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Albany, NY – When Elizabeth Putnam was a college student in the fifties, the national parks were in trouble. She wanted to write a paper exploring the possibility of creating a new version of FDR's Civilian Conservation Corps and that paper led to a lifetime leading an organization that has involved thousands of Americans. This year, she was given a Presidential Citizens Medal for her service to the country.
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Elizabeth Cushman Titus Putnam is the founder of the Student Conservation Association and one of 13 Presidential Citizens Medal winners - the first ever for a conservationist. You can find out more at thesca.org.
60 to 80 percent of Afghanistan's marriages are forced, and over half of all brides are under age sixteen. Nearly 90 percent of Afghan women say they have experienced physical, sexual, or psychological violence or forced marriage in their lifetime. Still, there have been some advances that were documented in a Human Rights Watch report released this year and many activists want the US to tie women's rights into our strategy in Afghanistan. Washington correspondent Laura Iiyama has more.
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