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Renee Montagne talks to Michelle Feynman, daughter of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard P. Feynman, who was just 24 when he began working on the atomic bomb with the Manhattan Project. A new collection of his letters, Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track, was published recently.

weekend, residents along the Gulf Coast in Florida, Alabama and Mississippi have been preparing to evacuate their homes and head inland to safer ground. It's a familiar process for the millions of people who suffered through four brutal hurricanes last year.

Author Michael Chorost discusses his new book, Rebuilt. It's the story of how he became deaf and received a computer-chip implant to help him regain his hearing. Adjusting to the cochlear implant wasn't easy — there was much work to do before he could recognize everyday sounds again.

This week's bombings in London mark the first major assault on a U.S. ally in Europe since the Madrid bombings 16 months ago. Those attacks led to an about-face in Spanish foreign policy -- and the withdrawal of Spanish troops from Iraq. Though it's unlikely the British will follow suit, questions are arising over whether U.S. allies will increasingly consider the consequences of supporting Washington's policies overseas.

After Justice Sandra Day O'Connor announced her plans to retire, many legal experts began predicting who President Bush might choose to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court. Legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg reports on the names some expected to see on President Bush's list.

The weekend release of Dark Water is the latest in a wave of Japanese horror movies to be remade for American audiences. The Ring and The Grudge are other examples, and at least a half-dozen other horror remakes from Asia are on the way.

How did steroids pervade pro baseball, and why were they ignored for a decade? Scott Simon talks with Howard Bryant, author of Juicing the Game: Drugs, Power and the Fight for the Soul of Major League Baseball.

Special correspondent Susan Stamberg talks to women graduating Tuesday from her college alma mater, Barnard College in New York City. The three women were just days into their college careers on Sept. 11, 2001, and tell Susan how that day changed their friendships, their academic paths and their plans for the future.

Countless books have been published on the life of Billie Holliday. British writer Julia Blackburn tries a different tack — in her book With Billie, she collects a series of interviews of some of those who knew the great jazz singer personally.

The Washington, D.C., hotel run by Donald Trump's family company while he was president has been sold to a Miami-based investor fund.