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Correlated had american book reading. those who never finished college are more likely to report not reading as college graduates. and hispanic adults are roughly twice as likely than whites to be non-readers, though american-born hispanics read more than whites. for all the political and cultural differences, we read about at the same rate. about one-fourth of america and one-fourth of urban americans did not read a book in 2017. as the president, who is not a big book reader himself, would say it's sad. others are still struggling to try to. in fact, 18% of american adults perform at or belo...

The country. >> reporter: coming together at the last bastion of the cold war to celebrate main they've never met meeting it at the border for a very unusual book reading. the accusation is a work of fiction, written by a dissident writer still inside north koreaing about regular citizens trying to function in a dysfunctional reality. the author called himself bandi as he sheds light on the dark. the activist who helped smuggle this book out says it is unique. doesn't deal with political prison camps says do hee-youn. it shows normal life of new york citizens and it is very frightening. this b...

Medical association a study came out showing a correlation between language development and electronic toys. with these electronic toys parents are asking questions and being less interactive and the kids are being less responsive. it is easy to put the child in the crib with the ipad but the study is showing there is an affect on language development. this was a small study. 26 families were looked at in a prospective manner. what they found was according to the specifics is the child was playing with an electronic toy and the parents spoke 40 words per minutes. a traditional toy was 56 words...

An economics course. 20 people in the class. they paired people off so two people per team. ten teams. and the whole semester was you had a corporation. you got to decide what your product was, how you're going to market it. it was graded at the end of each whatever week. then at the end it was the most successful -- the stock price would go up and down depending on that. it taught me about everything to do with business. >> the losers were shot. >> a comparative religion course at the university of arizona because it showed how muslim, jew, christian, how similar they are. they all have their...

I'll tell you again. it was an economics course 20 people in the class. they paired people off so two people per team. ten teams. and the whole semester was you had a corporation. you got to decide what your product was, how you're going to market it. it was graded at the end of each whatever week. then at the end it was the most successful -- the stock price would go up and down depending on that. it taught me about everything to do with business. >> a comparative religion course at the university of arizona. because it showed how muslim, jew, christian, how similar they are. they all have th...