are the cuniform tablets that were excavated in the late 1880's and early 1890's by the university of pennsylvania. tens of thousands of fragments of cuniform fragments. the story of anana starts in her adolescence. it travels through her journey as a queen and a goddess, and much of her story is devoted to the love, a very passionate love, for dimusi, who is a shepherd who she takes as her husband, lover and king. and this is called the return. a lament was raised in the city. my lady weeps bitterly for her young husband. anana weeps bitterly for her young husband. woe for her husband, woe for her young love, woe for her house, woe for her city. dimusi was taken captive in aruk. he will no longer bathe in aradu. he will no longer treat the mother of anana of his mother. he will no longer perform his sweet task among the maidens of the city. he will no longer raise his sword higher than the kugar of priests. great is the grief of those who mourn for dimusi. anani wept for dimusi. gone is my husband, my sweet husband. gone is my sweet love. my beloved has been taken from the city. oh, you flies of

um by having you read us, this letter that your brother wrote to you when he was at the university of pennsylvania and you were the younger sister that starts right down there. remind us roughly what the year was. >> the year was 1965. the moral of this story is never have a younger sister who never throws away a piece of paper. i discovered this letter 4 or 5 months before i finished this book oh my god, a paper trail sets us straight. >> read it to us. >> only people from brooklyn uses the word geez. your letter doesn't have a single worthwhile sentence in it. i will not buy you any notebooks. i repeat no notebooks. but i will send you decals that are not to be placed in my room, around my room or on the window of my car. >> okay. who was this guy? and why did you set out to tell this story? >> this guy was my fantastic, magnet, bossy, difficult, older brother carl. he was the red state to my blue state. all you have to understand to know about how complicated and difficult this relationship was my first memory of my brother was with when he sail me out a window when i was 2 years old and in the

are the cuniform tablets that were excavated in the late 1880's and early 1890's by the university of pennsylvania. tens of thousands of fragments of cuniform fragments. the story of anana starts in her adolescence. it travels through her journey as a queen and a goddess, and much of her story is devoted to the love, a very passionate love, for dimusi, who is a shepherd who she takes as her husband, lover and king. and this is called the return. a lament was raised in the city. my lady weeps bitterly for her young husband. anana weeps bitterly for her

university college of dublin. i went back to the states and went to law school at university of pennsylvania. then i came back, and choosing to live in san francisco was natural to me. when you are a child, you do not realize what you had until you leave home. i had the opportunity to live in los angeles, abroad in ireland, and there is no place like home, when you are from san francisco. i have been a corporate attorney at palo -- in palo alto. i became an >> i worked in the finance industry about 5 1/2 years. in the summer of 2009 i joined a venture capital firm with two other partners. >> we are all excited about the americas cup here in district two but one thing if you think about it everyone knows what fleet week is like here in the marina. this is fleet week on steroids. think about fort mason, these will be the most brings taken places to watch the americas cup. what we're working on and working to continue to work on and want your input on, how do we make it a positive experience for the people that live here. >> i'm happily married and my life and -- wife and i live around laurel vi

researchers at indiana university of pennsylvania say women eat less in the company of men.alyzed the eating habits of 127 college students alone and with company. when women ate with men they ordered 100 calories less than when they ate with other women. men at more with women than other men. the study appears in the journal of applied social psychology. >> i'm out of the norm. i eat more in the company of men. you feel like you can't keep up. >> you are married, you are not in that trying to attract men mode. that's what they are talking about. >> that's what i'm talking about too, i can keep up. >> i'm not going to comment any further on that you are right. >>> community looks for answers after a 6-year-old girl is struck and killed in a crosswalk. the new plan to improve safety. >> reporter: rain and wind caused problems overnight. wrap-up, coming up. >>> the government's new tactic in cracking down on local medical marijuana clubs. >>> good morning. our first rainstorm of the season massachusettsed. it created a rude

couldn't charge 8% more-- >> i'm sorry, a little more, you know, hip to go from either university of pennsylvania than to devie university. it's a mostly night school, online type of state and the state universities, traditional colleges have a captive audience and they have the federal government to pay for it. it's a great opportunity to raise. >> matt? >> i have to agree and the biggest thing we're missing, too, the government in supporting student alan program at the same time we want to come out and forgive the student loans, it's like a ponzi scheme. you don't have to pay it back and the government is spending more money. >> you don't have to pay it back after 20 years. all right. thanks, guys. >> they keep billing me. >> brenda: occupy wall street protesters, endorse a global robin hood tax enforced by a global government. oh, are they leading you gos to a global disaster? we report, you decide. [ courier ] the amazing story of whether bovine heart tissue can make it from australia to a u.s. lab to a patient in time for surgery may seem like a trumped-up hollywood premise. ♪ but if you tak

