. >> what did you study, michael moore grumet university of michigan flint? he university of michigan flint for a year and a half and i had a double major of political science and theater. so, the year and a half i had there would serve me well. i dropped out there. i was, you know, again i had a problem of of being bored with school. i had just been elected to the board of education at 18-years-old. it was right after 18-years-old -- >> for the city of flint? >> was the davidson school district. and 18-year-olds were just given the right to vote. and i decided to run and became the youngest elected official in the state of michigan, and so i was learning more about political science than on was sitting in a classroom. so the first day of my second semester in my sophomore year, i, being a commuter campus you to drive, never enough parking, i drove around and around the parking lot for about an hour looking for a parking spot, couldn't find one. after an hour i said this great, dropping out and i did. i've never been back to school since. went home and told my

. >> reporter: in a study at the university of michigan, researchers found when levels of cortisol were boosted in even nonstress adddults they ate more snack foods than usual in adults. >> water retention, overall fat and lethargy. >> reporter: stress eating quickly becomes a habit. to break the habit, it's ultimately about the changes in your choices. >> healthy pretzels and chips instead of fries with salt and sugar. >> reporter: experts say to keep your emotions in balance, it's important to eat regularly. consuming complex carbs like oatmeal or whole grain foods counteracts stress. we still haven't figured out where she finds the time but the young mother makes it a point every day to exercise. another trick? she feeds her kids healthy feeds so she can follow suit. >> make it a lifestyle, make it convenient and easy. you end up not stressing about stressing. >> reporter: cbs news. >> we all know cigarettes are bad for our health but turns out there is something equally as bad and i'm afraid you're doing it it right now. new research in australia says watching just one hour of tv a

. >> what did you study michael moore at the university of michigan in flint? >> i went to the university of michigan, flint, for year and a half and it had a double measured -- major of legal science and theater. beer and a half i had there would serve me well. i dropped out though. you know, can i was probably bored with school. i just been elected to the board of education at 18 years old. it was right after 18-year-olds got the right. it was called the davison school district. 18-year-olds have been given the right to vote and i decided to run. and i became the youngest elected official in the state of michigan. >> and. >> so i was learning about politics by doing it than i was sitting in a classroom. the first day of my second semester of my sophomore year, being a commuter campus you had to drive. never enough parking. i drove around and around the parking lot for about an hour looking for a parking spot. i couldn't find one and after an hour i just said screw it, i am dropping out and i did. i have never been back to school since. i wenhold -- home and to

yet hunkered down for the long haul although we did deal with another report today from the university of michigan that consumer sentiment fell to the lowest in 31 years. we had all the problems with the potential of default and the downgrade mixed into all of that. no doubt that did freak out a whole lot of consumers out there but so far impressive that the stock market has withstood that negative report. another good indicator is european markets that were higher today. france up 4%. this after several countries including france, italy and spain enacted temporary bans on short selling to calm those rattled markets. of course, we'll be look every looking closely at the next moves coming out of europe and the economy. the market is up 125. >> if it ends up do we think calmer on wall street next week? >> hard to say. periods of volatility like this last for some time. it's going to take while before this smooths out. right now the dow is up 148. let's hope we can break even for the crazy week. >> thank you,. >>> an autopsy will be performed on the woman though was killed by a family pit bull in pac

the thompson-reuters university of michigan expense index out today plunged again in the month of august. this has now fallen off to its lowest point since late 2008 during the worst of the financial crisis. consumers polled said they felt worse about their finance, didn't expect to get pay raises and thought unemployment would keep climbing. as we continue our series, how the fix the economy, diane estabrook talks with some consumers who say the sour economy is turning them into mindsers. misers. >> reporter: at this chicago target store, heidi pfetcher is checking off the items on her daughter's school supply list. her lesson plan for this year? stick to a budget. >> we're really watching our money and watching our pennies and here buying school supplies and getting ready for the school year. >> reporter: throughout this store we found a lot of penny- pinching consumers. and who can blame them? gasoline prices are still taking a huge bite out of household budgets. and speaking of houses, home prices continue to slide, making consumers feel even poorer. and then there's that nagging pro

