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RECAP: November 22
Get ready for the holidays with "CBS News Sunday Morning"'s annual Food Issue, and check out the CBS News "Sunday Morning" Recipes Index for tasty selections from our guests, contributors, and Bon Appetit Magazine!

COVER STORY: Fighting Hunger in a Land of Plenty
Thanksgiving is a time to celebrate good food, family, and community - and with our economy struggling, millions of volunteers across the country are pulling together this holiday season to make sure that every American has a seat at the table.

We've all heard of "food banks," but few people know the concept is fairly new. The idea began with one man, John Van Hengel, who in 1967 convinced supermarkets in Phoenix, Arizona, to donate excess or slightly damaged food (dented cans of soup, for example) to feed the hungry. He "banked" the food to a central location, where people could make "withdrawals" when they needed it - hence the "food bank," as he called it, was born.

Today they help feed more than 25 million Americans.

Feeding America is the largest food bank organization in the country, with 205 distribution centers nationwide providing food to an astonishing 63,000 agencies - churches, soup kitchens, after-school programs - who in turn feed the hungry. Feeding America has become big business, because the demand is big, and they’ve enlisted some big-name help - rock star Sheryl Crow has written a song, "All We Need," which will soon be available exclusively on iTunes, the proceeds from which will go to Feeding America. Sheryl Crow talks with "Sunday Morning" about why she wrote the song, and why she feels so passionate about volunteering to help those less fortunate.

For more info:
Feeding America
St. Mary’s Food Bank
California Association of Food Banks
Alameda County Community Food Banks
Phoenix Rescue Mission

CUTLERY: The Cutting Edge
Jerry Bowen introduces our viewers to knifemaker Bob Kramer, one of only 114 Master Bladesmiths in the world, certified by the American Bladesmith Society. Kramer is so good his hand-made knives sell for $300 . . . an inch! . . . and there is a 14-month wait for them.

For more info:
kramerknives.com
American Bladesmith Society
Kramer/Shun Knives
Kramer/Meiji Knives

BOBBY FLAY: Let's Give a Hand to Sliders
When it comes to making a great burger, chef Bobby Flay shows why we should think small.

For more info:
bobbyflay.com
White Castle
Krystal
Beef Aficionado (Blog by Nick Solares)
A Hamburger Today (Blog)
L'Atelier de Joel Robuchon
Fatty Crab
8th Street Wine Cellar
Five Napkin Burger

SAVING GRACE: A Meal That's Divine
A Catholic priest with a cooking show? Pretty unexpected. But Father Leo Patalinghug is preaching a tasty but serious message with his show and cookbook, "Grace Before Meals." He wants families to eat dinner together, and to enjoy food together more often. He's teaching bite-sized theology along with his more epicurean recipes. Rita Braver cooks along with this dynamic young priest.

For more info:
gracebeforemeals.com
About Father Leo Patalinghug
"Grace Before Meals: Recipes for Family Life" (Excerpt)

MARTHA TEICHNER: The Pleasures of Cooking for One
The pleasures of cooking for one, from 85-year-old Judith Jones, the woman who brought Julia Child to the American table. Martha Teichner takes us into the Vermont kitchen of Jones, a legendary food editor and now cookbook writer, to learn the secrets of elegant dining for one.

For more info:
"The Pleasures of Cooking for One" by Judith Jones (Knopf)
judithjonescooks.com
"Julie & Julia" available on Blu-ray and DVD

NANCY GILES: Table for One
Nancy Giles takes us into her kitchen, where she contemplates the challenges of going solo at meal times in a family-size world.

CULINARY EDUCATION: Cooking Students Who Pan for Gold
There's something cooking in the culinary arts program at Frankford High School in Philadelphia, and it’s not just the omelets and cakes. Teacher Wilma Stephenson is giving new futures to the inner-city students who come to her classes.

As seen in the documentary "Pressure Cooker," Stephenson sees that her students know not only their way around the kitchen - she also prepares them for life after high school. They routinely earn tens of thousand of dollars in a city-wide scholarship program.