john jackson of the university of pennsylvania said this idea that there's this sort of clicheed vision of someone who's racist from the time they brush their teeth in the morning and only thinks about ending the life of every black person isn't the only way to talk about what racism looks like. the category of you are racist or you are not isn't useful. what's more useful is to get people to think about the ways in which we perpetuate the kind of racial inequalities on purpose or inadvertently that produce the differences we see every day. unless you're going to tell me there's some hard-wired reason why people of color at academic institutions are always the people serbing you food -- serving you food or cleaning the bathroom or not teaching classes, then i think you going to have to be honest with yourself about the ways in which privilege accrues to people. race is more subliminal, race is more subjective, and race is more subtle in the contemporary moment, and i think we need to find a way to really articulate that subtlety because there are very few smoking guns, thank god, anymor

>> university of pennsylvania ethicist kaplan worries the relationship is lopsided between the women and couples who commission them to have their children. for example, surrogates in india are routinely implanted with up to five embryos to improve the chances of a pregnancy. in the u.s., clinics usually implant no more than two, sometimes three. >> why would you use three, four, or five? you don't want the couple to have to come back. it's expensive, even for a rich person. you want to maximize the chances even if it compromises the interest of the babies. >> the doctor concedes that implanting five embryos heightens the risk for infants and mother and said she is lowering the number to three or four, but the downside is a lower pregnancy success rate. when multiple embryos develop into viable pregnancies, she does a selective reduction, aside from religious concerns, it could present medical risks to the surviving fetuses. >> some who say from the beginning that they have less embryos because were not for reduction. in those cases we definitely never transfer more than two. there p

revolutionary backlash: women in politics in the early american republic," published by the university of pennsylvania press. what's the word "backlash" mean in your title? >> guest: ah. well, as i studied this period what i found was that even though women couldn't vote for the most part or hold public office, that the revolutionary debate over equality and natural rights generated a large and wide spread discussion about whether women had rights and what rights women should have. and women had actually been important participants in the prerevolutionary era in the boycotts against great britain n attending protests, in if voicing their opposition to british rule. and women came to be acknowledged as political players, as political beings. so with the coming revolution, some women and some men started talking about whether women should be allowed to vote and hold public office as well, what kind of rights women should have. and, in fact, in one state, in new jersey women actually did have the right to vote from 1776 to 1807. and, yes, a little known fact. now, we have to understand that at this time

came back to the states and went to law school at the university of pennsylvania. spent three years in philadelphia. came back, and ever since coming back to the bay area, professionally, i have been a corporate attorney down at palo alto. i left after about three years and became an investment banker here in san francisco at thomas was all partners. working the industry for about five and a half years. in the summer of 2009, joined a venture capital firm. i am happily married. my wife and i lived around laurel village in district 2. we have two small children. our goal is five and our boy is three. how parents and excited to be here on the board. >> why did you choose to live in san francisco? and tell us about what motivated your interest in politics. >> choosing to live in san francisco was natural, given that i was born and raised here. when you are a child, you do not understand what you have until you leave home. i have the fortunate opportunity to live in los angeles and abroad in ireland and in philadelphia. there is no place like home in san francisco is y

it's a nonprofit from the annenberg center at the university of pennsylvania. they monitor the whole political scene--television ads, debates, interviews--and check them all for accuracy. but let's say that you want to contact them. well, go to "burning questions," where you can get some of those questions answered. let's say you get an outrageous e-mail and you want to see if it's true or not. they will tell you. or is there a law against false advertising in political ads? oh, trusting citizens. factcheck.org strives to be a consumer advocate for voters, and their reporters and their scholars really cut through the spin. the other site that we like is politifact.com. they are a pulitzer prize winner from the "st. petersburg times" newspapers. they have a lot of fun things, too, like the truthometer, the obameter that answers the call that president obama made during the campaign of wanting to be held accountable, the flipometer that monitors the flip-flopping of politicians, and they also monitor reporters and pundits. they give them ratings of "barely true,"

