The landmark 1995 album became the unexpected soundtrack of a generation, and is now the basis of a show with an original story by Diablo Cody Source
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All her sons: The Cemetery Angel
When the AIDS crisis hit in the 1980s, Ruth Coker Burks – who’d inherited 262 plots in a family cemetery in Hot Springs, Arkansas – became a mother of sorts to countless sons, many abandoned by families and churches because they were suffering from what was then called the “gay cancer.” Coker Burks became a one-woman AIDS help center: driving patients to appointments, trying to find doctors or drugs, or filling-out death certificates. And in many cases she gave them a final resting place. Seth Doane reports on the woman who has been called the “Cemetery Angel,” who gave – and received – so many precious gifts. Source
Alec’s mission
You may know Shriners Hospitals for Children because of one very special patient: 17-year-old Alec Cabacungan, who was brought to Shriners because of a rare genetic disorder called Osteogenesis Imperfecta (or brittle bone disease), and who for the past five years has helped spread their mission as the charitable organization’s leading spokeskid. Lee Cowan talked with Cabacungan, who describes his challenges and aspirations, and who makes it all look so easy, while none of it really is. Source
Calendar: Week of December 2
From National Cookie Day to Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, “Sunday Morning” takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead Source
Faith Salie on the cheeky putdown “OK, Boomer”
For young people who have inherited from oldsters a world full of rising waters, disappearing species, crippling debt and crumbling democracies, an irreverent retaliatory phrase is more than warranted Source
The Cemetery Angel
When the AIDS crisis hit in the 1980s, Ruth Coker Burks – who’d inherited a family cemetery in Hot Springs, Arkansas – became a mother of sorts to countless sons, many abandoned by families and churches because they suffering from what was called the “gay cancer” Source
Nature: Bear vs. fish
“Sunday Morning” takes you to Taylor Creek in the Lake Tahoe Basin, where bears are fishing. Videographer: Derek Reich. Source
Top Republican wants extra witnesses at Judiciary impeachment hearing
The White House is unlikely to send legal representation to the first impeachment hearing by the Judiciary Committee Source
Almanac: The 1969 draft lottery
As the war in Vietnam raged on and anger about U.S. involvement burned in protests across the country, a lottery was held on December 1, 1969 in order to address perceived inequities in military conscription. Lee Cowan reports. Source
A model family
Bart and Jessica Baldwin and their five children are an uncommon site in advertisements, catalogs and fashion shoots: a family of models Source