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Editor and writer Walter Kirn's latest novel, Mission to America, is about a fictional quasi-religious group, the Aboriginal Fulfilled Apostles, seeking new converts to help them survive. The topic is one Kirn has experience with: When he was 12, Kirn's family became Mormons.

A mandatory evacuation is in effect for tourists in the Florida Keys. Many were there for Fantasy Fest 2005, a week-long annual party in Key West. This year's theme is "Freaks, Geeks and Goddesses," and was scheduled to get rolling this Friday.

This year the Chinese National Offshore Oil Company made a bid to buy the American oil company Unocal. The bid, later withdrawn, sparked a new controversy between Washington and Beijing and reinforced China's status as a competitor for fuel. Mike Shuster has the third part of his series on China-U.S. relations.

While much of the Gulf Coast remains in a shambles, there's another sign that New Orleans is coming back. Its most famous coffee spot, Cafe Du Monde, served up chicory coffee and beignets Wednesday morning for the first time since Hurricane Katrina hit.

In the final installment of our four-part series on China-U.S. relations, Mike Shuster explores China's diplomatic role in the world. The United States has encouraged Chinese involvement with international issues like North Korea's nuclear weapons. But now, diplomacy has become another area where the U.S. and China are competitors.

Commentator Gwen Macsai is the mother of three children. And she's finding that their standards for motherhood are higher than hers. And while she doesn't want to be a hypocrite, mothers like junk food, unmade beds and swearing too.

On the the eve of the MLB World Series, commentator Mark Anthony Neal recalls his first experience with the game at age 5 — and how, decades later, watching baseball has become one of the ways he remembers his youth. Neal is an associate professor with the Department of African and African-American Studies at Duke University and author of New Black Man: Rethinking Black Masculinity.

Seven weeks after Hurricane Katrina, workers are still finding bodies as they sift through the wreckage. Howard Berkes joined searchers in Waveland, Miss., as they attempt to find the remains of those missing.

Filk is a little-known genre of folk music composed and performed by science-fiction fans, usually revolving around sci-fi and fantasy themes. "Filkers" share a lively online culture -- and in the real world, some entertaining and slightly bizarre get-togethers.

Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes was one of the most popular comic strips of modern times. This month, all 3,160 published strips have been brought together, from beginning to end — a massive, three-volume collection.

Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead reviews Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall. It's a long-forgotten recording of a 1957 benefit concert, which has never been released until now.

Mississippi's state legislature has approved legislation to move floating casinos to dry land; Gov. Haley Barbour plans to sign the bill. But to make room for the casinos and hotels, many older coastal communities may never rebuild.