researchers at the university of michigan created a urine test that looks for two genetic markers linked to prostate cancer. in the study 1300 men completed the urine test and they found the test detected cancer in nearly 70% of the patients considered high risk and 20% of low-risk patients. the test is not fda approved and experts say more studies are still needed. >>> we want to look at the forecast now. rob mayeda is in for jeff ranieri. live at the time fremont festival of the arts. >> that's right. it's coming up this weekend. we're doing our big preview for the big event that's coming cc1: right here to fremont as we head to the weekend. today we're at lake elizabeth park and it's been a gorgeous afternoon. atcc1: times as we show you what the reason is behind how things got so much cooler today. and we said we actually had some drizzle in some parts of the bay area earlier on this morning. as we can look at some of the weather graphics, this super charged the marine layer and brought in the breezy conditions with the marine layer up to about 25 feet thick which meant light rain an

the university of michigan index showed accept theiment dipped in august to its lowest . in 30 years. now here's how things looked by the closing bell. the dow add 125 points, the nasdaq knand 15, the s & p 500 notched up six. the pace of trading settled to a more normal range with 1 billion shares trading here on the big board, two billion on the nasdaq. the major averages almost finished positive for the week but were down slightly when you add up all the numbers. the dow, for example, down 175 points or 1.5%, the nasdaq off 24 points, or 1%, and the s & p 500 one of the hardest hit off almost 2%. so will this intense volatility return next week? and what's behind the massive swings? erica miller reports. >> weeks like this one are extreme, but for the rest of us, the market's wild swings are confusing and often distressing. that even goes for veteran stock strategist bill cow. >> this is not a normal period. this is abnormal volatility. i had dinner with retail clients last night, and some of the retired people were wondering whether they'd ever come back to the stock

in july, the university of michigan's confidence reading showed consumers were expecting a recession. >> so they were pretty downbeat. a key to understanding that is that they had given up hope the government could or would do anything about the future economic situation. >> reporter: researchers say consumers generally view the stock market as an economic indicator, a signal of the outlook for hiring and pay raises. but with stocks whipsawing up and down, consumers might conclude the latest moves are a wall street problem, unconnected with their lives. and if the market decline is just a blip, consumers may shrug it off. >> in which case, consumers could weather this very well and it's not going to have a significant or prolonged impact. >> reporter: but the wild market ride, combined with the political drama over raising the debt ceiling, could have a greater impact abroad. investors around the world have new doubts about u.s. economic and political leadership, says economist fred bergsten. >> i think many of my foreign friends are a little naive in giving the u.s. the benefit of th

there was a study, university of michigan, that show people, confronted with facts that they know are right, will nonetheless not allow those facts to change their opinion because their belief, their positions are based on their beliefs, not on facts. this is why you get a majority of republicans watching fox news who believe that obama was born in kenya or a majority of republicans listening to rush limbaugh who think obama is a socialist, even though he is as beholden to corporate power as a precedent i have seen in my lifetime. all of these people, you get all of these people whose opinions are confirmed by the journalism that they hear, and they are not moved by the facts of why they come after you or me, because we% information, fact-based, evidence-driven information that undermines their world view. you cannot believe obama is a socialist if you look at the facts of his relationship with the banks and corporations and all of that. but fact-based reporting is diminishing. it is not just an opinion. there is plenty of opinion. but fact-based journalism is an endangered species. t

this is at the heart of consumer sentiment, university of michigan, this is a phone poll. ey come out the first part of the month. the first part the worst consumer sentiment, in 31 years, that's stunning, but i talked to economists as soons as the number came out. relax. one number does not a trend make. in fact, we've actually seen decent numbers here and there through the past six months depending which minute they're polled. a short-term poll and 300 people are spoken to by telephone and that's most important not what people say they're going to do, but what they actually do. how do we know? a slight silver lining, we got pretty good retail sales numbers out this week, in fact, they were better than expected to the upside and we're going to get earnings for abercrombie & fitch and urban outfitters and some names coming out this weekend and looking at these and wondering, what are we going to get. retail therapy thing that jamie you and i know nothing about, shopping. >> jamie: absolutely not. >> big ticket items, people are putting off big ticket items, jamie, a signal

