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Have been patenting human genes. Thats right. Whether you like it or not, a vital part of who you are may now belong to someone else. Let me just examine him. People are worried more than ever about how the chemicals were exposed to are affecting our health. Among them, a family of chemicals used in everyday plastics known as phthalates, which congress banned in toys after a study by dr. Shanna swan. Welcome to 60 minutes on cnbc. Im lesley stahl. Well be exploring the world of science in this episode. Later well bring you Morley Safers story about the human genome patents being awarded to Bio...

Are delighted. To pose questions such as the fundamental question that os has put before the nation and indeed the entire world, people of good faith, how do we live together with our deepest differences . There are a lot of differences. How can we live together with those differences . How can we live peacefully together . Differences can make as pretty uncomfortable, no matter what our background is, no matter how openminded we maybe, differences can bother us. We didnt hear things we not only dont like, but the we very deeply disagree with. We hear things that make us angry. To take action....

He held 1093 patents in his lifetime. In everything from the botany to the phonograph. His collected papers at Rutgers University number 500 pages scholars have been working on them since 1978. On exhibit there, among other things, is his personal desk. It includes a pigeon hole labeled new things. Which is crammed full of papers and notes on ideas he never got to. We can know at least what one of those idea might have been near the end of his life, he said i put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power, i hope we dont have to wait until oil and coal run out until we tackle...

Energy. I hope we dont have to wait until oil and coal run out until we tackle that. I wish i had more years left. Perhaps edison contributed to us the next best thing. It is described by historian ernest freebug in his book. While the electric light is not a natural subject for the computer history museum, i have invited professor freeberg because of his profound observations about the nature of invention and inventors. The lessons that he draws out speak across the decades to a time and place, here and now in Silicon Valley where edisons approach and the success it produces are quite familia...

[applause] good evening. Good evening. I am extremely honored to have been included as one of the 10 under 40. I would like to take the americans conservative union for this. Each of us has our unique story as to how we became conservative. Im honored to share mine with you. I did grow up in the political home. I actually became a conservative when i was a College Student at the university of illinois. I recognize that college is not the place where most people become conservatives. I was studying Political Science in American History. I had opportunity to study our nations foundational docume...