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When i started questioning the science, our phone was ringing off the hook in my office in washington by scientists who said that they were -- they were rejected from the process because they didnt agree with the conclusion. >> heres one issue that i had with your book and, i think, your overall approach to the issue. you take small anecdotes and extrapolate to the broader conclusion there is no global warming. you write the media wrote scary stories about a coming ice age and you use that as a ...

Off the hook in my office in washington by scientists who said that they were -- they were rejected from the process because they didnt agree with the conclusion. >> heres one issue that i had with your book and, i think, your overall approach to the issue. you take small anecdotes and extrapolate to the broader conclusion there is no global warming. you write the media wrote scary stories about a coming ice age and you use that as a data point to point out, to prove there is no global warming t...

Condition, possibly alcohol abuse, well see. at the end of the day what we ended up with is a senseless mass murder at a terrible time. poor afghanistan. you know, here we are ten years at war fair, $500 billion, 17,000 u.s. killed and wounded. the american people are growing tired of it. now we have this palpable tension between the afghans and what they are increasingly viewing as the occupying force. a very sad situation. >> and, obviously, it comes on the heels of the accidental burning of t...

their grown-up children? and whats really driving those gas prices were paying at the pump? were operating fact from fiction. but first, more than 3 million public school teachers head to the country every day in this one. parents usually dont know how their child ranks compared to others until recently. new york citys department of education released ratings for 18,000 of its public school teachers and 217 charter school teachers and 50 special ed teachers. those ratings are based on ...

Knew about fast and furious earlier than he had previously said. there is information, there is an e-mail exchange in which his deputy chief of staff said that hes going to tell attorney general holder about the death of brian terry and the fact that there may have been fast and furious involvement in that justice department says no, that notification never actually happenededbut the fact that itt another data point that suggests that holder knew something before he did, thats a problem. >> bret...

Knew about fast and furious earlier than he had previously said. there is information, there is an e-mail exchange in which his deputy chief of staff said that hes going to tell attorney general holder about the death of brian terry and the fact that there may have been fast and furious involvement in that justice department says no, that notification never actually happened. but the fact that its yet another data point that suggests that holder knew something before he did, thats a problem. >> ...

Know, the american system needs to be one which encouraging people to be curious, adventurous, taking risks, not the sort of system where everyones hurtling towards a desk and they often cite you as an example. they say, well, look, bill gates dropped out of college, spent hours and hours in computer labs just dreaming up stuff. this was not working methodically toward a test. >> well, certainly if my example is meaningful, its just one data point. being good at math and having that knowledge wa...

Everyones hurtling towards a test. they will often cite you as an example. theyll say, well, look, bill gates dropped out of college, spent hours and hours in computer labs just dreaming up stuff. this was not working methodically towards a test. what do you say to that? >> well, certainly if my example is meaningful, its just one data point. being good at math and having that knowledge was critical to my being able to understand computers, to write code. yes, i memorized the tables and how thin...

To be one which encourages people to be curious, adventurous, taking risks, not this sort of style system where everyones hurtling towards a test. they will often cite you as an example. theyll say, well, look, bill gates dropped out of college, spent hours and hours in computer labs just dreaming up stuff. this was not working methodically towards a test. what do you say to that? >> well, certainly if my example is meaningful, its just one data point. being good at math and having that knowledg...

in 2007 we spent over $10,000 per student. versus the $7,400 average for rich countries. how can we spend so much money and have so little to show for it? well ask that question and others to some of the leading figures in american education. here on this special and in a time essay. well examine the roll of teachers, testing and technology and well ask the man who spend billions of dollars trying to fix education about how hes spending his money, microsoft founder and philanthropist, ...