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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.

The Pittsburgh Steelers are the champions of the National Football League. Their 21-10 win over the Seattle Seahawks Sunday was the fifth Super Bowl victory for the franchise, but the first in a quarter-century.

President Bush will address the nation from New Orleans Thursday evening, when he is expected to propose the biggest bailout for a region in national history. Bush will be speaking from Jackson Square, the center of the evacuated city.

U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Ronald Neumann talks about this weekend's historic parliamentary and provincial elections. Despite the killing of six candidates and incidents of intimidation preparations for the election have been largely successful.

President Bush says he takes personal responsibility for shortcomings in the federal response to Hurricane Katrina, saying the storm had "exposed serious problems in our response capability at all levels of government."