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While some in Congress were please to see the Supreme Court curb President Bush's authority with its Guantanamo ruling, others on Capitol Hill have already set to crafting legislation that would allow the president to handle the detainees as he sees fit.

A new book skewers today's mindless corporate culture via the e-mails of Martin Lukes, a fictitious, ambitious, forty-something middle manager who works for a company that makes nothing in particular.

Commentator Angela Nissel, author of Mixed: My Life in Black and White, has some suggestions for how to respond when people with a mixed ethnic background are asked about their heritage.

Seducing the Demon, the latest book by novelist Erica Jong, received a bad review in The New York Times this past Sunday. In the past, Jong says she would have curled up in bed and thought about changing careers. But now she says that perhaps she could learn something from a critic's harsh words.

As San Francisco prepares to mark the centennial of the 1906 earthquake and fire, historians recall how Chinatown, destroyed along with much of the city, almost wasn't rebuilt.

Inspired by a famous 100-year-old cookbook, hunter, cook and author Steven Rinella decided to cook a three-day, 45-course feast. It included a variety of delicacies poached inside of animal bladders and skewered elk livers.

Like Sundance, it turns 25 this year and promotes independent films. But that's where the similarities end for the Black Maria Film & Video Festival, which takes short, often experimental films on the road across America.

A federal judge rules against the teaching of intelligent design in Dover, Pa., schools. He says the concept is a "religious view" that has no place in science classrooms. The case could have important implications for the teaching of evolution in schools across the country.

Federal environmental officials and General Electric announce a deal for the long-delayed cleanup of the Hudson River. GE dumped more than a million pounds of PCBs into the river before the federal government banned the substance in 1977. Andrea Bernstein of member station WNYC reports.

Bill Gates founded Microsoft on the dream of putting a computer in every home and office. He says he built his company on the belief that technology, creativity and intelligence can change the world.