Correspondent Jim Axelrod spent a day in Stephenson’s classroom, finding that she doesn’t pull her punches as she pushes her students to be their best. And we catch up with one of her former students, who is now working in an upscale Manhattan restaurant.

For more info:
"Pressure Cooker" (Take Part)
Non Sequitur Productions
Careers through Culinary Arts Program
Ringo Restaurant
Monroe College

COMFORT FOOD: All Hail Mac and Cheese!
It's one of the all-time great comfort foods . . . macaroni and cheese. Creamy, crispy, with breadcrumbs or without, and all that cheese, everyone has their own way of making it. This Sunday Morning, correspondent Serena Altschul looks at the history of macaroni and cheese and how the famous blue-boxed Kraft version changed dinnertime during the Great Depression. The all-American classic has also become one of the hottest trends in food.

We visit Macbar in New York City, which has nothing on its menu but different variations of mac and cheese; and the Waverly Inn & Garden, which serves its high-end clients possibly the most opulent take on this simple dish: topped with white truffles and priced at nearly $100.

For more info:
Macbar
54 Prince Street
New York City
Waverly Inn & Garden
16 Bank Street
New York City
(no Web site or phone)
"The Hunger: A Story of Food, Desire and Ambition" by John DeLucie (Ecco Press)
"American Cheeses: The Best Regional, Artisan, and Farmhouse Cheeses" by Clark Wolf (Simon & Schuster)
Clark Wolf Company
"Macaroni & Cheese" by Marlena Spieler (Chronicle Books)
Marlenaspieler.com
Noel Barnhurst Food Photography
Kraft Foods
Culinary Arts Museum at Johnson & Wales University

LIQUOR: Moonshine
Moonshine . . . corn liquor . . . white lightning . . . is no longer made only in the still of the night. With legit distilleries now turning out handcrafted batches of the stuff, it's as authentic as what you'd find in the hills, except that it's legal. Correspondent Tracy Smith goes on a North Carolina moonshine run.

For more info:
piedmontdistillers.com
Midnight Moon

GOOD CHEMISTRY: The Science Behind Alton Brown's TV Fare
Applying knowledge of chemistry in the kitchen is this filmmaker-turned-star-chef's recipe for success. Mark Strassmann visits Brown on the set of his Food Network show "Good Eats."

For more info:
altonbrown.com
"Good Eats" with Alton Brown (Food Network)

THE FAST DRAW: Eating In The "Old Days"
In the 21st century, many of us are calorie-conscious, but how do we compare to our ancestors who lived in caves with no refrigerator or microwave? Mitch Butler and Josh Landis explain.

BILL GEIST: Pie for Life!
Royer's Round Top Café in Round Top, Texas, has become famous for pies, which Bud "The Pie Man" Royer started making back in 1987. His small café has a big idea: Royer has announced a new program called "Pie For Life." That's right: You can have a pie delivered to you every month for the rest of your life! But it doesn't come cheap. The price varies according to the customer's life expectancy - $10,000 for a 50-year-old (more if you don't live in Texas) - and that's not even taking into account the effect eating all of those pies will have on your lifespan, which no one has quite figured out.

Bill Geist travels to Round Top to taste Royer's famed pies for himself, and to find out what it will cost him to have pie forever.

For more info:
Royers Round Top Cafe
[phone]

NATURE: Cranberry Bog

Recipes related to "Eat, Drink & Be Merry" from our guests, contributors, and Bon Appetit Magazine can be found
here.

Table settings for our show were provided by:
Stickley, Audi & Co.
Target

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RECAP: November 15

COVER STORY: A Ranch Fit for a King (of Texas)
For more than a century-and-a-half, the Lone Star State of Texas has loomed large in the American imagination. And for almost as long, the members of one prominent family and their sprawling ranch lands have loomed large over Texas. This morning the family is letting us inside the gates to take a rare look around, with our Jerry Bowen as guide.

For more info:
king-ranch.com
King Ranch Saddle Shop
King Ranch Museum
Texas Monthly

THE ALMANAC: Joey Buttafuoco

ART: The Army's Hidden Treasures
A major art collection of works done mostly by U.S. Army soldiers about Army troops from America’s earliest wars to present day, includes paintings, drawing and sculptures by famous American artists (including Norman Rockwell), as well as by infamous Nazis (including Adolf Hitler).

