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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20180701:17:57:00

increasing. the amount of plastic waste the united states ships to china. last year china announced it was banning the import of all non-industrial plastic waste like water bottles and plastic bags. and it brings me to my question. roughly how much of the world s plastic waste has ended up in china since 1992? a fifth? one-third? a half? or two-thirds? stay tuned and we ll tell you the correct answer. my book of the week is a classic. john steinbeck s east of eden. if you re looking for a big fat book of fiction for the summer as i was, try this one. it is to my mind the book that best illustrates the idea of the great american novel. a rich saga of families moving westward on a vast, unformed continent making a new life and a new nation. and now for the last look. i m in the heart of london not too far from hyde park. a 350-acre area known for its lush green space and pleasant

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20180701:14:57:00

non-industrial plastic waste like water bottles and plastic bags. and it brings me to my question. roughly how much of the world s plastic waste has ended up in china since 1992? 1/5? 1/3? 1/2? 2/3? stay tuned and we ll tell you the answer. if you re looking for a big fat book of fiction for the summer as i was, try this one. it is to my mind the book that best illustrates the idea of the great american novel. a rich saga of families moving westward on a vast, unformed continent making a new life and a new nation. and now for the last look. i m in the heart of london not too far from hyde park. a 350 acre area known for its lush green space and pleasant water features. but this week the park s serpentine lake has a stunning addition. a massive stack of painted floating oil barrels.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20100403:12:10:00

next big thing? is it a must have that s going to replace the laptop or is it a cool toy for content consumers? people like that like look at pictures, social networkers, gamers. for those folks, it s going to be terrific. it doesn t have a web dam or a dvd. what about you, you re traveling all of the time. is this something you would pick up to replace your laptop? reporter: you know, i won t. it s not going to replace a laptop. it doesn t have a keyboard. i m an old guy. i like a real keyboard that clicks and clacks and it s not meant to write scripts or novels. it doesn t have a dvd player. it doesn t have a lot of things that we use. i m not going to add it to my kit when i travel. some people might. i m not going to add it, though it weighs a pound and a half. mike will write the great american novel on the good old fashioned computer. reporter: or the script. thanks so much. appreciate it. for more on what the ipad can

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - DW - 20180523:08:02:00

immigrants he wrote more than thirty books in his lifetime one every major u.s. literary awarding including the pulitzer prize. well with us in the studio to talk more about this is day to be a correspondent bess if good morning at morning philip roth was considered a literary giant many of his books were also turned into films so he was he was hugely successful what made him so successful well first of all it s hard to overemphasize how big this guy was. if you study literature he he felt like he belong more to this category of literary giants like hemingway fokker fitzgerald these people where you just used the last name you know somebody who was a towering figure who was in every textbook if you want to talk about american literature the way he got there was through this idea of the great american novel

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20160221:20:53:30

Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20160221:20:53:30
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