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Author Barry Yourgrau offers children cruel, twisted and shockingly mischievous cautionary tales in NastyBook. The tales present an up-to-date twist on the monstrous tradition of fabulists from Aesop to Hans Christian Andersen.

Senate Democrats close ranks to delay a vote on John Bolton's nomination to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Democrats say they will allow Bolton to face a vote, but only if the Bush administration provides access to classified documents.

Ben Berman lost his job as an airline pilot shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks. Three and a half years later, Berman returns to work behind the controls of a Continental 737.

The Alabama Preservation Alliance and the Alabama Historical Commission have just named historic gas stations across the state "places of peril." Architectural historian Melanie Betz tells Scott Simon what makes these gas stations worth preserving.

NPR's Noah Adams talks with Slate contributor Will Saletan about the growing popularity of LASIK laser vision surgery among athletes. Saletan offers his thoughts about whether performance-enhancing surgery for athletes should be wrapped into the debate over the use of steroids.

Commentator Frank Deford says part of the allure of professional sports drafts is trying to predict who will be picked by whom and when.

Monday, 115 cardinals of the Catholic Church will withdraw into a conclave in the Vatican's Sistine Chapel to elect a new pope. The session, the first in 27 years, will be a blend of Old-World pageantry and state-of-the-art technology.

For four years, the National Park Service has been gathering natural sound in dozens of parks across the country. The idea is to protect visitors -- and wildlife -- from unwelcome noise.

A Texas court has ordered the drug company Merck to pay $250 million to the widow of a man who took the prescription pain-killer Vioxx and later died of a heart attack. The company faces thousands of other lawsuits connected to the drug. Madeleine Brand speaks with Slate legal analyst Dahlia Lithwick about how the pharmaceutical giant could handle potential new legal battles.

Rosie Perez made a big splash with her big-screen debut in Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing. Now she's being honored by BAM Cinématek in her hometown of Brooklyn with a two-day tribute and screenings of her films since that 1989 breakthrough performance. She talks about her struggles as a "non-traditional" Hollywood actress.