And it is all hidden from public view behind closed doors in the basement of an office building in Washington, D.C. Rita Braver reports on what she saw . . . and others can not.

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For more info:
United States Center for Military History
"They Drew Fire" (PBS)

TECHNOLOGY: The App Revolution Will Be Mobilized
They have become the modern-day Swiss Army knife: Smartphones getting even smarter with the help of tiny, often quirky applications, nicknamed apps. They can be downloaded directly to an iPhone or Blackberry or Google Android, teaching it to perform everything from the practical (like finding the nearest drugstore) to the parlor trick (like telling you what constellation of stars is directly above you).

With more than 100,000 apps for sale in the software's megamall, the Apple Apps store, it seems there truly is an app for everything. More than two billion apps have been downloaded since July 2008. While many of them are free, there is often a small purchase cost of a dollar or two. You don't need an app to add up what that means: A potential $4.2 billion industry by 2013, ten times what it is today.

Daniel Sieberg takes a look at some of the most useful and quirky apps out today, and talks to a few of the innovators at the cutting edge of this booming industry.

For more info:
tapulous.com
Apple Apps Store
Blackberry App World
Android App Market

THE MOVIES: Apocalypse Soon: End Days at the Multiplex
The world won't end in the year 2012, as a new movie would have it. Scientifically valid or not, there's an audience for films such as "2012" and "The Road," as our critic David Edelstein explains.

For more info:
"2012" (Official Movie Web Site)
"The Road" (Official Movie Web Site)
"The Road" (Official Movie Web Site)
The Projectionist (David Edelstein's Movie Blog)

A POSTCARD FROM CHINA: The Silk Road
For more info:
"Traveling the Silk Road: Ancient Pathway to the Modern World" (American Museum of Natural History)

FOOD: Cart Cuisine

SUNDAY PROFILE: Keith Urban's Rough Ride to Country Fame
Yes, he has a famous wife, but Grammy-winning country music artist Keith Urban also has the love of his fans . . . and the scars to prove it. Tracy Smith walks a country mile with the platinum-selling singer this Sunday Morning.

For more info:
keithurban.net

OPINION: Honoring Those Amidst Gardens of Stone
This past week's Veterans Day observances had deep personal meaning for countless Americans . . . not least our guest contributor James Gordon Meek.

ENDER: Love Lost and Found
Steve Hartman with a couple who took 50 years to reach their happy ending.

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NATURE: Moose in Glacier National Park in Montana

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RECAP: November 8

COVER STORY: Inoculating Against Fear of Vaccination
Vaccines have long been regarded, with much justification, as one of the greatest medical innovations in human history. But in some communities, people are opting out of the new H1N1 vaccine in significant numbers over safety fears. Are vaccines still a healthy choice? Tracy Smith reports.

For more info:
"Vaccine: The Controversial Story of Medicine's Greatest Lifesaver" by Arthur Allen (Norton)
National Vaccine Information Center (private, vaccine critical organization)
Infectious Diseases Division, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
michaelspecter.com
"Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives" by Michael Specter (Penguin)

SUNDAY ALMANAC: Milton Bradley Is Born

SUNDAY JOURNAL: Fort Hood Shootings
Thurday's shootings at an Army base in Texas shocked the nation ... and prompted a host of questions for which there are still few answers. Don Teague reports.

FASHION: Plus-Size Models Take Charge
As part of our occasional look at SIZE MATTERS . . . Michelle Miller investigates how the ultra-thin are falling out of fashion.

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HISTORY: The Righteous
Tomorrow night marks a painful anniversary for many who survived the run-up to World War II - Kristallnacht. It also provides an opportunity to remember the bravery of the Righteous . . . the citizens of a tiny country who risked their own lives to shelter the most desperate of refugees. Jim Axelrod tells a pair of remarkable stories:

For more info:
"God's House" (documentary)
Eye Contact Foundation
"Besa: Muslims Who Saved Jews in World War II" - Photographs by Norman Gershman (Syracuse University Press)
"Flight from the Reich: Refugee Jews, 1933-1946" by Robert Jan van Pelt and Deborah Dwork (W.W. Norton)
"Illyria: A Journey of Resistance" (documentary by Myriam Abramowicz)

THE TOMORROW SHOW: Noise
Most of us are trying to avoid all the noise around us, while some are paying good money for all things loud. To find out what's next in this sonic revolution, Mo Rocca takes a trip into the future of noise.

