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Chris good morning. You are watching the pulse. I am guy johnson. We will both be here tomorrow. Oil is plunging and gas prices are dropping. Angelae chancellor merkel is hedging. She was sure german Auto Industry is becoming a leader in electronic vehicles. Shes laying get out today. Right now in berlin is where she is talking. Hans nichols is in berlin to talk to us about what Angela Merkels goals are. Electric vehicles and she sees this as a big driver for germany. Excuse the pun. We can do p...

Welcome to worldwide exchange. Im wilfred frost. We are listening to president obama addressing the world summit in beijing. Lets listen in. Americas first trade mission visited china just a year after americas revolution ended. 230 years later we are two of the largest economies in the world. We have benefits of both of our countries. China is our fastest grower export market. Chinese direct investment in the United States has risen sixfold over the past five years. Chinese firms directly emplo...

Host i am here today with jonathan eig. This is such a wonderful book, the birth of the pill. I learned so much. It was exciting. You take this story, a lot of it is about medical merchandising and you make it incredibly exciting and im curious to know your previous books were about baseball. What made you the subject . Guest i didnt have it on my radar at all and ten or 12 years ago i heard a rabbi gives a sermon about the importance of thinking of yourself as a partner of god and being able to...

Antennas are you a loaded two the wave of racial violence of the 1980s and the rise in the 90s i last job was called the north rises again where i tell a story of devil patrick being elected and re elected in massachusetts and that tells a story of northerners as barack obama support where if you look at the voting stats how they voted for and against barack obama and mike northerners voted against barack obama i think you can find some hope for the north for there you can find hope for the nati...

This is an example from the washington post. That aside from the story on the president speaking to reporters yesterday taking a look at syria. Saying they dont have a strategy yet. If you go to the pages of the New York Times on the same thing. Serious being its lead story story today story in story today on an alice is a story by peter baker this morning. The headline obama urges calm. A little from peter baker this morning as he writes about the two situations that dominated the press confere...

Who invented the birthcontrol pill or how we got it and i became curious. It struck me as odd that anybody would have on their agenda in the 1950s a pill for the sexual liberation of women something that would free women to control their fertility. Who did that so thats where the idea came from. When i looked into it i found this incredible story of these outsiders these underdogs who had no enfranchisement no Government Support no university support in setting out to do something that everyone ...

They have this amazing curiosity about the world. Theres this willingness to follow the threads of interests, not being clear where those threads will take them. In my book i talk about this as a slow hunch, this idea innovation doesnt often come from lightbulb moments. It comes from getting interested in something without a clear idea why youre interested in it and following that interest for sometimes for decades, and just kind of teasing it out until turns into something that is transformativ...

This is such a wonderful book, the birth of the pill. I learned so much. It was so exciting. You take the story that is, a lot of it is about medical merchandising, and you make it incredibly exciting. And im curious to know, your previous books were about baseball and al capone. What made you choose the subject . Guest its funny because i really have not had it on my radar at all. It less than 10, 12 years ago i heard a rabbi give a sermon about the importance of thinking of itself as a port wi...

Obviously it is a distract your question. Just eliminate that of the bad but the first two are plausible. Either make sense if you are confused just google them and they will make more sense charlie. In all seriousness everybody in this room has taken a standardized test at one point or another in your life. They have been around a long time but it seems were living in a moment where the stakes attached to them have never been higher. Not only the standardized tests determine a childs future but...

Good evening. Its a pleasure to welcome you to the william g. Mcgowan theatre this evening here at the National Archives. And a special welcome to our viewers on cspan and our own youtube channel. Tonights program, womens history on the horizon, the centennial of the womens suffrage in 2020, it is presented in commemoration of womens equality day, 2014, and the 94th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th amendment to the constitution, which granted women the right to vote. And forever chang...