the most recent survey from reuters and the university of michigan puts consumer confidence at its lowest level in more than 30 years. elaine quijano, cbs news, new york. >> pelley: one of the big credit rating agencies, fitch, said today that the u.s. economy is flexible, wealthy, and diversified and that is why fitch is keeping in place its top a.a.a. rating for u.s. debt. earlier this month, s&p lowered its rating, citing all that bickering in washington. the presidential race is all about the economy, of course, and governor rick perry kicked up a controversy when he was asked about the federal reserve. to keep the recovery going, the fed chairman, ben bernanke, dropped interest rates nearly to zero and expanded the money supply. governor perry was asked about those policies at a house party last evening in iowa. >> i'll take a pass on the federal reserve right at the moment, to be real honest with you. i know there's a lot of talk and what have you about him. if this guy prints more money between now and the election i don't know what y'all would do to him in iowa, but we'd... we wou

michael heaney he's assistant professor of organizational studies and political science at the university of michigan ok crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want but first let's have a look at the anti-war movement then and now. what happened so the answer will movement so that's it just drives a war in iraq and as the insurgency in the straits city squares and in front of the white house whereas a gray fires. at cities adamantly opposed to military interventions have always tried to reflect public opinion and. makers how much has changed the answer vietnam war movement in. major impact by nine hundred sixty eight these with widespread public opposition to the war in troubling prospects and vietnam the johnson administration halted the bombing of north vietnam and stabilized the ground war this policy reversal was the major turning point. it would appear it's difficult to witness history repeat itself numbers so dancey war rallies have significantly decreased over the past years some claim this is because of the election of barack obama to the us presidency as a democrat

so it is very important. >> juan cole, professor of history at the university ofmy michigan. post today about ten myths about the libya war is required reading for everybody within the sound of my voice. thank you for doing that and making time to join us tonight. appreciate it. >>> all right. if you have any doubt why there has been quite a bit of jubilation in libya the past couple of days, we are a good reminder on tape of why out of all of the dastardly dictators in the world, libya's dictator was a particularly dastardly one. a man losing an argument with myself in public next. [ male announcer ] want a better way to track what you spend? pnc virtual wallet now comes with spending zone. it organizes all your spending, including your pnc debit card, credit card, and your bills. so you can view them by category... or by month. you can set a budget... and it'll even alert you when you're getting close to the amount you've set -- and when you've gone over. spending zone is built to help you keep better track of your spending. experience everything virtual wallet has to offer

tonight and i could just as easily point out to you the consumer sentiment numbers from the university of michiganre the worst for three decades. consumer sentiment and consumers are two-thirds of the u.s. economy. now, i don't say that just to pour water and to be going into the weekend. i say it because it shows the uncertainty of what is taking place. >> volatility ahead. likely as well. richard quest in london. appreciate it, sir. >>> let's take one quick look at how this could impact you. imagine an average 401(k), $75,000 in the predicted s&p funds. remember in july, that's when the debt debate took off. $75,000 then, you'd have about 6 3 today. that is what has happened. ouch. >>> when we come back, rick perry joinless the 2012 presidential race. to recovery. proper nutrition can help you get back on your feet. three out of four doctors recommend the ensure brand for extra nutrition. ensure clinical strength has revigor and thirteen grams of protein to protect, preserve, and promote muscle health. and immune balance to help support your immune system. ensure clinical strength... helping you