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THE FAST DRAW: Biomimicry
Scientists trying to design a cleaner and more energy efficient world have more sources of inspiration at hand than many of them may think.

SUNDAY PROFILE: David Foster
He’s written or produced some of the biggest hit songs of the past 40 years, worked with giants like Barbra Streisand, Michael Jackson and Andrea Bocelli, and discovered Celine Dion, Josh Groban and Michael Buble. He’s David Foster, winner of 15 Grammys and one of the most successful producers in the music industry.

Correspondent Sandra Hughes talks with Foster about his life, his work, and the stars he’s met along the way.

For more info:
davidfoster.com

PHOTOS: The Year the Berlin Wall Fell
History marks November 9th, 1989 as the day the Berlin Wall came tumbling down. But as veteran photojournalist Peter Turnley relates, it was a revolution years in the making. And the tidal wave of change didn’t stop at the Wall, but it continued throughout the rest of that year, bringing down Communist regimes in the former Czechoslovakia and in Romania.

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ESSAY: After the Berlin Wall Fell
Mark Phillips visits with Berlin residents of a certain age who remember where they were when the Wall that scarred their city fell 20 years ago tomorrow.

ENDER: "Sesame Street" Is Now 40 Years Young
Say hello to Big Bird and Cookie Monster . . . here to help us celebrate the 40th anniversary of of a children's television classic this coming Tuesday. It's the sort of occasion for which the phrase "children of all ages" was invented, as our Martha Teichner would be the first to tell you.

NATURE: Sumatra
We leave you this Sunday Morning in the rainforests of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, a green and leafy home for wild orangutans and monkeys.

For more info:
Kalaweit.org
orangutan.net

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RECAP: November 1

COVER STORY: The Science of Magic: Not Just Hocus-Pocus
No matter how smart we think we are, or how old we get, most of us are still just baffled kids when it comes to magic. So why do we keep getting fooled? And why do we enjoy the deception?

Teller, the quiet half of Penn and Teller, has broken his silence to reveal a few secrets. In an unlikely partnership, Teller and five fellow magicians have teamed up with neuroscientists to begin a new area of research that some are calling “Magicology.” The goal is to understand better how the human mind processes information by figuring out why magic tricks continually deceive us.

As it turns out, if there is an art to performing magic, then there’s a science in being tricked. Correspondent John Blackstone speaks with Teller and with Mac King, both magicians who are working on the latest research. We’ll also check in with the two Harvard-educated neuroscientists who started it all. And finally, we’ll hear from an expert on the history of magic about the timeless appeal of illusion.

For more info:
pennandteller.com
Neural Correlate Society
Barrow Neurological Institute
"Magic and the Brain" (Scientific American, Dec. 2008)
mackingshow.com
"Magic: 1400s - 1950s" - Edited by Noel Daniel; Written by Mike Caveney, Jim Steinmeyer and Ricky Jay (Taschen Books)

THE ALMANAC: Sistine Chapel
On November 1, 1512 ... 497 years ago today ... the Italian Renaissance reached a dazzling new height.

HALLOWEEN: Pumpkins
Faith Salie on the holiday's favorite gourd.

For more info:
The 5th Annual Great Jack o' Lantern Blaze (Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y.)

FRIENDS: Shooting Stars
Every once in a while a generation of sports fans gets lucky, and the stars align to bring two great champions face to face: Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier, Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer, Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova. They pushed each other to heights of performance neither could have achieved on their own. And for basketball fans of the 1980s and early '90s, there was no greater rivalry than the one between Larry Bird and Magic Johnson.

