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Dr. James Bernat, a professor of neurology at Dartmouth Medical School, says that a drug-induced coma can be a helpful tool to lower intracranial pressure. He talks about how and when doctors administer the procedure.

ABC News co-anchor Bob Woodruff and a cameraman were seriously injured when the Iraqi Army vehicle they were traveling in was attacked and an explosive device went off.

After more than 18 years at the helm of the nation's economy, Alan Greenspan steps down Tuesday. As head of the Federal Reserve, Greenspan presided over the longest economic expansion in U.S. history.

A government scientist claims that his superiors are silencing his public statements on global warming. NASA climate expert James Hansen went public with these accusations in The New York Times and The Washington Post.

The host of Jazz with Jae Sinnett on WHRV-FM in Norfolk, Va., is also a recording artist. He tells Liane Hansen about his latest CD, The Sinnett Hearings.

Exxon Mobil Corp. posts one of the largest quarterly profits in American history: $10.7 billion for the fourth quarter of 2005, up from more than $8.4 billion a year ago. Exxon is the latest oil company to post record profits as oil prices continue to rise.

Shortly after Hurricane Katrina struck, the Schultz family of Bayou La Batre, Ala., was in danger of losing their home. But thanks to donations from a church and from strangers, the family is nearly done repairing their home. Their first meal there will be on Thanksgiving Day.

With some verbal sleight of hand, John Ciardi explores the origins of the words midriff and rib. They're relationship is not what it may seem, linguistically, at least.

Senators sharply question federal safety officials during a hearing on one of the nation's biggest mine disasters in 20 years. Labor subcommittee members asked why the Sago mine was not shut down for past violations. They also wanted to know if communications technology could have saved lives.

NPR's Scott Simon muses on the new poetry collection of deposed Serbian leader Radovan Karadzic. In 1995, the U.N. war crimes tribunal indicted Karadzic, a Bosnian Serb, for his role in a 1995 massacre in Srebrenica and the 1992 siege of Sarajevo. He remains in hiding.

President Bush meets with Chinese president Hu Jintao to discuss trade and currency issues. He also attends services at one of China's few state-sanctioned Christian churches, and presses the premier to expand religious, political and social freedoms.

A federal lawsuit against the Massachusetts Department of Education accuses the state of censorship and political interference for using the word "genocide" in its high school curriculum to describe the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Armenians in Turkey during World War I. Plaintiffs in the suit say that designation is up for debate - but opponents say the evidence of genocide is clear.