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60 Minutes: 02/12
Author: CBS Radio News
Sun, Feb 12, 2012
60 Minutes Correspondent Scott Pelley reports on a Duke University oncologist whose supervisor says he manipulated the data in his study of a breakthrough cancer therapy.
The demand for gold in India accounts for an amazing 32 percent of the worldwide market for the precious metal; and no wonder. The most important tradition at nearly all the 10 million annual weddings in India is the lavish gold jewelry. Correspondent Byron Pitts reports.
Adele's second album has sold nearly 18 million copies worldwide, putting the British singing sensation on top of the charts and up for six Grammys. Correspondent Anderson Cooper talks to Adele about her success and the vocal cord surgery that saved her voice.
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60 Minutes: 02/05
Author: CBS Radio News
Sun, Feb 05, 2012
"60 Minutes Presents": Three Remarkable Women, a special hour hosted by Correspondent Morley Safer. Safer profiles Dolly Parton, Anna Wintour and Meryl Streep.
Dolly Parton, the oh-so-country music superstar with the city-slicker sense of show business, talks to Morley Safer about her childhood, her career and the Broadway production of her film, "9 to 5."
The sunglasses come off the high-queen of haute couture in this rare and unprecedented interview, in which the Vogue editor Anna Wintour reveals why she always wears them and much more to Correspondent Morley Safer in her first lengthy interview for U.S. television.
Two-time Oscar-winner and Grande Dame of American film and stage Meryl Streep sat down with Morley Safer for a rare interview to discuss acting, her career and her latest leading role - as British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
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60 Minutes: 01/29
Author: CBS Radio News
Sun, Jan 29, 2012
Leon Pannetta has balanced the budget, run the CIA and eliminated Osama bin Laden. Now he takes on another great challenge with massive responsibilities, including keeping Iran from producing a nuclear bomb, as the U.S. Secretary of Defense. CBS News Correspondent Scott Pelley reports.
He presides over the most successful entertainment business in America, the wildly popular NFL. Correspondent Steve Kroft interviews Roger Goodell and his $10 billion business model that continues to practically mint money.
The same kinds of exotic, sometimes endangered, big game species found in places like Africa can be hunted here in the U.S. for a price. The ranchers who breed them claim to be preserving them, a notion animal rights people strongly disagree with. Correspondent Lara Logan reports.
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60 Minutes: 01/22
Author: CBS Radio News
Sun, Jan 22, 2012
"60 Minutes Presents: Into the Wild," a special hour devoted to the natural world.
Scott Pelley visits Kenya, the site of the great wildebeest migration, and looks at the threats to this natural spectacle comprised of over a million animals.
Researchers listening to elephant sounds and observing their behavior are compiling an elephant dictionary. Bob Simon goes to Central Africa to listen to the language of the forest elephants first hand.
Jane Goodall brings Lara Logan and 60 MINUTES cameras back to the forests of Tanzania, where she began her love affair with chimpanzees 50 years ago, to remind the public that chimps are endangered.
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60 Minutes: 01/15
Author: CBS Radio News
Sun, Jan 15, 2012
Groupon's Andrew Mason says he may not be as smart, mature or experienced as other CEOs, but being company founder is his edge. 60 Minutes Correspondent, Lesley Stahl's reports.
Qatar, a tiny and prosperous Middle Eastern country with no income taxes and free health care is an island of calm in a sea of unrest as neighbors like Syria, Egypt and Bahrain experience social upheaval. 60 Minutes Correspondent, Bob Simon has more.
At 13 years old, Jake Barnett is already attending college and tutoring his much older "peers." In fact, the math and science prodigy was acing college courses when he was just eight and hopes to use his gift to change the world someday. 60 Minutes Correspondent, Morley Safer reports.
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60 Minutes: 01/08
Author: CBS Radio News
Sun, Jan 08, 2012
Stem cells still have not proven to be the panacea many claimed they could be, yet the Internet is alive with stem cells for sale to treat incurable illnesses. Scott Pelley reports on one man offering to treat cerebral palsy, a procedure that could be endangering patients.