From the day Johnson triumphed over Bird to win the college championship, their careers were forever entwined - Bird was the "Great White Hope” playing with the blue-collar Boston Celtics, Johnson the flashy, fast-breaking leader of the Los Angeles Lakers. It’s no surprise they became obsessed with each other, always keeping an eye on what the other was doing, driving themselves so as not to be outdone by the other.

"My goal my whole career was trying to knock his two front teeth out," Larry Bird said of Magic. For his part, Magic Johnson replied, "Normally, I have a nice big smile. But Larry Bird took that smile right away."

What is surprising, as correspondent Jim Axelrod finds out in fascinating interviews with both men, is that after years of battling on the court, Larry Bird and Magic Johnson somehow became best friends, and more; “I love him like a member of my own family” says Bird about Johnson.

It’s the story of two legendary athletes, and how a bitter rivalry turned into a lifelong friendship.

For more info:
magicjohnson.org
nba.com
nba.com
Indiana Pacers
"When the Game Was Ours" by Larry Bird and Earvin "Magic" Johnson, with Jackie MacMullan (Houghton Mifflin) | Excerpt
Legend of French Lick Inn & Resort

STEVE HARTMAN: Blind Man Adopts Son He'd Been Looking For
People will adopt older kids. They'll adopt disabled kids and neglected kids. Kids who can't read, kids who can't talk - there are people willing to adopt. But all those things in one child? Steve Hartman reports there are few who want that.

THE MOVIES: The Unlikely Journey of "Precious"
Katie Couric interviews the filmmakers behind the uncompromising new film, including the novelist Sapphire, whose book "Push" became the basis of the critically-acclaimed drama; director Lee Daniels; and actress Gabourey Sidibe.

For more info:
"Precious" (Official Movie Web Site)

HALLOWEEN: Zombies
A look at the zombies throughout history and at their current popularity. Find out how zombie fans pay homage to the living dead; also, an interview with Max Brooks, author of the bestselling books "World War Z" and "The Zombie Survival Guide."

For more info:
Resident Evil
Zombie Pin-up Calendar
The Zombie Handbook
Max Brooks (Recorded Attacks)
maxbrooks.com
The Hope Lounge
The N.Y.C. Zombie Crawl

SUNDAY PROFILE: The Brothers Gibb Return
Hit songs such as "Jive Talkin'" won the Bee Gees a place in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Now, in the aftermath of personal loss and estrangement, the two surviving Bee Gees are back in harmony once again. Anthony Mason makes a visit.

For more info:
beegees.com
Bee Gees on Facebook
Bee Gees on MySpace

BY THE NUMBERS: Week Ending November 1

BILL GEIST: Mustaches
Bill Geist knows what it's like to live with a mustache - for most of the last 40 years he's had his. So when he heard about the guys that started the "American Mustache Institute" he just had to meet them.

This week he travels to St. Louis, where in the shadow of the Gateway Arch (the "largest mustache in the world"), mustache lovers gathered to celebrate and defend their own mustaches and all mustached Americans. The Mayor proclaims Friday "Mustache Day," and the AMI holds their annual "'Stache Bash" where they announce the winner of the "Robert Goulet Mustached American of the Year Award" - given to the person who over the past year best personified and contributed to the mustached American way of life. Voting was held online and the impressive nominees included Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, sports figures like Clay Zavada and the Cardinals' Brendan Ryan, Attorney General Eric Holder (the first mustached Attorney General since 1946), White House Senior Adviser David Axelrod, and our own Bill Geist.

And the winner is . . . ?

For more info:
American Mustache Institute
"Highest Duty: My Search for What Really Matters" by Captain Chesley B. Sullenberger III

NATURE: Spiders!

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RECAP: October 25

Special Report: "Size Matters"

COVER STORY: Obesity: A Weighty Issue
America is supersized. Collectively, we’re four and a half billion pounds too heavy, and our health care system is straining from the weight of it all. In our cover story, correspondent Seth Doane examines how we got so fat, and what it’s doing to our health, to our economy, and to our children, who face the prospect of a shorter life expectancy than their parents because of this national health crisis.

He talks with Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius about administration efforts to fight obesity; a former Surgeon General who first sounded the alarm of an obesity epidemic nearly a decade ago; and a restaurant dietitian trying to put a healthy spin on fast food.

