Host: Jane Pauley
COVER STORY: Higher education during a pandemic – Giving it the old college try
The coronavirus is leaving its mark on colleges and universities, perhaps permanently. With schools working hard to keep COVID-19 off-campus, 13% percent of colleges will offer online-only classes, while 35% will offer a mix of virtual and socially-distanced in-person classes. CBS News business analyst Jill Schlesinger reports on how educators and students are adjusting to an on-campus experience that will be, as one university professor describes it, “some combination of a monastery and a minimum security prison.”
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ART: Bubble wrap artist Bradley Hart
Wielding a syringe instead of a brush, artist Bradley Hart injects paint into the plastic bubbles of bubble wrap, turning the ubiquitous packing material into pointillist portraits. Correspondent Lee Cowan reports.
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MILEPOST: TBD
TRAVEL: RV living
Looking to take a vacation while avoiding COVID? Many families are heading out AND staying home, exploring public spaces while avoiding public bathrooms and hotels, by traveling in an RV. The pandemic is driving up sales of midrange recreational vehicles, which have nearly doubled compared to last summer. And as The New Yorker magazine’s Kelefa Sanneh finds out, some motorhomes have amenities you may not even have in your own home.
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POLITICS: Dr. Jill Biden
A community college teacher, even while serving as the second lady during the Obama administration, Dr. Jill Biden says she wants to continue to teach even if her husband, former vice president Joe Biden, wins the presidency. In an interview with correspondent Rita Braver, Jill talks about her childhood, her marriage, standing up for her family, the loss of a child, the challenges of campaigning, and finding a refuge at the Bidens’ vacation home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.
PREVIEW: Dr. Jill Biden: “I want people to value teachers”
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PASSAGE: TBD
PHOTOGRAPHY: One photographer’s intimate view of the presidency
On August 9, 1974, Richard Nixon resigned in the face of Watergate investigations and impeachment hearings, and Gerald R. Ford became the 38th President of the United States. Ford’s hand-picked official photographer was 27-year-old Pulitzer Prize-winner David Hume Kennerly, who was granted unheard-of access to the First Family. Correspondent Jim Axelrod talks with Kennerly about his remarkable time in the Ford White House; and with Ford’s son, Steven, who remembers his father’s close relationship with the photographer.
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COMMENTARY: Jim Gaffigan on acquiring a green thumb
During these unsettling times, the comedian has found a measure of control by planting seeds, watering them, and growing something where there used to be just dirt.
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MUSIC: James Taylor
Life these days is pretty sweet for James Taylor, the musician-songwriter famed for such hits as “Fire and Rain,” “Carolina In My Mind” and “Sweet Baby James.” Jane Pauley visited Taylor at his home in the Berkshires of Massachusetts to talk about his audio memoir on his early days in North Carolina, and a new album exploring the songs Taylor loved growing up, titled “American Standard.” (This story was originally broadcast on February 2, 2020.)
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PULSE: TBD
HISTORY: A time of reckoning for the global slave trade
The Black Lives Matter campaign, which was propelled by the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, has become a worldwide movement, particularly in Europe, where former colonial powers are struggling to come to terms with the global stain of racism and their slave-trading past. Correspondent Mark Phillips talks with historians and art curators about how countries such as Britain profited from the triangle trade, and how slave owners profited even after slavery was abolished.
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SUNDAY JOURNAL: Beirut blast
Correspondent Imtiaz Tyab reports on the aftermath of the explosion of stored explosives on Beirut’s waterfront Tuesday that killed at least 149 and injured more than 5,000.
NATURE: Beluga whales
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