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Open: This is “Face the Nation,” July 14

This week on “Face the Nation,” Margaret Brennan talks to acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection Mark Morgan, Sen. Dick Durbin, former Homeland Security Sec. Jeh Johnson and NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine. Plus, historian Douglas Brinkley with his new book, “American Moonshot.” Source

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Nature: Full moon

“Sunday Morning” checks out a full moon setting over Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts. Videographer: Scot Miller. Source

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Calendar: Week of July 15

From a San Diego ceremony honoring Batman to the Apollo 11 moon landing anniversary, “Sunday Morning” takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead. Jane Pauley reports. Source

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Black models in modern art

A recent New York City art exhibition, now at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, explores the importance of black models as key to the development of 19th and 20th century art, through their representations by French and American artists (including Edouard Manet, Edgar Degas, Frederic Bazille and Jean-Louis André Théodore Géricault). Nancy Giles talks with curator Denise Murrell about how the Harlem Renaissance influenced painters such as Henri Matisse, and with Brooklyn artist Mickalene Thomas about black figures in art at a time of social and political transformation. Source

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Blackout dims New York’s bright lights

The power is back in New York City after an apparent transformer fire Saturday evening caused a widespread blackout, darkening many Broadway shows but not the spirit of New Yorkers. Laura Podesta reports. Source

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Almanac: Measuring tape

On July 14, 1868, Alvin Fellows truly measured up, as he patented his “new and useful improvement in spring measuring tapes.” Jane Pauley reports. Source

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The battle for breakfast: Bowled over for cereal

What happened when food blogger Wil Fulton tried an experiment of eating nothing but breakfast cereal for a week – 82 consecutive bowls? Susan Spencer talks with Fulton about his serial dining on cereal. She also talks with Yale University’s Paul Freedman about the history of breakfasts; Dana McNabb, of General Mills, who is bowled over by new varieties of cereal; and registered dietitian Wendy Lopez, who reveals her secret to breakfast smoothies. Originally broadcast on November 18, 2018. Source

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