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Suddenly there was a different degree of compassion and attention paid to this thing we did not understand. it was a game changer. >> do you think the identity of the early victims, speaking now of the groups that it is supposed to be limited to, the whole group, did that have anything to do with the pace of government taking action? >> can there be any doubt about it, aids has more publicity since rock hudson was declared an aids victim than the previous two years in my opinion. no doubt that the response of the federal government was lethargic, apathetic, grudging. the president of the unite...

>> suddenly we all new somebody dying of aids. suddenly there was a different degree of compassion and attention paid to this thing we did not understand. it was a game changer. >> do you think the identity of the early victims, speaking now of the groups that it is supposed to be limited to, the whole group, did that have anything to do with the pace of government taking action? >> can there be any doubt about it, aids has more publicity since rock hudson was declared an aids victim than the previous two years in my opinion. there is no doubt in my mind that the response of the federal govern...

Motivation and addiction. >> correct. we in particular focused in on two small regions of the brain that kind of are like the hubs of a big wheel. so one region is fundamental for motivation. the other region is fundamental for the regulation of emotion. and we've all kind of seen people who used a lot of and see apathetic, not focused on their goals and seem to have no direction in life, or who seem to not really be that emotionally engaged with things. we wanted to see if perhaps the long-term -- these long-term types of consequences might be seen early on when people were cashly using marij...

Or by others as a republican in name only. someone has -- someone in talk radio or many people in conservative talk radio now have the ability to define. there is a litmus test for what it is to be a republican, and if you don't make -- meet all of the standards on that checklist, you're a republican in name only. what do you do? don't think quote/unquote moderate republicans have any choice but to hang in there and watch the party self-destruct, or if you're a dedicated public servant. >> there is a middle. in terms of an nbc poll that just came out recently, we see there is an ideological ba...

Those inspiring words were delivered by civil rights leader jo yes lowery on saturday. but as the crowds leave washington after this week's anniversary, who will actually go home and do something? what realistically can they do? one man who's working to agitate on the local level is executive director philip agnew, who also spoke saturday at the lincoln memorial. >> we are the forgotten generation, we are the illegals, were the apathetic, we are the thugs, we are the generation that you locked in the basement but we are today to join in a conversation that will shake the very foundations of th...