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PRESIDENT-ELECT BARACK OBAMA:
Hello Chicago
If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders ...
What were you thinking when you came to America at the age of 19. Out of this background, full of anger at your circumstances, at the church, at the lack of opportunity, ...
Frank McCourt13: We didn't want to look like we came from the lane So when I was growing up I wasn't particularly proud of it.
None of us were when we finally left. Even ...
Did it ever occur to you that this was the makings of some epic tale?
Frank McCourt: Oh, no. Far from it. We were all ashamed of this. You didn't go out into the world announcing ...
Frank McCourt: I had typhoid. Yeah, because there was a lavatory that we all shared in this lane. All the families came and emptied their buckets. They used the bucket in ...
But then my father would ruin the whole thing with his drinking. He really drove my mother to the wall. He drove her into a nearly fatal depression with the drinking. If ...
A lot of the women in Limerick were widows from the British Army. They used to get pension payments and if you brought a telegram from somebody else wishing them "Merry Christmas" ...
Frank McCourt08: So you left school when you were 14?...Yeah, I was actually 13 when I was finished.
So you left school when you were 14?
Frank McCourt: Yeah, I was actually 13 when I was finished.
What did a 13-year old do?
Frank McCourt: A 13-year old waited until he ...
So despite the poverty, despite the hardships, education was an important part of your life.
Frank McCourt: Oh, yeah. That was the elementary school, primary school. They ...
I wrote one play about how my youngest brother, Alfie was lost. He was only one, and there was a nail on the wall, and we hung him on that nail by the back of his shirt, ...
I was, I suppose, because there was no choice. They'd beat the hell out of you if you didn't do your work. Some of us were quicker than others. Some kids were very slow and ...
They didn't have the human touch that American teachers have, I think, but they did other things and they ruled in a way. They had style. When I get together with my people ...
I remember a loaf of bread that was precious because it was so little. My mother would bring home what they called a Vienna loaf. I remember one particular loaf of bread ...
Frank McCourt: I think the first book that I ever read was Tom Brown's School Days, which my mother bought for me at Woolworth's in Limerick for sixpence. One of those pulp--cheap ...
Dimming the Sun
PBS Airdate: April 18, 2006
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NARRATOR: He warned us, more than 25 years ago, that human activity was changing the Earth'sclimate....
NARRATOR: INDOEX showed that the particles of pollution were blocking some sunlight themselves. Even more significant was what they were doing to the clouds. They were turning ...
In Australia, two other biologists, Michael Roderick and Graham Farquhar, were intrigued by another paradoxical result, the worldwide decline in something called the "pan ...
Most models do not yet take full account of the impact of global dimming and predict warming between two and five degrees Celsius, by the end of the century. But just as ...
Dimming the Sun
PBS Airdate: April 18, 2006
NARRATOR: He warned us, more than 25 years ago, that human activity was changing the Earth'sclimate. Since then, the world has ...
Aerial view of Greece
Mr. Menelaos TrIgonis, Protopsalter of Saint Sophia's Cathedral, in Los Angeles California, chanting "Το Προσταχθέν", "To Prostachthen"-"That which has been secretly ordered" ...

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