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Katie Couric's Notebook: Women's uniforms
A quarter-million American women have proudly worn the uniform during our two long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. So, you would think the military would have given them uniforms that fit.
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Katie Couric's Notebook: Reading skills
The statistics are grim. Each school day, 7,000 students drop out of high school - that's 1.2 million every year.
Continue »Katie Couric's Notebook: License plates
If you happen to be listening to this notebook on CBS Radio, there's a good chance you're in a car - maybe just beginning your evening commute home.
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Katie Couric's Notebook: April is the cruelest month
"April is the cruelest month."
That line from T.S. Eliot's poem "The Waste Land" comes back to me every year when I remember the anniversaries of some of the most difficult stories I've had to cover.
Continue »Katie Couric's Notebook: Time 100
If there were a Time 100 list of influential people back in 1776, I think Thomas Paine would be right at the top. Back then social media was the printing press, and his pamphlet "Common Sense" certainly got the colonists all a twitter.
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Katie Couric's Notebook: Wedding dress
I swear this headline actually crossed the AP wire: Middleton's Dress Likely to Be an Influential One.
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Katie Couric's Notebook: McDonald's
What do Pink, Jay Leno and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos all have in common? I'll give you a hint: You deserve a break today.
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Katie Couric's Notebook: Pulitzer Prize Winners
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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Katie Couric's Notebook: stealing pens
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.
Continue »Katie Couric's notebook: Food prices
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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