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This week on “Sunday Morning” (August 25)
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COVER STORY: Young women on Girls State: “The most life-changing week of my life”
At a time when politics leaves many of us bitterly divided, high school students from all walks of life attend the week-long Girls State to participate in an exercise in democracy. “Sunday Morning” anchor Jane Pauley (herself a veteran of Hoosier Girls State, where she was elected governor) talks to young women in Indiana engaging in mock political campaigns to create a model government; and meets Emily Worthmore, now a college sophomore, who was featured in the Apple TV+ documentary “Girls State,” who talks about how the experienced shaped her life.
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ALMANAC: August 25
“Sunday Morning” looks back at historical events on this date.
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MUSIC: Opera master class
Seth Doane reports.
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TECHNOLOGY: The electric-plane future is about to take off
Correspondent David Pogue checks out advances being made in aviation technology that allow a plane to be powered by batteries, promising a more environmentally-friendly, quieter and cheaper ride that doesn’t require a runway.
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U.S.: Bookville
Conor Knighton reports.
COMMENTARY: “N/A” playwright Mario Correa on the power of removing labels
An Off-Broadway play, “N/A,” features characters based on former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who remain nameless. The play’s author, Mario Correa, talks about the hope that one day names and labels will no longer magnify loyalties and divide audiences.
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- “N/A,” at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, Lincoln Center, New York (through September 1) | Ticket info
PASSAGE: In memoriam
“Sunday Morning” remembers some of the notable figures who left us this week.
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MUSIC: The Rolling Stones on life, and music, after the loss of drummer Charlie Watts
The Rolling Stones’ “Hackney Diamonds” was the band’s first album of original music in 18 years – and their first since the death, in 2021, of drummer Charlie Watts. Correspondent Anthony Mason sat down with Keith Richards, Mick Jagger and Ronnie Wood to discuss their unique chemistry; reuniting with the Stones’ original bassist Bill Wyman; and what becoming octogenarians meant to Jagger and Richards. (This story was originally broadcast on October 15, 2023.)
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COMMENTARY: “Siri, what the heck?” David Sedaris on talking to one’s devices
Commanding your device to do things you could just as well do yourself is a mark of technological progress that humorist David Sedaris finds peculiar, when your voice-activated app is not up to the job.
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U.S.: The 92nd Street Y at 150
One-hundred-and-fifty years ago, New York City’s 92nd Street Y was founded as a community and performance center, an inclusive meeting place where people could go to make their lives more meaningful. Correspondent Faith Salie talks with 92NY’s CEO Seth Pinsky about its remarkable history, stemming from a simple mission.
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- 92nd Street Y, New York City
- Photos courtesy of the 92NY, Jack Prelutsky, Lura Burnette and Michael Priest Photography
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WORLD: How handmade rugs are providing a future for Afghanis
After the Taliban regained power in Afghanistan, education for girls and boys has been a rare commodity in a country where families must make devastating choices in order to guarantee their survival. Correspondent Tracy Smith talks with Nargis Habib, a California entrepreneur who pays artisans in Afghanistan to produce beautiful woven rugs for a price that helps support families’ financial freedom.
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NEWS: “CBS Sunday Morning” anchor Jane Pauley, documentarian Alex Gibney to receive lifetime Emmy honors
The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences announced the special awards to be presented at next month’s News & Documentary Emmy ceremonies.
FROM THE ARCHIVES: Jane Pauley interviews doc filmmaker Alex Gibney | Watch Video
Filmmaker Alex Gibney is prolific – he has made 14 documentaries in just five years. His subjects range from Enron and the fall of former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer to the Church of Scientology. His latest project puts Apple founder Steve Jobs in his crosshairs. Jane Pauley reports on the director who shines a spotlight onto the grey areas of stories that may appear at first very black-and-white. (Originally aired September 20, 2015.)
GALLERY: Notable Deaths in 2024
A look back at the esteemed personalities who’ve left us this year, who’d touched us with their innovation, creativity and humanity.
FROM THE ARCHIVES: Robert Redford x 3 (YouTube Video)
Academy Award-winning actor-director Robert Redford turned 88 on August 18, 2024. To celebrate, we look back at three “Sunday Morning” interviews with Redford over the years: From 1994, with Charles Kuralt, who visited Redford’s home in Utah and talked about his early career, and his advocacy of Native American art and culture; from 2008, with Rita Braver, discussing his iconic roles in “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” and “All the President’s Men,” and how he nurtures young filmmakers through the Sundance Institute and Sundance Film Festival; and from 2018, with Lee Cowan, at the actor’s ranch in New Mexico, where – at age 82 – he discussed his last film appearance, “The Old Man & the Gun,” and why he doesn’t like watching himself on screen.
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At least 11 employees were taken to hospitals and residents were urged to shelter in place on Tuesday after an explosion at a Louisville, Kentucky, business.
The Louisville Metro Emergency Services reported on social media a “hazardous materials incident” at 1901 Payne St., in Louisville. The address belongs to a facility operated by Givaudan Sense Colour, a manufacturer of food colorings for soft drinks and other products, according to officials and online records.
Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg said emergency teams responded to the blast around 3 p.m. News outlets reported that neighbors heard what sounded like an explosion coming from the business. Overhead news video footage showed an industrial building with a large hole in its roof.
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“The cause at this point of the explosion is unknown,” Greenberg said in a news conference. No one died in the explosion, he added.
Greenberg said officials spoke to employees inside the plant. “They have initially conveyed that everything was normal activity when the explosion occurred,” he said.
The Louisville Fire Department said in a post on the social platform X that multiple agencies were responding to a “large-scale incident.”
The Louisville Metro Emergency Services first urged people within a mile of the business to shelter in place, but that order was lifted in the afternoon. An evacuation order for the two surrounding blocks around the site of the explosion was still in place Tuesday afternoon.
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A rare square 37-carat emerald owned by the Aga Khan fetched nearly $9 million at auction in Geneva on Tuesday, making it the world’s most expensive green stone.
Sold by Christie’s, the Cartier diamond and emerald brooch, which can also be worn as a pendant, dethrones a piece of jewelry made by the fashion house Bulgari, which Richard Burton gave as a wedding gift to fellow actor Elizabeth Taylor, as the most precious emerald.
In 1960, Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan commissioned Cartier to set the emerald in a brooch with 20 marquise-cut diamonds for British socialite Nina Dyer, to whom he was briefly married.
Dyer then auctioned off the emerald to raise money for animals in 1969.
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By chance that was Christie’s very first such sale in Switzerland on the shores of Lake Geneva, with the emerald finding its way back to the 110th edition this year.
It was bought by jeweler Van Cleef & Arpels before passing a few years later into the hands of Harry Winston, nicknamed the “King of Diamonds.”
“Emeralds are hot right now, and this one ticks all the boxes,” said Christie’s EMEA Head of Jewellery Max Fawcett. “…We might see an emerald of this quality come up for sale once every five or six years.”
Also set with diamonds, the previous record-holder fetched $6.5 million at an auction of part of Hollywood legend Elizabeth Taylor’s renowned jewelry collection in New York.
