I wanted to hand this out as a lesson, thinking about how were still connected to the past. There are people i dont, they are not my close personal friends, i like you all very much, but to do that, to hand out a quarter cups worth of sugar, this was the middle ages in europe. It was extravagant. Sugar, in the 1300s, was a rare and expensive good. It was medicine. It was prized and available only to the richest of the rich in western europe. To hand up the small amount i gave you would have been seen as an extravagant thing. Now, it is so much a part of our diets. You can go into a gas station and grab a handful and take it with you. I pay for it. Sugar is so cheap and common, it is hard to avoid it. Is there anyone who has had to give it up for dietary reasons . How easy was it . Terrible. Prof. Paulett right, its hard. Its in medicine and pills. How this came to be how it went from being a rare and expensive good to a thing that is so common that it is hard to avoid, this gets to the
Investigation, Police Rushed over in the circle for a stabbing report. Police believe it started as a fight between two men that got so heated one pulled out a knife. Both ended up hurt but are expected to survive. The man with the knife will likely face an assault charge. A discussion between two drivers ramped up in alexandria today. Take a look at the damage road rage did to the Travelers Hotel on richmond highway outside the belt way. The driver of this mangled Toyota Corolla apparently started the whole thing. The road rage victim said elmer king got angry when he wouldnt let him cut in. It ended when king hit the victim and another car and jumped the curb into the Hotel Parking lot. No one in the cars or inside the hotel was seriously hurt. The hotel suffered damage to its structure. In Prince Georges County loved ones and police are desperately searching for a woman who somehow mysteriously disappeared from the bw parkway. Scott broom reports that the family fears time is runnin
Department was sentenced to 32 months in prison for peeping through windows and videotaping woman in their homes. We talked to one of his victims tonight, deb, is she feeling relief . Reporter absolutely. She was shocked at this point when she saw the video that the 45yearold man took of her through her window with his iphone. Today was her day to come here, to take control, to be heard, and to make sure that he goes to jail. Reporter family and friends of danielle roseni including the wife that stood by him leave the court after he was sensed to 32 months in prison for six counts of voyerism and stalking between 2012 and 2014. The police say the former counterterrorism director went through alleys, peered through windows, videotaping woman with his iphone through cracks in blinds, sometimes sticking his window through windo bars to capture woman, some naked, some of them partially clothes, brooming, bathing, having sex. A woman said he made my neighborhood his hunting ground. He did i
It became almost Second Nature for her because she that four children and has to do what she has to do to survive. There are other cultural institutions which also help the administration of deprivation of the war. For example, institution of dispute resolution through Tribal Councils and through religious councils that exist in afghanistan, and more use that be made of these sort of local dispute resolution mechanisms to help resolve local conflicts. Right now most of the time when theres a local conflict say you and i have a conflict over land. We both theres no land deeds. This is a country without official records no land deeds and we both say this is our piece of land empathy would we resolve it today is by shooting each other or if i have access to the Afghanistan Government or youre a member of the taliban, or if youre a member of the taliban, i say he is a spy with the u. S. , and that is how these things tend to be resolved. But there is a long history of other type of dispute
From wbez chicago, this American Life. You are listening to radio lab. Today in studio 360 i dont know how to explain this, but something happened about 15 years ago. It might have had to do with hiphop, wordy and performance oriented. Or maybe npr grew to a size that it became sort of part of everybodys i do not know. But i know what we feel, that more and more people were sort of married to it. At different points in their day, in the backseat of the car with their parents, and then they graduated and found things. Here is the weird part. In 1971, a group of people got together and said, lets make serious newsmaking radio. Walter cronkite and dan rather were kings on television. The New York Times had the pentagon papers. If you wanted to be a serious reporter, you would do that stuff. Casey kasem was radio. Linda and ira go, lets be like the New York Times. It was stupid and crazy. Now, you look at people, like linda wertheimer. People in television had a thing. They had a swagger.