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From the outside, India's swift economic growth can be misleading. Will the wealth be spread around to address daunting poverty? Edward Luce, author of In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India offers some clues.

America is unprepared for the next big catastrophe, whether it's like Sept. 11 or like Hurricane Katrina, the author of a new book says. Stephen Flynn, a former Coast Guard commander, says ports like the giant facility in Los Angeles, are especially vulnerable to attacks or natural disasters.

An explosion on a train in India has killed at least 66 people. Authorities think a crude bomb started a fire as the train headed to Pakistan. India's railway minister says the explosion was aimed at undermining the peace process between the nuclear-armed neighbors.

Brothers Chip and Dan Heath examine why some ideas spread around the globe, while others are forgettable, in their book, Made to Stick. They say most people don't know how to frame their ideas in a clear and compelling way.

This year's Newbery Medal winner, Susan Patron, is under fire from some school librarians because of language in her book The Higher Power of Lucky..

The children's classic, The Bridge to Terabithia, is now a Disney film. Author Katherine Paterson and her son, screenwriter David Paterson, discuss the real-life events that the popular book is based on.

The Children in Room E4 is a new book chronicling the ups and downs of an urban school with a history of low performance, and the occasional bright spot.

Journalist Matt Beynon Rees is now a crime novelist, too. The Collaborator of Bethlehem follows a Palestinian schoolteacher who turns detective to solve a murder set in the violence-ridden West Bank. Rees was based in Jerusalem as a Middle East reporter for Time magazine for more than a decade, serving as bureau chief from 2000 to 2006.

A new study in the journal Child Development shows that if you teach students that their intelligence isn't fixed — that it can grow and increase — they do better in school.

Ever wonder where the gold in your wedding ring came from? For Valentine's Day, Robert Krulwich tracks the rare element all the way to outer space, where gold is formed in the fiery center of collapsing stars.