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echo: coffee_klatsch
to: Doug Cooper
from: Richard Miles
date: 2020-10-13 14:22:00
subject: Re: 60 Minutes

 DC>  AA> I am rather enjoying the 60 Minutes reporting. The opening
 DC> AA> click-click-click of an analog watch is still amusing. When the
 DC> AA> correspondents introduce themselves in turn: "I'm ,
 DC> AA> and "I'm , and "I'm " is pretty
 DC> AA> funny. It reminds me of a SNL skit where they say "I'm ,
 DC> AA> and you're not!" I'm always waiting for the folks on the real 60 Minutes
 DC> AA> to say that!
 DC> 
 DC> You know, I hadn't watched it in years.  I had been fiddling with an
 DC> ANSI graphic I'm making someone, and didn't realize whatever show I had
 DC> been watching was over, and 60 Minutes came on.  Kinda caught my
 DC> attention as I hadn't seen it in years.  I was rather suprised by the
 DC> quality of the reporting and depth they went into.  It was some crazy
 DC> concept of curing sickle cell anemia by combining HIV DNA (minus
 DC> whatever makes it bad for you) and something else .. and injecting it
 DC> into the blood stream.  Tests so far show it completely cured sickle
 DC> cell, within tests under a microscope that is.  I didn't see the end,
 DC> was pulled away by the kids.  But it was very interesting.
 DC> 
 DC> -doug
That's one of the things I remember, the depth of the reporting. Used to watch it with my parents back in the early eighties and they seemed to work really hard at going all in on a story.

When I mentioned it had been a few years since I had seen it I guess I meant a few decades. 

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