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  • Preview: Discovery

    Preview: Discovery

    July 29, 2010 | 1:00 AM PDT

    The fossilized skull and bones found by a 9-yr-old boy on a fossil hunt with his scientist father are the discovery of a lifetime and may prove to be a new link in the human evolutionary chain. Bob Simon reports. Sunday, August 1, 7 p.m. ET/PT.

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  • Preview: Guiding Light

    Preview: Guiding Light

    July 15, 2010 | 12:30 AM PDT

    Morley Safer interviews the actors and writers behind broadcasting's longest running drama, "Guiding Light," as they celebrate the soap opera's incredible run and discuss its cancellation after 72 years. Sunday, July 18, 7 p.m. ET/PT.

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  • Preview: The Lost Children of Haiti

    Preview: The Lost Children of Haiti

    July 8, 2010 | 1:00 AM PDT

    Scott Pelley reports on the most vulnerable victims of Haiti's earthquake, children who not only face hunger, disease and sexual assault, but a form of slavery that is legal in the Caribbean country. Sunday, July 11, at 7 p.m. ET/PT.

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  • 60 Minutes Presents: Into The Wild

    60 Minutes Presents: Into The Wild

    June 30, 2010 | 11:00 AM PDT

    Join us Sunday for a special hour devoted to the natural world. Scott Pelley visits Kenya, the site of the great wildebeest migration; Bob Simon reports on the secret language of elephants; and Lesley Stahl meets a dinosaur hunter who is shaking up the paleontology world. Sunday, July 4, 7 p.m. ET/PT.

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  • Preview: The Deadliest Weapon

    Preview: The Deadliest Weapon

    May 27, 2010 | 10:32 AM PDT

    Byron Pitts and 60 Minutes cameras spend two days on the road with a bomb-hunting unit in Afghanistan as they encounter one deadly bomb after another. This Sunday, May 30, at a special time, 8 p.m. ET/PT.

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  • 1999: Exxon Valdez, 10 Years Later

    1999: Exxon Valdez, 10 Years Later

    May 25, 2010 | 11:21 AM PDT

    In March 1999 Ed Bradley reported on the Exxon Valdez spill, ten years after it had spilled millions of gallons of crude oil in Alaska's Prince William Sound.

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  • Phthalates: Are They Safe?

    Phthalates: Are They Safe?

    May 23, 2010 | 5:01 PM PDT

    Chemicals called phthalates, found in soft plastic products we use every day, are so ubiquitous that traces of them can be found in everybody. Are they safe or harmful? Lesley Stahl investigates.

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  • What Was Said During The Very First Cell Phone Call?

    What Was Said During The Very First Cell Phone Call?

    May 20, 2010 | 11:34 AM PDT

    Marty Cooper, the inventor of the cell phone, tells Morley Safer about making the first-ever cell phone call in 1973. Safer interviews Cooper for a 60 Minutes profile to be broadcast this Sunday, May 23, at 7 p.m. ET/PT.

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  • Survivor Recalls Harrowing Escape

    Survivor Recalls Harrowing Escape

    May 14, 2010 | 3:30 PM PDT

    Michael Williams recalls his harrowing escape from the burning Deepwater Horizon oil rig. Scott Pelley reports on the disaster this Sunday, May 16, at 7 p.m. ET/PT.

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  • Excerpt: Gustavo Dudamel

    Excerpt: Gustavo Dudamel

    May 14, 2010 | 9:14 AM PDT

    Now that he is the musical director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel wants to transplant in the U.S. the Venezuelan child orchestra system that changed his life. Bob Simon reports this Sunday, May 16, at 7 p.m. ET/PT.

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