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tonight, thank you. you are watching booktv, television for serious readers. you can watch any program you see your online at booktv.org. national geographic, mars up close has been written by marc kaufman. what is your background to write about space exploration? my background is as a journalist long time and not as a science journalist. i was a foreign correspondent for the philadelphia inquirer and the washington post. what i learned was being in foreign countries is a good way of learning to speak to scientists. they are talking a different language, different culture, you spend time with them and work it out and you come up with some fascinating things. of phoenix what was curiosity? the rover on mars. it is searching for ebola environments on mars and it found them. they found for the first time ever that life might have existed, could have existed on mars. my goal in this was to embed myself, jet propulsion team and i did for a year and half, kind of ....
forces. um, and that was sort of my goal, my goal with the book. as far as the consumer thing, i just think, yeah, it s very pervasive in our chul you cultu, and one of the counterarguments to the book has always been like, well, convenience. amazon is convenient, and convenience is a consumer value, and i think we need to push back on that as something that, you know, underpins a lot of our choices and our activities. right. and, frank foer, i ll let you get the last word in on that. right. we have that, we have certain expectations about the stuff that we get. and it s shaped by the world that we live in and this marketplace. we expect that we should get everything as cheaply as possible and as efficiently as possibly. and to some extent those are tenets of capitalism. but they haven t always been tenets of american political economy. there have been moments in our past, in our not-so-distant past where we said, okay, it s not necessarily the most important thing ....
you have bound us together with noble ideals of liberty, justice, equality and yet we struggle to be one people, a unified nation. we pray for all the members of this house asking you to bless them with wisdom and discernment, to lead our people to rebling silliation, to rebuild our nation s confidence in justice, to restore our sense of equality, free them from the divisive distractions of any lesser ideals, that they the ore powerfully serve house. keep the unity of people through the bond of peace. bless, also, our soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines deployed overseas as they continue to bring peace to this troubled world. we pray in your holy name. amen. the speaker pro tempore: the chair has examined the journal of the last day s proceedings and announces to the house his approval thereof. pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1 the journal stands approved. the pledge of allegiance will be led by the gentlewoman from california, mrs. napolitano. mrs. napolitano: i pledge ....
force behind the creation of southern california. he became the first chief judge of the district court serving in that position until he was appointed to the ninth circuit court of appeals. judge carter judge keep graduated from the san diego school of law as its valedictorian, becaming the first female judge for the southern court of california and later the first female chief judge. and this honors judge john rhodes who served as a federal judge in san diego for 22 years and was widely respected and beloved throughout the region s legal community. udge s. judges, carter, keep and rhodes showed excellence and integrity. i m proud to honor their legacy with this legislation, and i want to thank two of my colleagues in particular, congresswoman susan davis who represented this area before i did, and led this effort for the past several years. and congressman darrell issa for his support and great amendments to the bill. it s better because of his work. and i m proud ....
announcer: from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. live from studio 1-a in rockefeller plaza. and good morning. welcome to today on a friday morning. i m matt lauer. i m savannah guthrie along side al roker and natalie morales. today we will answer the age-old question that s stumped people for generations, what does the fox say? and we ll answer the question how long will it be before you get that song out of your head? two to three days. sunday. exactly. we ll get to that later on. we want to get right to today s top story. there s controversy around the nobel peace prize being awarded to the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons and not to a 16-year-old girl named malala yousufzai. andrea mitchell has more on that. good morning to you. reporter: good morning, matt. it is surprising and controversial. the decision seems to reflect both politics and the committee s concern that malala was too young to be award ....