There will be a very high-profile addition to Stanford University on Monday. After a 10-year absence, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice returns to the Hoover Institution think tank. She won't be teaching right away, but she plans to hold seminars and after-dinner talks in student dorms. We visit the campus to find out how she'll be received. Reporter: Scott Shafer
Music Bridge 1: "Variation One" performed by the Jacques Loussier Trio, from the CD "Theme and Variations: Beethoven Allegretto from Symphony #7" (Telarc)
Plummeting real estate prices have been excruciating for many California home owners. But the drop is spurring a new kind of visitor to the state: Chinese real estate tourists looking for bargain investments. We meet with a real estate buying tour who flew into Los Angeles this week from Beijing.Reporter: Rob Schmitz
China is clearly up on what's happening in California, but just how attuned is California to China? Well, here's one measure: The basic public school curriculum in our state pays very little attention to China. One Northern California school district is trying to change that by giving teachers first-hand experience in the world's largest country. Reporter: Stephanie Martin
Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter Eleni Mandell defies easy categorizing. Her music moves easily from hard-edged rock, to jazz, pop -- and even country. We review Mandell's latest CD, "Artificial Fire."Reporter: Steve Hochman
In a corrections facility filled to twice its capacity, inmates at San Quentin Prison have created a tiny retreat within the prison-yard walls: an organic garden. We visit the prison to find out how roses and geraniums exist in a world of razor wire and execution chambers.Reporter: Jacob Fenston
End Music: "Rock And Roll (Could Never Hip Hop Like This)" performed by the Handsome Boy Modeling School, from the CD "White People" (Atlantic)
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