From NPR News, this is All Things Considered, I am Melissa Block, and I'm Michele Norris. The White House says it's updating its national space policy to meet changing threats. The New York Times reported today that the new policy to be issued as a...
Tomorrow New York's American Museum of Natural History opens an exhibit designed to provide insight into dinosaur lifestyles. The exhibit showcases new discoveries , many of them from China. They include feathered dinosaurs and an ancestor of T-rex....
This is Morning Edition from NPR news. Im Steven Inskeep, as we reported on this program medicaid has become the single biggest budget item for most states. Nearly all of them are trying to limit the growth of the health program for the poor and no...
It's Day to Day from NPR news, I am Alex Chadwick. In basketball, the NBA's second-round playoffs are underway. The defending champion Detroit Pistons, playing at home, easily beat the Indiana Pacers last night 96 to 81. The Pistons and the Pacers...
Wolves have been cast as villains in stories -- almost since there have been stories. Jesus warned against them in the Bible; Little Red Riding Hood was tormented by one. They've been favorite symbols of evil from Aesop to Prokofieff. A new document...
From NPR News, this is All things considered. Im Robert Siegel, and Im Melissa Block. There were some unexpectedly good news today about the economy. Late last month, businesses created more jobs than economists projected and the increases were spre...
The happiest place on earth is officially middle-aged. Disneyland has just turned fifty and Disney is marking the occasion with a huge celebration. The southern California icon has inspired a number of spin-offs and imitators. To keep up. Disneyland...
More than 1 billion people count Mandarin as their native language. These sheer numerical dominance plus the fact that China has the world's fastest growing economy has made Mandarin Chinese attractive as a foreign language for more American student...
Over the weekend, the University of Mississippi rededicated the home of Nobel Prize novelist William Faulkner following a 1.3-million-dollar restoration. Faulkner bought the antebellum house in 1930 and named it Rowan Oak after the qualities of the...
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room is a new documentary written and directed by Alex Gibney. The film is based on the best selling book of the same name. Los Angeles Times and Morning Edition film critic Kenneth Turan has this review. Enron: The S...