November 11, 2007 MRSA Super Bug; Executing the Mentally Ill; Millennials

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November 11, 2007  MRSA Super Bug; Executing the Mentally Ill; Millennials

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CBS | Air Date: November 11, 2007
Summary: November 11, 2007 MRSA Super Bug; Executing the Mentally Ill; Millennials
Lesley Stahl explores the latest on the drug-resistent staph infection known as MRSA. This super bug doesn’t discriminate, hitting our schools, hospitals, prisons and athletes. Wherever there are people, it can be lurking and it can be deadly.
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November 11, 2007 MRSA Super Bug; Executing the Mentally Ill; Millennials
Lesley Stahl explores the latest on the drug-resistent staph infection known as MRSA. This super bug doesn’t discriminate, hitting our schools, hospitals, prisons and athletes. Wherever there are people, it can be lurking and it can be deadly.
In our second story, Lara Logan speaks with the attorney for a mentally man on death row. Without a doubt, bizarre thoughts and motivations caused him to murder, but now, on medications that reportedly treat the mental illness, the Supreme Court deems him competent for execution. This interview includes talking with the prisoner, Gregory Thompson, who even on medication is clearly not sane.
Finally, meet the Millennials. Those born between 1980-1995, self-entitled, over-indulged, children of a generation that has long been expected to have a hard time accepting that they’ll not only have to work for a living, but who were raised to put themselves first.
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Genre(s): Talk & Interview, Business, News

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