Nominee . Mitt romney will go after donald trump directly and hard. The gop erupts over trump. I understand why they are doing it. They want to destroy this guy. The establishment is acting insane because they cant control trump. Thats exactly my point, bill. Hes the guy that is shaking it up. Sanders vowing to fight on even as his rival is setting her sights on donald trump. All of the major polls have me beating donald trump. Debris washed up in mozambique linked from the malaysia airlines. Aubrey mcclendon was killed in a fiery crash after big rig charges. A day of a federal indictment on big rigging charges. Thieves storming a star getting away with 50 weapons scott kelly is back home in texas after nearly a year on the space station. Leaving the space station was bittersweet. A gunman tries to rob a georgia convenience store. All that. In times square, a police horse goes wild, bucking the officer and then taking off. It was weird. I was like where is the officer . I have people w
Africanamericans. Hard to be worse than the treatment of arvfricanamerican so then better. So Laura Michael and brooke at the beginning talk about, i think, sort of overall southern white perceptions of race. And brooke makes the argument both of them make the argument that this is an accurate depick of the way that whites perceived the way things went or slavery persisted. So again to it aagaagain not ba capturing that moment in time. They have a right to critique th that. Scarlet scarlets parents how historically accurate do you think they were. He was irish. Really irish. Knew to the south. The ieshiearish, especially in north were being seen as the lowest of the low just above africanamericans. How likely would it have been for him to own this huge plantation. Hes too rich but there are a number of scotts and irish immigrants who go to the upcountry part of the south, the back country south and are able to get land and in some cases are table table to attain slave i thought i rread
Its 150 years since the u. S. Civil war and a number of countre are under way this year and next to mark the occasion. Over the next new hours, were going to take a look at hollywoods perception of the issues. Now, a panel of history professors traces slavery as depicted in films in the 1930s. This hour and a half event is from the society from civil war historians bihandle meeting in baltimore. In the past two years, three feature filmses who focus is american slavery and emancipation have been released to positive and often glowing reviews and all of them were profitable. Django unchained made 160 milli million. Lincoln made 182 million. 12 years a slade made 26 million but only cost 26 million to make. Roughly the same. This mini upsurge has provoked a lot of debate and discussion about the depictions of slavery and freedom of film and other forms of media, visual media and television and documentary, youtube shorts and different series. We are continue iing that conversation today.
Youre going to get funded. What is the chance the grant is going to get funded . Its about one in six. Traditionally it has been one in three. In the Cancer Institute it is one in 10. Its even lower. You might say we were funding too much stuff before, and we werent putting a tight enough filter on this. The filter is rigorous peer review by experts in the field. Went back and looked. This was in Heart Disease research, but i imagine its true across the board. I can 2001 we were funding a third of the grants back in 2000 when we were funding a third of the grants. Does a grant in the 10th percentile turnout more productive than a grant funded in the 25th percentile . It is. Viewed, so is one better than the other . What happened . Peerreviewed, so is it better than the other . There is not a difference anyone can tell between the 10th percentile and the 25th percentile. They are both great. That shows we are living have to grade science on the table right now. Just at this moment of gr
The dots of innovation to patients. Its an exciting time because we have the opportunity to make the most advanced clinical decisions available to every cancer patient regardless of where they live and what their socioeconomic background is. And regardless of what practical resources they may have available to them. Expectation. N all things are taking place right now. , and imng, Research Going to go someplace thats going to be innovative. Overall, one of the goals of Cancer Innovation is to improve the outcome. Personalized medicine, advanced diagnostics. Cancer. S can we afford innovations . We cant afford not to innovate. The status quo gets more expensive year after year. Think we are on the cusp of an information revolution. It is a few months, a year of survival. It has been amazing. We continue with the research to e cancer a disease it is on the edge of revolution. We will feature and target treatment for problems that cause cancer. Therapyres the targeted and the development