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John T. Edge, a Southern foodways expert whose work has appeared in Gourmet, the Oxford American and Saveur, discusses a Montgomery, Ala., food tradition that has helped bring blacks and whites together. Read an excerpt from "The Welcome Table.

David Banks, an editor and producer of NPR's Web site, talks about a treasure trove of audio tapes that chronicle the correspondence between his father, a U-2 spy plane pilot in the Vietnam War, with his young wife and family at home in Arizona.

Dr. Danielle Ofri relies on an array of medical tools: stethoscopes, X-ray machines, thermometers. But above all, she uses her ears. In her new book, Singular Intimacies: Becoming a Doctor at Bellevue, Ofri says that learning to listen to patients is an integral part of her profession. NPR's Melissa Block spends a day with the doctor.

Commentator Joe Carter agrees with President Bush and his veto today of the bill for embryonic stem cell research. For Carter, it's a moral, religious and spiritual issue. Tuesday, we heard an opposing view from essayist Terry Smith.

Forty years ago this month, the Beatles began recording Rubber Soul. A new tribute CD features remakes of the landmark album's 14 tracks. Some of the artists weren't even born yet in 1965, when Rubber Soul came out.

Last year, commentator Ted Rose left his New York life for a Buddhist retreat in the Colorado Rockies. Now, he's trying to decide whether to stay out West or move back to the Big Apple.

After being transplanted from a vibrant city life to the isolation of a small town, NPR listener and USA Weekend reader Ruth Kamps found solace in nature and inspiration in the pine tree growing outside her kitchen window.

A gunman who killed one man and shot others exposes the complex identities of Taiwanese and Chinese people.

Ex-Fed Chief Alan Greenspan will see whether his words will move books as well as markets when his memoir The Age of Turbulence goes on sale. It is already making headlines for its criticism of fellow Republicans over what he Greenspan calls "out of control" federal spending.

Best known for her 1962 novel The Golden Notebook, Lessing's life work spans more than a half century. The British author is the 11th woman and the oldest writer to win the Nobel literature award.