I wrote about facts, not what i believe. Of course in the First Administration he gained after he went into training after the assassination recovery inch your 70s, thats no small accomplishment. We do thank you, tom, for this special look, and as he does say, its a very factbased, very interesting focus on a period of the president s life that we dont often see as clearly. We do thank you again for coming to join us, and thank tom. Thank you for having me. [applause] up next, author and think tank president , Arthur Brooks. The former french hornist, tunnel social scientist, talks about his research on charity, happiness, and Free Enterprise. The head of the American Enterprise institute is the author of four nonfiction books, including New York Times bess sellers by Gross National happiness and the road to freedom. Arthur brooks, where did the phrase, Gross National happiness, come from . Guest the phrase comes from the government of beaut buttan, who 30 years ago read the process of
And what were doing when we burn fossil fuels, is that we are taking carbon that was buried under the earth over the course of hundreds of millions of years, and we are transferring it back up into the atmosphere. So were basically running geological history backwards and at a very high speed. Were taking a process that took hundreds of millions of years to run in one direction, and were running it in the other direction in a matter of centuries. And if you were an alien and you came to visit the earth, you could easily conclude that what were doing, that the fundamental purpose of modern industrialized society, is to affect this transfer as quickly as possible. To see how much carbon we can get out of the ground and put up into the air and how fast we can do it. And thats a look at some of the chicago tribunes top books for 2014. To link to the full list and to see other publications selections, visit booktv. Org. Okay, now its time for hillary. You wrote that she captured your attent
The government of bhutan, i should say the king of bhutan about 30 years ago realized that a process of development, of economic development, was great. It would pull millions of people out of poverty. People wouldnt starve to death, but it wasnt enough for human flourishing. So instead of counting narrowly the amount of money people had per capita, he had the idea of trying to measure the amount of happiness. He started an index called Gross National happiness. Thats wher he started an index called Gross National happiness. That is where the expression comes from. Host what did he find . Guest a lot of measures of Economic Growth are great and the determinate for living the good life but not sufficient so cultural integrity, family values, being able to maintain ones faith in god, these other things people need for flourishing lives and in so doing, developing country has a lot of lessons. Host can you measure happiness the economic success . Guest no. We can find predetermined for a
Victim is or suspected victim is isolated and then making that phone call is really huge. In the long term before we started, before this virus hit, we were doing these water and sanitation activities with the government. And we were successful in working with over 350 communities on proper sanitation and proper hygiene. And that effort was incredibly successful. In all 350 communities which are some of the hardest hit counties, none of them have been effected by ebola. It really goes to show that if you make that long term investment, if you prepare the communities before it hits they have a huge it has a huge impact and prevents that from happening. I only wish we were able to hit all the communities in liberia before we were able before the virus hit. I wanted to ask if you would expand a little more. I understand it was something you said 70 of the transmissions were due to contact with people who had passed away. How long is a body contagious . My colleague was asking about the ro
Of the individual from where they are to a hospital ready and waiting for them. They were cared for safely in that system. Yesterday, we notified people that starting today, we will be doing that same kind of active monitoring for everyone who arrives in mali. Not because we believe there is widespread transmission but because there are so many contacts there and we are not yet confident that they are all being identified and monitored daily. If one comes here, we dont want to take the risk that they may become ill and the Health Care System would not be aware of it. We dont know that we have the perfect response but like everything in Public Health, everything for clinical medicine, everything in science, we use data to continuously improve practices. That is the approach we will take. We work with the Health Care System to strengthen control. They have visited three dozen hospitals all over the country and a dozen states to assess the ready. They provided the tests for ebola. Usually