Archives: 2018

Olympics: NBC apologizes to South Koreans for analyst's remark

NEW YORK — NBC has apologized to South Koreans for an on-air remark by an analyst that cited Japan as an example that has been important to the country’s own transformation.  The remark was made by analyst Joshua Cooper Ramo during NBC’s coverage of Friday’s opening ceremony. He was noting the significance of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s visit.  “Every…

The sweet success of Dylan's Candy Bar

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Dylan Lauren: You, too, can keep fit while enjoying candy

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Nature: Culebra

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Did Abraham Lincoln sleep here?

Visitors to a small log cabin in Kentucky are right to ask: Is it true that Abraham Lincoln slept here? On the eve of Lincoln’s 209th birthday tomorrow, Brook Silva-Braga has the answer: Professor Henri Grissino-Mayer has come to Hodgenville, Kentucky to solve a mystery almost as old as Abraham Lincoln himself. Silva-Braga asked, “So, someone pulls off the highway,…

The strange story of Lincoln's cabins

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Calendar: Week of February 12

Here’s a look at the week ahead on our “Sunday Morning” Calendar:       On Monday, actor Mandy Patinkin (“Homeland”) will be honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.        Tuesday is Shrove Tuesday (or Fat Tuesday, if you will), a day for Mardi Gras celebrations … and pancakes. mardigrasneworleans.com Biloxi, Miss., Mardi Gras Cleveland…

U.S. captures first-ever medal in men's singles luge

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea — David Gleirscher struggled to make Austria’s Olympic team. Chris Mazdzer’s season hit rock-bottom less than a month ago.  Didn’t matter.  They stood higher than anyone else atop the men’s luge podium on Sunday as the reign of Germany’s Felix Loch as Olympic champion came to a slippery, stunning and sudden end.  Gleirscher was the surprise first-run…

A stand-up teacher

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Love at the office

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Dylan Lauren's sweet success

With Valentine’s Day just three days away, candy store owners are dreaming of sweet success … including the celebrity confectioner our Alina Cho has dropped in on: She eats at least one piece of candy every day (“That’s an understatement”). It’s all part of the job for Dylan Lauren, founder and CEO of Dylan’s Candy Bar. Her New York flagship…

Spooning: A Welsh love tradition

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Hiring autistic workers

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Tokens of love: The Welsh tradition of lovespoons

Conor Knighton’s love of ISLAND HOPPING has taken him to a scenic spot that’s all about love: Off the northwest coast of Wales, lovely Llanddwyn Island holds a special place in the hearts of Welsh lovers. It was here that St. Dwynwen — the Welsh patron saint of lovers — lived out her days, praying for romantics everywhere to find…

U.S. wins first gold medal at Pyeongchang Olympics

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The growing acceptance of autism in the workplace

We like to think that good work is always rewarded. But what if some people who could do good work can’t their foot in the door in the first place? That’s where recent hiring initiatives that look beyond unfair stereotypes come in, as Lee Cowan reports in our Cover Story: Twenty-seven-year-old Christopher Pauley thought he had it all figured out…

Almanac: Crash test dummies

And now a page from our “Sunday Morning” Almanac: February 11th, 2005, 13 years ago today … the day physicist and engineer Samuel Alderson died at the age of 90. Auto safety advocates honor Alderson to this day for developing the very first Anthropomorphic Test Device — popularly known as “the crash dummy.” He did it back in 1968. Endowed…

Plane with 71 aboard crashes near Moscow

A view shows a scene where a short-haul regional Antonov AN-148 crashed after taking off from Moscow’s Domodedovo airport, outside Moscow, Russia February 11, 2018. STRINGER / REUTERS MOSCOW — Russia’s Emergencies Ministry says a passenger plane has crashed near Moscow and fragments of it have been found.  The An-148 regional jet disappeared from radar screens shortly after takeoff from…

Cybersecurity experts warn about hackers targeting Olympics

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OxyContin maker to stop promoting drug to doctors amid opioid epidemic

NEW YORK — The maker of the powerful painkiller OxyContin said it will stop marketing opioid drugs to doctors, bowing to a key demand of lawsuits that blame the company for helping trigger the current drug abuse epidemic. Purdue’s statement said it eliminated more than half its sales staff this week and will no longer send sales representatives to doctors’…

Larry Nassar sent to maximum security prison in Arizona

TUCSON, Ariz. — Prison records show that disgraced former gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar has been transferred to a federal prison in Tucson, Arizona. The Federal Bureau of Prisons online inmate registry on Saturday showed that the 54-year-old was housed at the high security prison that also has an adjacent minimum security satellite camp.  Nassar faces two long prison sentences in…

“Murder spree” leaves 5 dead in 2 shootings, police say

Five people are dead, including the suspected gunman, in two shootings Saturday that police called a “horrific murder spree” in Johnson County, Kentucky, CBS affiliate WKYT reports.  “This has been a horrific murder spree,” said Johnson County Sheriff Dwayne Price. Officials with Kentucky State Police told WKYT they got the call of the shooting around 3:40 p.m. Saturday. According to…

Helicopter crashes in the Grand Canyon

Last Updated Feb 10, 2018 11:47 PM EST A helicopter on Saturday crashed in the Grand Canyon, authorities said. Hualapai Nation police Chief Francis Bradley told CBS Phoenix affiliate KPHO three people had been killed. Bradley said six passengers and a pilot were on board the Papillion helicopter when it crashed around 5:20 p.m. The other four were injured, and…