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Huntsville Mayor Tommy Battle says the city is "the only place in the world that still has expertise about going into deep space."

Alabama's 'Rocket City' Hopes For Another Boom

Huntsville is the shining star in Alabama's economy. Scientists there designed the rockets that put man on the moon. In the past 50 years, it's become a magnet for high-tech space and defense jobs. But with NASA downsizing and the specter of defense cuts looming, Huntsville finds itself in limbo.

This abandoned village outside the city of Zintan was populated by pro-Gadhafi families from the Mushashya, a nomadic tribe from southern Libya. Fighters from Zintan, which rebelled against Gadhafi forces, are hoping they won't come back.

In Post-Gadhafi Libya, Enmities Continue To Smolder

Revenge attacks are alarming those hoping for a swift transition to peace in Libya. Some villages where loyalists to overthrown dictator Moammar Gadhafi used to live are now abandoned, and locals hope they stay away. As well, militias still have their weapons, and regional rivalries are at play.

'100 Yards Of Glory': What Eli Manning Told Bob Costas About His Pores

Bob Costas talks to Robert Siegel about his new book, the history of football, and what's really our "national pastime."

In 2000, the Library of Congress declared Annie Leibovitz to be a <a href="http://www.loc.gov/about/awardshonors/livinglegends/bio/leibovitza.html">Living Legend</a>. Leibovitz lives in New York with her three children.

Leibovitz Takes A 'Pilgrimage' For Artistic Renewal

From John Lennon curled around Yoko Ono to a pregnant Demi Moore, photographer Annie Leibovitz has made a career of capturing people. But her latest collection is something very different. In Pilgrimage, Leibovitz focuses her lens on places and objects that have special meaning for her.

Two pedestrians stand on Broadway at West 44th Street in New York's Times Square on a November night in 1976. In his new memoir, critic James Wolcott writes about his life in 1970s New York.

James Wolcott: 'Lucking Out' In 1970s New York

The Vanity Fair critic was an aspiring writer when he arrived in a turbulent Manhattan in 1972. In his memoir, Lucking Out, he writes about the crime and culture (and pornography) he discovered there.

Dogs today evolved from wolves who first developed a relationship with humans on the hunting trail.

How Dogs Evolved Into 'Our Best Friends'

Naturalist Mark Derr says our friendship with dogs and wolves goes back thousands of years more than previously believed. His new book explores how the relationship between humans and wolves developed.

Life Without Plot In 'Leaving The Atocha Station'

Lerner captures the sense of everyday life with an unusual focus on thoughts rather than incident, betting on the premise that these thoughts are the events, rather than the stuff in between them.

Former President Clinton and President Obama at the White House; December 10, 2010.

President Clinton: 'There's Very Little Talk About What Actually Works'

The debate in Washington, says the former president, is "all about 'is the government good or bad or taxes always good or bad?' "

Author P.J. O'Rourke writes that while trekking through Kyrgyzstan's Tian Shan Mountains, he fell in love with his horse, whom he named Trigger. But that doesn't mean he loved the trip.

'Holidays In Heck': Traveling With P.J. O'Rourke

When he retired from his job as a war correspondent, P.J. O'Rourke decided to take on a new kind of globe-trotting challenge: traveling for fun. In Holidays in Heck, he explains how touring the Galapagos Islands and horseback riding in Kyrgyzstan left him questioning the merits of recreational travel.

'SNL's' Darrell Hammond Reveals Cutting, Abuse

In 14 years on Saturday Night Live, Darrell Hammond did many impressions, including Bill Clinton and Al Gore. But few of his cast members knew that Hammond struggled with drugs, alcohol and self-cutting as the result of systematic childhood abuse.

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