David Sedaris on dogs and the people who obsess over them

I don’t get dogs anymore, don’t understand why they need to be in grocery stores and on airplanes. You never see them tied up outside shops or restaurants nowadays. They have to be insideno different from people. I read a column in The New York Times about a woman who had taken her dog to …

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Nature: Bighorn sheep in Washington State

Nature: Bighorn sheep in Washington State – CBS News Watch CBS News We leave you this Sunday morning with bighorn sheep greeting a new day near Asotin in Washington State. Videographer: Hank Heusinkveld.

Sting embarks on “The Last Ship”

When Sting comes back to his hometown these days, it’s not to the same place he left more than five decades ago. The city of Newcastle, tucked up in the northeast corner of England, now presents a tranquil vista where modern architecture spans calm waters. But for centuries, Newcastle was a hard-scrabble, noisy, industrial powerhouse. …

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Sting embarks on “The Last Ship”

For centuries the English city of Newcastle was a hard-scrabble industrial powerhouse that built ships. It was also the hometown of the rock musician Sting, who as a young man witnessed the city’s shipbuilding business dry up. He’s paid homage to his town’s heritage by writing and starring in a musical, “The Last Ship,” which …

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Isolated Nebraska ranchers learn they are not alone

In the sandhills of western Nebraska, cattle ranchers Mike and Kayla Wintz were afraid they would lose their livelihood when the largest wildfire in the state’s history burned their 11,000 acres of grazing fields. But then, in remarkable examples of empathy, charity and grace, anonymous donations of hay started arriving by the truckload. Steve Hartman …

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Hunting for the Holy Grail of PEZ dispensers

If you were a kid in the United States any time in the last 74 or so years, there’s a pretty good chance at some point, you had a PEZ dispenser. But you probably had no idea the long strange journey that PEZ candies took, to become part of American life. According to PEZ historian …

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Passage: In memoriam

“Sunday Morning” remembers some of the notable figures who left us this week, including songwriter David Allan Coe, famous for his country hit “Take This Job and Shove It.”

A tool to help keep dementia in check

Many people fear that a family history of dementia dooms them to inevitably suffer the condition themselves. But a new tool, the Brain Care Score, shows how lifestyle changes can be beneficial, cutting the risk of dementia. National Public Radio correspondent Allison Aubrey talks with neurologist Dr. Jonathan Rosand about how making changes to your …

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