and a lot of the turkeys this is a drug that most of the drugs are given to make the animals grow fast, they get more money. this particular drug is not withdrawn when they walk on to the killing floor. that means when the animal is killed and the meat is sold, the drug is in there. this weekend on afterwards, martha rosenberg looks behind the scenes of the food and drug industries and finds regulatory lapses and government complicity in undermining the public health. born with a junk food deficiency, tonight at 9:00, part of book tv this weekend on c-span2. up next, cornell university history professor mary beth norton discusses women s roles in colonial america. she argues that there were elite and influential women, but that they re overlooked by historians and the general public. professor norton also discusses the salem witch trials of 1692 and her book on the subject in the devil s snare. this 30 minute program took place at the organization of american historians
the salem witch trials of 1692 and her book on the subject in the devil s snare. this 30-minute program took place at the organization of american historians meeting in milwauk milwaukee. american history tv is at the annual meeting of the organization of american historians, meeting in milwaukee. mary beth norton is a history professor with cornell university. a lot of your work focuses on a lot of your teaching focuses on pre-colonial and colonial women. you ve written a lot about it. what interests you in this subject? well, for one thing, very few people really think about women in the colonial period very much. or if they do they think of them just as i don t know houseworkers, workers around the house. they don t think of their potential public roles. one of the things i m very interested in, in the 17th century, is women who actually take prominent public roles in the colonies because there are some, and in the 18th century i m interested in i did a whole
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will have access to connectivity, even if there are natural disasters and other things happening, through our satellite network. the ceo of light squared on his company s effort to build a satellite network. discussing how his technology may interfere with military and government equipment. ruth bader ginsburg discusses legal issues in front of law students at the university of california hastings college of law from sanfrancisco. the founding person for the justice of law interviews her over topics including civil procedure, the recent walmart decision, and other important legal decisions which came before the high court. this is about 90 minutes. pick 4 conversation and fourth thoughts about law and justice. i am so honored to be able to present to you joan williams, a member of our faculty, who is a boxcar, has actually been called them by the new york times, for her career brickwork over so many years, reinventing the law of the workplace. joan has been a major voice
into the river next to your factory, it is less expensive. what we have seen over the past 10 years is that the environment is beginning to fight back with the chinese economy. the chinese have done a lot of work on these issues. the history of the environmental protection says the cost to the gdp of china from environmental degradation and pollution is 10%. nobody knows if that is accurate. the chinese ministry environment is putting it out there. it is on their minds as a serious concern. there is the issue of social unrest. you can barely open a newspaper even here in the united states without reading about another environmental protests, whether in the rural areas or the cities in china. one of the first things you always talk about is, how is the pollution in beijing? it is constantly in the minds of people who go to china. if i would think the thing that was most serious when it comes to trends of and by mental degradation, it was the would be water degradation and la