The rights revolution today. Lets start with a little story. 1963 this woman shes a student. Was featured in a life magazine article. The story was about a choice that her family was facing. She was pregnant. Her husband had recently traveled new york flip amid which you see here behind me had not been approved for use yet and the United States of america but was available in many european countries. It was used to treat a number of Different Things, anxiety, and sarnia and nausea. Nausea here is key. Women began taking it to a leave morning sickness. Cheri thing finds has been acquired some of the spills and brought them back home for her obviously she takes 40 of them early on in her pregnancy. Thick myers husband did not know that filleted my causes birth defects. She read an article about the drug and found out a little bit more and called her doctor. Shes starting to learn more about what philadelphia could do. For the putt philip in babies, children thalidomide can cause brain da
Exactly five years after american aviator Charles Lindbergh became the first person to fly solo across the atlantic ocean, earhart became the first woman to repeat that feat. We are thrilled to welcome dorothy cochrane, curator in the economics department. Secure is the collection of general aviation aircraft, flight material, aerial cameras, and the history of general aviation and women in aviation. She is the coauthor of the aviation careers of igor as well as an essay on Amelia Earhart that is included in the published book smithsonian american women. She earned her private pilot license in 1994 and is a member of the aircraft owners and Pilot Association and experimental aircraft association. So now please join me in welcoming dorothy cochrane. [applause] dorothy good evening, everyone. Thank you so much. Can you use the mic . Dorothy all right, i it is am. Supposed to be on. Can you hear me now . It is a pleasure to be here. I thank the Smithsonian Associates for inviting me. As i
Story. 963, this woman sherry finkbine, a student, not her real name, was featured in a life magazine article. You see her in the article. The story was about a choice her family was facing. She was pregnant. Her husband had recently traveled to europe where he acquired a drug called thalidomide. The drug you see here behind me had not been approved for use yet in the United States of america and was available in many European Countries and used to treat a number of Different Things, anxiety, insomnia and nausea. Nausea here is key. So women began taking it to aleave morning sickness. And sherry finkbines husband had been in europe and acquired these pills and brought them back home for her and shes pregnant and takes 40 of them early on in her pregnancy. She and her husband did not know that thalidomide causes birth defects but then she writes an article about the drug and found out a little bit more and called her doctor and she started to learn more about what thalidomide can do, fo
Town of monson in central maine has a big problem. The town has bounced back from a fire that swept through its downtown, destroying many of the buildings in 1860, and it is recovering from the trauma of the american civil war. The civil war ended just seven years earlier, in 1865. More than 10 of townspeople served in the civil war, and at least six of them died. The problem, even as the town of monson celebrates the 50th anniversary of its founding, is that so many of its young people are moving away. In the census of 1870, monson was listed as having 604 residents. 604. Out of curiosity, how many of you are from places with more than 604 residents, show of hands . Virtually everyone. How many of you went to high school with more than 604 people . Again, virtually everyone. Monson was a tiny place, and that meant that every departure, every person who moved away from home, hurt. Their absence was noted. In 1872, when townspeople gathered to celebrate turning 50, the speaker at the ev
Looking at one of the close e races to a fresh s p record. All the s p needs to mark a new if high is a tiny fraction,. 02 points to the upside. Right now were up 5. 75, so were there. Now, yesterday it missed it by a nanoinch. Right now we do have it in there, so youve got to stay tuned the whole hour. Hour. The rest of the markets in the green, mostly. The russell is the laggard, down about 5 points and after yesterdays nearly 2000 above 200point drop, the dows up a bit, up 25 points. Any gain for the nasdaq would eclipse the record and throughout much of the session lets look at the nasdaq intraday, its kind of poked both above and below the flatline. But with about 59 minutes left to trade, its in the green by 13 points. So were looking at a record at the moment. The two notable nasdaq stocks blasting to never if before seen heights, microsoft, number one of them, touching the highest level invest orers have ever seen. High of the session, here we go, we do have microsoft at is tha