This week on “Sunday Morning” (Feb. 11)

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You can also download the free “Sunday Morning” audio podcast at iTunes and at Play.it. Now you’ll never miss the trumpet!


Software company SAP has hired many workers on the autism spectrum, who find camaraderie and fulfillment in the workplace.

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COVER STORY: Autism at the workplace
Nearly three years ago, when tech giant Microsoft announced that it was starting a pilot program to hire autistic workers, they received more than 700 resumes within a few weeks. German software maker SAP has instituted a program to bring people with autism into its workforce at its Pennsylvania campus, and other companies are following suit. By all accounts, giving those on the spectrum an opportunity to use their talents productively has been a tremendous success.

Lee Cowan looks at the changing face of workplace diversity.

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ALMANAC:
The inventor of crash test dummies
On February 11, 2005, physicist and engineer Samuel Alderson, who developed the very first anthropomorphic test device for auto safety testing, died at age 90. Jane Pauley reports.

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Dylan’s Candy Bar founder Dylan Lauren, with correspondent Alina Cho.

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VALENTINE’S DAY: Sweet success
As a child the daughter of fashion design Ralph Lauren loved “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory,” and wanted to live in a candy land. Today, Dylan Lauren is the founder and CEO of Dylan’s Candy Bar, which just celebrated its sweet 16th birthday. Correspondent Alina Cho toured Lauren’s New York City flagship store – the largest candy shop in the world – and talked with Dylan about how she found sweet success.

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The O’Jays (Eddie Levert, Walter Williams, Sr. and Eric Nolan Grant) with correspondent Jim Axelrod. 

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MUSIC: The O’Jays
All aboard the Love Train! Jim Axelrod catches up with the O’Jays.

To watch the O’Jays’ appearance on “Soul Train” back in 1972, click on the video player below, and dance along!

The O’Jays Love Train by Regina Côrtes on YouTube

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PASSAGE: TBD

     
VALENTINE’S DAY:
 Office romance
In the era of Time’s Up, #MeToo, and an increased awareness of sexual harassment in the workplace, is dating or marrying your office mates still a thing? As correspondent Tony Dokoupil finds out, some companies boast of it. Take Southwest Airlines (stock ticker acronym: LUV), where the expression “Love is in the air” takes on new meaning for staffers and flight attendants who are couples.

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ON THE ROAD:
A standup teacher

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Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani with correspondent Lesley Stahl.

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MOVIES: “The Big Sick”
Actor Kumail Nanjiani and his wife, Emily V. Gordon, had never written a movie before, when they decided to try and tell the basically true story of their lives, how they met, and how their budding romance was thrown for a loop when she became comatose. Their film, “The Big Sick,” proved to be a critical success, and has now earned them an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay.

Lesley Stahl of “60 Minutes” meets with Nanjiani and Gordon to find out how telling the story of their lives has turned their lives upside-down.

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  • “The Big Sick” is available on Blu-ray and DVD, and via streaming on Amazon

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The “symbolic” birth cabin of Abraham Lincoln, reconstructed at the site of the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Park, in Hodgenville, Ky.

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HISTORY: Lincoln’s cabins
In Kentucky you can visit the cabins where Honest Abe was born, and later grew up … or are they? Contributor Brook Silva-Braga reports.

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Conor Knighton, with lovespoon, on the Welsh Island of Llanddwyn, 

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ISLAND HOPPING: Spooning
Conor Knighton visits Llanddwyn Island off the coast of Wales, where if you want to woo someone, you don’t give your sweetheart chocolates, flowers or jewelry; you give them a “lovespoon.”

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CALENDAR:
Week of Feb. 12
“Sunday Morning” takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead. Jane Pauley reports.

      
NATURE:
TBD
          

WEB EXCLUSIVES:

     

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The most endearing animal you’ve probably never heard of, pikas survive without hibernating at alpine altitudes, storing hay for the winter. 

Verne Lehmberg

NATURE UP CLOSE: Pikas
The most endearing animal you’ve probably never heard of survives without hibernating at alpine altitudes.


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