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Working from a Greenwich Village storefront, Bonnie Slotnick helps reconnect people with rare and out-of-print cookbooks... and their own childhood memories.

President George Bush celebrates his re-election Wednesday after a tight race, while Sen. John Kerry concedes the race and calls for a period of healing. Hear NPR's Don Gonyea and NPR's Scott Horsley.

Listeners this week commented on our political interviews, on our coverage of the game rock, paper, scissors and on the Yucatec language.

Companies of actors doing plays in a rotation, with a different show every night, is a dream for many in the regional theater movement. Few troupes can afford it, but the ones that do can reap big benefits.

NPR's Bob Mondello reviews Requiem for a Dream which opens in New York today without a rating, but with a theater-enforced ban on viewers under 17 years of age. The producers are protesting a rating of NC-17 from the Motion Picture Association due to the sex in the film. The producers claim the industry is over-reacting to election rhetoric. Even seasoned movie critics, however, find the sex hard to watch.

Americans will eat more than 600 million Marshmallow Peeps and Bunnies this Easter season. A sampler of conversations with peep-eaters about the very best ways to eat the sugary treats.

NPR's Elaine Korry reports from San Francisco on Internet retailers' preparations for the Christmas shopping season. They expect on-line sales to be two-thirds higher than last year. And they're trying to prevent the problems that occurred last year, when websites began crashing; popular merchandise became scarce; and some presents weren't delivered in time.

A new study shows widespread testing for heart problems in young athletes helps prevent sudden cardiac deaths. But some say that screening every young athlete for a rare condition could cause more problems than it solves.

Simmered all day with a slug of fatback, brown beans have warmed many hardworking West Virginia miners. Kendra Bailey Morris shares memories of pintos and cornbread and her great-granny Charity.

For more than a century, collectors and developers in Florida have stripped the state of its native orchids. Now, a team of scientists is working to reintroduce the plants to the swamps where they once flourished.