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Fishermen in Louisiana are assessing the damage and rebuilding the shrimping industry damaged by Hurricane Katrina.

The Hollywood Sign was originally constructed in 1923. After several incarnations, the most recent version has become an unmistakable American landmark. This year the Los Angeles icon is getting a makeover. NPR’s Melissa Jaeger-Miller reports from the precarious hillside scene.

China's urbanization is perhaps the most extensive the world has ever seen. In Beijing and elsewhere, the job of designing prominent urban buildings is going more often than not to Western architects -- and the rush to remake the capital of China is crowding the ancient city with out-of-character designs.

Over the past decade, hundreds of thousands of foreign-born high-tech workers have come to the United States thanks to the H-1B visa guest worker program. A new album mixes Indian and Western musical influences to take a lighthearted look at the techie immigrant's life in America.

On Nov. 18, 1985, a new comic strip made its newspaper debut: Calvin and Hobbes. For 10 years the duo captured the imaginations of adults and children alike. Now every published panel of the strip has been collected in The Complete Calvin and Hobbes.

Sweet Honey in the Rock is a Grammy Award-winning, African-American female a cappella ensemble. Ed Gordon talks to founding member Carol Maillard about the group's unique sound, which is rooted in the hymns, gospel music and spirituals of the black church, as well as jazz and blues. The group's latest CD is Raise Your Voice.

This week, Bruce Springsteen's album Born to Run gets the box-set treatment, in a special edition marking the record's 30th anniversary. The three-disc set includes a remastered version of the seminal album that created legions of Springsteen fans with its title track and songs like" Thunder Road" and "Backstreets."

The arrest this week of a Nigerian warlord from the oil-producing Niger Delta has started a wave of violence on the streets of Port Harcourt.

A live studio audience joins in a conversation with leading thinkers on the lessons Hurricane Katrina offers, about race and class in American society.

Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran reads from Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita, which was published 50 years ago this month.

Hurricane Rita is losing power as it makes its way through eastern Texas. The Texas towns of Galveston, Lumberton and Port Arthur and Lake Charles, La., absorbed the brunt of the storm so far. Rita reached land early Saturday as a Category 3 hurricane.

Rain and storm surge from Hurricane Rita have sent water over and through breaches in patched levees around New Orleans. The lower Ninth Ward, which was completely flooded by Hurricane Katrina, is once again under water.