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Dan Collision and Elizabeth Meister spend every wedding anniversary indulging their passion for road trips and roadside diners. This year, they headed to Lake Michigan's Sleeping Bear National Lakeshore.

Cities and towns along the Gulf Coast have seen more than their share of destruction from this month's hurricanes, but the land itself -- particularly the marshes of Louisiana -- has also suffered.

Don't ever email the professor. Never friend the teacher on Facebook. Those are some of the rules A.J. Jacobs learned when he joined the ranks of millions enrolled in massive open online courses, MOOCs. Harvard, MIT and Stanford are among universities offering virtual classes free of charge.

The French pop quartet is notoriously slow to release new music. But vocalist Thomas Mars and guitarist Laurent Brancowitz say their new album, Bankrupt!, wouldn't have been the same without meticulous self-editing.

NPR's Philip Davis has more on the snow story, reporting on the storm's impact on various localities on the East coast.

The CIA has morphed from a traditional espionage service concerned with stealing the secrets of foreign governments into an organization consumed with hunting down its enemies. New York Times journalist Mark Mazzetti chronicles this transformation in a new book, The Way of the Knife.

Thousands of supporters will descend on the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday. This time, as differences are worked out among interested parties, the optimism is more palpable than it was in past attempts.

Sent to Sri Lanka to report on the tsunami's damage, Elizabeth Arnold returned home struck by the life and resilience she saw there.

In a series of reports for Radio Expeditions, Elizabeth Arnold journeys to Sri Lanka with one of the first teams to assess the environmental aftermath of the deadly Indian Ocean tsunami.

Forget basketball, there's a different collegiate final four going on right now. This weekend, Webster University of St Louis, the University of Texas at Dallas, the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and the University of Illinois square off outside Washington, D.C. in the Final Four of College Chess — the President's Cup. Robert Siegel talks to players Wesley So and Ray Robson and their coach, Susan Polgar.