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UP NEXT: December 4

COVER STORY: Help Wanted
Nearly 16 million Americans are unemployed, and countless others are affected. We’ve selected four stories:

• During tough economic times, some companies hire outside consultants to help maximize profits. we’ll talk to the consultant whose job was to tell workers they no longer had one.
• It’s tough to raise two small children when both parents are working long hours. So what happens when both are laid-off within two months of each other, and a year later are still looking?
• A radio station has a call-in show that reflects the times - callers looking for jobs.
• One woman who volunteered to help others find work and ended up getting them - and herself - employment.

THE ALMANAC: Florida Everglades

SUNDAY JOURNAL: A Verdict in Italy?
The latest news on the Amanda Knox trial in Perugia.

‘TIS THE SEASON: Glee Clubs
Show choirs and glee clubs on American high school and college campuses are nothing new, but with the popularity of singing competitions and a hit show about a glee club, they’re riding a pop culture sensation. This Sunday Morning, Mo Rocca visits Olentangy High School in Central Ohio, where the Keynotes show choir attracts every type of student, from football star to German and Drama Club members. Rocca learns the notes and the moves to a guys' medley, and finds out the real reason some students join show choirs.

The diversity of show choirs and glee clubs is a central plot behind Fox’s hit TV show, "Glee." Rocca sits down with the cast of this wildly successful program to talk about how singing makes you feel and how difficult it can be to sing and dance.

Finally, Rocca takes in an appearance of Long Island’s Greater Nassau Chorus, which just took fourth place in the Sweet Adelines All-Women’s Chorus World Championship. Members range from ages 27-89, and for these women; the singing is only a small part of the reason they come to rehearsal every Tuesday night.

For more info:
"Glee" (Fox TV)
Greater Nassau Chorus
Harvard Glee Club
Olentangy High School Keynotes
Sweet Adelines International

CHILDREN’S BOOKS: Miffy on the Road

BY THE NUMBERS / PASSAGE: TBD

TREATMENT: Step By Step

SUNDAY PROFILE: Angela Lansbury
Katie Couric talks with the Broadway and TV legend, now appearing in a revival of Stephen Sondheim's "A Little Night Music" with Catherine Zeta-Jones.

For more info:
"A Little Night Music" - broadwayworld.com
alsa.org

OPINION: Ben Stein on Wall Street’s Windfall

BILL GEIST: Ping Pong Pops
To most of us, ping pong is a game you play in the basement and, if you're like Bill Geist, you spend a lot of time looking for the ball under the washing machine. But ping pong is getting a makeover, and there's a push to bring it out of the basement and make it hip, trendy, exciting, and even sexy! That's what they're trying to do at the chic New York ping pong club called SpiN, where you could find yourself playing alongside legendary 79-year-old champion Marty Reisman, hip hop-rapping ping pong professional Wally Green, an Olympic hopeful, or even a celebrity like Susan Sarandon (who, it turns out, is a ping pong enthusiast and one of SPiN's owners). Geist meets some of the players and talks to Sarandon about giving ping pong a new image, ping pong's subculture, and the future of the sport.

For more info:
spinnyc.com

NATURE: TBD

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RECAP: November 29

COVER STORY: In Comedy, Second to None
The landmark improve comedy troupe Second City is now marking its 50th anniversary. Our Cover Story is reported by contributor Nancy Giles.

For more info:
The Second City
The Second City: 50 Years of Funny (Microsite)

ALMANAC: Cary Grant

MAGAZINE: National Geographic
Most people's attics are full of old National Geographic's. But what is National Geographic's attic full of?

Photos, many never before published, in a collection of ten and a half million images, from an Arctic exploration in the 19th century to the latest shots from outer space and under oceans. Some are not in print for the first time in "National Geographic: The Image Collection."

For more info:
nationalgeographic.com
"National Geographic: The Image Collection"

VAMPIRES: Stephenie Meyer's Latest Vampire Tale
An update of a story originally published in August 2008 on the author of the bestselling "Twilight" book series.

For more info:
www.stepheniemeyer.com

TREES: A Modern-Day Johnny Appleseed in L.A.
Brent Green has helped transform his neighborhood - one tree at a time. Ben Tracy reports.

MOVIES: Good Things Come in Small, Round Discs
'Tis the season for holiday DVDs, and like a certain someone, our critic David Edelstein has been making a list, and checking it twice.

For a complete list of David's choices of DVD and Blu-ray discs click here.

ART: Push Pin Art
The simple push-pin goes from office utility to art world star. Serena Altschul shows us how push-pins are being used to create some very unusual art.

For more info:
daigh.com
devorahsperber.com
Moore Push-Pin Company

PROFILE: Tom Petty
He has sold more than 60 million records. He has dominated classic rock radio for three decades. He has collaborated with rock-and-roll icons from Bob Dylan to George Harrison. And he even played the Super Bowl halftime show for an audience of about 100 million viewers.

So is there anything left for Tom Petty to do? Apparently, there’s plenty. Petty may appear laid-back and cool, but when we sat down with the music legend, he told us just the opposite: “I’m pretty driven. I like to stay busy.”

Case in point: Petty just finished culling through 3,000 hours of his own concert recordings to compile a comprehensive live anthology. And he’s now hard at work on his next studio album with his band, The Heartbreakers.

Anthony Mason talks with Petty about his career, and peeks inside the Los Angeles warehouse where the singer is making a new record that he says will be among his best.

Watch the video

For more info:
tompetty.com

ON A DIET: The Real Skinny
The skinny on fat, from our own (not so skinny, it turns out) Mo Rocca.

For all his life, Mo has been the skinniest person he knew. And he’s still pretty skinny, right? Well, that depends. Mo turned 40 this year, and that fat which never, ever stuck to his bones is beginning to do so. Mo pays a visit to nutritionist Kathy Isoldi at the Weill/Cornell Medical College in New York to get the skinny on his fat, and to get some lessons in healthy eating.

For more info:
Comprehensive Weight Control Program of Weill Cornell Medical College
The Food Emporium

NATURE: Wild Turkeys

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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
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NATURE: Cranberry Bog

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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.

Watch the video

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.

Watch the video

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.

Watch the Video

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.

Watch the Video
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.

Watch the Video Slideshow

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

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