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Venerated as a deity in Nepal, 9-year-old Sajani Shakya, who's visited Washington, D.C. this week. Web Extra: See Documentary Clips
Sheila Johnson, co-founder of BET, is investing millions to combat hunger and disease.
June 14, 2007 · Estella Wheeler, owner of Estella's Hats in Washington, D.C., passed away earlier this week. We hear Wheeler's take on hats — how to wear them, what they stand for and their place in history — in a remembrance from Michele Norris.
June 13, 2007 · Retired Army Gen. Barry McCaffrey, who went to Iraq earlier this year, explains what the latest bombings of the holy Shiite mosque in Samarra mean for the U.S. military strategy in Iraq and why insurgents continue to target the shrine.
June 13, 2007 · Listener Gary Borders of Lufkin, Texas, loves the sound of his newspaper press starting up.
June 12, 2007 · U.N. Ambassador Afelee Pita left his island nation of fewer than 12,000 people to take up its cause in Manhattan, an island city of millions. Tuvalu's highest point is 13 feet above sea level. Global warming means more storms and a rising sea.
June 12, 2007 · Drought conditions have caused crowding in the Florida river — for fish and for boaters, a state Wildlife official says. During the weekend, a 32-year-old Jet Skier was knocked unconscious by a jumping sturgeon, and in 2006, 10 people were hurt in sturgeon-human incidents in Florida.
June 12, 2007 · Washing dishes was not a stepping stone for Pete Jordan, but a calling that spanned 12 years and 50 states. He takes readers to the heart of the kitchen — the dish pit — in "Dishwasher: One Man's Quest to Wash Dishes in All 50 States.
June 12, 2007 · The city of Lafayette, La., is growing quickly, and it risks losing its Cajun culture. The area needs a great writer to keep check on the dissolution of the Acadiana way.
June 12, 2007 · As Charles Phoenix and Steve Proffitt hit the road for their journey from Los Angeles toward the unearthing of a time capsule in Tulsa, Okla., they hit a slight snag — and stop at the wedding of a friend in Las Vegas.
June 11, 2007 · Ranchers have long used poisons to kill predators such as coyotes. But some also use guard dogs that are raised with sheep and instinctively protect them. A Wyoming woman supplies the guardian dogs to ranchers throughout the state.
June 11, 2007 · Exactly 50 years ago, citizens in Tulsa, Okla., buried a 1957 Plymouth Belvedere as a time capsule. This weekend, the time capsule will be unearthed at a ceremony. Charles Phoenix and Steve Proffitt are road-tripping there this week, and will deliver a series of reports.
June 10, 2007 · The formerly homeless residents of Emmaus House in Harlem recently buried their spiritual leader, the Rev. David Kirk. Kirk, who died at age 72 last month, believed in empowering the poor to serve the poor.
June 10, 2007 · The gruesome execution of Jean Baptiste Boudreau II was carried out on this day in 1757, and his body was cast unceremoniously into the Mississippi River. Today, some of Boudreau's descendants gathered in New Orleans to give him a proper funeral and finally put his soul to rest, 250 years after his death.
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