1. Extremist Jews prevent women from voting in Israel
(AP) JERUSALEM — A small group of ultra-Orthodox Jews has prevented some women from voting in local elections in Jerusalem. It's the latest step by the extremely pious Jews to try to force their practices on others.
Israel's Channel 2 TV video showed the men screaming at a few dozen women, demanding that they leave a voting station Wednesday. Then the men pushed them away.
The incident happened soon after Jerusalem's secular mayor, Nir Barkat, left the station after speaking out against gender discrimination.
Recently Israel's ultra-Orthodox minority have become more active in trying to impose gender segregation beyond their communities. Women have been forced to the back of some buses that serve their neighborhoods.
The vast majority of Israel's Jews object to such measures.
Israel's Channel 2 TV video showed the men screaming at a few dozen women, demanding that they leave a voting station Wednesday. Then the men pushed them away.
The incident happened soon after Jerusalem's secular mayor, Nir Barkat, left the station after speaking out against gender discrimination.
Recently Israel's ultra-Orthodox minority have become more active in trying to impose gender segregation beyond their communities. Women have been forced to the back of some buses that serve their neighborhoods.
The vast majority of Israel's Jews object to such measures.
2. Truffles: The Most Expensive Food in the World
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European white truffles sell for as much as $3,600 a pound, but harvests are down and a black market has emerged -- none of which has dampened the appetite for this prized fungi. Lesley Stahl reports.
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European white truffles can sell for as much as $3,600 a pound, making them and their fellow fungi the most expensive food in the world. One two-pound truffle recently sold for more than $300,000. All of which has brought organized crime into the truffle trade, creating a black market and leading to theft of both truffles as well as the highly valued truffle-sniffing dogs. Add to that the influx of the inferior Chinese truffles -- masquerading as their European cousins -- and you've got trouble with truffles. Lesley Stahl reports.
The following is a script of "The Most Expensive Food in the World" which aired on Jan. 8, 2012. Lesley Stahl is the correspondent. Ira Rosen, producer.
Just a couple of shavings of black truffles from France - known as black diamonds - can cost hundreds of dollars in a restaurant in Paris. White truffles from Italy can cost more than three times as much.
Truffles are a fancy, delicious delicacy - some say an aphrodisiac - and, ounce for ounce, the most expensive food in the world. If you go to France and Italy, as we did, you learn quickly that truffles are under siege because they're becoming scarce. They're being trafficked like drugs, stolen by thugs and threatened by inferior imports from China.
Reporter's find: Truffles on polenta
Scared to try cooking with truffles? Here's a wonderfully simple recipe our correspondent found in the field
Scared to try cooking with truffles? Here's a wonderfully simple recipe our correspondent found in the field
Lesley Stahl: He found one already? Where, where, where? He found one? Oh my god. Oh, smell that.
In the beautiful Italian province of Perugia, truffle hunters roam the frosty hills with their trained dogs, who sniff out these lumpy mushrooms when they're ripe, one at a time, as they have for centuries.
Stahl: Wow!
Truffles grow wild, underground, usually at the base of an oak tree. They used to use pigs, but they ate the truffles.
Olga Urbani: Very rich American people they only see truffles on the table of a very elegant restaurant. They don't see this. Now you know why they are expensive, right?
Olga Urbani may be the only person in the world who goes truffle hunting in a full-length fur coat and a Caribbean tan, but in the truffle business, she can pretty much do what she wants. Her company, Urbani, controls 70 percent of the world's truffle trade.
Urbani: When you find the truffles, it's like to have a miracle.
Stahl: Another one!
Other countries, including the U.S. have tried cultivating truffles, with only limited success. It's the combination of European red soil and rainy summers that produce an especially rich, earthy flavor. The price these truffles command makes hunters act like they're mining for gold.
Stahl: So this is $1,000? Just right there is $1,000...
And it's why the hunters value their dogs more than just about anything!
Urbani (with farmers): He said, "I really love my wife, but the dog..."