Correspondent Lara Logan reports on five sets of brothers in the Marine Reserves who fought for the right to be on the front line of combat in Afghanistan with their siblings.
European white truffles can sell for as much as $3,600 a pound. But harvests are down and a black market has emerged that has allowed an influx of inferior and cheap Chinese truffles to dilute this lucrative market. Correspondent Lesley Stahl has more.
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60 Minutes: 12/25
Author: CBS Radio News
Sun, Dec 25, 2011
The Vatican library holds some of the oldest and most precious works of art and other treasured literary works known to man, but the Pope is the only one allowed to borrow a book. But now Correspondent Morley Safer and "60 Minutes" cameras have been granted rare access to see the best of the best:
There are monks who have lived a spartan life of prayer, virtually unchanged, for thousands of years in an ancient monastery on a remote peninsula in Northern Greece. Now 60 Minutes Correspondent Bob Simon steps back in time to capture the monastic life, including chanting, rituals, and prayer, and gains rare access to a trove of priceless Byzantine relics stored at Mt. Athos.
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60 Minutes: 12/18
Author: CBS Radio News
Sun, Dec 18, 2011
Recession-fueled foreclosures are causing extremely high vacancy rates in some neighborhoods, ruining the values of the occupied homes and forcing the demolitions of once valuable properties. 60 Minutes Correspondent Scott Pelley reports.
"60 Minutes" cameras take viewers on an underwater adventure off the Cuban coast to one of the world's most pristine and vibrant coral reefs. But as Anderson Cooper reports, reefs like these are already dying.
Meryl Streep, the two-time Oscar-winner and grande dame of American film and stage, sat down with Correspondent Morley Safer for a rare interview to discuss acting, her career and her latest leading role as British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
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60 Minutes: 12/11
Author: CBS Radio News
Sun, Dec 11, 2011
60 Minutes Correspondent Steve Kroft questions President Barack Obama on a wide range of critical topics, including his performance in office, the U.S. economy and unemployment, and the budget woes in Washington.
Legendary investor Warren Buffett has chosen his son Howard to succeed him as head of his multibillion dollar holding company but as Correspondent Lesley Stahl reports, "Howie" - who's a farmer - is no chip off the old block.
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60 Minutes: 12/04
Author: CBS Radio News
Sun, Dec 04, 2011
Two whistleblowers tell 60 Minutes Correspondent Steve Kroft that their warnings about fraudulent and substandard mortgages were ignored by their companies and offer a rare window into the root causes of the subprime mortgage meltdown.
Michael Buble fills concert halls and has sold 35 million albums by covering classic American songs made famous by crooners like Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett. Correspondent Lara Logan profiles this still-rising singer whose current album, "Christmas," is number one.
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60 Minutes: 11/27
Author: CBS Radio News
Sun, Nov 27, 2011
60 Minutes Correspondent Scott Pelley brings "60 Minutes" cameras back to central Florida to document another level of homelessness - kids and their parents living in cars.
Meet the scientists behind the real and artificial flavors that make foods and beverages so tasty. Correspondent Morley Safer reports on this fascinating industry that food manufacturers depend on, but which critics say make some people dependent on less-than-healthy food choices.
60 Minutes Correspondent Bob Simon profiles international film star Angelina Jolie, who has gone behind the camera to direct a film for the first time.
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60 Minutes: 11/20
Author: CBS Radio News
Sun, Nov 20, 2011
60 Minutes Correspondent Steve Kroft interviews Grover Norquist, the man many blame for holding up the deficit-reduction process because of the anti-tax pledges he has obtained from nearly all the Republican politicians in Washington.
She writes and sings all her own songs, sells millions of records and she's just 21 years old. Correspondent Lesley Stahl profiles music sensation Taylor Swift.
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60 Minutes: 11/13/11
Author: CBS Radio News
Sun, Nov 13, 2011
60 Minutes Correspondent Steve Kroft reports on how American lawmakers can legally buy stock based on non-public information.
A non-lethal device has saved many lives and prevented serious injury to suspects and police, say law enforcement advocates, but a new study says some authorities use it too quickly causing unnecessary pain and sometimes death. Correspondent David Martin reports.
