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Dec 1 - President-elect Barack Obama announced a national security team that is led by his onetime chief Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton. In choosing Clinton as his Secretary of State, Obama has signaled a willingness to work with a former rival -- who has often expressed foreign policy views at odds with his own. Jon Decker reports.

Barack Obama introduces members of his national security team, December 1, 2008

MICHAEL POLLAN./BILL MOYERS Bill Moyers sits down with Michael Pollan, Knight Professor of Journalism at UC Berkeley, to discuss what direction the U.S. should pursue in the often-overlooked question of food policy. Pollan is author of IN DEFENSE OF FOOD: AN EATER'S MANIFESTO.

Our story so far... After a two year court defence over arrests at a tent city in Victoria BC, sections of two city bylaws were declared unconstitutional and of no force in effect insofar as they prohibited homeless people from erecting temporary structure. The city of Victoria, interpreting the judge's ruling as defining temporary as meaning overnight, drafted a bylaw enforcement policing to continue to prohibit homeless people from erecting temporary shelter from 7am to 7pm. Arrests were made after a tent was set up under a Sequoia tree behind city hall on Oct.31. Those charges were stayed by the Crown, who informed the city that their new enforcement policy was not likely to stand up to constitutional scrutiny either. The campers were there for four days, with the city unsure how to move them. When the Downtown Victoria Business Association applied for a permit, the city told the media that this permit would supersede any other use of the park, and that the campers would be evicted to make room for a public lighting of Xmas lights on the tree. The campers made an agreement to leave the area at 12pm, well before the DVBA's permit came into effect. This was communicated to the city, but the city decided to move in at 9am, arrest the campers under the unconstitutional bylaw enforcement policy, and seize all the camper's gear, even the gear they had removed from the area already. The case is now going to civil court, regarding non-payment of the numerous $100 tickets issued...

MICHAEL POLLAN./BILL MOYERS Bill Moyers sits down with Michael Pollan, Knight Professor of Journalism at UC Berkeley, to discuss what direction the U.S. should pursue in the often-overlooked question of food policy. Pollan is author of IN DEFENSE OF FOOD: AN EATER'S MANIFESTO.

MICHAEL POLLAN./BILL MOYERS Bill Moyers sits down with Michael Pollan, Knight Professor of Journalism at UC Berkeley, to discuss what direction the U.S. should pursue in the often-overlooked question of food policy. Pollan is author of IN DEFENSE OF FOOD: AN EATER'S MANIFESTO.

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Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/07/14/Ethics_of_Using_Biomedicine_to_Enhance_Ourselves Arthur Caplan, Director of Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania, discusses ethical issues concerning genetic engineering and genetically handicapped children. ----- Arthur Caplan discusses Is it Immoral to Want to Live Longer, Be Smarter and Look Better? The Ethics of Using Biomedicine to Enhance Ourselves and Our Children as a part of The Ethical Frontiers of Science during the 2008 Chautauqua Institution morning lecture series. Arthur Caplan serves as the Emanuel and Robert Hart Professor of Bioethics, Chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and the Director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. He is the author or editor of twenty-five books and over 500 papers in refereed journals of medicine, science, philosophy, bioethics and health policy. His most recent book is Smart Mice Not So Smart People (2006). He has served on a number of national and international committees, including as the chair of the National Cancer Institute Biobanking Ethics Working Group; the chair of the Advisory Committee to the United Nations on Human Cloning; the chair of the Advisory Committee to the Department of Health and Human Services on Blood Safety and Availability; the special advisory committee to the International Olympic Committee on genetics and gene therapy; the ethics committee of the American Society of Gene Therapy; and the...

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In this open letter to Barack Obama, the Marijuana Policy Project suggests just a few of the many changes President-elect Obama could take to begin creating sensible marijuana policies in America.