Booktv, post it to our face book page, or send it to booktv cspan. Org. You are watching the tv on cspan2, 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books every weekend. Here is our prime time lineup for tonight. Starting at 6 30 eastern Charles Lewis founder of the center for Public Integrity examines the way people in positions of power manipulate the truth to achieve their goals. At 7 45 congressman paul ryan talks about conservatism and the future of the republican party, talks with former governor and republican president ial candidate mitt romney. Afterwards at 9 00 a. M. Eastern dr. Ben carson talks about political and social issues of the day with chuck todd of nbc news. 4 profiles three women, students, a single mother and grandmother who are deployed to iraq and afghanistan at 10 00 p. M. Eastern. Then wrap up tonights primetime programming with lawrence goldstones recount of the right brothers efforts to be the predominance name in manned flight. It all happens tonight on cspan2s b
They have this amazing curiosity about the world. Theres this willingness to follow the threads of interests, not being clear where those threads will take them. In my book i talk about this as a slow hunch, this idea innovation doesnt often come from lightbulb moments. It comes from getting interested in something without a clear idea why youre interested in it and following that interest for sometimes for decades, and just kind of teasing it out until turns into something that is transformative that can change the world. The version of that in the episode on colds, call history of our mastery of cold and artificial refrigeration and airconditioning over the last 100 years. One of the weird heroes of that chapter is clarence berzon of birdseye frozen foods who invented the technology of flash freezing almost 100 years ago. Is passed to this was a beautiful process where he was a naturalist and a park ranger, at one point we recruited this initial. He goes up, he moved to labrador with
Good evening. Im dan harris. The special Operations Forces were on a dangerous mission, facing an urgent deadline. Al qaeda threatening to kill luke somers, a freelance photographer, by today, if their demands were not met. An overnight raid was launched to rescue somers but it went bad. He was executed by his captors. Today president obama called it a barbaric murder. Abcs chief investigative correspondent brian ross is here with the details of this hair rowing operation. Reporter good evening, dan. It was a high risk operation. Under full moon and little element of strategic surprise because of an earlier failed rescue attempt ten days ago. U. S. Officials decided there was no choice but to try it given the imminent threat. U. S. Officials believe that al qaeda had planned to execute 33yearold luke somers some time after sunup today. It was a very dangerous and complicated mission. But like always in these efforts, theres risk. Reporter the rescue mission was launched from a u. S. Ai
Afternoon against her school in the georgetown synagogue. That is where rabbi barry freundelel is accused of illegally videotaping women as they undressed and went into a ritual bath. The lawsuit claims as a professor at georgetowns law school, he encouraged the student to write a term paper on the ritual bath and told her to research it by immersing herself on two different occasions. The suit says she is one of at least 100 women who might have been videotaped and says the school and the synagogue should have done more to protect the women from the rabbi, because according to court records, he had a longstanding reputation for being, quote, creepy and encouraging young, attractive women to repeatedly use the bath. The lawsuit says one synagogue staffer is even quoted as saying the rabbi treated the mikvah like a car wash, every sunday, six students at a time. The student got the highest grade in the class because of that paper. But says she now feels she was lured to the bath by the
Iraqi soldiers gearing up in an effort to retake the city captured by i. S. I. L. Iraqi and sunni fighters could Work Together to make it happen facing the media. After a month of sidestepping reporters, Hillary Clinton answers questions on everything from money to emails. Good evening, im antonio mora this is al jazeera america. We begin with the biggest product recalls. 30 million cars and trucks could contain takata air backs. Bags. Florida resident was blinded in one eye, when his air bag exploded sending a shard of medal. Sending it into his face. It sounded like a shotgun. My rite side went black. Pitchblack. Reporter stories like these, and public pressure convinced auto makers to recall the airbag. Manufacturer takata resisted. Up until now takata refused to acknowledge the air bags from defective. Today i announced takata agreed that air bag inflators are defective. This is a good day for consumers. This is one of those instances where theres no Silver Bullet cure. We can be a