schools, the fund will pay for your full education in a state university, public university in the michigan. so the number of children from the kalamazoo schools who now go to the university of michigan has gone way up. it was available to them before, but now their imagination is rodder -- broader, and their resources are broader. families are moving into town to take advantage. i heard that for sale signs in kalamazoo outside houses say take advantage of the kalamazoo promise on the for sale sign. hopefully, they're moving to a bigger house this kalamazoo. [laughter] and, you know, this is the combination of all those things you were talking about, jerome. it's it creativity, it's love of your place, and it's the feeling that your people have worth, and all they need to do is have a path to unlock that worth in a changing world. >> um, we've got a few minutes for questions. sir. >> um, yes, mr. fishman, we -- you commented earlier about the divisions in japan between the different generations. in the book the woman wrote, "never say die," she says even the aging people are, um, prejudiced against the much

tonight, i could just as easily point out to you, the consumer sentiment numbers from the university of michiganrst for three decades. consumer sentiment and consumers are two-thirds of the u.s. economy. now, i don't say that just to pour water and to be the -- going into the weekend. i say it because it shows the uncertainty of what is taking place. >> volatility ahead. likely as well. richard quest in london. appreciate it, sir. >>> let's take one quick look at how this could impact you. imagine an average 401(k), about $75,000 invested in the pretty predictable s&p july funds. remember in july, that's when the debt debate took off. $75,000 then, you'd have about 63 today. that is what has happened over the past few weeks of volatility. ouch. >>> when we come back texas governor rick perry joins the 2012 presidential race. prescription strength relief from my worst allergy symptoms. so lily and i are back on the road again. with zyrtec® i can love the air®. ♪ ♪ unleash the hidden power of bisquick. [ male ] using clean american fuel is just a pipe dream. ♪ [ female announcer ] we're rolling aw

the university of michigan which tracks consumer confidence just came out its preliminary august reportt is the lowest since 1980 which is also a recession year. what is it going to take to get people out of their snung. >> truthfully to get them out of the funk we have to have people agreeing in washington. there's nothing more disheartening when you don't know what to do and you're counting on your leaders to really lead you through the battle, through the victory so that you'll be okay and they're fighting with one another, they're bickering with one another, they're waiting for the very last minute before they pass bills that protect the consumers out there. so what do you expect these consumers to think? they don't have faith that anybody in any side of the political battle here really has their best interests at heart. they're watching all these things. they're not understanding it. and the truth of the matter is, they shouldn't have a lot of confidence. because again, i think 2012 could be a very difficult year. i'm on the camp that we have more chance of being in recession than

may, june, july, this the university of michigan study. you see the drop right here, 63.8%. recent years, any president above 95% gets a second term. down below you're in the dicey territory, which is exactly where president obama finds himself right now. let's just recap where we are so far when you go through the economic statistics, gdp, growth in the economy, nowhere near where the president needs to be. growth job growth, again well below where the president needs to be. how you feel, your attitude about the economy, also way down herement as the president signed this deal today, he made the pivot to the issue he knows is number one -- jobs. >> what can we do to help the father looking for work? what are we going to do for the single mom who's seen her hours cut back at the hospital? what are we going to do to make it easier for businesses to put up that "now hiring" sign? >> here's one of the things the president is trying most to change as we move this off the screen, how you feel about the state of the country, wrong track, right track, satisfied or dissatisfied? 79%

then this is a biography of the tibetan book of the dead by donald lopez who's up at the university of michiganch of them treats this idea in each of the three in a different way, and still, and some of the books that are still to come in this series also promise to be very interested. vanessa oaks is writing, bruce chilton who many of you may have heard of is writing a biography of the book of revelation. [laughter] so -- >> if he finishes it in a hurry. >> yeah, yeah. right. [laughter] i think october 20th is the deadline. [laughter] the dead sea scrolls. you did, you did try to avoid those anthroto morphic moments, but i thought one thing you said that was quite important was to think about, um, not just the physical object, but its soul, the book's soul. so in thinking about dietrich bonhoeffer and what he left postwar theology, what is the -- when you were thinking about the soul of his letters and papers, how did you come to assess that in terms of its effect on its readersesome? >> aristotle and leon cast and i define soul this way -- [laughter] >> good threesome. >> soul is the integrat

