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And my dad wasnt doing anything but lying there. she was trying to change him. >> horrified, jackie knows she needs to go back upstairs. she runs through her options. should she confront the nurse? should she call the police? she wants to see what her father remembers. >> i said to my dad, i said, daddy, are you okay? and he says, yes. and i say, are you sure? and he goes, yeah, im okay. >> the man has had two strokes. his short-term memory is gone. he cant remember what happened to him. and he ...

Select only to find out that candidate has endorsements. and i think that americans have a short-term memory. and it is really not in the long term. they have a forgiving spirit and once we have that final selection well rally behind him. >> it is hard when they see one candidate beating on another one in the next day. and they have to go behind the person and say i support you all of the way. it lead toz cynicism. >> and it does and there are personal feelings that get involved and over time th...

She runs through her options. should she confront the nurse? should she call the police? she wants to see what her father remembers. >> i said to my dad, i said, daddy, are you okay? and he says, yes. and i say, are you sure? and he goes, yeah, im okay. >> the man has had two strokes. his short-term memory is gone. he cant remember what happened to him. and he cant tell his daughter about the beatings. so she turns to anastasia. >> my insides are churning. i looked at anastasia and i said, anast...

>> i had just learned justin bieber is my father. >> oh, my god! >> give some credit, good comic timing but also making fun of yourself often. remember bob dole after he got out of the race, so many people came over to his side after he was out because he had that ability to laugh at himself. i think he did a great job yesterday. >> i think he did the best possible. but imagine, the post-game show, dave, the debate is finished and everybody walks to his people. right away, his people said turn a...

koulson quit the job in january, and was arrested last month. now, the prime minister is now in the mood to apologize. >> what the public expect is not pedestriany political point scoring, but -- [ jeering ] what they want is to solve the issue out once and for all, and its in that spirit i commend this comment to the house. >> just yesterday rupert murdoch, his son james, and top british executive for news corp, rebekah brooks, were in front of the committee. of course, theres the pri...

An app for that and every app is for that. a new study says the ability to indulge our constant need to check e-mails and play games and falling out of trees and much more, it might be bogging down our brains. research suggests that multitasks impedes short-term memory and says those who are consistently juggling jobs and dividing their attention are worse at all of them because, well, they are so easily distracted. turns out those who are constantly plugged in, so to speak, finds it harder to c...

>> yeah. >> it was one of the most extraordinary things i have seen in my life. to see a woman come out, a 48-year-old spinster in a tiny scottish village and were all snickering and watch her do what she did and see this week in the american album chart, shes number one with her second album, two number one albums outselling lady gaga is the stuff of dreams. it is an amazing story. >> it is. given the song was "i dreamed a dream." its magic, absolutely hair raising. >> if su son boan boyle was ...

World? geoffrey, you have won, geoffrey. is it as nerve-racking as i imagine it would be? >> is a postmodernist experience i think, piers. because youve seen other people, you know, you know what happens. my greatest memory of walking up to receive the statue in 97 was in my brain i could see the arthur murray footsteps, you know, marked out taking me up to the podium because id seen other people do it on television. so youre sort of -- youre sort of preprogrammed in. everyone -- and i think, yo...

The short-term memory is beginning begin ing to wither a little as well. all i think of now is how to get out of this interview unscathed. thats my dream. if there will be a tomorrow, somebody hopefully will be able to tell me about that. >> you will have received your star, your hollywood star. >> yes. >> what a moment. >> it is a moment. >> what would it be -- if you were to win an oscar for this, would it be the great moment of your career? is it the pinnacle? >> i dont know how much one even...

Rehabilitation? what will they be looking for thats controlled from that side of the brain? >> many brain injuries, particularly those with entrance wounds as hers was from the front i understand, in the front lobe, which is the temporal lobe, the largest lobe of the brain. behind that, the prit parietal . and the temporal lobe, this is where our memory is seated. as far as the speech is concerned, the speech is back here farther back in the brain. so not knowing exactly the track the bullet too...