For more info:
Healthy Weight (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
Trust for America's Health

ART: A Body of Work
Plus-size, full-figured, even enormous - those are the women often considered the most beautiful by artists throughout history. Martha Teichner is our guide to the human body as seen through the eyes of artists.

For more info:
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Louvre Museum
Prado Museum
National Academy Museum
Musee Conde
"Looking Around" (Richard Lacayo blog)
Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Art Institute of Chicago
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
Artists Rights Society

BY THE NUMBERS

DIET: The Axis of Food Evil: Fat, Sugar and Salt
According to Dr. David Kessler - former head of the FDA, famous for his crusade against Big Tobacco - the food industry has perfected the science of making food we are simply unable to resist. By loading dishes with salt, sugar and fat, restaurants and fast-food joints have us at their mercy, triggering a frenzy of activity in our brains that is the result of eons of evolution.

But is it fair to demonize businesses for providing customers with what they want: inexpensive and plentiful meals as a reward for our hectic lives? Serena Altschul reports.

PROFILE: Physique Helps Mo'Nique Strike It Big
In a world where it seems everyone wants to be thin, Mo'Nique is a big girl, and she's not apologizing for it. In fact, she's made her "big and proud" message a central part of her new nightly talk show on BET.

She's also brought that message to standup comedy, sitcoms, books and movies. Her latest movie, "Precious," is already getting her some Oscar buzz.

Mo'Nique says she was big from birth, and ever since she's challenged the world to accept her as she is. She recognizes that too big can be too unhealthy, but it took an intervention by her husband to convince her that even Mo'Nique was getting a little too hefty.

Correspondent Mark Strassmann goes backstage to take a peek into the big, big world of Mo'Nique.

For more info:
moniqueworldwide.com
bet.com

A NUMBER OF REASONS: At Duke, Doctors Teach Obesity Ownership
The frontline battle against obesity is taking place in doctors' offices, not in the gym. Doctors claim that new medications are on the way to help people in the deadly battle against obesity. Rita Braver also travels to the Duke Diet and Fitness Center, the gold standard in treating obesity, to examine how they use the latest advances in medicine, psychology, nutrition and fitness to deal with an epidemic of obesity in this country.

For more info:
Duke Diet & Fitness Center (Duke University)
"The Skinny: On Losing Weight Without Being Hungry - The Ultimate Guide to Weight Loss Success" by Louis J. Aronne, M.D., and Alisa Bowman (Broadway Books)

THE FAST DRAW: Trimming the Fat
Josh Landis & Mitch Butler

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ABROAD: A Parisian Food Fight
David Turecamo reports on the latest controversy at the world's most famous museum. But it's not to do with art. Join "Our Man in Paris" as he examines McDonald’s at the Louvre.

PROFILE: In Slim Role, Bertinelli Beats Back Bulge
Tracy Smith reports.

For more info:
"Losing It - and Gaining My Life Back One Pound at a Time" by Valerie Bertinelli (Free Press)
jennycraig.com

FITNESS: Welcome to Thin City: Colorado's Low Rate of Obesity
Dean Reynolds reports.

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SPORT: Pound for Pound
Lucy Craft on Japan's Sumo wrestlers.

OPINION: Big Questions
Nancy Giles on her candy problem.

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BILL GEIST: Deep-Frying Is Where the Magic Happens
The State Fair of Texas, where the classic battered and fried "Corny Dog" was invented in 1942, remains the frontier of fried food. Here, vendors compete to see who can create the most egregious violation of dietary law, and artery-clogging creations like fried cookie dough, fried peaches and cream, and fried Coke were tasted and seen for the first time. This year, Abel Gonzales Jr. unveiled his masterpiece - Fried Butter - and quickly became the star of the Fair.

Bill Geist eats his way through the Capital of Deep Fried Food and visits Gonzales, the mad scientist of frying, in his laboratory (his mother’s kitchen), where he’s already at work on his next creation.

