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India's massive power outages last week shocked many people who thought that India was on course to become a new economic super power, like China, where such outages are unheard of. NPR's Julie McCarthy and Frank Langfitt join guest host Linda Wertheimer to discuss attitudes toward infrastructure in the two emerging economies.

Veterans coming home from Iraq and Afghanistan are facing an unemployment rate twice that of civilians. But a consortium of business schools has been teaching service members that their military experience can give them the right skills to become successful business owners.

Host Rachel Martin speaks with former CIA official Philip Mudd about the British undercover agent who helped thwart terrorists and the newest version of the underwear bomb.

The first high-speed Amtrak trains outside of the Northeast Corridor are racing through parts of Michigan at 110 mph. But President Obama's ambitious high-speed rail initiative is otherwise in a slowdown mode, since lawmakers and some governors have not embraced the program.

Thucydides' account of the war between Athens and Sparta has become an allegory of modern conflicts like the Cold War, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan. But a new book about the ancient historian shows he may not quite have been telling the truth.

Despite losing its lead singer last year, the inventive New York band sounds no less frenzied and intricate on its second album, Gloss Drop.

http://cptv.vo.llnwd.net/o2/ypmwebcontent/Jeff%20Cohen/2011_10_26_JC%20111026%20Prison%202.mp3The state's prison population is on the decline for various…

Though they work as a traditional African-American string band, Carolina Chocolate Drops' members throw in some modern twists. The Durham, N.C.-based trio plays a wide variety of instruments, including the banjo, fiddle, jug, bones and harmonica. All of those sounds are featured on the band's newest record, Genuine Negro Jig.

One year ago this week, powerful tornadoes killed more than 300 people in the Southeast. Experts now say that some tornado deaths could be prevented if people add one more step when taking cover: wear a helmet. But official guidelines from the CDC call for people to use their hands to protect their heads.

Nigerian writer WOLE SOYINKA. (Wo-lay Shaw-INKA) He was the first African to be awarded the Nobel prize for literature (in 1986), and he's been called Africa's "finest writers." He is a dramatist, poet, novelist, critic, and political writer. Some of his works have been banned by Nigerian regimes. He's gone into exile several times and has been imprisoned for political protests. He's written 21 books, including "Myth, Literature, and the African World," and his autobiography, "Ake': The Years of Childhood." (Ventura books). (THIS INTERVIEW WILL BE EXTENDED INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE SHOW).