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Alcoholism is associated with cirrhosis and your liver and more than three drinks a day, they find, make you vulnerable to cancer of the pancreas. now, that is one of the worst cancers you can have, as far as i know, is not really treatable. and, the problem is, these are genetic vulnerabilities. if you -- if everybody had their genes tested, we could tell who would be vulnerable and would wouldnt, but since we dont you have to know taking this amount of alcohol can cause pancreatic cancer -- >>...

But there was always that magnificent screen presence, a total professional, a funny lady, nice lady, a down-to-earth lady who had her own share of problems, which sort of, in a way, those vulnerabilities made the public care more about her, i think. the fact that she did have weight problems, the fact she did have sometimes the alcohol problems, that she had these different foibles in her life and rise above it. carey talked about when they had to shut down "cleopatra" after she almost died. pe...

That star quality. you couldnt take your eyes off of her. of course, the scandals, the marriages, all of those things sort of loaded up on it, too. but there was always that magnificent screen presence, a total professional, a funny lady, nice lady, a down-to-earth lady who had her own share of problems, which sort of, in a way, those vulnerabilities made the public care more about her, i think. the fact that she did have weight problems, the fact she did have sometimes the alcohol problems, tha...

Feeling today that in terms of the global impact of her death, elizabeth taylor was probably the last of the great movie stars. why? >> you know, piers there was something so special about her. having grown up watching her movies, it was as carrie said -- she had that star quality. when she was on the screen, you couldnt see anything else. you couldnt take her eyes off of her and of course the scandals, the marriages, all of those things sort of loaded up on it, too but there was a magnificent s...

Assumptions made and improving the plants and improving the various systems in the plants. thats just a -- that should absolutely be done. in fact, it should be done in all the plants, not necessarily just the seismic issues but looking for vulnerabilities that we hadnt perhaps thought of before. we have a lot of old plants. in fact, im struck by the fact that the plants have failed in japan are the oldest ones in that whole row of plants. and i believe in postmortems well find that they were no...

The older ones, to see if they have been brought up to current standards. generally there is a lot of resistance on the part of the companies to do that because it is expensive. the regulators are a little timid about opposing that. i think in some ways have been overly accommodating with the industry. what this says to me is we should go back and take a hard look, and i would hope companies would do this themselves, take a hard look at every single plant, but particularly the older ones, and ex...

Making changes in communities. when a disaster strikes they are there. i think thats the important thing to remember. its not suddenly theres a disaster we respond. its about building that capacity before disaster strikes. >> give us a sense -- go ahead, ben. >> i was going say, kate, what different experience have you had whether it be in a developing country like haiti or and i developed country like the u.s. when you guys are in mississippi or new orleans and what do you expect to see in japa...

Occur at these three facilities near millions and millions of people. and what im saying is we need to make a risk assessment whereby you multiply hazard times assets and vulnerabilities. and we have an issue, i believe. >> let me tell you what the nuclear regulatory commission said. they put out a statement this morning and the u.s. nuclear power plants are built to withstand the environmental hazards including earthquakes and tsunamis, even those outside of areas with extensi extensive seismic...

Reinforced concrete buildings that have a leak tight liner. and the idea behind the containment is really if you have whats called a design basis accident where you have a partial melting of the core, but dont have any catastrophic explosion, that that containment will function to limit radiation releases. unfortunately after most reactors operating today were designed and built, they discovered that well, there are certain types of events that could challenge the containment and theyre not impo...

To identify some of the weaknesses and vulnerabilities in the muslim community that al qaeda is identifying and going after certain people who -- they believe they can recruit for terrorist acts, do you think that there is an education taking place here? >> ive been listening to the hearings also, suzanne. and i dont think theres a huge education happening. theres anecdotes about radicalization that occurred and people talking about family members in the somali community and that type of thing. ...