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The Agoraphobic Cowboy is a tongue-in-cheek tribute to country music by comic actor Rick Moranis. It features lyrics along the lines of this one: "Nine more gallons, and I'll have me a hat."

We follow the adventurous, and tragic, story of a recovery effort in the world's largest freshwater cave.

When troops get seriously injured in Iraq, multiple surgeries at a military hospital are often required, and it helps if there's usually a family member there. A Marine charity, The Semper Fi Fund, is making it easier for families to stay by the bedside over the long course of recovery.

Researchers who challenged video evidence supporting the rediscovery of the ivory-billed woodpecker have withdrawn their challenge. They say sound recordings confirm that the long-lost birds are living in an Arkansas swamp.

In honor of World AIDS Day, the StoryCorps oral history project presents the story of how the disease affected one family -- at a time when AIDS was still entering America's consciousness. Mary Caplan shares the story.

Most influential national security voices have said it would be a mistake for the U.S. to get out of Iraq immediately. But retired Lt. Gen. William Odom says our presence in Iraq is fueling al Qaeda. Steve Inskeep talks to the onetime director of the National Security Agency.

The investigation of former lobbyist Jack Abramoff has taken many twists and turns. As investigators gauge the extent of Abramoff's influence with lawmakers of both parties, an associate of Abramoff's has pled guilty to conspiracy. Reporter Philip Shenon has been covering the case for The New York Times.

Maliha Zulfacar left Afghanistan when the Soviets invaded in 1979. She now splits her time between a teaching post in California and one in Kabul, where she's leading an oral history project that she hopes will help Afghans make sense of the impact of three decades of war.

In 1968, 1,300 sanitation workers, most of whom were black, went on strike in Memphis, Tenn., protesting horrendous working conditions and low wages. Martin Luther King, Jr. went to Memphis to lend his support to the striking sanitation workers. One of those on strike recalls his visit.

William Bastone, editor of TheSmokingGun.com, discusses an article he wrote that details discrepancies between stories in James Frey's best-selling memoir A Million Little Pieces and public records such as police reports and court records. Through his attorney, Frey has strongly denied the accusations.