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Sunday Profile: Jennifer Lopez

Jennifer Lopez, the celebrated singer-dancer-actress-businesswoman-mom, speaks with “CBS This Morning” co-host Tony Dokoupil about her work in the film “Hustlers”; her upcoming Super Bowl halftime show; her future marriage to baseball great Alex Rodriguez; and what it meant to turn 50 this past year. Source

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Calendar: Week of December 23

From Christmas to Winter Whale Watch Week along the Oregon coast, “Sunday Morning” takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead Source

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Nature: Reindeer

“Sunday Morning” takes us among the reindeer of Lapland, in northern Finland. Videographer: David Cohen. Source

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American songsmith Irving Berlin

Some of our most cherished holiday songs, including “White Christmas” and “Easter Parade,” as well as “God Bless America,” were written by the prolific composer-lyricist Irving Berlin (1888-1989), a Jewish immigrant from Russia. Mo Rocca talks about the remarkable life of Berlin, who wrote hundreds of standards, with his granddaughter, Katherine Swett; Broadway musical director and conductor Andy Einhorn; Josh Perelman, Chief Curator at the National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia, and ultra-Orthodox singer Shulem Lemmer. Source

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Latkes, a Hanukkah tradition

Why are latkes – crispy, fried, slightly oniony potato pancakes – associated with the Jewish celebration of Hanukkah? The story of the miracle of the oil is anything but simple, as correspondent Martha Teichner notes. She talks with Jewish food historian and cookbook writer Jayne Cohen, and with Niki Russ Federman, a fourth-generation owner of Russ & Daughters, a New York City institution of Jewish food for 105 years. Source

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Almanac: Baldness

On December 22, 1997, the FDA approved Propecia, a once-a-day pill for combating the genetic condition known as male pattern baldness. Jane Pauley reports. Source

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