. >> you're a professor here at the university of chicago, what department do you teach? >> just celebrated its 100th year a year ago, it's a school of social work. we train thousands of students to be practitioners and counselors, go on to serve millions of americans over the course of all their careers. i teach courses on the history of the welfare state. i also teach courses on issues of place and poverty and this spring i'm teaching a new course on nonprofits and social innovation in which i'll try to connect student toss techniques for creating more effective programs in this current economic environment. >> what drew you to the social service sector? >> that's an interesting question. um, when i was in college, my dad lost his job, and he didn't have a college degree, and it was really hard for him to find work, and that was at a point when i was starting to think about what i wanted to do. i took a course on political science in minnesota, and the content connected with me, and i saw a way where i could take what i was interested in academically and translate into i

. >> here's the cover of "warfare state" by university of chicago professor james sparrow. why this cover? why'd you choose this picture? what is this? >> oh, i think the photograph really captures how america learned to paint within the line of patriotism during the war. if you're familiar with the flag, you know it represents federalism and the way the several states were brought together in the union. this is a reworking of that patriotic logo into a more fused, unitary symbol appropriately 'em emblazoned one side of a bomber owned by the u.s. military representing a kind of national unity. and the way she holds her hand painting within the lines captures the way that americans taught themselves to internalize their sense of obligation to the government. >> james sparrow of the university of chicago where booktv is on location. here's his newest book, "warfare state: world war ii americans and the age of big government." >> you're watching booktv on c-span2, 8 hours of nonfiction -- 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books every weekend. >> booktv is on location at the un

chicago >> university of chicago professor james sparrow what did world war ii do to the size of the federal government? >> increased by more than tenfold. the economic mobilization required a increase within the economy and the armed force since grew drastically as well serving over the course of the war and roughly half of the economy was absorbed by the mobilization of president expansion. >> host: how did it compare to the 1930's during the fdr first-term? >> with 30 is was a period of dramatic growth but the government of the thirties even at its peak was swamped by the workers stay coming out second. years later before the korean war had been done that government was still dramatically larger than it had been at its height of the 1930's so that created an immensely larger government and more intrusive. >> give us an example how the budget of the 19431945? >> what federal spending increase by a factor of 10 who just under 9 billion to almost 100. so that is but increase of expenditures and was paid for buy a combination of income-tax is and the debt and as a result of the ra

also at the university of massachusetts medical school. the larger umbrella that houses the stress reduction. did you move into broader areas there than do you at the stress center? >> that's why we established the center for mindfulness. we have run programs in prisons and studied that, and in the inner city for people who don't even speak english, latino population, for instance. we conducted it in spanish as well as english. we do lots of research and there's a lot of growing lit a hours on mindfulness-based stress reduction and a new form of cognitive therapy mindfulness cognitive therapy. used for depression and anxiety and things like that. you know very well since you quoted himself david abram's book the spell of the sense sue with us. -- sense sue with us. i'm quoting you, including ourselves when we dwell in the wild. and he shares with us the rich dimensionty that gave birth us to and near tured us for hundreds of thousands of years and then you quote abram in the spell of the sensuous. the raven's loud guttural cry overhead is

the author is mark bradley of the university of chicago. >> you have been watching some of our interviews with professors here at the university. more next week. >> we asked what i you reading this summer. here is what you had to say. ♪ send us at tweet at book tv to let us know what you plan on reading. you can also e-mail us. >> now, women in hezbollah. that is one of the most interesting aspects of society. i would like to say that the woman of hezbollah are the cornerstone of the movement and our what has turned it into something that has such an enduring and resilience bedrock. each time there is a work. 1993 and '96. 2006. there are massive amounts of destruction. people's homes were destroyed every time. people's kids get killed. it happened once. anything can happen once. for people to be willing with good cheer and high energy technology again and again requires something, by end. the women in the household who were hard to reach and teach and to their view. these women become the bedrock of the ideas and of the willingness to fight for them. so i write about this in the book. th

