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If we use them as a kind of historical lands and focus on the period from the 1960s to the present, the last half a century or so, that can tell us a lot about how we as a country move from a relatively liberal political heir to a much more conservative political air. Whether that is changing, were in a shadow of the 2012 election, we dont know yet. I think its still too early to tell. But certainly the last generation or two of american politics has been dominated by a more conservative orientation of the whole political culture. And i think using the family, something that we are all familia...

She got a diploma from the London School of hygiene in tropical medicine. And she would this is a very intense three month course given at the most Prestigious School for hygiene and tropical decide. And she would bring home her homework and sit next to me on the couch, and i, of course, would be reading the original [laughter] in the original greek. And i would make the mistake of looking over at her textbook which would be open to some color, twopage color spread on some revolting form of nemitode. [laughter] and then shed say, whats for dinner . Highly educated woman, my wife. And i do love...

Did it all. Sreenivasan and we close with an encore look at a story about chinas moves to satisfy a growing demand for meat. Thats all ahead on tonights newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Sreenivasan it was a day of calm in the middle east, after eight days of punishing israeli air strikes and hamas rocket fire. Each side claimed the ceasefire ...

Sreenivasan Many Americans are headed to the mall tonight after finishing thanksgiving dinner. We examine how black friday has morphed into gray thursday. Jeffrey brown has another thanksgiving day story about a turn of the century photographer who documented the lives of native americans. He ended up being the largest traffic odyssey in american history. He ended up doing 2,200 pages of text telling life stories, diets habits, sex lives. Its documentaries of lives and nations and people and one man did it all. Sreenivasan and we close with an encore look at a story about chinas moves to satis...

Changes that i asked senator gillibrand to make, and i think it would be worthwhile to outline all the changes that have been made to the bill since they were first introduced. I think they demonstrate good faith of the chairman and senator gillibrand. For instance, senator gillibrands bill originally would have made it a federal crime to transfer two or more guns if that person knew that the result would be a violation of state or local law. That would have given states and localities a oneway incentive to address new gun control measures and force the cost of prosecution and incarceration on...