chief economist at afl-cio earning a bachelor's degree from smith college and one from the university of michigan. she's co-author of a field guide to the global economy. she is an expert on the north american free trade agreement, international trade, wage inequality, and the steel and textile industries. she's appeared on numerous national television and radio shows. she's also on the board of directors of worker's rights united for the fair economy, and the national bureau of economic research. ms. lee, will you give your opening statement, please. >> thank you, your honor. good evening, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, and assembled audience. i submit to you the charge against the clients, the public unions of america and the hard working men and women who belong to them are utterly baseless and should be thrown out of the court. it's based on shotty statistics, isolated, and unrepresented evidence and a false premise. moreover, i will demonstrate beyond a reasonable doubt that my clients have been unfairly scapegoated and blamed for crimes in fact committed by another party entirely. the pr

university of west virginia. clean vehicles at the university of michigan and building efficiency at the national laboratory.onstration projects in los angeles and shanghai to share data and consumer preferences and jointly developing standards for charging battery testing. three years ago our countries established the 10-year framework to facilitate the exchange of information and best practices in six key areas, electricity, water, air, transportation and with conservation and energy efficiency. the framework includes equal partnerships between chinese and american cities. that includes denver, colorado, with four more companies partnering with the chinese cities in focusing on implementation of electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles. as governors, we look forward to continuing these partnerships and forging new alliances between our states, our provinces to enhance both of our country's economic and energy security. thank you very much. >> thank you, governor fortuno. [applause] [speaking in native tongue] >> translator: a second topic will be on the development and the cooperation in new energy. just now g

proud graduate of the university of michigan. the good to watch a football game, when the red makes a call that is questionable, 105,000 people go bulls 6hit. it is time to call b.s. and strip away what is going on. the takers are not the teaparty. they're not the house republicans. they're not even anybody in the united states, republicans are democrats. here are the two people that have had the ability since july the 20th to make this problem go away. iran to the court room to talk to ask himr cockburcoburn if he would permit the house to remove the language from the extension. he said it is the first piece of the legislation that the senate has adopted in 2011. i have some sympathy for that argument. about is thelking fact that -- we will go to this one. we will take another airport. if west virginia as an example. if you do not want to fly out, you would have to drive 75 miles to the pittsburgh international airport. 20,000 people have chosen not to drive to pittsburgh. the american tax labor has paid $73 for every one of tho

in economics from the university of michigan. he is presently co-director of the center for economic and policy research in washington, d.c. he has his own programs on the internet. his blog, "beat the press," features commentary on economic reporting, and his analysis appeared in many major publications, including the "atlantic monthly," "the washington post" and the london financial times. he's written several books, one called "taking economics seriously." it's really an attempt to clarify the principles of economics, and, as he put it, to take away the ideal logical blinders off of basic economic principles. he's the author of "false prophets." one of the earliest economists to predict the housing bubble collapse. and he walked the walk. he sold his house and rented an apartment here in washington, d.c. before the collapse. he also predicted the market meltdown. he's the author of a book that needled the other side called "the conservative nanny state -- how the wealthy use the government to stay rich and get richer." as well

in economics from the university of michigan. is presently co-director for the center of economic policy research in washington, d.c.. he has his own programs on the internet. his blog, beat the press, features comments on economic reporting, and his analysis appeared in many major publications including the "atlantic monthly," the "washington post," and the "london times". wrote several books, one called taking economics seriously, an attempt to clarify the principles of economics and as he put it, to take away the ideological blinders off of basic economic principles. he's the author of false profits, recoverying from the bubble economy. one of the earliest economists to predict the housing bubble collapse. he walked the walk selling his house and rented an apartment here in washington, d.c. before the collapse. he also predicted the market meltdown. he is the author of a book that needled the other side called the conservative nanny state, how the wealthy use the government to get rich and get richer as well as the book that h