. >> host: on location at the university of chicago where we're talking with several professors of university who were also authors now we're pleased to be joined by david straus, author of the living constitution and teaches law at the university of chicago law school. david strauss-kahn how do you define a living constitution? >> a good question. it is an idea that is controversial but it should be. is the idea of the constitution as it was drafted in 1787 and has been amended since then, it has said it evolves over time in order to keep up with changing circumstances and ideas about how society should be run. >> host: what do you consider a current evolution? >> guest: there are several examples but here is one. throat the first 100 years through the late 19th century, the idea was the federal government could be very small and federal and state governments could play a limited role to regulate the economy progress the country became a less agrarian those ideas changed of the state legislatures and congress started to play a more active role to regulate the economy. at first the supreme co

university of california. i have had the pleasure of working with rich on several letters of determination on various cases the past several months and have been extremely impressed with his work, and believe you will be as well. thank you. >> i cannot believe you hired me. [laughter] the project before you is a permit to install a wireless telecommunication networks for at&t, located within the mixed use office building district. the proposed code of work includes installation of 12 panel antennas on the existing six-story buildings. these would be mounted approximately 82 feet above street level and are suspicious -- and are sufficiently screen from the public right-of-way and public view. as cited in the guidelines, the project is located on a location preference to the site. currently, this rooftop currently possesses seven panel antennas by another wireless operator, and other wireless operator is anticipating another six panels at another hearing. since this is located within the article 10 historic distr

. >> he was a teacher at university of georgia's -- university of chicago's cool of business. he's been advising the president since 2004. >>> after an informal night in georgetown, president obama is rolling out the red carpet today. >>> this mlb former player is facing felony charges. he's facing two dozen charges after he tried to lease a car with bogus information. he's also facing drug possession charges. bail is set at half a million dollars. >>> the orioles get a pitching property with the fourth pick in the draft. the o's selected dylan bundty. he's one of the best pitchers in the country. his brother, bobby is one in the minor league. >>> as for the rest of the o's, they handed the a's their second loss. they got plenty of help from their own offense. the orioles win, 4-2. >>> and today, the plane from the miracle on the hudson is making its way to the final destination in mc-- north carolina. >>> it isn't every day you see a slight headed south on i-95. this trucker first caught a glimpse on his way to work. >> i've been lucky to be here, fortunately, to see this goi

that was because at the time he was excluded from the university of georgia because of his race. he went up north to boston university, and when he graduated he came back to georgia. he really wanted to be a member of the georgia bar and to practice in his home state and city. he joined the bar in 1962, and when he did he was only the 10th full-time black lawyer practicing. not in atlanta, but in the entire state of georgia, which might strike you as pretty incredible. those numbers by the way didn't improve very much until the 1970s. once he joined the bar he went to work for donald hollowell who is there on the right. he's another legendary lawyer who is very important to the student movement. hollowell was more his mentor, although when they first met each other it was an odd encounter. hollowell told moore that he was a lawyer, and moore said when hollowell said this, that's bull. he said something a little more colorful, but fortunately he said to himself and god himself a mentor. the point is that black lawyers were very, very rare. it was inconceivable that a black man coul

the university of washington, the university of colorado at boulder, beijing university in china and more. he also served as a top policy advisor to govern gary locke who will be our ambassador in china. gary locke, of course, was the governor of washington state. in that capacity he led the state's effort to expand access to higher education for low and middle-income students. as a leading scholar in the legal field, dr. lowe has also been elected president of the association of american law schools. . also holds a law degree from maryland university, a ph.d. from the university of michigan, a masters from cornell university, and a bachelors from gannell college in iowa. i believe that the university of maryland could not have chosen a more qualified leader to take our university into this century. throughout his diverse career, president lowe has been a strong track record of creating academic excellence at every stop. what an extraordinary background wallace lowe has for this increasingly integrated world. and particularly as it relates to our relations with china. one of the world

todd moye has been associate professor of history of the university of north texas and director of that university's history program. todd moye will be speaking today about his new book "freedom flyer: the tuskegee airmen of world war ii". a narrative history of the most significant civil-rights struggle of the world war ii era based on a collection of 800 oral histories. todd moye is also the author of what the people decide. in addition to numerous scholarly articles, review article that up beds, graduate of the university of north carolina chapel hill where he earned his b.a. in history at university of texas austin where he earned his m.a. and ph.d. degrees todd moye directed the national park services oral history project from 2000 to 2005. please join me in welcoming professor todd moye to vote roosevelt reading festival. [applause] >> thank you very much. great to be here. i need to look for more reasons to travel from texas to the hudson valley. this is a great place to be ended as always fun to come back to the fdr library. this book began as an oral history project. from 2000

