And the brooks still worth reading. Thank you for your time and good nights been a good afternoon. I want to welcome you on the half of humanity tennessee to the southern festival of books. I want to particularly thank our key sponsors, Metro National art commission, and chrome content, tennessee art commission, vanderbilt university. This session is entitled dreaming america. We have a panel of three authors and three books and our first we will read some, but im going to reduce the authors first. I will begin with amra sabicelrayess. She grew up in bosnia. After surviving ethnic cleansing and more than 1100 days under the serbs military siege she immigrated to the United States in 1986. By december, 1999, she earned a ba from Brown University and later obtained to master degrees in a doctorate from Columbia University currently, shes a compass a professor eric on the egg working on understanding how and why societies fall apart and what role education plays a rebuilding decimated cou
Will have to endure a dark winter. Im aaron tilton thanks for joining us we start with the most promising developments yet in efforts to stop the coronavirus pandemic German Company beyond tech and u. S. Drug maker pfizer have announced they are experimental vaccine is more than 90 percent effective in Clinical Trials the vaccine expected is expected rather to be submitted to u. S. Authorities for emergency approval this month if its given the green light it could be rolled out in limited quantities by the end of this year. The hope for an effective vaccine against the corona virus could be growing German Company by on taxes test results are more promising than expected. Yes our results are showing that after an interim evaluation the vaccine is able to prevent infections with over 90 percent probability. So. This is how the socalled m r n a vaccine works Genetic Information from the corona virus is brought into the human body via a messenger molecule the body then uses it to produce v
Time to be born how science and Public Health gave children a future. She will be talking with Andrew Solomon so youre in for an excellent time. Before we start i just want to say a huge thanks to perri klass, Andrew Solomon, and the team at noon for making this happen, and to all of you for showing up. Though we are not able to host events in our store spaces, argument of authors and readers is still here. We are grateful for your support and for the chance to make the space for conversation and connection. Now just a couple of housekeeping things. In our resume webinar tonight you can see and hear the speakers but they cannot see or hear you. They can see you are here and you can see a count of your fellow jews at the top of your resume screen. Theres a a couple of functions will be using throughout the event you can find at the bottom of your zoom window. One icon labeled chat with one speech bubble. Youre welcome to post your comments and thoughts in the chat. Thats a great way to
That is out there this is a top story joe biden has based in donald trump to become the 46. 00 president of the United States trump is refusing to concede defeat a projected win in the battleground states of pennsylvania and nevada push the democratic challenger across the finish line the 290 Electoral College votes joe biden is expected to address the nation in the next few hours but has already tweeted that he is on it that america has chosen him to lead says the work ahead will be hard but he promised to be a president for all americans those who voted for him and those who didnt and he says hell keep the faith that supporters have placed in him his running mates come to harris isnt just the 1st woman to become Vice President shes also the 1st president of black and south asian descent harris learned of the knees while out jogging this video of her reaction and phone call to joe biden was posted online. We we did you know. Here in the next president of the United States that. Huge c
We disagree, but only a conflict that had president putin and the any direct contact all the cease fire was being negotiated with. And if so, what kind of contact was it . There were, of course, contacts regarding the situation after stories. You know that as a result of the go, it was decided that a Monitoring Center would be set up would be located in azerbaijan. But outside of nagornokarabakh sense it will monitor how the ceasefire is observed. The same cease fire thats on the ground is maintained in the preserved through the efforts of russian peacekeepers. The question, thats a chess. Why was the russian government owns a controlled situation within the Expatriate Community . Between the 2 communities . I mean, the millions of armenians living in russia in several 1000000 are there, but john is also living in russia. Its obvious that there are going to be clashes based on ethnicity, least. I think its another of persuading you doing it, you know, but i think it with absolutely. No