birth may have a higher risk of developing autism beginning in 1984 researchers at the university of pennsylvaniad more than 1000 babies who weighed less than 4 lbs. 7 ounces at birth they found 5 percent of those children that the criteria for artisan spectrum disorder later in life that's more than five times higher than rates in the general population and researchers said that the study highlights the need for comprehensive screening of all children >>cell phone users be where a steady in great britain finds that one in six cellular phones may be contaminated with fecal matter that spreads e. coli researchers in london said that's likely because so many people don't wash their hands properly after using the bathroom said study findings also show that many people may lie about their hygiene habits 95 percent of participants in the study said that a wash their hands of the gun the backdrop to cent of the phones and 82 percent of the hands tested had bacteria on them 16 percent had traces of e. coli >>smoking could trigger early menopause according to a new study 6000 women in four countries were

he was an english major at the university of pennsylvania and you will hear it in what he says.nd his voice is beautiful. three great voices: richard burr done, or son welles. >>neil: and barry white. so were more punch because it is so deep and in your face. >>guest: and, also, he says how everyone feels and does not pull a punch. the politicians try to measure what they say. steve wynn means what he says. he loves his employees and how many c.e.o.'s and say they truly love the people who work with them, not for them and he is loyal and that is why he is agitated when he sees what happens in washington. >>neil: and they love him. >>guest: he has given better benefits. >>neil: when thedown was short of health benefits he gave the union $2 million. >>guest: he puts people first. you hear the slogan, and steve wynn actually does it. >>neil: the brilliant frank luntz who understands the trends before people know what they are saying. the latest republican tax plan, does it have this governor's vote? mitch daniels is next. you busy? management jt sent over these new technical manual

i am a recent graduate at university of pennsylvania. my question is regarding the radicalization of the word feminist and how you suggest we reclaim its for the younger generation. i haven't found in working with a group of the 70 most progress of women on one of the most important higher institutions of learning that all of these women's would phrase questions in discussions about being a woman on penn plaza campus as not to sound like an angry feminist but -- i think that, we all know that feminism is perceived as being angry. how do we make this term possible to men and women? >> first of all, there are words that mean girls, women, you know. we get to choose our words. the point is the substance. having said that, what seems remarkable to me is that so many women do see themselves as feminists despite that it has been demonized and like all of these other progress of words. with no definition whatsoever, a third of american women identify as feminist. with a definition, more than 60% of american women identify feminists and both case

from delaware who is inappropriate to suggest that republicans are pro rain and at the university of pennsylvania he said he wished his critics of rape victims so they can realize what they need to do to support the president's jobs bill. this man is unbecoming of the office. >>neil: his words are more blunt and in your face but he does typify a growing message on the left look, don't do this with the job bill the republicans risk seeing an increase in these horrible things. someone must have tested this out as a winnable approach. what do you think? >>guest: i don't how it is winnable to say you are either with us or you are with the rapists? most of americans want to curb deficit spending and to suggest that millions of americans are in favor of rape and higher crime because they don't want the federal government to spend more money we don't have, that $35 billion will be another bailout to the states, and most of the $23 billion, $30 billion is beginning to the teachers union to give democrats coffers at election and only $5 billion for law enforcement f they wanted to, really, take a sexual a

and let me just show you a statement a spokes person says the university of pennsylvania was unable toe that the attendance policy previously agreed to could be met. the majority leader appreciated the invitation to speak with the students, faculty, alumni and other members of the community. now, you're going to talk about economic inequality but you don't want to talk to the citizens that will have to live with this p. >> or the pitch fork wielding mob that is furious with the fiscal policy that you're trying to propose for the u.s. i mean, you have that coming on the heels of the social security administration is releasing the payroll tax info. and we're finding out that 50% of this country makes less than $26,000 a year. >> 50%. p. >> 50%. and that in 2010, over 10 million americans could not find one hour of work. there is a crisis happening in america. and the notion that eric cantor is going to the wharton school of business to talk about economic equality is not just tone deaf. you have to think it's calculated. the idea of a great society that providing, you know, that providin

