I started thinking about competitive elections long ago, and i started the project thinking that i was writing as a devils advocate. I saw people assume without question the competitive elections are intrinsically good and intrinsically healthy, and i thought it was important to have somebody make the argument in the other direction. Later, go inside the Cleveland Public Librarys special collections to explore the life of harlem renaissance writer Langston Hughes and his connections to the city. During Langston Hughes time here, he lived in about five different residences. He said he lived in a lot of basements. He enrolled in Central High School which was one of the first public high schools in the country, first in the city. But first, we hear from author john gras bow sky about the history of cleveland and how transportation has shaped its identity. East boulevard and University Circle, but i wanted to look at a history, and i worked on this with my wife, diane, that looked at the i
[inaudible conversation] book tv recently visited capitol hill to ask members of congress what theyre reading this summer. I hope to finish a couple books, first of all im reading freedoms task which was given to me by senator roy blunt and this is a book that is about the dome being put on the Capital Building precivil war but what i found is especially interesting is as i get into the book of focus on the House Chamber and Senate Chamber and how those were added to the original Capital Building and one of the main proponents of that is Jefferson Davis so while we are approaching the civil war, we have Jefferson Davis really helping our country, helping build a Capital Building which would serve our entire country and we know later that he became the president of the confederacy so that the book im hoping to get through, i started it and i need to finish it. I also want to read about destiny and power which is the book by john meacham on george hw bush. I would like to get that done t
Historian and author Richard Norton smith is working on a new biography of gerald ford. We caught up with him at his homing in grand rapids home in grand rapids, michigan. A Baptist Missionary put down roots, and a year or two later on the east side a friend be frenchspeaking intend tour showed up who was eager to sell liquor to the indians to save their sols, and it their souls, and it set the pattern ps in some ways for the two faces of grand rapids, west side and east side. Both sides of the river banks more for most of the 19th and 20th century were covered over with factories, furniture factories, back when grand rapids was the furniture capital of the United States. Theyre gone now, but the city that has replaced them in many ways was seated by that building, the ford museum was seeded by that building, the ford museum, which was opened in 1981, located downtown at president fords insistence in the hope that it might, in fact, spark the beginnings of an urban renewal, a genuine u
This pool of resistant bacteria and so we put so many antibiotics in the animals that its a tremendous factor in the rise of antibiotic resistance, so thats how it happens and thats why we need to put a brake on it. Thank you. I have a question. Youre saying its about 60 40 . Change the question a little bit. Do you look at how Social Security so prevalent the species that do not end up getting it, why do they not end up getting it . What is it that makes it good at spreading host to host and why is it in some hosts and not others, why not, for example, at any of us or fish or mammals or its in some worms which come from a very Different Branch of the animal kingdom. Thats also interesting to those because those warms cause severe tropical diseases and if you kill all, you are able to kill the diseases, a different story. But yeah, a lot of biology that we dont understand. Why is it so good at jumping from host to host . Is it just because it spreads vertically throughout the populatio
I want to introduce our panelists. We will go in the order listed in your program. So this panel and National Heritage and we are going to hear first from jane gilden and a member of npr who will talk about how they created the npr historical archive. Good morning everybody. This is a jane, my colleague. We are from the Research Archive and Data Strategy team at the National Public radio. We are known as rad. Please make sure to introduce yourself and say hello. Sittingf rad officer is in the front, will also be presenting tomorrow at a plenary session. Please make sure you attend her talk. We are here to tell you about nprs historical archives in 2013 from scratch while we were during the move to a new building. Always valued research and archives. We have had an expertly organized audio archive going back to the beginning of all ofngs considered at the end may 1989. One of the first persons they hired was a researcher exclusively to help in the newsroom. Having said all of that, we h