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No one knows what birds see when they look out at the world, but one ornithologist is sure they don't see glass. Daniel Klem estimates that at least 1 billion birds are killed by flying into windows every year in the United States.

In a case that abortion rights supporters are calling a major victory, the Kansas Supreme Court rules that prosecutors cannot have unlimited access to abortion patients' medical records. The case pitted patients' privacy rights against the state's interest in prosecuting certain types of crimes.

KT Tunstall is a one-woman band, literally. She plays and sings the multiple parts of her songs while using a machine to loop them in real time, making for a performance style that lends her songs an extra rawness.

Steve Inskeep talks to BBC News Correspondent Andrew North in the northern Pakistan town of Balakot, one of the places hit hard in Saturday's massive earthquake. More than 20,000 people have died in the Pakistan-India border region.

In Champagne: How the World's Most Glamorous Wine Triumphed Over War and Hard Times, Don and Petie Kladstrup offer the history of a New Year's Eve staple that had rather inauspicious beginnings.

Scientists have pieced together the virus that caused the deaths of tens of millions of people in the 1918 flu pandemic. The work is providing new insights into how a strain of flu can become so lethal.

Commentator Zoe Walrand sat in a recent showing of King Kong recently and was shocked that a parent would bring a young child to see such a violent film. She decided to do something about it.

The attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, forced many Americans to reshape their lives. For New Yorkers whose plans and priorities were cast loose, the shocking losses were followed by a challenge: what to do next. That dilemma is at the heart of Jay McInerney's The Good Life.

Like Sundance, it turns 25 this year and promotes independent films. But that's where the similarities end for the Black Maria Film & Video Festival, which takes short, often experimental films on the road across America.

Amid the hype and the commercials, there's a football game to be played Sunday. Chicago Sun-Times columnist Ron Rapoport and Scott Simon discuss the relative merits of the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Seattle Seahawks.