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Transplant Taken Away
Tiffany Tate was told by the state of Arizona that Medicaid will no longer cover her double lung transplant.
(Credit: CBS)This was one of the most difficult interviews I have done in a long time.
When a 27-year-old looks you in the eye and says she is going to die, there is not much you can say. You have to carry on with the interview while your heart is breaking for her. However, no matter how hard it was for me to talk to her about it, Tiffany Tate's struggle is exponentially tougher and what really matters.
Continue »Katie Couric's Notebook: Baby Sports
YouTube is filled with babies with seemingly miraculous skills.
They recite poetry, sing Beatles songs and dance to Lady Gaga. And, of course, they play sports.
Countless parents have posted proof that they're grooming the next A-Rod or Tiger Woods.
But the athletic-baby boom goes well beyond YouTube, according to the New York Times. A host of new businesses are encouraging parents to start kids in sports... before they're even out of diapers.
The Little Gym, for instance, offers classes for tots as young as four months.... And Lil' Kickers enrolls budding soccer stars as early as 18 months. Some experts warn that if parents push too hard, such training could stress kids out or even cause injuries.
There's nothing wrong with wanting our children to succeed, in sports and in life. But let's keep the pressure cooker on low. The goals that really matter aren't on the soccer field... they're the ones kids set for themselves.
That's a page from my notebook.
Katie Couric's Notebook: Targeted Ads
Browse for new shoes, and suddenly you get ads from shoe stores. Check the price of a flight to Florida and see ads from hotels there. That's no coincidence, of course. Web sites have gotten very good at tracking us.
Rice Talks "American Exceptionalism"
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Katie Couric in New York, Dec. 3, 2010.
(Credit: Don Pollard/CFR)Last week, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was interviewed by Katie Couric at the Council on Foreign Relations as part of its Home Box Office History Makers Series.
(Scroll down to watch the full interview.)
Rice served as Secretary of State from 2005 until the end of the George W. Bush administration in 2009.
Continue »Katie Couric's Notebook: Political Courage
If you had a serious illness, you'd probably want your doctor to give it to you straight.
But our representatives in Washington don't seem to grasp that. They refuse to take bold steps to get our financial house in order by administering the tough medicine we may not like but the country needs.
The nation's nearly $14 trillion dollar debt is widely considered a grave threat to our economic future.
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How to Get to a Stranded Story? By Snowmobile
Vehicles are stranded on the New York State Thruway during a winter storm in Buffalo, N.Y., Thursday, Dec. 2, 2010.
(Credit: AP Photo)In hindsight, making the flight from JFK to Buffalo with three hour's notice was the easy part. Getting from Buffalo to, well, anywhere else, was the hard part.
I was sent to Buffalo with CBS News correspondent Elaine Quijano to cover the lake-effect snowstorm that, combined with a jack-knifed semi, caused a major backup on Interstate 90, stranding more than 100 motorists in their vehicles for, in some cases, more than a day.
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Continue »Katie Couric's Notebook: a New START
That always-ready reptile was a symbol of the Cold War, which reached a boiling point in the 1950s. But by the late 1960s, cooler heads prevailed...and arms control negotiations between the U.S. and the Soviet Union led to the SALT treaty.
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Katie Couric's Notebook: Deficit
President Obama's debt commission was charged with a nearly impossible task: Figure out a way to cut spending and bring in more money that both parties could support.
Yeah -- good luck with that.
Continue »Couric Honors Drew Brees, Sports Illustrated's Sportsman of the Year
Sportsman of the Year Drew Brees and Katie Couric pose with the trophy onstage during the 2010 Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year Celebration at IAC Building on November 30, 2010 in New York City. (Photo by Jemal Countess/Getty Images)
Last night, Katie Couric introduced Drew Brees, before he accepted the Sportsman of the Year trophy from Sports Illustrated. Her speech comments are below. Scroll down to watch the video from Sports Illustrated.
I am truly honored to be here tonight to celebrate the career of one of the most influential figures of our time - of course I'm talking about the new spokesman for Nyquil. Drew, I know it's the sniffling, sneezing, coughing, aching, stuffy head, fever so you can rest medicine, but please try to stay away from it before games.
Let me take you back to February 7, 2010. It was Super Bowl Sunday. I had just finished an interview with President Obama, and my team and I left the White House and made our way through the aftermath of an epic snowstorm to try to get a train back to New York.
We stopped at a sports bar across the street from Union Station to get something to eat, and the game had just started. It was playing on a jumbo screen in the restaurant. I ate my cheeseburger in peace, because all eyes were glued on the big star in the room, and that was all anyone cared about at that moment. This night was about much more than football. It was a new beginning for a city that still desperately needed to a second chance - and in Drew Breesus - they saw the second coming.
Continue »Katie Couric's Notebook: Climate Change
The debate over global warming is once again heating up in Washington.
Roughly half of the newly elected Republican congress members are climate change skeptics, according to one survey, and some want to roll back environmental regulations.
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