After the senior class at Cleburne County High School, in Heflin, Ala., covered the local police department in toilet paper last month, folks were surprised to see the police chief's response: Fight toilet paper with toilet paper. Steve Hartman reports from the front lines of a battle that has tickled the fancies of pranksters everywhere.
Concert pianist Adam Tendler had a distant relationship with his father. So, when he inherited a sum of money from his dad, he used it to commission piano works by 16 acclaimed composers, creating music that touches on a vast range of emotions encompassing grief, loss, parent-child relationships, and estrangement. Lee Cowan reports on Tendler's moving tribute, "Inheritances."
For some, the high cost of child care in the U.S. is a higher expense than rents and mortgages, or even in-state college tuition, and has pushed tens of thousands of women out of the workforce this year alone.
