Perspective Podcast, August 12, 2011
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In this week's edition of Perspective...
London Riots.
This week London became a city torn apart by chaos and violence. The perpetrators - mainly young men, seemingly bent on looting and vandalism. The first protesters took to the street after a police shooting last weekend, but the question of motive for the gatherings appeared to have gotten lost amid the destruction ABC's Jeffrey Kofman was there.
Missing Woman in Aruba.
An American woman missing in Aruba - it might sound like a headline from six years ago back when Alabama student Natalie Holloway disappeared on that Caribbean island and was never seen again - but now a second woman has vanished there and this time the case is complicated by the fact that those closest to her - including her live-in boyfriend back home in Maryland - didn't even know she was taking the trip. Here's ABC Matt Gutman in Aruba.
Tough Love for the President.
"A true friend stabs you in the front" Oscar Wilde supposedly quipped. If that's the case, President Obama has a couple of true friends in Professor Cornell West and talk show host Tavis Smiley - who are so frustrated with the man they helped get elected, that they've taken their critique on the road. Here's ABC's Senior White House correspondent Jake Tapper.
Where the Jobs Are.
Payrolls expanded by 117,000 jobs in July as unemployment fell to 9.1 percent. A modest improvement, but part of the problem is the skills gap across the country - in Silicon Valley in particular. Good help is so hard to find in the tech sector, that companies are tripping over themselves to offer cash, cool perks and swank offices. But who are they looking for exactly? Here's ABC's Neal Karlinsky.
Lap Band Surgery.
Last year there was only one state in the nation with an obesity rate less than 20 percent - Colorado. Shocking, especially when you consider that just 15 years ago, there were zero states with a 20 percent obesity rate. The epidemic has spawned an aggressive search for new treatments, including different forms of surgery that radically alter the way patients eat food. Could expanding one such surgery to millions more Americans help ease our epidemic? ABC's Bill Weir went to find out.
Pop Star Boot Camp.
If your average day consists of pacing stages, dancing vigorously, and then sprinting from hoards of tweens, you'd better be in shape. And if you're among the lucky few aspiring pop stars with the talent to get into the boot camp we're about to tell you about, oh you *will* get in shape. Here's ABC's Juju Chang.
The Futurist.
Some experts have predictions for the future down to a science - they're known as futurists. The world's foremost futurist has some controversial concepts for communicating with the dead and even beating death! He tells ABC's John Berman what he thinks is going to happen next.
Host: Cheri Preston
Producer: Ryan Kessler
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