the los angeles public library. thank you. [applause] >> first of all, let me say how pleased i am to be here interviewing charles. i feel a little bit like a child interviewing a giant. so, if i seem a little star-struck, forgive me. i was reading your book over several days. i tend to do a lot of reading on weekends, but in separate rooms, and if i'm making a lot of noise after i slam a back down on the table, he'll ask me, what are you reading? and on occasion, the occasion of this book, 1493, i would come into his room and i would say, what are

france flight 447 plunged into the atlantic ocean off brazil in june 2009 killing all 228 people on board. now a new book investigating that crash points to pilot error. the author the pilot's voice recordings that show confusion and lack of coordination in the cockpit before that plane went down. at one point a crew member can be heard saying, "damn it, we're going to crash." our richard quest has been following this investigation. he joins us live now from london. richard, i understand that you actually spoke with the author of this book just moments ago. what stood out in that interview? >> he basically makes no apology for printing the final parts of the cockpit voice recording. he wouldn't tell me where he got it from. he said he'll never release that information. even though he has been strongly condemned by air france who say they have their complete disapproval and the bea, that's the french equivalent of the ntsb. bea says they strongly condemn the disclosure which shows a lack of respect for the memory. he makes no apology. he told me that understanding this crash and giving a full picture of what happened was essential and that's why he did it. >> did

author of osama bin laden's legacy, he writes and lectures on mideast issues, welcome back to the show. >> thank you. >> you wrote in the atlantic on friday, about the killing of the cleric are and what mean or doesn't mean one thing you are saying, these victories, and they are victories, the killing of osama bin laden and him are victories but don't mean al qaeda 's defeat is imminent why not? >> we have under estimated the resill gypsy of the network the point -- resill yenisei of the network when you lock at a network and what a loss of a critical leader does to it impact is not that great you have people waiting in the wings to replace them now he was particularly important to al qaeda, the yemen branch of the organization he was unique in the fact that he spoke english flew wently he had a unique appeal appearing in a dozen terror plots this doesn't mean the network will collapse there will be someone who steps in to fill his role. >>> has al qaeda intentionally set themselves up in this way where they are come part mentallized and diffused so when one of these people is struck down it has some impact but protects them to

authorization for the curfew. >>> and across the northeast, people are grabbing jackets, gloves and hats today. a rare halloween weekend snowstorm is bearing down on parts of the mid-atlantic. thousands of power outages are already being reported in pennsylvania and new jersey alone. snow-laden tree branches are coming down and breaking power lines. this is a live look at snow coming down in the nation's capital, new york city and beyond. you see the capitol building sort of at the lower left and the white house in the upper right. and you're also seeing a little bit of connecticut as well. snow everywhere. pennsylvania being hit hard. already there are power outages. chad myers is in york, pennsylvania. you've seen these big tree limbs full of leaves. they're bending and in many cases breaking and snapping and coming down. >> reporter: they are, absolutely. entire trees are coming down. in fact, i was on the turnpike coming here from harrisburg, down to 83 and then this way, and there were trees completely across the roadway. people were driving around them. this was four hours ago. this is back-breaking snow, almost heart attack snow. it took me literally about five minu

wright author of "rock the casbah: rage and rebellion across the islamic world" reporting from 140 countries from "the washington post" to the near times in "new york times" magazine the atlanticday times in foreign affairs and others. she has won many awards among them the u.s. correspondent gold medal the oversight stage overseas press club award for best reporting for exceptional courage and initiative. per six previous books include green and shadowed and the last great revolution and sacred rage, flash point*, in in the name of god. then a bad team cleanup is austan day he is author of nine books a nationally syndicated columnist the edge of a professor at the university of texas and radio commentator with npr and a retired reservist colonel and the iraq war veteran and a principal of the high-tech consulting firm his book the quick and dirty guide to war has been writing about the balkans for three decades. well research military biography and with special the vince today. i'd like to start by turning the microphone over to rabin. >> thank you very much. first of all, thank you to the texas book festival. i always wanted to come to austin i look forward to coming back. [