. >> detective sal ter is able to trace the stolen numbers to the university of pennsylvania hospitalll department within the hospital. they were able to access credit card information and people's personal information such as dates of birth, social security number, addresses, home phone numbers, and what they did, they stole this information, and they were able to obtain these credit cards. either they mail ordered them or stole the credit k5rd number ts. >> it turns out the four women had ripped off numbers of stores stealing thousands of dollars worth of merchandise. they all pled guilty to fraud and theft charges and were given probation. >> we were able to obtain so mump information from the video surveillance. the investigation itself had its bumps but without the videotape, we wouldn't have had the evidence of them committing the crime. we wouldn't have have received the numbers, the tip-off that was a fraud. the most important thing was they're handing her a credit card but it shows what kind of credit card they're handing her and what numbers are being typed into the computer

he was slated to give the university of pennsylvania, like a steve jobs program. that had to do with the income disparity in the united states and the idea that if the government can empower, they get a chance to bring everybody up rungs of the ladder. that would be the idea. as always these jobs from the republican centralized with a few 10 apts and deregulation. >> you are not allowed to say that, luke. >> the philosophical divide here is republicans will never go for this big radio stimulus package that president wants and democrats will never go for the complete bring the regulatory hands off the backs of businesses. they think all sorts of terrible things will happen. >> he was due to deliver this steve jobs proposal and the business school and he ran a bit scared, didn't he? >> there was the agreement that his office said was in place for the members of the community to be at that speech and that was broken when the school said the first 300 people who can go through the doors ever showed up and would be allowed to attend. there was consternation because a l

, the threat of occupy protestors forced leader eric cantor to cancel his speech at the university of pennsylvania. his scheduled speech was titled, a fair shot at the american dream and economic growth. up to a thousand demonstrators were expected to converge on the campus. the virginia republican was criticized this month after calling protestors growing mobs. >>> overnight, one woman was killed after she stopped to help people involved in a minor car accident. it happened just after 2 a.m. on northbound 880 in hayward. the highway patrol says the woman got out of her car to help people that had collided with another car. she was hit, starting a chain reaction that involved six other vehicles. >> general nature to help one another so we want people to help each other, but on the freeway this time of night, err on the side of caution. >> eight other people were injured, six in the hospital with critical injuries. lanes were closed in both directions while police cleaned. the scene. they reopened just before 5 a.m. >>> police in east palo alto are investigating a double shooting. it happened just

this letter is at the university of pennsylvania where we photocopied it. there are also several other versions of this letter here because it provoked a little controversy and got into the daily newspapers. what we do is first we produce a transcription of the letter like this and send it -- transcribe it, put on some footnotes. if any explanation is necessary which it often is and we send it to university of tennessee press and they publish it in one of our volumes. we find information about everything. jackson's papers are a window into everything going on in the united states during his presidency. he gets letters from everybody. he gets petitions from indian leaders. he gets several of these from others whose husbands are dead and whose only son was drunk when he enlisted in the army and she needs him home and could the president release him or we get petitions for pardons from criminals or letters from army officers and navy officers and foreign diplomats and officers of the government. almost any subject a historian is interested in in this period has

. >> freshman year university of pennsylvania we had coed bathrooms. it was stumdpid. it made life more difficult. >> so people may elect not to do it but do you have a problem with it being available? >> no. if my kid can opt out. >> to star's point and i don't like her today and don't want to agree but i think if my daughter was on her own living off campus i'd want her living with a boy who she is friends with for a safety issue. there are two sides. i really don't like you. >> it's okay. >> our last topic, rent a grandma, we all love this idea, a new employment agency recruiting women of an older age. who has experience with kids? it's grandmothers. they're able to make some money as well. >> there are so many women who didn't do the main stream work force and then they get -- we cast older women aside in this kour country. what a wonderful way to harness an unused work force and help moms who need help. >> my grandma is watching right now. she is 93. >> this is a win-win. >> she is 93 years old. yes. grandmas. >> you guys hug it out real quick? all right. star jon

researchers at the university of pennsylvania say preterm or low birth weight babies are five times mored with autism than normal sized babies. mental problems have long been associated with low birth weight babies, but this study suggests those problems may actually be masking autism. the team of researchers is now looking for a link between brain hemorrhaging and autism. a brain hemorrhage is often a complication of premature birth. >>> a 100-year-old canadian man sets a new record in the guinness book of world records. singh is now the world's oldest person to complete a full marathon. with his entourage by his side -- as you can see there, he's got quite a group -- he successfully completed the feat in a little more than eight hours. he was the last competitor to complete that course. and you know what, doesn't matter when he finished, the fact that he completed a marathon. >> he did. >> 26.2 miles at 100. i remember he said he started running at age 89. >> incredible. >> so he didn't even start running. he said at 89 i decided i'm going to make a change. >> old dog, new tricks. it's

