Mar 12th, 2005 · In The Harder They Fall, a new collection of stories of celebrity addiction and recovery, writers Gary Stromberg and Jane Merrill take readers through the spinning, drug-induced decades of the '60s and '70s.
Mar 9th, 2005 · Mortgage rates remain low by historic standards despite an economic recovery, a fact that leads economists to use words such as "confounding" and "mysterious" to describe the trend.
Mar 7th, 2005 · An outbreak of citrus canker is making the Florida citrus industry's recovery even more difficult after the punches landed by this season's hurricanes. There is no known cure for the disease that debilitates citrus trees. The only way to fight it is to destroy infected groves, which ends fruit production for seven years.
Mar 1st, 2005 · In Thailand, more than 5,300 bodies have been recovered from areas affected by the deadly Indian Ocean tsunami. Doualy Xaykaothao has an update on recovery efforts on the resort island of Phuket.
Feb 17th, 2005 · In January, a Marine gave an FBI agent in Pennsylvania eight small objects he'd brought home from Iraq. They were 5,000-year-old stone seals that had been looted from a site near Babylon. The FBI says it's the first recovery by its agents in the United States of looted cultural property from Iraq. Joel Rose of member station WHYY reports.
Feb 14th, 2005 · President Bush says the U.S. economy is on the road to recovery -- but with double the unemployment rate of whites, African Americans seem to have been left behind. We visit an unemployment office in the Crenshaw district of Los Angeles to hear from one of the many caught in this crisis.
Jan 27th, 2005 · NPR's Alex Chadwick talks with Nancy Birdsall, president of the Center for Global Development, about Argentina's recovery from economic collapse, and whether the country's choice to ignore repayment to its foreign creditors is wise in the long term.
Jan 7th, 2005 · While immediate aid efforts to tsunami-affected countries have focused on water, shelter and supplies, an important part of recovery for the regions will involve long-term medical aid. NPR's Joanne Silberner follows a consultant to the World Health Organization as he studies the current aid situation.