he was an academic at the university of chicago law school. he is well known for a variety of opinions on various things. in the legal world he is best known for introducing economics to the law. >> host: let's show you professor posner's book so you get an idea what he writes about. he published his first book in 2000 and that was "law and social norms". he has also written "the perils of global legalism" that came out in 2009. professor posner has co-authored several books including limits of international law," "new foundations of cost-benefit analysis," balance: security, liberty and the courts," "climate change justice," and "the executive unbound: after the madisonian republic". i want to start with that one. "the executive unbound: after the madisonian republic". in my reading of that book is it fair to say that you write that the separation of powers as established in the united states is not working? >> that is right. it is not working. it has eroded over the centuries. the result is the president has become much more powerful than the

professor robert gooding-williams teaches at the university of chicago. >> you're watching 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books on book tv. >> host: university of chicago professor john mearsheimer, who do politicians like to? >> guest: basically to two audiences. one, they lied to foreign audiences. other leaders and their publics. to, they lied to their own people. >> host: to him today tell the truth? >> guest: they rarely lied to foreign audiences and rarely lied to their own people. if you think about it it makes sense. it would not make any sense to live. lying is most effective when you don't do it very often. so therefore europe are in a position to catch people off guard. >> host: you put some examples on my leader's line about american presidents. some specific examples.

protesters and fired tear gas during the mass marts on parliament by this viral lecturer at the university of athens believes the greek crisis is a result of the glaring flaws in the euro. one hundred eighty percent of the relation. to these being pushed through parliament and even worse than the time afraid to our own politicians even those who are voting for those measures do not believe in them they resemble a few swear crossing themselves hoping for

. >> i am a professor of law at the university of chicago and have been there 15 years i read about a number of different topics and constitutional law in and particular the powers of the presidency with international law and. >> do good to rated from harvard but what does that mean? >> the title that is given to professors after they reach a certain level and are old enough to deserve the title. it does not mean anything beyond that. >> establishing your history who is your father. >> the sec -- seventh court of appeals before he was a judge who was an academic at the law school and is well known for a variety ofy of opinions on various things in the legal world he is i known for introducing economics to the law. >> let's show you the professors books you have an doe idea of what he writes about.nd t in 2000 he published the first book called a lot and social norms and also written the perils of globale ou legalism coming out 2009. b the professor has the co-authored several books including the limits of international law and the terror in the balance coming climate change justice an

giving us a snapshot of what you do and what you read about. >> i am a professor of law at the university of chicago. i write about a number of different topics. constitutional law and particularly the powers of the presidency. international law, and other legal fields. .. >> guest: he is, before he was a judge, he was an academic, also, at the university of chicago high school. and he's well -- law school. and he's well known for a variety of opinions on various things. this legal world he's best known for introducing economics to the law. >> host: well, let's show you professor posner's book so you get an idea of what he does write about n. 2000 he published his first book, and that was "the law and social norms." he's also written "the perils of global legalism." that came out in 2009. now, professor posener has co-authored several books. that includes the limits of international law, the new foundations of cost-benefit analysis, terror in the balance, climate change justice, and the the executive unbound, and i want to start with that one if we could, professor posener, the executive unb

i am here to report on the wharton school of business, university of pennsylvania institutional master plan. we are currently leasing approximately 20,000 feet of space and the school is looking to relocate to a facility with 35,000 square feet. the school offers an m.b.a. program for executives who wish to pursue an nba while continuing a career. the second is the executive program that is tailored to meet the needs of a specific firm. the third is the alumni function, where these actions are offered. supposed secondary institutions have to have an institutional master plan on file with the department. part of the review of the abbreviated i.m.p., planning has the discretion to hold or not hold a hearing on the abbreviated i.m.p. staff concludes that all the necessary requirements are included and recommends that the commission not hold a hearing. commissioners, this concludes my reporting. i am available to answer any questions. president olague: thank you. project sponsor? ok, is there any public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioners? >> no actio

we think is that we need to have people offer amendments so we can find the universe of the amendments, so we can work through these and try to come up with some reasonable way to proceed forward. having said that, i want people to offer amendments on my side. senator mcconnell, i think, feels the same way on his side. and then we'll make a determination later today as to how we will proceed on this next week. i think it would be fruitless at this stage to have a bunch of votes -- well, we'd have to have consent to have the votes. i don't think there will be any votes this afternoon.