For more info:
State Fair of Texas

NATURE: A Walk in the Woods in Colorado

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RECAP: October 18

COVER STORY: Scaling Back Justice?
Jeff Greenfield talks with Philip Howard, a lawyer who objects to the number of laws and thinks there should be fewer. How's that?

For more info:
American Association of Justice
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
American Federation of Teachers
Covington and Burling LLP
"Life Without Lawyers: Liberating Americans From Too Much Law" by Philip Howard (W.W. Norton)
New York City Department of Parks & Recreation

SUNDAY ALMANAC: The First Video Game
On October 18th, 1958 - 51 years ago today - computer scientists proved they had game. For that was the day Long Island's Brookhaven National Laboratory unveiled "Tennis For Two," regarded by many as the very first video game.

HISTORY: The Lost Journey Of Amelia Earhart
She is perhaps the world's most famous missing person. Amelia Earhart was last heard from in the dawning hours of July 2, 1937, when she radioed from her beloved Lockheed Electra during her landmark round-the-world flight. So, 70 years on, why hasn't Earhart ever disappeared from our imaginations?

Kimberly Dozier searches for answers in Earhart's archives and in a revealing interview with Oscar-winning actress Hilary Swank, who plays the aviator in her latest film, "Amelia."

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For more info:
"Amelia" (Fox Searchlight Pictures)

OUR TIMES: Once Objects of Scorn, Nerds Now Rule
Twenty-five years after the movie "Revenge of the Nerds," revenge hardly seems necessary. Nerds, geeks, dweebs and dorks are doing just fine. And they're rubbing off on everyone. It seems we now have a bit of geek in all of us. Contributor Mo Rocca gets inside the Nerd mindset with author (and nerd) Ben Nugent; visits the set of CBS' hit show "The Big Bang Theory"; attends a Geek singles night at a comic book store in California; and discusses why geeks love manuals with the founder of the technology mister-fix-it, Geek Squad.

For more info:
"The Big Bang Theory" (CBS)
"American Nerd: The Story of My People" by Ben Nugent (Simon & Schuster)
Brave New World Comics
Geek Squad
sweetongeeks.com

THE MOVIES: "Wild Things": A Real Dream
Critic David Edelstein reviews Spike Jonze's adaptation of the Maurice Sendak children classic.

THE FAST DRAW: Bank Backlash
Reports of big profits and bonuses at certain banks have angered some people. Anger at banks is an old American story, drawn out for us now by Josh Landis & Mitch Butler.

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SUNDAY PROFILE: Andy Williams: Hitting the High Notes
When he was just seven years old, Andy Williams was already a professional - the youngest member of the Williams Brothers, singing on radio station WHO in Des Moines, Iowa. Nearly 75 years later, he's still crooning six days a week, one state away in Branson, Missouri.

Of course, it was quite a journey covering the 400 miles between Des Moines and Branson. From part of a quartet to struggling solo artist to TV star, Williams has serenaded millions with a voice that Ronald Reagan once called a national treasure, picking up 18 gold and 3 platinum records along the way. Not too bad for a kid from tiny Wall Lake, Iowa. Correspondent Cynthia Bowers discovers that he was just following a dream . . . his father's dream.

For more info:
andywilliams.com

BY THE NUMBERS: Week Ending October 18

OPINION: It' All Geek to Me
Once something becomes cool, it becomes ubiquitous - which kills the cool. So in order to "save the geek," commentator Faith Salie thinks we need to thin the herd.

For more info:
faithsalie.com
comic-con.org

ENDER: The Ins and Outs of Yo-Yos
The National Yo-Yo Contest in Chico, Calif., draws fans from around the country to a fierce competition that is far different from yo-yo contests of yore. "What you know about yo-yos, throw out of your head," says defending two-handed style champion Joseph Harris.

Paul Yath, another player seeking to defend his championship title, shows Rita Braver just how contemporary yoyos are different from the older ones with which most of us grew up. As National Yo-Yo Museum director Bob Malowney points out, yoyos date back to ancient times, but the sport is taking a new, dynamic turn. Next stop, the Olympics?

For more info:
"World on a String" (Documentary)
National Yo-Yo Contest & Museum

NATURE: Bighorn Sheep in Cody, Wyoming