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Hard crabs, like these blue crabs, are used in Bill Smith's Crab Stew recipe.

Hard Crab Stew, No Longer Hard (Or Messy)

Some of the greatest summer food experiences take you outside — from shucking corn and barbecuing to spitting watermelon seeds. Chef Bill Smith says his favorite summer memories took place at picnic tables over messy bowls of his grandmother's crab stew.

Physicians Seek Bargaining Power

http://cptv.vo.llnwd.net/o2/ypmwebcontent/Harriet/doccoops0415.mp3Connecticut's system of primary healthcare still relies heavily on small,…

Viewers To Decide If Amazon's Sample Shows Make The Cut

Amazon is piloting 14 possible shows for its streaming video service. The audience will vote on which shows it likes best. TV critic Eric Deggans says the process and the shows would like to be breaking ground for a new media — but they aren't.

You'll Want To Hang Up On These 'Secret Conversations'

Movie star Ava Gardner agreed to write her memoirs with British journalist Peter Evans in 1988. Now, after the deaths of both Gardner and Evans, the results of their abortive collaboration are being published. Reviewer Bob Mondello says the book is dead on arrival.

<a href="http://www.ifnoyes.com/">Ifnoyes.com</a> sold at an art auction in New York for $3,500. The artist, Rafael Rozendaal, compares owning a website to owning a public sculpture in a park.

If The Internet Is Your Canvas, You Paint In Zeros And Ones

In early October, Benjamin Palmer dropped $3,500 at Phillips auction house in New York. His acquisition? Ifnoyes.com — the first website to be sold at an established auction. It highlights the growing acceptance and appeal of artwork that lives in a virtual space.

Louis Marcell and Adam Jones prepare to search for old logs, known as sinker wood, on the bottom of Ashley River near Charleston, S.C. They use sonar and a book of old train lines to find the timber, some of which has been preserved in the mud since the 1800s.

Dredging South Carolina's Rivers For Long-Forgotten Timber

Dense forests of old-growth pines and cypress once blanketed South Carolina. As farming spread, nearly all the state's virgin trees were logged, but some sank into rivers en route to the sawmills. Now, some entrepreneurs are raising the preserved trees from the muck — and selling them for big money.

Alberto Gonzales: Voting Rights Laws 'Have to Be Reasonable'

The U.S. Justice Department is coming after states like Texas for their voting laws. Guest host Celeste Headlee speaks with former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to hear his thoughts.

Don't deny you have documents about drones, court tells the CIA.

Court Says CIA Can't Have It Both Ways On Drones

The CIA can no longer credibly argue that it can't even confirm it has such records, the court says.

Middle-Age "Senior Moments" Just Part of Aging

Everyone occasionally struggles to remember a name, blanks out on an appointment or forgets why they walked into the other room. But somewhere around age…

Jonathan Franzen is also the author of <em>The Corrections: A Novel,</em> and <em>The Discomfort Zone, </em>a memoir. He is pictured above at The New Yorker Festival Fiction Night in New York City in 2009.

Franzen Tackles Suburban Parenting In 'Freedom'

Jonathan Franzen's novel Freedom was called "a masterpiece" by Time Magazine and received rave reviews from critics. Franzen talks about the runaway success of his previous novel The Corrections, and the strong reaction elicited by Freedom.

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