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Half of the world's refugees are children, yet only 2% of all refugee funding goes to education. In 2019, 60 Minutes reported on a new "Sesame Street" program designed to help refugee children cope with trauma and toxic stress.
Morley Safer visited the Panama Canal Zone in 1974, which at the time was owned by the U.S. 60 Minutes reported on the story behind the U.S. possession of a vital waterway, and Panama's struggle to gain control.
In 1984, Mike Wallace reported from Argentina on the thousands of people who disappeared under the military dictatorship, and the families still searching for them. For years the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo marched weekly holding photos of their missing children: "It was the only way we had."
JT Holmes has jumped, skied and flown off Alpine peaks. In 2016, Anderson Cooper met up with him and learned more about one of his extreme sports skills: speed riding with a parachute device called a speed wing.
In 2013, Harvard crew coach Harry Parker reflected on his long career while preparing a group of rowers, and fighting his last race against cancer.
In 2015, 25 years after the best-selling book was published about a high school football team in Odessa, Texas -- introducing the phrase "Friday Night Lights" into popular vocabulary -- Sharyn Alfonsi revisited some of its true-life characters.
In 2015, Sharyn Alfonsi reported on the Cape Cod Baseball League, the summer home to some of the best college baseball players – and one that drew the attention of Major League Baseball's top scouts.
Renowned sportswriter Dave Kindred covered the biggest moments and brightest stars in sports for more than half a century. In 2021, he told Jon Wertheim he found his most fulfilling work in writing about girls high school basketball.
In 2015, Anderson Cooper reported from the Swiss Alps, where 60 Minutes cameras captured an extreme sportsman using a three-sport technique for the first time to descend the Eiger, one of the most forbidding mountains in the world.
In 2022, 60 Minutes met Jacob Smith, a legally blind 15-year-old freeride skier. A brain tumor robbed Smith of his vision, but as Sharyn Alfonsi reported, that didn't stop him from making a name for himself on the slopes.
