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warner: let me bring it back to china in the limited time we have left. how does china figure into the calculations here, what are u.s. interests, human rights s a counterweight to china. is it because burma has great resources? >> first of all, it's human rights. that really is the first item on our a againa. there's no question about. the question of china is ancillary. china is aw3 big neighbor of burmas. it's always going to be a major player there. we're minor. this is just, we're beginning to correct an imbalance simply by sending the secretary of state. but we have a long way to go. >> how do you think china figures in u.s. calculations here? >> it's a huge factor for the burm ease and i think is a minor factor for the united states. burma is a small pond on that chessboard. what has mattered i think to americans successive administrations from clinton to bush to now president obama is the insfrational quality of aunó and this amazing nonviolent pure democracy movement, standing up against a brutal military. that's fascinated us for a long time. >> warner: so what would be a mark of success for the secretary's trip? in other words, is s
warner: let me bring it back to china in the limited time we have left. how does china figure into the calculations here, what are u.s. interests, human rights s a counterweight to china. is it because burma has great resources? >> first of all, it's human rights. that really is the first item on our a againa. there's no question about. the question of china is ancillary. china is aw3 big neighbor of burmas. it's always going to be a major player there. we're minor. this is just, we're...
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warner's syndrome and that's how it came to be that particular disease in the book. i thought this works because she would have a life before the disease started to age her in the 20's as opposed to being very young. more i researched the more i realized that a large population of japanese people seemed to have this genetic defect. it brought me back to the japanese culture even though i was not looking for it. what happened was if she was half japanese. here again you will hear the writing process. as i'm thinking about this and thinking about story line and her parents. if her mother is italian and her father is japanese which would make her half and half the genetic defect would come to the father then things would have to happen if they grew up in california. he grew up in pasadena which means he would be inturned. things start to happen without you looking at it from the beginning when writing a story but as you develop the characters and the year and the situation and the stories a father would tell a daughter. all this came out the camps, what happened. what he hoped for. what he wished for. all the stories he tells the daughters. some of them would have to c
warner's syndrome and that's how it came to be that particular disease in the book. i thought this works because she would have a life before the disease started to age her in the 20's as opposed to being very young. more i researched the more i realized that a large population of japanese people seemed to have this genetic defect. it brought me back to the japanese culture even though i was not looking for it. what happened was if she was half japanese. here again you will hear the writing...
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s&p down 10. >>> google is expected to announce details of its new music service this afternoon. google has already cut deals with sony, emi and universal and several independent labels. but not warnerusic. according to the wall street journal, it goes on to say users will have to manually download music, but insiders say google music will allow users to share one or two plays of each song with others on google plus as a way to encourage people to buy more music. >>> the u.s. postal service wants to hear what the public thinks of its plans to close two mail processing facilities in petaluma. 230 employees process mail for son ownee, marin and lake counties at the facilities. the service a says relocating the work to oakland could save $2.5 million a year. the hearing will be at the petaluma community center and starts at 6 p.m. >>> meanwhile, the u.s. postal service says it lost $5 billion last year despite deep job cuts. the postal service faces a friday deadline to pay $5.5 billion into a fund for future retiree health benefits. congress is expected to delay that payment. the postal officials say they'll run out of money by next september. they say that would stop all service and
s&p down 10. >>> google is expected to announce details of its new music service this afternoon. google has already cut deals with sony, emi and universal and several independent labels. but not warnerusic. according to the wall street journal, it goes on to say users will have to manually download music, but insiders say google music will allow users to share one or two plays of each song with others on google plus as a way to encourage people to buy more music. >>> the...
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warner: madam president, i rise today in opposition to s.j. res. number 6. this is the resolution that has been put forward that would basically roll back the f.c.c.'scompromise over what we all debated around, net neutrality. this is a subject area and interest area that i have more than a passing interest in. it is a subject that i had the good fortune and an area that i had the good fortune to be involved in business in for over 20 years before i got involved full time in politics and public service. i think i, and i know the presiding officer and probably most all of us in this body recognize that the power of telecommunications, the power of the internet to transform people's lives has been remarkable. demand for internet use is growing dramatically. today nearly two billion people use the internet. by the time -- by 2015, and that's a mere four years from now, that number is expected to reach 2.7 billion. that's pretty significant. 2.7 billion people using the internet when out of a total worldwide population, as we saw earlier this week of seven billion folks. we're rapidly hitting the point where nearly half of the world will use the interne
warner: madam president, i rise today in opposition to s.j. res. number 6. this is the resolution that has been put forward that would basically roll back the f.c.c.'scompromise over what we all debated around, net neutrality. this is a subject area and interest area that i have more than a passing interest in. it is a subject that i had the good fortune and an area that i had the good fortune to be involved in business in for over 20 years before i got involved full time in politics and public...