Mayo clinic is an american institution. It is at the heart of our country in many respects. It is the worlds first and largest private Multispecialty Group practice. That is a big, formal term. It means it is specialists working together in a highly organized way, devoting a whole range of unique, diverse talents for the sole purpose of serving each individual patient. It is a model that the mayo family developed with the franciscan sisters that has expanded and grown to other Medical Centers and has welcomed patients from all over the world for more than 150 years. This is Heritage Hall, the museum of mayo clinic that was established with a generous gift from john and lillian matthews. Mr. And mrs. Matthews are loyal patients of mayo clinic and they had a unique vision. They said we want to add more voices to the choir and tell the Great Stories of mayo through contemporary museum exhibits, designs, films and products like that. Today, we are going to explore the history of and more i
News cribber john solomon are here, joining me in the you 8 0. Earnings season rolling of on. Big banks on deck this morning. All the numbers as soon as they hit the tape and impact on markets. Broader markets pointing to a gain at the start of trading, dow industrials up 84, nasdaq up 28, the s p 500 up 10 o 10 poin. Yesterday stocks were sluggish over weak Quarterly Earnings and halted covid19 vaccine trials. At the end of the day, the s p 500 was lower by 22. Shiny now apple, the Technology Giant unveiling four new iphone 12s ss for your convenience. Coping tips from outer space, astronauts have isolation advice for the weary public and its making a buzz this morning. Mornings with maria is live right now. European markets in the green, take a look. The fq100 up 14, the cac is up 1 andahalf and the dax index higher by 15, fractional moves this morning in europe but to the upside. A mixed story overnight in asia, as chinese president xi jinping is calling for young People Living in h
Recent National Book festival on covert operations. Hi, everybody. Im david ignatius, columnist with the washington post. Welcome to the National Book festival. In this difficult time in the pandemic, one thing we can do is to read good books. I wrote a book that was published this summer which is about a cia officer whos struggling with one of the central problems of our time which is knowing whats true and what isnt. And its my great pleasure to have with me today two people who wrote two two of the very best books of this summer about issues related to our new technologically sophisticated world and the dangers. First, i want to introduce bart gellman, my former colleague at the washington post, who wrote an extraordinary memoir of husband dealings with Edward Snowden that led to the rflations about nsa technology and surveillance, and the subtitle of barts book says the american surveillance state. I also want to introduce another outstanding author the, thomas rid, who teaches at
Been living through an unprecedented health, economic and social crisis. A global catastrophe many have predicted and index of which are living around the world, a vaccine which has been hailed threat as the only solution to this crisis to the covid pandemic, and there has been investment in the site and manufacturing a developing such a vaccine rolling about in record time and getting it ideally to everybody around the world. A few of us get together a few months ago building upon in may this year to try to understand this journey to characterize the vaccine for polio, scaling up of such a product. And to reflect on what this means for policymakers and for society all over the world. What are the chances of getting a successful vaccine the next 12 months on how long will it take to manufacture it to scale, how good a job have government, collisions of government, donors and supranational organizations done in designing their vaccine portfolios why does any of this matter . National pe
To vote, the National Portrait gallery, National Archives and the library of congress have created special exhibits. Curators talk about the Creative Process behind the exhibits including determining goals in selecting objects. The berkshire conference of womens historians and the womens Suffrage Centennial commission hosted this event. Im martha jones, a copresident along with tie i cant miles along the berkshire conference. Im happy to be welcoming all of you to this evenings conversation, and i have to extend the special embrace to our members tuning in from all over the world today. With this event, we begin a conference weekend, the big berkes 2020, not as we planned for in baltimore at johns hopkins. Instead, were being linked together by digital sound and image. I, for one, am grateful even for this today. The year 2020 marks 100 years since the 19th amendment, Legal Protection for womens votes became part of the u. S. Ko constitution. For us as historians of womens genders and