and in london we go to alex project he is director of russian and eurasian studies center at the university of oxford all right gentlemen crossed out rules in effect i mean you can jump in anytime you want well the reason why we're doing this we're doing our series here on cross talk on the collapse of the soviet union twenty years ago and twenty years ago on june twelfth one thousand anyone else who came the first popularly elected president of the russian soviet federated socialist republic would basically the beginning of the demise of the soviet union that would follow her in the year dimitri bondage let's look at that time twenty years ago and how the soviet union unraveled how much was yeltsin involved with that unraveling of the soviet union people talk a lot about going to much of what about yeltsin at this time but i think there are two parallel process that's going on which should not be mixed up there was the process of democratization and i think it was yeltsin starro for the first time in russian history and man came to power while honest election against the will of the governmen

job, after his career in the senate william was forced out of his position as president of the university of massachusetts in 2003, after being questioned during a congressional investigation. >> i do not know where my brother is. i do not know where he has been.

university of phoenix gave me the knowledge to make a difference in people's lives. my name is dr. erly horton. i manage a network of over a thousand nurses, and i am a phoenix. [ male announcer ] find your program at phoenix.edu. >>> and firing. >> reporter: julian assange's collateral murder video did not spark the outrage he had hoped for. and now his alleged source, private bradley manning, was in custody. >> journalist mark davis was with assange in the summer of 2010. >> i believe he was a little bit paranoid but i'm not surprised that he was in a state of high anxiety and highly security conscious. >> reporter: security conscious because assange had another weapon in his arsenal, a secret data base of government documents from the war in afghanistan. assange was more and more focused on what he saw as abuses within the u.s. government. now he believed he had evidence of actual war crimes. does he operate as if he is constantly being followed, constantly being watched? >> yeah, because he probably is. this information was known and essentially people, important people, knew he

we're here at the university of chicago to talk with several of their professors about books they've written. we're going to show you some of those now. the name of the book is "democracy remix: black youth and the future of american politics" the author is university of chicago professor kathy cohen. professor cohen, is there an all yen nation -- alienation between black youth of today and the older black generations? >> well, i think that there is a generational divide, to say the least. um, we've heard it, for example, in the words of bill cosby who at times has ranted against parts of this generation for not doing, i think, what he perceives to be kind of the respectable, right thing to do to succeed in the society. there is a concern that we often hear from older members of black generations about, for example, even rap music. so i think that there is a kind of fundamental divide that sometimes happens across generations. i think the concern here when we talk about black communities is that often young black people feel alienated from a larger dominant or white society, and so w

>>tim pawlenty delivered his first major policy address at the university of chicago harris school of public policy this morning the former minnesota governor said his plans to jump start job creation, balance the budget, and cut taxes ... is the better deal for americans he attack the president as a new poll today shows 59 percent of americans disapprove of the way the president is handling the economy which is a new high. speaking of the university of chicago president obama's says he is losing one of his most trusted risers and close friend to the school. austan goolsbee is leaving the white house to return to the university of chicago as an economics professor he has worked as the primary spokesman and chairman of the u.s. council of economic advisers for the past nine months he is stepping down at a time when the obama administration is dealing with rising unemployment and a stagnant economy. >>president obama and germany's chancellor are discussing debt and other issues at the white house today chancellor angela merkel praised the u.s. and germany partnership center 2 countries

the opportunities that i had at the university of phoenix, dealing with professionals teaching things that they were doing everyday, got me to where i am today. i'm mayor cherie wood, i'm responsible for the largest urban renewal project in utah, and i am a phoenix. [ male announcer ] find your program at phoenix.edu. [captioning made possible by constellation energy group] captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> live, local, late-breaking, this is wbal-tv 11 news today. >> good morning. i am mindy basara. >> and i am stan stovall. thank you for joining us this morning. >> tony pann has a check of the forecast for us. >> it is nice right now. we will turn the heat

