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flourished from the third to the ninth century in a far flung collection of city-states. at palenque, tonina, bonampak and other cities, dynastic kings ruled absolutely, controlling trade and tribute. they presided over intricate hierarchies of nobles and officials at courts resplendent with works of art. maya culture, shrouded in a mystery as dense as the forests in which it took root, revealed itself fitfully over three centuries. when the ruins in the jungle were first discovered, there was no way of understanding how the civilization was organized. so it's really through the insc...

to the hearts and minds of ancient people. their decipherment is one of the greatest challenges facing archaeologists today. we humans are social animals. our need to communicate is universal. some of our messages can be easily understood. but we communicate, too, through abstract symbols that have meaning only within a particular culture. these symbols take many forms. the flag is a symbol. a gesture says, "we're number one." the uniform is a symbol that identifies the official and the player. the game itself is symbolic -- ritualized combat with clearly defined rules. even sound ca...

>> even govern or campaign to the center if 90% of your constituency is democrat, it's exactly the same. i think we need to redraw constituencies so that candidates have a vested interest in running, governing to the center. because that's the only way they can be i elected. right now the opposite is happening. a third problem is the media. the quality or lack thereof. and i'll stress the lack thereof of news. it's not even news. it's fistfights on evening television. i mean if you want hard news tonight, in the united states, you want to find out what's happening in the world, you r...

>> whether the difference of what they're right is discrimination, i don't like the word discrimination so much. i think stereotypes and perceived opinions. i don't think in this day and age -- i think people will feel uncomfortable if they thought they were discriminating, but they are expressing attitudes they have that are very ingrained and very hard to eliminate. and they have to be made aware of that every now and then you'll get a woman writer who will publish under a male pseudonym. that was very common in europe, and i think bruce asked about other traditions. american women...

at 3 going into the 9th inning. amber theoharis standing by with brian bass. >> brian, first of all, just to walk away as the team with that kind of a win going into the all-star break when some people are shutting it down. >> we don't give up. we're going out there playing nine, in some cases 10, 11, 12. we feel if we can keep our team in the game, that we're going to score runs. it's fun to watch these guys. >> going out there and in the 11th inning, you have the error, the dropped ball in the run down. at that point you're thinking i should have had two outs. as a reliever, i gues...