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It shimmies. It shakes. It glides down your throat to evoke memories of a cool treat on summer evenings or ease the sting after a tonsillectomy. Many a Boomer may have thought it was a thing of the past, but there's still room for Jell-O.

The cost of rebuilding the Gulf Coast after the hurricane could top $200 billion -- roughly the same cost of the Iraq war. But President Bush says the money to pay for it should come from spending cuts, not new taxes.

According to a new study by the British Cheese Board, different cheeses can give you different types of dreams. None of the study volunteers reported nightmares from their bedtime snack. NPR's Melissa Block talks about the results of the study with Nigel White, secretary of the British Cheese Board.

Germany faces weeks of political uncertainty following the inconclusive results of Sunday's elections. The opposition Christian Democrats, led by Angela Merkel, failed to win a clear majority. The current chancellor, Gerhard Schroeder, says he can form a government, and has refused to step down.

Beauvoir, the Biloxi, Miss., home of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, took quite a pounding from Hurricane Katrina. But the society that runs the estate is vowing to rebuild.

In the first part of our week-long series Beyond Prison, New Hampshire Public Radio's Dan Gorenstein introduces the story of former inmate James Gilbert, his incarceration and return to society.

The trial of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and seven co-defendants on charges of crimes against humanity resumed briefly in Baghdad Monday. The judge then adjourned the trial until Dec. 5 so the defense team can replace lawyers who have been murdered.

South Korean scientists who authored a landmark paper on how to derive stem cell lines from individuals have been embroiled in an ethics scandal over how some of the work was conducted. Tuesday, a U.S. co-author of the paper has called into question the paper's scientific accuracy.

Hydrogen power may be in the distant future for America, but it's making the wheels of Jon Spallino's Honda zip down southern California's freeways now.

Stan Berenstain, creator of the beloved children's book series about the Berenstain Bears, died Nov. 24. Peter Glassman, owner of the children's bookstore Books of Wonder, explains the impact and success of the books.