long-term, it poses significant challenges for the administration simply because, heyou look at the homefront, is facing attacks from prominent senators in the republican party such as senator mccain. >> crime in a place of worship. prince william county police are looking for a thief who broke into three churches and ransacked them. it happened a week ago today. united methodist, victory baptist, and as very united methodist were all hit. the criminal one of the sunday offerings. church members say they are praying for the people who are responsible. our energy drink safe for kids? maryland lawmakers could ban children from buying them. this comes after a 14-year-old girl died after drinking 48 ounces of monster energy drink in a single day. kevin lewis reports some people think a ban is a bad idea. >> can energy is a moneymaker. of rocks -- variety of products. theseew bill aims to keep bubbly beverages out of teenage hands. >> where does it stop? >> put off not by fear of lost profit, but added regulation. >> it is not my responsibility to police who buys a coca cola or a monster energy dr

they don't want to worry their loved ones on the homefront, but so often the emotions build up and theyill say i really shouldn't be telling you this, but i have to get this off my chest. i saw someone killed today, or i lost my best friend. >> something happened to me the other day i want to tell you about. i was kneeling in my foxhole standing guard, keeping my eyes open when they started to throw mortars shells near my hole. >> this is a letter from world war ii. not only is the content very dramatic, but the letter itself became part of the story because after writing this, he put it in his backpack and he was shot through the back. fortunately, he survived. it gets to why letters are so valuable. you are holding the actual paper that these troops once held. there's something very intimate about a letter. there is almost a literary quality to it. letters,ps realize the the writing could be the last thing ever put on paper. >> the art of writing letters in wartime. that brings today's program to a close. check out your listings and you will find our number there. thanks so much for w

as we see better practices in terms of corporate responsibility to china on the homefront in here too having an impact on how china behaves abroad. this is one of the positive things that we have found over the course of our research. i think that's another way in which china's transforming a landscape. >> it want to come back to the strategic access to resources but first i want to go to a point you both made about china obviously not being the first emerging power that went out looking for resources. tell us how it's different than the english experience or the spanish for the united states for that matter. >> one of the interesting things about the work that we did that those of us took a piece of the historical puzzle and since my background is china i took the china party and since mike is more global he took the other part but from the chinese perspective what was fascinating was to look back even before but that was where we focus our book so not quite 700 years can see there are many strains of continuity in how china approached its resource quest dating back centuries. it's r

he's also speaking to the homefront.is attentive to what is going on in russia, where there is always a debate going on between people who like putin and people who cannot stand him. >> he wants to reemerge as a great power, russia to reemerge as a great power. it would help if all the rings lit up. right? >> for sure. >> russian tv saw something very different. think about these opening ceremonies, there have been amazing opening ceremonies like china in 2008. he did not quite full but off. -- pull that off. this was his cherry on top. >> is it? nothing about everything going on. people have been complaining about the conditions they are living in. it does not feel as though russia is coming off this with a high of any sort. >> there's often a lot of negative coverage in the run-up to any olympics. before beijing, all we knew about china was that it had very bad smog in the capital city. before sale, there was a lot to talk about the tax encryption. when the games begin, the focus begins to change. there's one important

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they solicited manuscripts from folks and women wrote in to describe what it was like on the homefront. i went to the new york public library looked in the archives of century magazine and this woman would attach letters to the manuscripts and say i'm offering this to contribute to this series. if you don't like it, please send it back as i think i can place it elsewhere. so they were very clear that the postwar writings, you know, were designed for publication in the publishing firm turned them down in one magazine if they intended to extend it to another magazine. they felt strongly they have something important to say and they were going to make sure there was an outlet that would let them say it. margaret mitchell and mary johnson who is writing and i think her books came out in 1911, 1912 will have this remarkably sick, unsentimental account of the civil war. is very different from margaret mitchell's narrative of the war. i would perhaps to read -- i was call her the poor woman. she was in poor among the partners than she had the shortly after margaret mitchell's novel came out.

they solicited manuscripts from folks and women rodin to describe what it was like on the homefront. o the new york public library and looked in the archives of century magazine in these women would attach letters to their manuscripts and say i am offering this to contribute to the series. if you don't like that, please send it back because i think i can place it elsewhere. so they were very clear that these postwar writings, you know, were designed for publication and if a publishing firm turned them down they intended to extend it to another magazine. they felt very strongly they had something important to say they were going to make sure there was an outlet that would let them say it. margaret mitchell and mary johnson i think her books cannot in 1911, 1912 has been remarkably unromantic, unsentimental account of the civil war. it is very different from margaret mitchell's memory for her narrative that the war. i would perhaps throw in iowa's call her the poor woman. she wasn't poor, but for an associate the misfortune of publishing the civil war novel shortly after margaret mitche

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they solicited manuscripts from folks and women wrote in to describe what it was like on the homefront. i went to the new york public library looked in the archives of century magazine and this woman would attach letters to the manuscripts and say i'm offering this to contribute to this series. if you don't like it, please send it back as i think i can place it elsewhere. so they were very clear that the postwar writings, you know, were designed for publication in the publishing firm turned them down in one magazine if they intended to extend it to another magazine. they felt strongly they have something important to say and