University President Freeman Hrabowski has turned the University of Maryland Baltimore County into a well-known producer of outstanding scientists and engineers, many of whom are minorities. Correspondent Byron Pitts reports.
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60 Minutes: 11/06
Author: CBS Radio News
Sun, Nov 06, 2011
On 60 Minutes ex-lobbyist--now ex-convict--Jack Abramoff tells Lesley Stahl that lobbyists can continue to skirt ethics reform. Scott Pelley reports on a program that takes wounded warriors back to the battlefield in an effort to help provide them closure. And Morley Safer remembers legendary "60 Minutes" commentator Andy Rooney.
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60 Minutes: 10/30
Author: CBS Radio News
Sun, Oct 30, 2011
In their first interview about the crimes of Bernard Madoff, his wife Ruth and son Andrew tell 60 Minutes Correspondent Morley Safer how the man who scammed billions of dollars confessed his crimes to them, their reaction and the subsequent family strife of the past three years.
Beating the odds in a fight against cancer for most people would mean staying alive. For Mark Herzlich, who was diagnosed with bone cancer while he was a football star at Boston College, living meant playing football in the NFL. Correspondent Byron Pitts reports.
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60 Minutes: 10/23/11
Author: CBS Radio News
Sun, Oct 23, 2011
In his first interview about the visionary Apple CEO Steve Jobs, biographer Walter Isaacson reveals the private Jobs that few knew. Jobs also tells his story in his own words which Isaacson recorded in over 40 interviews he conducted. Among the revelations: Jobs refused early and possibly life-saving surgery on the cancer that eventually killed him a few weeks ago. Steve Kroft reports.
Autistic people whose condition prevents them from speaking are making breakthroughs with the help of tablet computers and special applications that allow them to communicate, some for the first time. Lesley Stahl reports
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60 Minutes: 10/16/11
Author: CBS Radio News
Sun, Oct 16, 2011
With the war in Afghanistan now ten years old, guerrilla tactics continue to exact a high human toll. General John Allen, the man in charge of the war, tells CBS News Correspondent Scott Pelley that some U.S. troops will need to be there longer than most Americans thought.
Vincent van Gogh's paintings are among the most well-known in the world, just like the story of his life and death. Now, the authors of a new biography say their exhaustive investigation strongly indicates he may not have taken his own life. CBS News Correspondent Morley Safer reports.
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60 Minutes: 10/09/11
Author: CBS Radio News
Sun, Oct 09, 2011
Can General Electric Chairman Jeffrey Immelt, whose company has been racking up big profits overseas, help create jobs in America? Lesley Stahl has the interview.
Despite ousting the dictator whose regime repressed and tortured citizens for decades, Egyptians now face the same treatment from the country's military they endured under President Hosni Mubarak. Bob Simon reports.
He doesn't put on the pads or walk the sidelines, but Drew Rosenhaus, the agent who represents the most NFL players, is a force to be reckoned with. Scott Pelley reports.
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60 Minutes: 10/02
Author: CBS Radio News
Sun, Oct 02, 2011
The relationship between the Japanese town of Otsuchi and its "sister city" Ft. Bragg, Calif., took on a new and powerful meaning after Otsuchi was inundated by the tsunami. Bob Simon reports. "60 Minutes" cameras follow free-solo climber Alex Honnold as he scales a 1,600-ft. canyon wall using only his hands and feet. Laura Logan interviews Honnold about his climbing and the sport he has mastered at the age of 26. Morley Safer profiles his colleague Andy Rooney as he makes his final regular appearence on the broadcast. Those stories on this edition of 60 Minutes.
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60 Minutes: 09/25/11
Author: CBS Radio News
Sun, Sep 25, 2011
In this edition of 60 Minutes, Correspondent Scott Pelley talks to New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly about his department's various anti-terrorism programs. 60 Minutes Correspondent Lesley Stahl tells the story of a white-supremacist killed by his 10-year-old son and Correspondent Steve Kroft sits down with the creators of South Park to discuss their Broadway hit The Book of Mormon.
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