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Gordon Chambers talks about his new album Introducing... Gordon Chambers.

The Southern Nevada Water Authority launches a plan to build a pipeline connecting Las Vegas with underground wells located 200 miles away. The move would provide Las Vegas with millions of gallons of water, but local farmers and ranchers argue the pipeline would dry up their water source, hurting their livelihood and the environment.

Ted Kooser, the nation's poet laureate, has been traveling around the country talking to librarians, school children and other groups about poetry. One of his stops was in Kansas City, Mo., where he led a workshop with some of Hallmark's greeting card writers.

Jurors in a federal case involving the painkiller Vioxx hear a Cleveland Clinic physician accuse drugmaker Merck of scientific misconduct. The suit was brought by a woman whose husband died of a heart attack after taking Vioxx.

David Wolman's new book, A Left Hand Turn Around the World, explores the scientific factors that lead to 10 percent of the human race being left-handed. Wolman tells Madeleine Brand about the book.

Oil prices are destined to slip somewhat in the coming years, according to British Petroleum CEO Lord John Browne. Browne says that high inventories of crude oil prove "that the global supply system works rather well."

With President Bush's polling numbers at all-time lows and Americans still skeptical about the prospects for a satisfactory result in Iraq, the last thing the GOP needs right now is another front-page ethics scandal.

Undersea explorer Fabien Cousteau recently studied sharks from inside the belly of the beast... using a decoy submarine built to resemble a great white. Cousteau tells Debbie Elliott about his upcoming CBS documentary, Mind of a Demon.

Actor Dennis Quaid's new film is a family comedy called Yours, Mine, and Ours. He first became famous for Breaking Away in 1979; he has starred in a slew of hit films since then. Quaid's resume includes The Right Stuff, The Big Easy, Innerspace, Great Balls Of Fire, Any Given Sunday, The Day After Tomorrow, and Far From Heaven.

Mark Rylance will soon wrap up his 10-year tenure as artistic director of the Globe Theatre Company. He is currently on tour with the company, starring as Vincentio in Measure for Measure.

Amid growing criticism of U.S. strategy in Iraq, President Bush prepares to deliver a policy address Wednesday on the state of the war. On Monday, the president spoke about plans to change immigration laws. Both issues are dividing the country ahead of midterm elections in 2006.

Time is running out for convicted murderer and co-founder of the Crips gang, Stanley "Tookie" Williams. The California Supreme Court refused to block his execution Wednesday. Now, his fate is in the hands of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Williams is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Dec. 13.