These truffles will go right to the Urbani factory, where they're washed, sorted and either frozen or canned - or flown fresh to fancy restaurants like New York's DB Bistro Moderne, home of the $150 hamburger smothered with truffles. A few shavings on pasta can run you even more. In 2010 at an auction in Macau, this two-pound white truffle sold for $330,000, a record amount.
Stahl: It's not like agriculture. People don't put a seed in the ground. And they're a fungus.
Urbani: Yes, they're underground fungus, yes.
Stahl: So the farmer really can't make it happen.
3. Affair leads to shocking Ga. double murder
Carey and Robin Heidt
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In a small Southern town, an extramarital affair turns into a fatal family affair. Susan Spencer reports.
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Produced by Paul LaRosa, Michelle Feuer and Cassandra Marshall
SPRINGFIELD, Ga. -- On Aug. 25, 2008, hours before dawn, Sheriff Jimmie McDuffie was called to a house on Springfield Egypt Road. He braced himself for what lay ahead.
"I knew then that somebody had been killed, at least two... I did not know who it was. They just gave us an address on a page," Sheriff McDuffie told "48 Hours Mystery" correspondent Susan Spencer. "At some point, and I don't remember where that was at...it was like 'Oh my God, that's gotta be Philip's house.'"
Philip was Philip Heidt - a man to be reckoned with in Effingham County, Ga., and a pal of McDuffie's.
"I knew Philip ever since I came to the county back in probably '87, '88..."the sheriff said.
Heidt was a successful real estate developer who'd made millions in this sprawling county about an hour north of Savannah. The patriarch of a close-knit family, he was married to wife Linda for 42 years.
"We met at the county fair in Savannah...and he stole my heart right away...and um, things weren't always easy but...ya know, there was love," Linda Heidt told Spencer.
The couple had three sons: Craig, Chris and Carey, who Linda describes as, "Good men...fine men...church-going men... They had values and they believed in each other."
Chris Heidt was the middle son.
"We got along well. We were family, nobody was perfect...but we grew up very close together," Chris explained. "Each of us had our own personalities."
"Were the brothers very different?" Spencer asked Carey's wife, Robin Heidt.
"They're all three pretty different, yeah. Chris and Craig are the most alike," she replied. "They both like to hunt, outdoors things like that... And Carey was the baby of the family."
It was Carey who followed his dad into real estate, becoming his business partner. He and wife Robin had three kids of their own.
"Carey and I met in high school our senior year in English class," said Robin.
"You had a big smile when you said that," Spencer commented.
"Yeah, um, we were really good friends in the beginning and realized that I was in love with Carey...and not long after high school we got married."
"When he asked you to marry him, then this just seemed like this was meant to be?"
"It was definitely meant to be, yes," said Robin.
The Heidt clan was turning out just as its patriarch had hoped.
"Philip wanted the family to be perfect... good Christian family, good folks...and Philip was just - he was the man of the house," said McDuffie.
"Popular?" Spencer asked.
"Popular, extremely," the sheriff said.
Murder just didn't fit with the seemingly perfect family the sheriff knew so well... too well for him to oversee the case, he decided. So on that first day, McDuffie turned the case over to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI).
In charge was Agent Eugene Howard, who quickly realized that the crime scene was not what it seemed.
"The scene was staged to look like it was a burglary," said Agent Howard.
The killer had cut the phones lines and smashed a pane of glass in a door.
"There was nothing of note taken; jewelry was still present. Nothing was rummaged through. There was money left out," Howard explained. "No impression that anything was taken from inside the residence."
"So you think that's just because the person panicked and fled before they had a chance to take anything?" asked Spencer.
"No," Howard replied. "Robbery wasn't the motive. Murder was the motive."
"There were three victims shot, each with a single shotgun blast," Medical Examiner Dr. James Downs explained.
"The shooter comes to Carey first. Fires. ...The shooter leaves Carey, proceeds to the parents' bedroom...the second shot was to Philip. Linda was the mother...she's comin' outta the bathroom to see what's going on because she doesn't have a clue... the left side of her face was extensively damaged and then the shot continued through her right shoulder.