she is a professor of french and history of medicine at vanderbilt university. she teaches courses on history of early medicine, medicine and literature as well as other forces in early french literature and culture. i was first introduced to ollie -- this is our first time meeting -- at her blog. i have been a fan for quite a while and if you don't know about wonderful marble by encourage you to google it. it is an interesting blog. they call it community for curious minds who love history, odd stories and a good read. it started out as an area where she and her students could communicate and it has run. >> this is that type of . she knows that. i want you to know that. if you have questions feel free to interact. if you have comments i hope you will make them. her book is interesting because it is history of medicine, but it brings of current topics and things we are all concerned about. i hope you will enjoy hearing from holly. are you ready? we have to apply again. let's do it. welcome. [applause] >> i can tell you as we left arlington about two and a half ho

a university of new mexico football player arrested for not immediately pulling up his baggy pants while boarding a flight will protest what she says is the mistreatment of her son. she will be joined by san francisco's naacp. donna doyle will be in support of her son. they believe the punishment does not fit the crime. the protest begins at 3:00 this afternoon in front of jones methodist church at 1975 post street in san francisco. >>> well, the air quality management district and the "mercury news" will help drivers peel off those yellow clean air stickers from hybrid vehicles. beginning july 1st, cars with those stickers will no longer have the chance to go through car pool lanes unless they are actually car pooling. it was a nice perk while it lasted. >>> much more ahead on "today in the bay." still to come, we'll look at the business week ahead, including car sales numbers for june. >>> and we'll take you live to the alameda county fair for a look at some of the more unique attractions that you may see this year. >>> and looking l

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, including the industry giant, university of phoenix. ime, it was $6-billion- a-year industry with little government oversight. this is an online university. this is what it looks like. our report focused on the lengths schools go to attract students... >> are you thinking about going back to school? >> smith: ...their accreditation problems, and the staggering amounts of student debt. >> are the students and the u.s. taxpayers getting a good value? >> smith: soon after our report, congress held hearings to investigate. quickly, they became alarmed by how much gi bill money was going to for-profit colleges. >> all of a sudden, we found that there was a huge spike up in the amount of military money going to these schools-- 600% increase in just a couple of years. huge increase. and so, we started looking at that, and what we found is just really disturbing. >> smith: what disturbs harkin and other critics is that more than a third of all gi bill dollars are ending up at for-profit colleges. it's a disproportionate share, and it appears to

that's 17% of the overall universe. to leonard 66 officers have already elected in the drop, that's 47% -- 27 officers have completed their full drop time, either the one, too, or three year timeframe depending on their rank which is out their maximum eligibility is concluded. 49 officers, 9% elected in and chose to leave early. a drop election is a revocable. once they are in, it cannot be waived off. they would leave the service. that leaves 190 officers currently participated -- currently participating in drop. the numbers at the bottom are of more interest to the retirement board so we can service the officers and insure those who want to elect in will indeed be able to be processed and right now there are 204 remaining officers on the force to have the ability to elect drop if they so desire. that would have to occur by the end of june unless the program would be extended. the next two lines are those who have received personal counseling from the retirement system or will receive counseling, which we strongly reco

they get together tomorrow night right there in boston. >>> college football news, the university of hern california's football team says it will return the crystalle trophy it took home after winning the 2004 bcs championship game against oklahoma. the bcs oversight committee voted to strip usc of its title after an ncaa investigation concluded that running back reggie bush and his family received improper benefits during that season. the bcs says there will be no champion for the 2004 season. that position will be vacated despite the fact there were two other undefeated team, auburn and utah during that season. >>> to baseball, giants and nationals, top of the second. tim lincecum gets himself into the record books. he gets jerry harrison swinging for the 1,000th strikeout. he becomes only one of eight players to amass 1,000th strike out. and taking a foul ball off the right arm, he's in pain. he tried to return but the arm swells up and he had to leave the game. they did go to extra innings. freddy sanchez singles in chris stewart for the game-winning run. giants win 5-4. they rema