. >> host: you went to the university of michigan. why? >> guest: i didn't really -- i thought i was going to be a lawyer from when i was a little girl but then i was at college and didn't want to go to law school so i didn't apply in time and my father made me apply to law school. he would not hang up the phone until he heard my pencil hitting the paper on the desk. i had to pay the latest admission fee or whatever it was. i was very conservative in kindergarten. university of chicago is famous for their economic school so i wanted to go to the university of chicago. my father wanted me to go to colombia. columbia, number 3 law school. i have to be in washington at the time. i stormed off the library of congress to look of the law school and prove to my father columbia was no longer the number 3 law school and all the other reports put michigan number one or two. i figure we will compromise on michigan. >> host: you have to ask people before you thank them. there are two people you thank in nearly all your books. that is net of rice and j

he received his bachelor degree in electrical engineering from the university of michigan and his masters from washington university. he has authored over 40 papers, holds for patents and advanced devices and monolithic microwave integrated circuit technology, and is a senior member of ieee. please join me in welcoming the honorable zachary lemnios. [applause] >> good morning. i want to thank you, john, for that kind introduction. and actually want to start this morning by thank you detainees and the conference that is here. the auvsi is an important part of the departments enterprise to build new capabilities for our war fighters. and i go off script for a minute and just tell you this morning i was on a video teleconference with folks in theater in both afghanistan and iraq. the work that you are doing in building unmanned systems and fielding them to our troops are saving lives every day. so, it's great to go to conferences, it's about looking forward to seeing the exhibits, but at the end of the day what this is really about is protecting america's treasure. in the work that you're do

. >> host: you went to the university of michigan. why'd you choose that school? [laughter] >> guest: like i say, i always thought i was going to be a lawyer. my father's a lawyer, my brother's a lawyer. but then i was at college, and i didn't really want to go to law school. so i didn't apply in time, and my brother called me up and made me apply to law school. he would not hang up the phone until he heard my pencil hitting the paper on the desk. i had to, you know, pay the late admission fees or whatever it was. and then, and i was very conservative. i was, obviously, i was very conservative in kindergarten. [laughter] but university of chicago, as you probably know, is famous for their law and economics school. so i wanted to go to university of chicago. my father wanted me to go to columbia, and he kept wheeling in the old cardiologiers to tell -- codgers to tell me, columbia, number three law school. i stormed off to the library of congress to prove to my father that columbia was no longer the number three law school and all the reports put michigan number on

i'm a proud graduate of the university of michigan, even though i went to ohio and it's a you-standing tradition if go to watch a football game in the big house, when the referee makes a call that is questionable, 105,000 people go -- it is time to declare b.s. on the messaging that is occurring currently on the aviation bill and strip away what's going on. now, the hostage takers here are not the tea party. the hostage takers here are not the house republicans. the hostage takers here aren't even anybody in the united states house, republican or democrat. go to the next one, please. here are the two people, for reasons of their own, who have the ability and have had the ability since july 20 to make this problem go away. now, i left you with frank lobeando and i running to the cloak room to talk with senator coburn on monday and i asked the senator if he would drop his hold on the bill and permit the house to remove the coburn language from the extension so we would have what everybody in town is calling a clean extension. he said he would not. he said it's the first piece of cutting

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i'm a proud graduate of the university of michigan, even though i went to ohio and it's a longstanding tradition if you go to watch a football game in the big house when the referee makes a call that is questionable, 105,000 people go bullshit. it is time to declare b.s. on the messaging that is occurring on the aviation bill and strip away what's going on. now, the hostage takers here are not the tea party, thes who tack takers here are not the house republicans -- thes who tack takers here are not the house republicans, thes who take take -- hostage takers here aren't even anybody in the house, republican or democrat. here are the two people for reasons of their own who have the ability and have had the ability since july the 20th to make this problem go away. now, i left you with frank lobiondo and i running to the senate cloakroom to talk with senator coburn on monday and i asked the senator if he would drop his hold on the bill and permit the house to remove the coburn language from the extension. so we would have what everybody in town is calling a kleenex tension -- clean extens