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One of the things that made the book famous was its illustrations. >> you found text accompanied by very specific nude drawings of all manifestations of sexual acts and behavior and posturing. >> why did you write the book? >> well, i think it's the first one that's been based on the knowledge of 1974 rather than 1874. >> this book became amazingly successful in that it was accepted on the coffee tables of american middle-class people. >> it isn't that it gives people information they didn't have or they couldn't have got. what it does is to open up the subject to being something that can be t...

That illinois clinic is scaling up rapidly but worried they will not have the capacity to meet demand if the missouri governor, missouri government, succeeds in shutting down that clinic across the river in sth. louis. this is worth watching as that clinic in illinois tries to scale up, right, in the realization that they may soon be the constitutional haven for women from that neighboring state. that bridge from 19 -- from 1874 -- forgive me -- is about to have a whole new chapter in u.s. history if that happens. but it's interesting, this is why we're doing this special report tonight. while...

There was no bridge like this anywhere else on earth. that bridge that eads built, it took seven years to built. it cost $10 million, which you can think of in today's dollars as basically the price to go to mars, plus a bag of chips. but they did it. and on the fourth of july in 1874, on the day the united states of america turned 98 years old, the eads bridge opened up to bridge st. louis across the mississippi. to bridge st. louis and missouri to the rest of the country. to bridge st. louis to the railroads. for a nickel, they would even let you walk across it. that bridge is still there to...

About the last clinic standing in missouri. could come at any time. and the health care workers and volunteers and doctors in the state next door, a state that happens to be democratic controlled in illinois, we can report tonight that they are scaling up this fairly massive effort to try to serve the women of missouri who may very well be the first american women to be totally cut off from legal abortion for the first time since roe. that illinois clinic is scaling up rapidly but worried they will not have the capacity to meet demand if the missouri governor, missouri government, succeeds in ...

Louis hired him anyway, and he built the city a lifeline. what eads built st. louis was the first steel truss bridge anywhere in the world. it carried trains, had train tracks on it and horses and people in wagons. it made it a technological marvel at the time. there was no bridge like this anywhere else on earth. that bridge that eads built, it took seven years to built. it cost $10 million, which you can think of in today's dollars as basically the price to go to mars, plus a bag of chips. but they did it. and on the fourth of july in 1874, on the day the united states of america turned 98 y...