"Both of the men had similar entry wounds -- that is a shotgun wound to the face," Downs said of murder victims Philip and Carey Heidt.
Based on those injuries and the pellets found at the scene, the medical examiner says the shooter used a 12-gauge shotgun; up close and personal.
"How close roughly are we talking about here?" Spencer asked Downs.
"Based on what I've seen at the scene, looking at the photographs, my estimate was something like two feet," he replied. "You're two feet away, my goodness. You don't really need to aim. You just kinda point and shoot."
To get an idea of the damage a 12-gauge shotgun does at such close range, "48 Hours" asked the sheriff's firearms instructor, Ed Myrick, to demonstrate using the same model shotgun, the same type of buckshot and the same three-inch shell used by the killer.
"This is the Remington 870," Myrick explained. "This is their most popular shotgun."
"What would this do if fired at a person?" Spencer asked.
"If you're gonna fire that at someone, it's a deadly force incident," Myrick replied.
Given the close range, Linda probably would have died instantly had she not turned her head at the moment of impact.
"It's amazing that she did survive because, basically, it looks like she was left for dead," said Downs.
But, almost as if the power of those shotgun blasts wasn't enough, the gunman next drenched the entire house in gasoline.
"The gas fumes out by the road were just horrific," McDuffie recalled. "You could smell it from the road."
"I wrote down in my journal that I knew what hell smelled like...Gasoline and gunpowder," Linda told Spencer. "I remember smelling the gas..."
"You had gasoline on your clothes?" asked Spencer.
"Yeah, well, I was sitting on the floor so I knew they were wet."
But the killer never set the gas ablaze, perhaps panicking when he heard Linda's desperate call to 911.
News of the murders spread quickly in this rural southern community and so did fear.
"They must've thought a killer [was] on the loose," said Spencer.
According to McDuffie, "They did."
Investigators checked the alibi of a local drug dealer, but quickly ruled him out. They next turned their attention to the Heidt's real estate dealings.
"Every time Philip had had an argument with somebody, you know, we had to go and investigate and talk to those folks...see what was going on with it," said McDuffie.
They found no motive and no suspect. Then Sheriff McDuffie recalled an unsettling conversation he's had with Carey Heidt only a month earlier.
"...he knew that his wife was runnin' around on him," McDuffie said. "But he did not tell me who it was with."
"That must've been something of a shock," said Spencer.
"It was," the sheriff replied, "'cause every time you saw them together it was just like the perfect family."
As the whole county soon would learn, it was hardly the perfect family. Not only was the marriage on the rocks, but even more shockingly, Robin Heidt was having an affair with her husband's older brother, Craig.
"I'm definitely a woman in the center of a storm," said Robin.
SOURCE:http://www.cbsnews.com/
Top 3 T.V News Stories
1) The republican candidates are getting down to the final push if they hope to be the Republican choice for the 2012 Presidential election. Mitt Romney is still the favorite at this point and has pulled away from the other candidates. The candidates are starting to pull out the negative criticism toward Romney, in order to pick up some of the 32 percent of Republicans that are still undecided. This 32 percent say they don't know if they agree with any of the current candidates. 2) Ron Paul one of the Republican candidates, has made some strong statements about what he thinks need to be done with Social Security. He originally said that young people should be able to opt out of paying Social Security and make their own plans for retirement. But when asked if this would cause the current system to fail sooner, because of the lack of young people paying into the fund, he declined to answer. All of the candidates know that Social Security will need to be changed in order to sustain those that count on it, but they disagree on how to approach it and are stepping carefully at this time.
3) There is a recall of certain medicines from prescription producer Novartis.The medications Morphine and Perkaset could actually have been put into the over the counter medicines e Bufferin, Exederin, Gas-x and No Doz. Although the company has chosen to recall of four of these medicines, only the No-Doz is manufactured on the same line as the two prescription pain relievers. The mix up was first reported by pharmacists who started having patients complain about the pills falling apart.
Source: CBS Evening News 1-9-2012
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