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Katie Couric's Notebook: Pulitzer Prize Winners

Apr 19, 3:00PM by Katie Couric Topics Katie Couric's Notebook
Today, the 2011 Pulitzer Prize winners were announced - 20 categories in all, ranging from international and investigative reporting to drama. In the public service category, a story you may remember from the Los Angeles Times about corruption and sky-high salaries among city officials in Bell, California.

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Gulf Coast seafood safe enough to eat?

Apr 18, 7:22PM by Megan Towey Topics Field Notes
NOAA Testing

Fish being tested at the NOAA seafood safety lab in Pascagoula, Miss.

(Credit: CBS/Megan Towey)

PASCAGOULA - Miss. - All along the Gulf Coast, seafood is big business. Commercial fishermen, sports fishermen, restaurants, marinas and seafood distributors all depend on the waters of the Gulf to support themselves and their families. But since last April, the safety of their product has been called into question. People around the country have been wondering - "is it safe? Have the fish been tainted by the oil that gushed from the Deepwater Horizon well for months last summer?"

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Katie Couric's Notebook: stealing pens

Apr 18, 5:26PM by Katie Couric Topics Katie Couric's Notebook

Urban Dictionary.com calls it cleptopenia. It might not be a true clinical disorder, but it's certainly an epidemic.

You know how the story goes.

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Day in the life: 12 hours with the business team

Apr 15, 1:24PM by Guy Campanile Topics Behind The Scenes
Day in the life Timothy Geithner Interview (Credit: CBS/AP)

What does it take to get a story on television? 

CBS News business producer Guy Campanile offers a behind the scenes look at his day yesterday, when Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner was interviewed for the CBS Evening News.

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Katie Couric's notebook: Food prices

Apr 13, 9:35PM by Katie Couric Topics Katie Couric's Notebook

Next time you grab an item off the supermarket shelf, look closely. You may be getting fewer bites for your buck. As the cost of raw goods has soared, some food-makers have opted to shrink the sizes of familiar products rather than boost their prices.

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Katie Couric's Notebook: Recidivism

Apr 13, 8:41PM by Katie Couric Topics Katie Couric's Notebook

Given how much states spend on prisons, you would think they'd have proper doors - the kind that open and shut, instead of just revolving.

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Katie Couric's notebook: Civil War

Apr 12, 9:21PM by Katie Couric Topics Katie Couric's Notebook

A house divided against itself cannot stand." When Abraham Lincoln spoke those words, the Mason-Dixon Line cut across the east like a wall - free states to the north and slave states to the south.

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Katie Couric's notebook: college learning

Apr 8, 9:35PM by Katie Couric Topics Katie Couric's Notebook

Parents of college kids might remember the old Sam Cooke song: don't know much about history, don't know much biology. It's a tune their children could be singing today.

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Katie Couric's notebook: jobs of the future

Apr 7, 9:35PM by Katie Couric Topics Katie Couric's Notebook

After a long icy winter, there are finally signs the economy is starting to thaw. Unemployment is down to 8.8 percent, the lowest level in two years, and the economy added 216-thousand jobs last month alone.

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Katie Couric's Notebook: OMG OED

Apr 6, 11:07PM by Katie Couric Topics Katie Couric's Notebook

An initialism is an abbreviation made from the first letters of words in a phrase. For, example, M-I-T is an initialism for Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

It stands for a series of words, but it's never been a word in and of itself.

Until now - FYI.

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