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CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric will discuss her recent interviews with former Vice President Al Gore and First Lady Michelle Obama and answer questions during a live Facebook chat Thursday at 3 p.m. ET.

In the Gore segment, the ex-veep offers his opinions on Afghanistan and President Barack Obama's winning of the Nobel Peace Prize.

You can watch both interviews on @katiecouric. The interview with Michelle Obama is below.

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Wal-Mart best symbolizes America today, President Barack Obama won't set a timetable for removing U.S. troops from Afghanistan, people wouldn't take health care services from Wal-Mart if the retailing giant offered them, the use of food stamps for high-fat food should be banned, the Obama administration should propose a tax of 50% or higher on the wealthiest millionaires, dining out has been the most difficult thing to cut back expenses on during the recession, affairs and bribes are both bad for politicians, Twitter is a fad that will fade, the likeness of Albert Einstein will be used to endorse products, men would like to trade places with George Clooney for a week and women would like to trade places with Michelle Obama for a week.

Are those the ramblings of an over-caffeinated blogger? Actually, they're the results of the first online poll conducted by 60 Minutes and Vanity Fair, and the two parties announced their joint venture to produce monthly polls, with the results to be made public on the TV show, in the magazine and on their respective Websites, 60Minutes.com and VF.com.

The two parties' goal is to create a national survey that will cover a broad range of questions, versus a more typical poll, which tends to focus narrowly on one subject.

60 Minutes executive producer Jeff Fager said:

It's a collaboration between two outstanding organizations and already, in its maiden effort, the results are fascinating.

And Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter added:

We very much liked the notion of taking polling to a more diverse place. This can serve as a monthly check up on the American condition, and it will lend itself to humor, as well as more serious topics. The combination of Vanity Fair and 60 Minutes—both of them wide-ranging in their interests, expertise and format—was a natural one.

Foreign-news Website GlobalPost, which is populated by some 70 affiliated correspondents in 50 countries, will provide reporting to CBS News under terms of an agreement to be announced Monday, The New York Times reported.

CBS News will pay a monthly fee to GlobalPost, and the agreement covers information but not on-air appearances, according to the Times.

GlobalPost was founded by New England Cable News creator Philip Balboni and The Boston Globe longtime foreign correspondent Charles Sennott, and Balboni told the Times talks between his company and CBS News intensified after the two parties collaborated using reporting by GlobalPost correspondent Jean MacKenzie on the Taliban skimming American aid in Afghanistan.

Balboni told the Times:

Having a broadcast-network partner was a high priority for us, and to be associated with CBS News is a great validation of what we are trying to build. We hope to become an important source of international news for Americans, and this partnership is a big step in that direction.

And CBS News executive vice president Paul Friedman said in a statement:

We are excited about increasing CBS News' resources and very pleased to work with GlobalPost's impressive global network of talented and experienced freelance journalists. With this exclusive arrangement in place, CBS News will have unmatched access to first-rate journalists with expert knowledge of the countries they live in and cover.

CBSSports.com is teaming up with Sports Illustrated in an online-content partnership, paidContent reports.

The two parties will share each other's content across their online properties and in the print edition of Sports Illustrated.

As part of the agreement, CBS Interactive's high-school-sports site, MaxPreps, will displace high-school and college sports network Takkle on the front of SI.com's High School section, according to paidContent.

CBSNews.com Monday launched The Tomorrow Show, a weekly webcast featuring CBS News contributor and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart alumnus Mo Rocca speculating on what life may be like in the future in terms of technology, food, pop culture, the environment and more.

The initial installment of The Tomorrow Show (below), which is sponsored by Intel, looks at paper and other uses for it with the digital age and new technology diminishing its traditional uses.

CBSNews.com said viewers can submit questions and comments via Twitter (@tomorrowshow), on Rocca's Facebook profile and by email.

Rocca is currently a regular contributor to CBS News' Sunday Morning with Charles Osgood and a regular panelist on NPR's Wait Wait…Don't Tell Me!.


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CBS Radio News White House correspondent and prolific Tweeter Mark Knoller (@MarkKnoller) was on a guest this morning on C-SPAN's Washington Journal. Knoller talked about how he uses Twitter to report the minute-by-minute updates from the White House:

CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric sets up her interview with President Barack Obama this week, with guest appearances by CBS White House correspondents Chip Reid and Bill Plante, CBS political director Steve Chaggaris, deputy White House press secretary Bill Burton, White House director of broadcast media Dag Vega and Perry Bacon of The Washington Post.

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The Internet is a wonderful tool. Among other things, it's a time machine where you can go back and watch news stories from decades ago. Like this piece we found on CBSNews.com. It's part of a new series launched today called Marijuana Nation: The New War over Weed. The special report includes this story from "60 Minutes" correspondent Harry Reasoner.

Reasoner, who was at the CBS anchor desk when Lee Harvey Oswald was shot, and who anchored the ABC Evening News through most of the 1970s before returning to CBS and "60 Minutes" until his death in 1991, wasn't alive to see the Internet.

Maybe that's a good thing. Because whoever wrote the caption on his story got his last name wrong, calling him Harry Weiner.

Bernard Madoff Monday received the maximum 150-year sentence for masterminding a Ponzi scheme that defrauded investors out of billions of dollars, wiping out life savings in many cases.

Some of Madoff's victims spoke with CBS News' Harry Smith about how their lives were affected and what they believed appropriate punishment would be.


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Some of the best debates are between co-workers going at it, and CNET had enough foresight to chronicle a pretty good one between CNET News' Tom Krazit and Declan McCullagh about whether the Internet can "be considered a reliable source of information when a true crisis emerges."

The topic is quite timely, considering the effect Michael Jackson's death had all over the World Wide Web.

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