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One of the most clandestine kitchens ever was created by an inmate in solitary confinement in Louisiana's Angola State Pentitentiary. Over three decades, Robert "King" Wilkerson perfected a recipe for pralines, which he made in a makeshift kitchen in his tiny cell.

Paradise Now, a new film by Palestinian director Hany Abu-Assad, looks at the lives of two young suicide bombers. Howie Movshovitz of Colorado Public Radioreports.

Grateful Dead fans can once again easily download their favorite concert recordings. The band initially asked the Web site to stop the practice, but backed down after fans' outrage. Commentator Jake Halpern wonders if he is the only fan who is disappointed by the news.

It comes as no surprise to New Yorkers that some of the best food in the city is served on its sidewalks.

Sometime today, millions of people will check out of this world and into the world of online games. And many of them will think nothing of pulling out real credit cards to buy virtual gold, swords — even humans.

The highest judicial court of the United Methodist Church recently decided to defrock a lesbian minister and to reinstate a minister who refused to allow a gay man to join his congregation. Jason DeRose reports on how students and professors at a Methodist seminary are responding to the prolonged battle over homosexuality and the church.

Over the course of 50 years, Jack Naylor has amassed the world's largest private collection of cameras and photographs. It includes spy cameras, a 157-year-old photo of circus performer Tom Thumb and an underwater camera used by Jacques Cousteau. And Naylor is looking for a buyer.

Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin's new book is Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. Goodwin, who won the Pulitzer Prize for her previous book, No Ordinary Time, recounts the life and work of our 16th president, as well as the work of the principal characters of his administration.

China is known as the world's biggest manufacturer of everything from socks to personal computers. But it is also known for its production of knockoffs. At a video and music store in downtown Beijing, the selection is vast and includes cheap -- but pirated -- DVDs and CDs.

The current issue of Popular Science magazine lists the 10 worst jobs in science. Among them: orangutan-pee collector, manure inspector and human lab rat.