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Cerebral palsy has changed Vicky Page's life. As part of the StoryCorps oral history project, she discusses how she grew up with the disorder with a friend, Terrence Hicks.

People on the Red Lake Indian reservation in northern Minnesota struggle to come to grips with Monday's high school shooting. Authorities continue to piece together the events. Jeff Weise, 16, shot and killed nine people -- including seven at his school -- before killing himself, despite security measures at the school.

She is neither a misunderstood genius nor a child celebrity. She has not witnessed the extraordinary. Yet Amy Krouse Rosenthal wants you to know about her life. Her new memoir is an encyclopedia of herself, in alphabetical order. Mallory Kasdan profiles the writer.

Most boxing fans reserve the phrase "pound for pound" — used to describe a boxer of tremendous skill, regardless of the weight category — for the man considered the best fighter in history: Sugar Ray Robinson. A new biography charts the fighter's rise and fall in and out of the ring.

A pedometer is a small gadget that clips onto your hip and counts steps. These days, millions of people are using them, as public health campaigns and for-profit diet plans urge a daily target of 10,000 steps. NPR's Allison Aubrey reports on how this goal was set -- and whether it's worth following.

In the latest installment of "What's in a Song," our occasional series from the Western Folklife Center about one song and its story, we hear "Songs of the Humpback Chubb."

Twenty years ago, Philadelphia's Osage Avenue was the site of a stunning use of force by city police. Survivors recall the day that a confrontation between police and a radical group called MOVE left 11 people dead. Five were children.

Real ID is a law that requires states to meet new standards for issuing driver's licenses. President Bush signed it on Wednesday. Yesterday we heard an argument in favor of the new law. Today, Cheye Calvo argues against real ID. He thinks enforcing the law will be a burden on states. He's the transportation director of the National Conference of State Legislatures.

Commentator Geoff Grosshans has a fable about overzealous parenting. Grosshans edits The Stuffed Fabulist, a literary magazine.

Motorists across the state are now paying an average of $4.20 a gallon.

The Mountain Goats' early albums were recorded on a boombox and released on cassette tapes. While their production values have changed, their evocative, pocket-narrative lyrics are the same. Members of the band join Linda Wertheimer for an interview and performance.

Graco Children's Products agrees to pay a $4 million penalty for late reporting of problems with its products, including high chairs and strollers. It's the largest civil penalty issued by the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Christopher Conkey of The Wall Street Journal talks about the fine.

The Presidential Commission on Intelligence Thursday releases the results of its 14-month review of current and previous U.S. intelligence on various threats. The report also offers advice on how to implement intelligence reform legislation.

In a ruling on Wednesday, the Supreme Court made it easier for older workers to sue employers for age discrimination. NPR's Madeleine Brand talks with Slate's Emily Bazelon about the decision.

A New Jersey elementary school has set up a weekly "math boot camp" for students. The "camp" is a response to the demands of the No Child Left Behind Act, which requires that the school raise test scores or face a cut in funding.

NPR's Karen Grigsby Bates speaks with journalist Ross Gregory Douthat about his book Privilege: Harvard and the Education of the Ruling Class. The author discusses his experiences at Harvard University and the institution's role in defining the American elite.

NPR's David Schaper reports on plans by the Chicago Catholic Archdiocese to close 23 schools in the city and surrounding suburbs at the end of this school year. The closings could displace more than 4,000 students, mostly in poor and minority neighborhoods.

In the wake of the recent arrest of an alleged accomplice in the Red Lake shootings, NPR's Madeleine Brand talks with former FBI Special Agent Frank McCrary about profiling suspects.

The Bush administration is running into increasing resistance to altering Social Security. Republicans in Congress are beginning to feel pressure from their constituents as well. The president stumped for changes to Social Security in Iowa Wednesday.

Thirty years after flying off the roof of the U.S. Embassy, on one of the last helicopters out, NPR's Loren Jenkins recalls the last day of the Vietnam War from downtown Saigon, now Ho Chi Minh City.

The U.S. Geological Survey releases the findings of a study on the nation's volcanoes and the risks they pose to local communities. Citing concerns to residents as well as air travellers, geologists are calling for a National Volcano Early Warning System.

Commentator Richard Howorth is the mayor of Oxford, Miss., and the owner of a well-known bookstore there. He says that many writers have come to Oxford in search of William Faulkner's legacy. And like them, the town has had to find its own identity apart from the celebrated author.

Kenneth Clark, whose studies on racial discrimination helped win 'Brown v. Board of Education,' died this weekend at 90. David Rosner, professor of history and public health at Columbia University — and a former student and colleague — discusses Clark's legacy.

For America's daily papers, the news hasn't been good: For nearly two decades, newspapers have been losing paid subscribers. And a new report illustrates that circulation is now dropping more quickly than ever.

At 25, singer-songwriter Susie Suh has a recording contract with Sony's Epic label and a self-titled debut CD. NPR's Liane Hansen talks with Suh about where her music comes from — and where she hopes to be going.