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It happened this past week: the righting of a long-standing wrong in Britain, where the government announced it was granting posthumous pardons to roughly 50,000 men convicted of homosexual offenses in years past. The policy shift is informally referred to as Turing's Law, after Alan Turing, the math genius who helped break the Germans' Enigma Code during World War II, only to apparently commit suicide in 1954 after a conviction. Jane Pauley reports.
Author John Grisham has had 28 consecutive #1 New York Times fiction bestsellers, since "The Pelican Brief" in 1992. Now he's back with his latest novel, "The Whistler." The former attorney talks with correspondent Anthony Mason about how he happily dropped his law career, though he never really left the law far behind.
Maureen Dowd has plenty to say about Clinton vs. Trump. And not surprisingly, the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist has found she can't please everyone, not even her own siblings, as she reveals to Mo Rocca in a round of Questions and Answers.
Do you usually think you're the smartest motherf****r in the room? You may be right! Based on a recent study, researchers found that people who curse a lot are more intelligent - and our Faith Salie swears by that.
Along I-15 in Nevada, just outside Las Vegas, seven technicolor rock towers appear as if a mirage in the desert. It's the vision of Ugo Rondinone, a Swiss artist living in Harlem, who calls his Day-Glo painted limestone creations the Seven Magic Mountains. Lee Cowan made a pilgrimage.
The genes we inherit from our forebears help shape our lives - and in too many cases, can cut young lives short well before their time. Now a cutting-edge stem cell therapy is achieving some success, but is still not available in the United States. Martha Teichner reports on a promising new treatment for late infantile metachromatic leukodystrophy.
Critics sniffed, but paint by numbers was a popular fad in the 1950s. To mark the hobby's 50th anniversary, the works of amateur, number-aided artists were honored with an exhibition - the most comprehensive ever - at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. Bill Geist meets the inventor of paint-by-numbers, Dan Robbins, and curator William "Larry" Bird, as well as aficionado Trey Speegle, who shows off his personal collection of hundreds of paint-by-numbers canvases. Originally broadcast on April 27, 2001.
In this preview of a profile to be broadcast on "Sunday Morning," pop star Phil Collins talks with Jim Axelrod about how his success fueled a drive to succeed even further, leading to an alcohol dependency that nearly killed him.
What do Canadians think about the U.S.? A video which comes to us compliments of Toronto ad agency The Garden Collective is quite complimentary.
From the "Great Shakeout" earthquake drills held around the world, to the Halloween Dog Parade in New York City, "Sunday Morning" looks at some notable events of the week ahead. Jane Pauley reports.
