Prime Communication: Language Learning

I Love Lucy: Ricky's English
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ld35JY4RKKE


NPR - Why Immigrants Don't Learn  English (2007)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14330106

CNN - Refusing to Learn English in Miami
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf9ZbduiwkM

New York Times: Does Your Language Shape How You Think?
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/magazine/29language-t.html

Bloomberg/Newsweek: Immigrants Should Learn English - The U.S. should require people to learn and speak English before they can attain citizenship. Pro or con?
http://www.businessweek.com/debateroom/archives/2008/08/immigrants_should_learn_english.html

BBC: Learning Languages Boosts Brain.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3739690.stm

Prime Communication: Lenny Kravitz

Are You Gonna Go My Way - Lenny Kravitzhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLhpHjmxNw8

NPR Interview
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113971966

Prime Communication: Luxury

Public Radio/Marketplace.org:  Luxury shoppers make a comeback
http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2011/02/23/pm-luxury-shoppers-make-a-comeback/

CNN - Luxury Week 2009
http://edition.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2009/news/luxury.week/

CNN interview on Luxury brands in emerging markets
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bYzZEYSJRM

New York Times: Even Marked Up, Luxury Goods Fly Off Shelves
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/04/business/sales-of-luxury-goods-are-recovering-strongly.html

Prime Communication: Amy Winehouse and the 27 Club

The Washington Post: Amy Winehouse’s death at 27 highlights a troubled, young talent
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/amy-winehouses-death-at-27-highlights-a-troubled-young-talent/2011/07/24/gIQAoS6GXI_story.html?wprss=rss_entertainment

Forbes: Amy Winehouse Joins the '27 Club'
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kiriblakeley/2011/07/23/amy-winehouse-joins-unfortunate-27-club/?utm_source=allactivity&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=20110723

CNN: The Unexplined '27 Club'
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/showbiz/2011/07/27/shubert.winehouse.27.club.cnn

Nirvana Interview 1993
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC7FPvdwe_8

Rape Me http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpHJyubWp20&feature=related

Janis Joplin In Concert
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caiBo_wTxrY&playnext=1&list=PL38709803597CC0D7

Prime Communication: Landmarks

NPR: China Opens World's Longest Bridge: Would You Cross If You Came To It?
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/06/30/137520889/china-opens-worlds-longest-bridge-would-you-cross-if-you-came-to-it

Mount Rushmore
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFlbWT0Ynmg

The Statue of Liberty
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muP0gvylsRM

The White House
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FH7OSKVIgI&feature=related

HostelWorld.com
http://www.youtube.com/user/hostelworld

10 Things About Rio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3fDjNZTjAA

10 Things About Paris
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzCD1sKjbzE

Legal English: Financial Crisis

The documentary 'Inside Job' discusses the 2008 financial crisis. The end of part 2 (12'52'') and the begining of part 3 expain how the new mortgage system was a time bomb...
part 2/8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfU1H4q5lT8&feature=related

part 3/8 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCPjGIW8_Bc&feature=related




Video: PBS Frontline - The Warning
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/warning/view/?autoplay

"We didn't truly know the dangers of the market, because it was a dark market," says Brooksley Born, the head of an obscure federal regulatory agency -- the Commodity Futures Trading Commission [CFTC] -- who not only warned of the potential for economic meltdown in the late 1990s, but also tried to convince the country's key economic powerbrokers to take actions that could have helped avert the crisis. "They were totally opposed to it," Born says. "That puzzled me. What was it that was in this market that had to be hidden?" (more »)

Read more: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/warning/view/?autoplay#ixzz1Q3TAXuXF

Prime 4: Risk-taking

Human Physiology : Why Do Humans Have Adrenaline? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OgVUaNZQtw&feature=related

Adrenaline: Fight or Flight Response
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4g25d7_Afmc&NR=1

Wingsuit Base Jumping
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4U6T_BB1N8&feature=related