it's one of three books that's kicking off a series of such books from princeton university press. and to start our discussion, i want to read the press' description of what they're trying to do and then ask dr. marty to comment on it. they say that this new series recounting the complex and fascinating histories of important religious texts written for general readers by leading authors and experts is intended to trace how their reception, interpretation and influence have changed over time. often radically. as these stories remind us, all great religious books are living things whose careers in the world can take the most unexpected turns. now, dr. marty, you've also recently completed and published a biography of martin luther, a lutheran who somewhat predated dietrich bonhoeffer. [laughter] what's the difference between with writing a biography of a figure like luther and be -- and a book like bonhoeffer's? >> there are far more similarities than i thought i would find. when princeton university press described this series and asked me if i would be a kicker offer of it, it took

university of phoenix gave me the knowledge to make a difference in people's lives. my name is dr. orton. i manage a network of over a thousand nurses, and i am a phoenix. [ male announcer ] find your program at phoenix.edu. it's almost 12 after the hour before before the break, i read you a quote from a news make ir. who was it? sarah palin. here's what she had to say a few hours after her daughter hinted that mama grizzly had made up her mind with a 2012 presidential run. >> i said what we say on the fishing boat stays on the fishing boat. you don't need to be announcing anything. >> what we say on the fishing boat stays on the fishing boat. the former alaska governor says she has not made up her mind yet. you saw her working the crowd at the premiere of a film that takes a sympathetic look at her political career. after michele bachmann's oops calling waterloo, iowa, the home of john wayne, comedy's best had some things to say. here's your punch line. >> michele bachmann defended herself and said within silly gaffe should in no way disqualify her from becoming america's next prim

walk now though thanks to research with them and go an institute for regenerative medicine at the university of pennsylvania hernandez is reportedly up and walking again the group was able to see the corporals remaining muscle tissue with a cocktail of proteins and growth had a lists derived from his bladders maybe they used big letters to disqualify us muslims because skeletal muscle does not typically regenerate after it is destroyed unless you're like my favorite x.-man wolverine this could be a big breakthrough not only for the scientific community but for thousands of veterans who have suffered physical handicaps and service to the state's new conservative adventurism if only we could figure out a way to keep their limbs from getting blown off and first place. and on that note i'm joined tonight by our own adam vs the man a military analyst jake negative neo-con nancy deliberate so and dr christopher swift fellow at the national security law center out of the university of virginia gentlemen thank you so much for joining me tonight good to be so it could be some good news on foreign policy

so i said why is a university, like the university of michigan or harvard or stanford university asking a 6-year-old company to be the custodian of this immense amount of wealth and knowledge? this isn't end well, is basically what i thought. it might start beautifully, but this was obviously a controversial proposal when it came to copyright. the publishers and authors whose work was being scanned in raised lawsuits, and the lawsuits were settle inside a way that made it very clear several years down the line that google never really intended to make a library, it end intended to make a bookstore. and i love bookstores. there's nothing wrong with a bookstore, but i'm not too pleased with a bookstore that tries to pretend it's a library. from about 2004 i started seeing that google's real corporate mission statement which is, believe it or not, to organize the world's information and make it universeally accessible is actually kind of scary. you know, i was born in the 20th century, i lived for about, you know, 40% of the 20th century, and i know enough to know that when somebody makes

the university of nebraska was putting on a play and it was a gay play out of england. one group from kansas came down to protest said the lincoln police ask me, how do we reach out to the community. i got a hold of the two bars and lincoln and got them to sit down with the community. the chief of police wrote in the front page of the journal star that there will be no citizens of lincoln arrested during this demonstration so we kept all the gay kids on one side and everyone else on the other side and 15 minutes, they were shouted down. in the middle of al

todd moye has been associate professor of history of the university of north texas and director of that university's history program. todd moye will be speaking today about his new book "freedom flyer: the tuskegee airmen of world war ii". a narrative history of the most significant civil-rights struggle of the world ii e >> in addition to numerous scholarly articles and op-edhere graduate from university ofar north carolina chapel hill where he earned his ph.d. -- ph.d. degree he directed the park service tuskegee airmen project through 2005. 00 welcomen me tok es professor at todd moye to the roosevelt reading festival. [applause] >> thank you very much.ch i need to look for more reasons to travel from texas intol the hudson valley in the middle of the summer. it is a great place to bee b and to come back to the fdr library. it began as the oral historyl project 2000 through 2005 if i was one of five historians who worked for the national park service developing avi new site in tuskegee alabama where they learn to fly. the national park service dedicated a significant amount of money

