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Curtis Wilkie is the author of The Fall of the House of Zeus, in which he chronicles the life of Dickie Scruggs, a trial lawyer who made millions in lawsuits targeting the asbestos and tobacco industries — and then wound up in prison for attempted bribery.

Dorie Greenspan, author of the new cookbook Around My French Table, says her stuffed pumpkin recipe is one of her favorites because it has "almost no rules." She says the possibilities depend on your imagination -- and your pantry.

Some of China's most treasured antiquities were meant to headline a Philadelphia exhibition. A last-minute bureaucratic snag meant the understudies had to go on.

Hollywood studios and the recording industry have railed against infringement, but fair use advocates say as long as people are creating something new out of copyrighted work, it's fair game.

Two Iraqi men accused of trying to send missiles to al-Qaida came to the U.S. as part of a program to resettle thousands of refugees. When one of those men applied to the program, Homeland Security officials didn't know the military had lifted his fingerprints from a bomb designed to hurt U.S. troops in Iraq.

Michael Daugherty's Metropolis Symphony, based on the story of Superman, received an impressive five Grammy nominations this year.

Commentator Barry Rosen was a former U.S. embassy official, and one of the hostages held in Tehran in 1979. Rosen doesn't believe resorting to military measures is a fruitful way of dealing with Iran's nuclear program. This is the second of two commentaries this week about Iran's nuclear program.

In her book Get Me Out: A History of Childbirth from the Garden of Eden to the Sperm Bank, Randi Hutter Epstein describes doctors who made great medical advances, but who had surprising flaws. Dr. J. Marion Sims, who is credited with curing vaginal fistulas, practiced on slave women, "stitching them up over and over and over again."

It's a safe bet that the last thing you'd do after losing your job is give away money. But every day, Reed Sandridge, who was laid off from a nonprofit group last year, walks up to a stranger and gives the person $10.

NPR's "How Low Can You Go" family supper challenge asks celebrity chefs to cook a meal for four for less than $10. Jose Andres, who owns several Washington, D.C., restaurants and hosts the Made In Spain PBS show, makes a family favorite: Moorish-style chickpea and spinach stew.