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University of Minnesota students who served in Iraq are setting up a veterans' assistance center at the school to help other vets make the transition from the military to academia. The school hopes the volunteer effort will help reverse a post-Sept. 11 decline in veteran-student retention. Minnesota Public Radio's Mark Zdechlik reports.

Families who don't share meals at home are missing something. And they're not much fun at a restaurant, either. Chef Gillian Clark, who runs the Colorado Kitchen in Washington, D.C., shares her thoughts on family dining.

Hurricane Wilma settles over Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, battering beach resorts for more than 24 hours with 100 mph winds and drenching rains. The slow pace of the powerful storm increases its danger to the region.

A New Jersey jury has ruled in favor of drugmaker Merck in a major case testing whether the company properly warned consumers about the risks of using its painkiller drug Vioxx. The case was brought by an Idaho man who claimed his intermittent use of Vioxx caused his heart attack four years ago.

Bill Siemers lost his wife to cancer nine days before Hurricane Katrina struck. But instead of closing the New Orleans coffee-roasting company they ran together for a dozen years, he's investing even more in the business. For the 59-year-old widower, it's an enormous gamble.

Bill Manseau 's wife, Mary, left the convent in the late 1960s. But Bill Manseau believed then, as he does today, that he was called to be a married priest -- and his actions might help to end the requirement of celibacy. The church felt otherwise.

The FBI has made a number of errors during surveillance operations intended to catch terrorists and spies. Newly released documents show FBI agents regularly continued wiretapping and physical searches long after legal authorization had expired.

Thirty-nine years ago today, the Jimi Hendrix Experience played its first show as a headliner, at a club in Munich, Germany. Farai Chideya talks about the founding of the Jimi Hendrix Experience with Charles Cross, author of the Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix.

Syria vehemently denounces the United Nations' report on that country's role in the assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. Anthony Shadid, Middle East correspondent for The Washington Post, has details of Damascus' response.

FarmersOnly.com, an online dating service that started last spring, is designed for farmers but open to anyone. It features profiles of more than 1,800 people from around the country. Jerry Miller, who is not a farmer, created the site after listening to a divorced farmer describe her dating dilemmas.

To be considered a true Camembert, the French cheese must be made in Normandy, from the milk of Norman cows. But in the village of Camembert itself, only one man makes the cheese in the traditional way.

Ted Stanger, a former Newsweek correspondent and writer on French affairs, discusses the grievances behind the French riots and the political ramifications of the violence.

The U.S. Senate will soon vote on a budget bill that contains a provision to allow drilling in the Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Debate over oil exploration in the delicate and remote habitat has been going on for 20 years -- Alex Chadwick discussed the upcoming vote with Elizabeth Arnold, who's just returned from a visit to a native community inside the refuge that's also split on whether or not to allow drilling.

Investigative reporter Jerry Mitchell writes for The Clarion-Ledger in Jackson, Miss., and specializes in unearthing new evidence from Civil Rights era criminal cases. His coverage has led to the convictions of four Ku Klux Klan members, starting with Byron De La Beckwith for the assassination of Medgar Evers. Recently, Edgar Ray Killen was found guilty of orchestrating the murders of Civil Rights workers Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Michael Schwerner. Next week Mitchell will be honored with the John Chancellor Award for Excellence in Journalism.

In an exclusive interview with NPR, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff talks about agency plans to tighten the southern U.S. border and ending the "catch and release" policy. The policy of releasing illegal immigrants has been criticized as a potential way for terrorists to enter the country.

Television critic Andrew Wallenstein reviews the new documentary Pioneers of Primetime, a film that looks back at the early days of television and the icons who invented a new genre of entertainment.

Federal monitoring began in the wake of a corruption and brutality scandal two decades ago. Critics say progress is extremely fragile and remain worried about true progress.

While many Iraqis blame foreigners for the bloody attacks on civilians, the hallmark of the ongoing insurgency, the truth is that many of the bombers are Iraqi citizens.

Groundbreaking artists and thinkers are among those whose deaths are blamed on the illness caused by the coronavirus.

The three major television networks have made deals with cable and satellite providers to allow viewers to watch their favorite programs anytime they want. This new model is a response to how technology is affecting TV habits -- and represents a profound change for advertisers and programmers.

Fears of a civil war rise in Bolivia, after President Carlos Mesa resigned this week amid protests. An emergency congress has been called to pick his successor. Bill Faries of The Christian Science Monitor discusses the latest developments.

To Oscar-winning film editor Walter Murch, whose latest film is Jarhead, what you hear -- or don't hear -- is as important as what you see on the big screen.

The percentage of civil cases reaching trial in the federal courts has fallen from 11 percent in 1962 to 1.8 percent in 2002. Get the facts about America's jury system.

Health care organizations are beginning to address more aggressively the perception of eating disorders within communities of color. Anorexia and bulimia aren't just problems for upper-class white women. More and more African-American and Latina women are buying in to the mainstream media's white, thin image of beauty.

Ed Gordon talks with jazz guitarist Kevin Eubanks. Besides heading the band on Jay Leno's Tonight Show, Eubanks has a successful jazz career of his own, and has been playing on tour with his own band for years.