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The latest NPR poll took the pulse of likely voters in the 50 most competitive House districts across the country. Forty of those seats are currently held by Republicans. The results suggest that the GOP's grasp on the majority may be fragile.

New government data released Thursday showed an economy that is growing again for the first time in a year. But the economy is receiving much support right now, and no one knows whether it is capable of growing on its own.

Letting kids dip maggots into paint may sound merely disgusting — but there's an entomologist from U.C.-Davis who calls it art. Rebecca O'Flaherty is using the maggot art to teach respect for a larva most people associate with road-kill. Under her guidance, students dip maggots in water-based paint.

The Commerce Department says the U.S. gross domestic product grew at just 0.6 percent in the final quarter of 2007. That is the weakest growth rate in five years for the GDP.

Democrats unveiled what they hope will be the final version of their health care overhaul bill after days of closed-door meetings, setting the stage for a showdown vote in the House on Sunday. With his top domestic priority hanging in the balance, President Obama again postponed an overseas trip that has already been pushed back once.

Edward Weston's photographs from a year he spent traveling through Death Valley and the West are at the heart of a major exhibition now at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California. NPR's Renee Montagne reports on the exhibit.

The interview with the Daily Show host that was originally broadcast Oct. 4 has been re-edited for Friday's Fresh Air; it features material cut from the original broadcast because of time constraints.

Psychology professor Colin Ellard, author of You Are Here: Why We Can Find Our Way to the Moon, but Get Lost in the Mall, says you can train yourself to be more conscious of your surroundings.

Download our version of "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town," then record your own. Send it in, and we may use it for our national caroling party.

Seeger was a leading figure in the 20th century resurgence of American traditional music and a noted field collector of rural Southern music. He recorded hundreds of musicians in their homes and local performing venues.