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The collapse of Bear Stearns caps an astonishing run for the Wall Street giant, which managed to survive the Great Depression and countless recessions. But the current mortgage debacle proved too much.

America's oldest sugar substitute has a long, tangled and not always sweet history. The gradson of the inventor of Sweet 'N Low, Rich Cohen has written a book about the family enterprise.

Massive reconstruction efforts in the wake of catastrophes aren't without precedent in America. A number of U.S. cities have had to rebuild from the rubble.

In The Toothpick, author Henry Petroski looks at the odd and sometimes secretive history of the three-inch stick of wood. Picking your teeth, he finds, is among mankind's oldest bad habits.

Before it was a state, Colorado was part of Mexico. Evidence of its Mexican roots aren't always obvious unless one knows where to look.

For many Americans, the hula dance conjures images of grass skirts, coconuts and swinging hips. But a new documentary airing Tuesday on PBS looks beyond hula kitsch to explore its roots in ancient Hawaiian traditions. Hear Lisette Marie Flanary, co-producer of American Aloha: Hula Beyond Hawaii.

News analyst NPR's Daniel Schorr says the flap over the falsified documents from George W. Bush's time in the Texas Air National Guard, covered on CBS News, will occupy a place in the annals of political hoaxes.

Mexico elects its next president July 2. The race is hotly contested between leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and conservative Felipe Calderon. Mexico's electoral system has long been known for fraud, financing irregularities, and the outright buying of votes. While Mexico has improved dramatically under an independent electoral watchdog, shadows of its past remain. Michael O'Boyle reports.