john jackson at the university of pennsylvania said this idea there is a sort of clichÉ vision of someof his races some of his races from the time they brush their teeth in the morning and only thinks about ending the life of every black person isn't the only way to talk about racism looks likely to category view are racist or not isn't useful. what is more useful is to get people to think about the ways in which we perpetuate the racial differentiations and inequality on purpose or inadvertently to reduce differences that we see every day. unless you tell me there is some biological hardwired reason by people of color and academic institutions or people serving you food or cleaning the bathroom are not necessarily in the customs teaching classes, you have to be honest with yourself about all the ways in which there is a privilege that occurs to people. one of the things we need to do is recognize racism or subliminal, racism or subject given racism are subtle and the contemporary moment. we need to find a way to articulate that subtlety because there are very few smoking gun, thank go

revolutionary backlash: women and politics in the early american republic" published by the university of pennsylvania press. what's the word "backlash" mean in your title? >> well, as i studied this period, what i found was that even though women couldn't vote for the most part or hold public office, that the revolutionary era debate over equality and natural rights generated a more large and widespread discussion about whether women had rights and what rights women should have. and women had actually been important participants in the prerevolutionary era, in the boycotts against great britain in making homespun. and attending protests, invoi invoiciinvoice in voicing their opposition to political rule they become political figures and political beings and with its emphasis of equality and natural rights, some women and some men started talking about whether women should be allowed to vote and hold public office as well. what kind of rights women should have. and, in fact, one state in new jersey, war on terrorism actually did have the right to vote for the 1776-1807. yes, a little known fact. we ha

even without cantor's appearance protests went ahead yesterday at the university of pennsylvania. the republican congressman had planned to give a talk there about the gap between the rich and the poor. >>> home for the holidays, that is a reality for most u.s. troops in iraq. president obama just announced a complete withdrawal of nearly 40,000 men and women. that comes nine years after the shock and awe campaign. the u.s. just pulled the plug on months of negotiations over a u.s. training force in iraq. the iraqi prime minister refused to grant troops immunity. still president obama says the u.s. and iraq will move forward as allies. >>> as news of the troops returning spreads, many are wondering if their loved ones will be among those coming home. sharon chin on one family's fate and what soldiers have to look forward to once they're back. reporter: kim colonel david reb was supposed to go to iraq but got deployed instead to afghanistan this year. she had mixed feelings when she and her daughters herd american soldiers in iraq would be home soon. >> i kind of feel like they're

and, susan wachter is professor of real estate and finance at the wharton school at the university of pennsylvania. i'm going to start with you, susan wachter. we just heard-- and i believe you were able to hear him-- jon ralston in nevada describing the situation out there. he said what people want is a light at the end of the tunnel, some kind of help. do you see in this new plan that the administration rolled out today something that homeowners like them will be able to grab on to? >> yes, i do. i think it's a win-win. i don't think it's a game- changer but i think it does help get to that light at the end of the tunnel. i think it's a help. it's a help not only for the homeowners who will be able to take advantage of the historically low interest rates, who could not before because they were underwater far too far. of course nevada will have many of those homeowners. but it also will help markets because fewer homes will come on to the market continuing downward pressure. >> john taylor, what do you see in today's proposals from the administration that could make a difference? >> i'm not as op

i am a recent graduate at university of pennsylvania. my question is regarding the radicalization of the word feminist and how you suggest we reclaim its for the younger generation. i haven't found in working with a group of the 70 most progress of women on one of the most important higher institutions of learning that all of these women's would phrase questions in discussions about being a woman on penn plaza campus as not to sound like an angry feminist but -- i think that, we all know that feminism is perceived as being angry. how do we make this term possible to men and women? >> first of all, there are words that mean girls, women, you know. we get to choose our words. the point is the substance. having said that, what seems remarkable to me is that so many women do see themselves as feminists despite that it has been demonized and like all of these other progress of words. with no definition whatsoever, a third of american women identify as feminist. with a definition, more than 60% of american women identify feminists and both case