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[laughter] here i am, im coming from an area of the world where you have a totally different legal system for women, different from men. If youre a woman, your testimony in court is half the value of a man. Can you believe this . So if i go to court, and i am testifying and theres a man testifying, and we contradict each other, he wins because hes a man. Thats the law. That is not the culture. Thats the legal system. So when you come suddenly to america and youre confronted that youre equal, its almost like, oh, my god, im equal . How do i deal with that . Really, it took me a while for me to ...

Not because i was too young but im not sure what i was, so i just remember sort of vaguely coming to law and this was like this cool area, jamie boil is a very close friend and it seemed like he was just intellectually playful and too cool for anything that i did. David you note the sense of sort of gee whizness. Its the most attractive thing to me coming from fields where the general action is pistols at dawn. So this is in some sense a very strange conversation about the future of this field that has a certain sense about staking ownership intellectually in the next camp. And ryan, i think t...

Or working with darpa as we are doing and with fda on this toxicity chip. Working on the brain initiative, a new effort which isugoing to be focused between nih and nsf and darpa and a number of private industries and philanthropies trying to make sure these kind of interdisciplinary efforts that jim was talking about are tapped into in every way. We are always looking at that. We are even looking at our peer review system to ask whether while we claim its the best in the world, are we sure about that . And are we sure our peer review system is reflecting the scientific opportunities of 2014 a...

The senate gavels in at 2 00 eastern for general speeches. At 5 30, senators will vote to move forward on district judge nominations for virginia, massachusetts and nevada. You can watch the house life on cspan live on cspan, the senate on cspan2. Deputy National Security adviser tony blinken talked about the u. S. And European Response to isolate russia after its intervention in ukraine. He talked about the effectiveness of the sanctions and why the annexation of crimea will eventually prove to be what he calls a strategic loser for russia in the long term. He spoke at a conference on europe ...

Through carlson, off the boards, fed one. score! dustin brown. bill: nicely down. they routed slovakia. 7-1, the final. that's the warm-up for saturday, because that's when we play russia. legendary russian figure skater evgeni mesh schoen coe had to pull himself out of competition yesterday. he had a funny landing, and he was seen grimacing in pain. he's 31, he's had a great career, and that might be over. short sleeves in the winter games? man, that's a usa cross-country skier, sofie caldwell, in a sleeveless t-shirt for the 10k yesterday. and she wasn't the only one. temperatures in sochi w...