Has all sorts of different programs that encourage people to read, to enjoy the imagination of writing and the relationship between reader and a book and a writer. What how do you see this issue a world of ever deepening technology . Thats a good question. You know, your first words sort of touched me. Theres a book that came out last year by the israeli novelist called jews in words and they have a memorable sentence about jews that ours is not a bloodline, but a text line, and they sort of locate at the center of the jewish experience the passing on of the word of text. And so we see ourselves at the library very much in that tradition, and i see basically that encounter whether its through a written book or whether online or through an e book, what were doing fundamentally is interacting with text very much in that tradition within judaism of reading the torah. In synagogue of sitting around the table, at asover passover with a book in our hands and for me reading a novel is a conti
News. Its in san mateo, where a car accident has left several pedestrians hurt. The accident happened about 10 30 this morning in a residential neighborhood on west hillsdale boulevard near steven road. Allie rasmus just arrived on the scene. Ail what do you know about the allie, what do you know about the pedestrians . Reporter First Responders got the call at 10 30. This is where it happened, steven road and west hilldale boulevard. Emergency responders are in the process of reopening this road. You can see its a very residential area. Lets show you a view overhead from newschopper2. Accord doing police, a man driving a black acura was heading west on hillsdale and the car went off the roadway and hit four pedestrians. The victims, a woman in her 20s and four teenagers were also struck. Now, Sergeant Rick decker with San Mateo Police is here. At what point what are you looking for . Were staying updated on the injuries for the driver and the pedestrian. Were investigating what caused
They came upon a body floating in the water. Shot him one time in the back of the head. I felt like i was in some madefortv movie. Its like this cant be happening. Reporter what did happen . Tonight, the hunt is on. A gleaming yacht. I thought, why did you get on that boat . Reporter a scheming businessman, and a missing fortune. Youre a multimillionaire and you dont have any money. From high seas adventure to heartstopping murder. I dont think ill ever get another case quite like this. Hello. Welcome to dateline. Steven b williams was a man with a golden voice. A former dj who found fame, fortune and a wealth of friends. Then suddenly, radio silence. Steven b had disappeared. Detectives would follow clues from the coast of california to a quiet town in montana. They thought the motive was good oldfashioned greed, but the key to this mystery remains sub orenly out of reach. The question was, would anyone ever find it. Heres Keith Morrison, with who killed the radio star . On the surfac
Chronic disease is meaning chemicals are on the rise, breast cancers. Who knows a young cancer or Family Member that has breast cancer, infertilities, testicular cancer. There is a lot of evidence showing environmental pollutants are part of the reason. So we see that there is a lot of cause for concerns and the trends um, cause us to look at these chemicals and say what is going on here. We know from the science that chemicals are ending up where they are not supposed to be and that is inside of our bodies. Scientists can measure the chemicals getting into us, bio measuring. This is from the first chapter, indecent exposure, the intimate details. Charlotte was surprised by the test results. Mother of 2 among the first people to be tested for a wide range of Industrial Chemicals. Test revealed that her body contained mercury lead cosmetics. I felt violated charlotte reported. She was upset about the pesticide. I never used them in my house, never on my lawn. I bought organic whenever i
Now. So thats how things that are happening in ones life feed into it. Other things feed into it, too, like my wife and i have been trying to build this house in the Berkeley Hills for about 5 years so all of that also kind of feeds into the play even though it may not surface in the way the characters are building a house, but it may be something about money that comes up in the play but actually was drawn from our financial struggles trying to build this house in the berkley hills. But it also sort of shows you how real life intrudes into your work and how we either can listen to it and put it into it or try to ignore it. I usually choose to sort of put everything thats going on around me in the world when im reading what i find intellectually curious into the work, no matter what the story is. So lets turn our attention a little bit to these characters you have created, 9, i think, characters, all very extremely different from different backgrounds. You spoke just now about wanting