eight different people. we ll speak to someone who received an organ transplant from jemima layzell, whose parents say they are proud of her special legacy. and, on track to do the double can chris froome add the vuelta a espana title to his tour de france victory earlier this year? good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. at least 1a people have been killed and more than a million people have been affected by the destruction wrought by hurricane irma as it barrels through the caribbean. millions of people are still under threat. the storm one of the most powerful atlantic hurricanes ever recorded was over haiti yesterday and caused widespread damage in the british virgin islands overnight. cuba is the next country in its path. it s due to hit the island later today. irma is then expected to make landfall in the united states over the weekend. jon donnison has the latest on the destruction across the region. hurricane irma is proving to be relentless. the british territo
stop at the end of the anecdote on page two of your prologue. it was great. guest: this is a personal story about how i got into writing this book in the prologue of the book is called skinny teens. it was a breezy friday evening in the fall in san diego. i was a biochemist phd student at the dinner with my friends after full week of research, classes and teaching. i had a strong interest in biology since a great school, and now the body malfunctions and inventive ways we treat it. the idea tiny molecules affected our health, thoughts and cold of life was fascinating to me. i was excited to be learning so much about the inner workings of the body, and of interest, my weight. aside from dancing my career, i measured success and how will i did at staying thin. keeping with that in check and never been easy for me and i watched my weight closely. on this day like every other i counted my calories, i ate i painstakingly balanced combination grains, protein and vegetables. i str
system, help with brain size. she is interviewed by gina kolata. medical reporter for the new york times. sylvia, i really liked reading you book. so minute fun and fascinating. and why don t people understand this. it s been a problem for so long. why is itstill a problem? and i like about your bark bus you have a lot another person stories, people struggling withate, yourself, scientists and i was drawn into the book from page one. think almost everybody would relate to us. i thought maybe people like to hear what your book sounds like. so if you could read page one and start opened the anecdote. guest: thank you. this is my personal story about how i got a writing this book and the prologue. it s breezy friday even in fall in san diego. was a biochemistry ph.d student out to din with friends after a full week of research, classes and teaching. i had had a strong interest in biology since grade school, particularly in how the body malfunctions and the we we treat it
what you get back is a conversation about value. often college also frame the value of higher education in economic terms, and we become used to talking about return on investments and u.s. the department of education is publishing information about how much graduates individually make. so if you re going to measure the value of college in some way other how much a home is worth in the labor market, it leads you to that. criticizing or denouncing creditors because of a dissatisfaction with the way they handle quality control and other aspects of higher education. it leads you to if not accreditation, then what? if you want to think about innovation and higher education and maybe finding new ways to use the federal financial aid system to give entrepreneurs or people the ability to create new systems or new ways of approaching higher education, but at the same time, you re mindful of the potential for fraud and abuse, it raises the question, how would you find out whether or n
major averages around half a percent. take a look at my bloomberg terminal to see how the sectors are shaking out here. materials are also declining. telecommunication stocks now the only group trading higher. it has now come off as well. on the commodity complex, not just oil but some of the other commodities. here s the percentage change on the date. higher by 8% on the outlook for colder weather, but if you go down the line you see a lot of credit, whether it is metal. we see a lot of declines in that commodity complex. got got asil high a 23828. that puts a next of pressure on stocks. unusual december. looks like we are setting up for the first december since 2002. we also had back-to-back december declines. usually people do their end of year portfolio shifting and intend to have stocks go higher. take a look at my terminal. energy stocks versus the s&p 500. here is the here is the energy index. the s&p 500 is now in the red after today. only a few days left to see h