Kelly Wallace is a CBS News Correspondent based in New York.As a mother of two children under 2 ½, I find myself gravitating towards those stories that could impact my little girls when they grow up. Tonight’s report on The CBS Evening News with Katie Couric is one of those stories.
A new survey on teen dating violence and abuse signals what may be a worrisome trend – one in five 13 to 14 year olds say their friends have been punched, kicked, hit or slapped by a boyfriend or girlfriend. Nearly half of all tweens, kids from 11 to 14, say their friends have been verbally abused in a relationship. First, I don’t know about you, but when I was 11 or 12, I was still playing school, not dating. Secondly, it is troubling, especially as a parent, to think how many young people appear to be victims of emotional, physical and sexual abuse in a relationship. Think of the impact on their lives and on society as a whole if perpetrators of this violence grow up and continue their abusive behaviors. More...
A survey out today, found some "horrors" in teen dating.
That's almost an understatement. One number: 20 percent of 13- and 14-year-olds say they know friends who have been kicked, hit, slapped or punched by a boyfriend or girlfriend.
Sharyl Attkisson is an investigative correspondent for CBS News.Yesterday I spoke to the families of young women who believe the Gardasil HPV vaccine may have – or did in fact – cause their child's serious illness. One of the cases involves a now 18-year old young woman named Amanda.
Amanda's parents say she developed a serious reaction to Gardasil after her first dose last summer. It began with soreness where she received the injection. The soreness eventually travelled down her arm, her legs, and led to a horrible autoimmune myofasciitis that is so painful Amanda had to go on morphine for the pain.
She was transformed, through the illness, from a high school varsity sport athlete to a chronically ill person who takes a handful of pills a day just to keep her illness tolerable. When she goes off the medicine, the excruciating pain and other debilitating symptoms return.
One thing that's different about Amanda's case than some of the others is that both of her parents medical doctors who didn't think twice about having their daughter get the shot – but are now second-guessing themselves. They call their daughter's illness after Gardasil "a very sobering experience." More...
We've all done it -- misheard the lyrics of a song. Well, now there's a word for that: Mondegreen. It comes from an old Scottish ballad with the lyric "laid him on the green" which countless people thought was "Lady Mondegreen."
"Mondegreen" is one of about 100 new words being added to the Webster's Collegiate Dictionary. For more - and their meanings - just click on my Notebook.
Kelly Wallace is a CBS News correspondent based in New York.Ever wonder why a gallon of milk costs as much as it does (more than $4 at my local grocery store in New York City) and who benefits when the prices go up? We did.
That’s what led to tonight’s piece on the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric.
With the price of a gallon of whole milk up 15 percent in the past year (May 2007 – May 2008), we thought someone must be profiting big time. Could it be a great time to be a dairy farmer?
Not a chance.
We met Richard Byma, a dairyman in northern New Jersey for the past 36 years, who told us his costs are skyrocketing — feed and fertilizer have doubled in the past year, and rising gas prices at the pump mean higher farm fuel prices for his farm equipment. More...
Break out the cold milk. This summer, Kellogg’s is bringing back the competitor of the Oreo, the Hydrox cookie.
You might think the world only really needs one cookie like that - two chocolate wafers with vanilla cream in the middle - and that Oreo had cornered the market.
Seth Doane is a CBS News correspondent based in New York.“I’m not eating that much,” Maranatha Mays told me, because “my kids have to eat before I do.”
That’s a choice that more and more Americans who depend on food stamps have to make as the costs of the basics go up – while their benefits stay the same. Mays, who depends on food stamps, hasn’t been able to shop for groceries for about two weeks.
Food stamps don’t stretch as far as they used to as the cost of groceries go up. By the end of the month, some shoppers at One Stop Foods on Chicago’s south side told us, they are getting hungry.
I asked shopper Michael Jordan, a home health aide, how long his food stamps lasted his family. “Out of the month … about three weeks,” Jordan said. More...
Who is winning with high corn prices? Perhaps a few smart corn speculators on La Salle Street in Chicago are laughing in their new Bentleys, and maybe there are some newly wealthy corn farmers who might enjoy the high prices a bushel fetches these days, but when you look at how crucial corn is in the supply stream of food we consume, your wallet is going to feel anything but happy.
The connection between corn and meat is simple; most of the meat you eat is fed corn. (I say "you" because I was born a vegetarian and have stayed that way. No judgments, though!) The scene of bucolic beef cattle grazing grass their entire lives is a rarity. There are still small organic farm operations that do that, but the majority of beef cattle end up in a feed lot for the last leg of their lives, where they are fed a diet high in corn. Lack of mobility and constant feeding helps the cows "beef up" and reach your dinner table sooner.
Farmers like Steve Foglesong at the Black Gold Ranch can try to keep his cattle on grass feed longer, he can try to "take more cows to market" and consequently have less mouths to feed but at some point his input costs will have to get passed onto consumers. No cattle farmer likes to have to get rid of their herd until it’s time because it takes two-to-three years to develop a single animal.
You'll actually feel the pinch faster if you are shopping for chicken or pork because the life cycles of these animals is shorter. When we caught up with David Hale, who helps run his tiny family farm in Campbell, Texas, he told us that the cycle of a chicken is somewhere around nine weeks and every time he has gone to buy feed for the past year, it has been higher. He even showed us his feed bills that were 50 percent higher than the year before – and they now included a fuel surcharge which wasn't there before. More...
Jill Jackson is a Capitol Hill field producer for CBS News.
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The House and Senate chambers are empty. Most congressional staffers are leaving at the civilized 5 o' clock hour. And the Capitol is filled with big groups of tourists in matching t-shirts disappointed that they're not seeing any lawmakers or floor action.
It must be recess.
Vince Burke traveled to Washington from Arizona with his wife, Joycelee, and their two kids, Keara and Nathan. They brought the kids to the Capitol this morning hoping to witness lawmakers in action, but found out Congress was out of session just steps too late – they were already inside. The family decided to make the best of it and took in the art and architecture. They even waited patiently to get into the House Gallery to see the empty chamber. On their way out Mr. Burke admitted it was a bit disappointing.
"You get one shot and that's it," he said. "This is the high season for tourists coming through. You'd think they'd be here."
Many Americans scrunch their nose at the idea that elected officials take "recess." After all, what are their tax dollars paying for?
The reality is that lawmakers usually take the time to return to their states or districts for important face time with constituents. They visit schools and factories and speak at Rotary Club lunches, and cut ribbons at grand openings. Going home is important for lawmakers to prove that they haven't gone "too Washington." And, on the House calendar, these times are technically called a "District Work Period." More...
Alarming Trend In Teen Dating(2:43) A troubling new report shows that teens are beginning to date earlier and often the consequences are serious. Physical and verbal abuse has been widely reported. Kelly Wallace reports.
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