He was not the best student in high school, he was a c and d student but he loved to rock climb. He was already, as a teenager, a worldfamous rock climber. He had been on some rockclimbing magazines of the young prodigy and all he did in class was think about rockclimbing and one day he went hiking in Mount Washington New Hampshire with his friend in the ice climbed and they got the top of the mountain, the wind shifted and they were in the middle of a blizzard and they went down the runway. They descended into the wilderness. They wandered and they got lost and they almost died and they were rescued on the brink of death and he had severe frostbite in both his legs were imitated below the knee. The doctors told him he would never walk or run or climb again and every night he would go to sleep and he would dream that he was running through the cornfields behind his parents house with hair, the wind running through his hair and he would wake up and see his legs were gone and was devasta
Asked what they thought of todays news so i quit my job and i went about as far away as i could go and i moved to the country of cambodia and i spent a year and a half there reporting on events there and it was amazing. The country was emergingfor 30 years in the civil war and genocide. 24 people died of starvation and disease and what struck me while i was there was the human resilience. It was very noble experience. A lot of information, but just seeing peoples lives and how they bounce back, it changed the way i looked at journalism and what i wanted to do and when i came back, i wanted to write more about the theme of human resilience and i found in the United States one of the most exciting stories of human resilience are being written by technology and thats really what my book is about. Its a book about bioengineering im sure youve heard about and you know, i guess my presentation is less datadriven than some of this stuff but when i tried to do was put some of these things we a
And digital currency. This is just under 2 1 2 hours. Hello. Thanks for having me. My name is adam piore, and im glad to be here. Im here to talk about my book, the bodybuilders inside the science of the engineered human, and some of the trends that i reviewed. Its funny to be here, because i left d. C. I used to cover im a journalist. I used to cover capitol hill. About 20 years ago i left and said i was never coming back. And actually, i covered congress for a newspaper in new jersey, and i left in the middle of the Monica Lewinsky scandal. My job was to stand off the house floor and ask every congressman what they thought of the days news. So, i quit my job and i went about as far away as i could go, and i moved to the country of cambodia. And i spent a year and a half there reporting on events there, and it was an amazing experience. People were the country was emerging from 30 years of civil war, from a genocide in which one in four people died of murder, starvation, and disease.
Intelligence and National Security alliance dinner. He talks about National Security threats and afterwards he sits down for an interview. This is 60 minutes. Cracks i am pleased to introduce cia director mike on pale. He leads the cia intelligence collections, analysis, covert action, counterintelligence, and liaison relationships with foreign Intelligence Services. Before assuming this role, director pompeo was serving in his 10th term as congressman from kansas path forth district. He served on the House Intelligence Committee as well is the energy and commerce committee. Prior to his service in congress, director pompeo founded in Aerospace Company where he served as ceo for more a decade. Director pompeo graduated first in his class from the United States military academy at west point and served as a calgary officer patrolling the iron curtain before the fall of the berlin wall. After living active duty, mr. Pompeo graduated from Harvard Law School having been an editor of the ha
Intelligence and National Security alliance dinner. He talks about National Security threats and afterwards he sits down for an interview. This is 60 minutes. Cracks i am pleased to introduce cia director mike on pale. He leads the cia intelligence collections, analysis, covert action, counterintelligence, and liaison relationships with foreign Intelligence Services. Before assuming this role, director pompeo was serving in his 10th term as congressman from kansas path forth district. He served on the House Intelligence Committee as well is the energy and commerce committee. Prior to his service in congress, director pompeo founded in Aerospace Company where he served as ceo for more a decade. Director pompeo graduated first in his class from the United States military academy at west point and served as a calgary officer patrolling the iron curtain before the fall of the berlin wall. After living active duty, mr. Pompeo graduated from Harvard Law School having been an editor of the ha