he will resign his post this summer to return to teaching at the university of chicago. s advised mr. obama on economic matters since 2004. >>> the eyes of the gaming world are on e-3, the electronic entertainment expo opened monday in los angeles. it's usually focused on unveiling the video games but sony took center stage to apologize for the recent security breach that compromised the personal information of 77 million users of the playstation network. the company also unveiled the ps-d, the next generation hand held gaming device. >>> if you haven't planned a weekend, ocean city, maryland might fit the bill. the city council will give away $100,000 of gas to draw tourists proposing a free gallon for each night spent in a local hotel. details are up in the air and critics have blasted the plan as a shameless gimmick. >>> and the jacket that launched the video revolution is hitting the auction block. the iconic red and black jacket michael jackson wore in "thriller" will be up for bid later this month in beverly hills. it will take deep pockets. organizers think it will

the university of nebraska was putting on a play and it was a gay play out of england. one group from kansas came down to protest said the lincoln police ask me, how do we reach out to the community. i got a hold of the two bars and lincoln and got them to sit down with the community. the chief of police wrote in the front page of the journal star that there will be no citizens of lincoln arrested during this demonstration so we kept all the gay kids on one side and everyone else on the other side and 15 minutes, they were shouted down. in the middle of all of this was the omaha world herald and the journal star. two people came over and they held that the blackboards. we said, yes, on the blackboard as said, god and homosexuals eat at subway. this isthe youth suicide rate is skyrocketing. i have been involved with programs for boys in nebraska. all the people who wrote letters, that i had people -- that i had people there. when i see an officer on andy street, -- on the street, i stop and see what they are doing. i make it a point to call on certain people. eheather fo

this is my daughter goes to the university of chicago. [applause] >> i live with him. [laughter] and he is wracked with itself out all the time. he works 4:00 38:00 a.m. and then worries the rest of the day. [laughter] >> that is enough. [laughter] [applause] >> that is true that the self doubt is something that i have to deal with all the time and it like to think that it drives me to hunt for stories that are the kind of thing that i will like and other people will like but i sure as hell wish caris one and elixir i could take that one was not afraid something would be a bomb. case in point* on the eve of the publication i was convinced that my career was over. because this was of book that had to narratives that never intersected. they do at one small point* but there you go. >> you ted shawn the anti-semitism and i was not aware the ambassador was a professor of history. i guess my question is did he have been a historical inkling of anti-semitism in germany? you go back to read martin luther and he doesn't have nice things to say about the jews but there is the hav

this is not representative of either myself or the university of new mexico football program. >>> he is out of jail, but has a court date next month. his attorney said the 20-year- old plans to return to new mexico within the next few days. he will fly southwest. enter interesting story. a lot of this, you have to take it in the context. >> the critical part was what happened before he sat down and we don't know how he got off the plane. we would like to see the whole video. >> don, thank you for that. >>> well it's a mess at united airlines. a computer problem has growned united and continental all across the country. this is the scene at sfo tonight. one of united's hubs. the kiosks are not working so passengers with bags have to be checked in manually. many flights are leaving late. some arriving flights are being held on the tarmac. the outage started at 5:15 this evening. united has been less than generous with information. >> it's pathetic. they should have figured it out by now. i'm surprised. >> i try to check in online and it doesn't work. the online system doesn't work. so i

he is fighting for single handedly at the university of minnesota bothered by the fact that the approval process is so secretive she began to conduct her own experiments with grants for independent research she examines the behavior of the transgenic fish bred by bill moore and rick howard. in a no from building she tries to reproduce a simulated ecosystem in many tanks and aquariums in order to conduct experiments resembling a real life situation oh reputation isn't independent scientists reaches all the way to thailand the industry is especially anxious to capture the southeastern asian markets with genetically modified to love here a popular fish on asian menus for this reason it is pressing the governments with applications for approval to be able to sell its transgenic fish earlier and in america and the government of thailand became quite worried because they felt that they were not well equipped to review an application and even know what questions to ask it how do we do a risk assessment and be able to make a good decision about whether they should allow the commission of a count

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