next, from the seattle asian art museum, hannah pakula presents a biography of the wife of the former taiwanese president. she was a prominent voice for nationalist china and served as her husband s translator and secretary. this event is 45 minutes. .. a brilliant book about the roosevelt white house. we ve been having one of our usual dinner conversations without our work. i.e., neither of us listening to gleek carefully to what the other one was saying. when alan told me about the time during world war ii when trantwo s thing at the white house, although there were phones and call bells in her room, when she wanted something, she would always go to her door, opened it, clap your hands loudly like this, and expect the servants to appear here this was the way they called the coolies in shanghai, but you can just imagine how this went over in the ultra- democratic roosevelt white house. why, i wondered, would such a highly intelligent woman looking for american money to a
important becaue refuted the old classica argumentrom design. franciscoyala, one of the past presiden of the aaas puts it this way. he says the functional design of living organisms and their features would seem to argue for the existence of a designer. it was darwin s greatest accolishment to show the directive ornization of living beans can be explained as the result of the natural process natural selecon actg on random mutations without any need t resort to a creator or any other external agent. idea is picked up in the works of richard dawkins. dawkins puts it this way in his classic work, thelind watch maker. he ss, biolo is the study of complicatedhings that give the appearance of having been designed for a purpose. i m an old college professor, but i want to offer a quiz right now for anyone who can come up with the keyword this this quotation. it s obvusly appearance, right? things look as thougthe been designed but they weren t because there a purely and guided mec
go right to them. they re either sentences or passagesr things that helped me understand the way in which the structure was organized. host: is there a color-coding there with the green and blue? guest: sometimes. sometimes it only means that ran out of blue. other times, i have, other times i ll figure out when i go back, that one color means the passages that i really liked, and others will be ones that i less. others will be one i like less than the other two. it is the 200th anniversary of arwin s birth. and darwin is now so big that he s even on the money. we have the queen on one sidof the ten pound note and charles on the back. so around the world with this anniversary there is the question about his legacy, what has darwin left us? what do we knobecause of darwin that we didn t know before? and quite typically, the answer to that question is, well, darwin refuted the design argument. he gave us the idea of evolution, he gave us the understanding of the mechanism
august series. plus, your e-mails and phone calls. host: the nation s capital gets a bit quieter on this sunday, the 23rd of august as president obama and his family had off for vacation to martha s vineyard. in the meantime, one group opposed to the healthcare plan is running tv ads. in massachusetts this week, that is against the plan while the president is there. we re covering town hall meetings across the country this week. look for evidence from several states. we will put them all on prime time. we will spend our first half hour this morning tracking the story about a report that is due out tomorrow by the cia on detainee tactics. one of the headlines this morning says that the cia used a gun and a power drill to threaten duties. we want to get your reaction this morning. to threaten detainee s. in the paper this morning, reporting on this story here is the headline. it says a bush officials filed the charges over tactics in this terror case. the reporters with t