it extends the horatio alger story from wealth to help. we all have the potential to be healthy, we just need to work at it, exercise the mora moral fortitude. we need to pull ourselves up by the bootstrap and we will succeed. so this is privatizing responsibility for health. i think this is another way in which breast-feeding fits conveniently into an american health paradigm that increasingly blamed individuals themselves for poor health outcomes, and for the soaring cost of american health care. but it's not just a matter of blaming individuals, the point i was making before. when we blame individual lifestyle choices for the crisis of american health care, we are not only blaming random unhealthy individuals in our society, we are consistently blaming some category of people. the unsafe sex, for example, is associated with th gay men, prostitutes and iv drug users. smoking is more prevalent among people who are poor. obesity is more prevalent among people who are african-american. and the failure to breast-feed is the failure of women,

a great window into contemporary american history and a great hover roy show -- horatio alger story. mary came from a lower middle class family in boston. her dad was a postal clerk. she broke into the industry at a time when women reporters were rare, and women columnists were even rarer. she had no way that she should have succeeded. and she did so in a really blazing fashion. >> how did she manage to do that? how did she manage to succeed in what was then a very, very male world of washington journalism? >> you know, i think by just didn't of sheer stubbornness. she decided really early that she wanted to be a reporter. her papers at the library of congress, there were notes in her diaries contemplating either being a schoolteacher or reporter from the time she was 12 or 13. she was quite enamored with a comic strip at the time of a heroic female reporter. and she set her mind to it. and she languished in the book review department both at the boston herald traveler and the washington star for years. she kept pestering her editors saying i want to cover politics, i want to write a

thanks to the horatio alger association, opportunities are created exactly for these deserving young people. since 1984, more than one hundred million dollars in college of the association. learn more at horatioalger.org >> i'm anne-marie green with a look beyond this morning's headlines. american monks at a monastery in italy are making heavenly harmony as they "tap" into history. allen pizzey takes us there. >> reporter: close your eyes and you could be back in the 11th century. that is when the chants were written and when st. augustine yeah, that's right. deal diva coming through. you see all my bogos, my weekly ad. and brace yourself. the digital coupons are coming next. look at her, so proud of her momma. you saved quite a bit today go ahead. say it. cha-ching! thank you the weekly ad, bogos and coupons. three easy ways to save at the same place you love to shop. publix. where shopping is a pleasure. with at&t the choice is yours. you only pay for the services you need to make your bundle work for you. call now to get high speed internet for just $15 a month for 12 months with