filled with water. one of them shoots out a window. two of them join us tuesday. today, january 3rd, 2012. captions paid for by nbc-universal television welcome to today on this tuesday morning. i m ann curry. i m matt lauer. it s been a long time. i know. everybody off on different vacations. so last year. 2012 nice to see you again. nice to see you again. the gang is all here and 2012 has a nice ring to it. hopefully good things will happen. seems like we ve been talking about this day for a better part of a year. after months of campaigning, millions in political advertising and all kinds of debates, the first contest in the presidential race is hours away. more than 100,000 caucusgoers in iowa are expected to record their choices tonight. the candidates spent monday courting last-minute undecided voters and mitt romney is sounding confident about his chances in iowa and the general election if he should win the republican nomination. savannah guthrie c
major poll in december of 1962. he purported to find american housewives were the happiest people on earth. what did it take to make a happy? that the man being number one. one woman interviewed said be insubordinate to men is part of being feminine. what gives her pleasure. another said that a woman needs a master/slave relationship whether it is husband or wife or boss and secretary. .. more likely than any other to devalues themselves they then assessed their child care skills more negatively rather than less educated, less fortunate stay at home mothers or equally educated working moms. unlike today, if moms who actually did work outside the home were more confident in their child-rearing skills than these middle class homemakers felt. and as i listened to these women talked, i set out to figure out why were these women so responsive? why did they feel so lost? and it seems to me that what friedan did was have its biggest impact on women who were part of a generation caug
i m going to sit right down and write myself a letter > how is your handwriting? chances are it s not as good as theirs. does our legibility get better as we get older? no. what happens is we tend to peak around fourth grade. so that s it. reporter: a primer on penmanship and whether it matters anymore later on sunday morning. osgood: jan s story is is a story of love and devotion in the face of a terribly sad but increasingly common condition told by our barry petersen. yes, you look. yeah, i d say. i like people. reporter: her name is jan carleton. she has early onset alzheimer s disease. darling. reporter: but she is not just a stranger. to me, this story is personal. how are you? there are survivor of heart attacks. there are survivors of cancer. there are survivors of lung disease. there are no survivors of alzheimers disease. reporter: a story i never thought i would tell as a reporter later on sunday morning. osgood: natalie portman is a highly
important as clear comprehensible speech. speech seems to have been degraded and penmanship is almost a lost art. tracy smith will be reporting our sunday morning cover story. i m going to sit right down and write myself a letter > how is your handwriting? chances are it s not as good as theirs. does our legibility get better as we get older? no. what happens is we tend to peak around fourth grade. so that s it. reporter: a primer on penmanship and whether it matters anymore later on sunday morning. osgood: jan s story is is a story of love and devotion in the face of a terribly sad but increasingly common condition told by our barry petersen. yes, you look. yeah, i d say. i like people. reporter: her name is jan carleton. she has early onset alzheimer s disease. darling. reporter: but she is not just a stranger. to me, this story is personal. how are you? there are survivor of heart attacks. there are survivors of cancer. there are survivors of lung disea
almost a lost art. tracy smith will be reporting our sunday morning cover story. i m going to sit right down and write myself a letter > how is your handwriting? chances are it s not as good as theirs. does our legibility get better as we get older? no. what happens is we tend to peak around fourth grade. so that s it. reporter: a primer on penmanship and whether it matters anymore later on sunday morning. osgood: jan s story is is a story of love and devotion in the face of a terribly sad but increasingly common condition told by our barry petersen. yes, you look. yeah, i d say. i like people. reporter: her name is jan carleton. she has early onset alzheimer s disease. darling. reporter: but she is not just a stranger. to me, this story is personal. how are you? there are survivor of heart attacks. there are survivors of cancer. there are survivors of lung disease. there are no survivors of alzheimers disease. reporter: a story i never thought i would t