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Host Steve Inskeep talks to Dan Savage, sex columnist and author of The Commitment, a book about gay marriage. Savage describes his own decision to marry his partner, and how his young son has brought a kid's perspective to the debate.

Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas officially opens the Rafah border crossing from the Gaza Strip into Egypt. Beginning Saturday, Gaza residents will be able to have some freedom of movement abroad for the first time since 1967. The terminal's opening is seen as a move toward Palestinian statehood.

A draft constitution has been presented to Iraq's National Assembly. But there was no vote, and discussions on its contents are ongoing. The news came six minutes before the midnight deadline. Minority Sunni representatives have threatened to hold up final approval.

Guitarist Link Wray died on November 5 at the age of 76. He's credited with inventing the power chord in the 1950s. His first big recording hit was the 1958 instrumental Rumble. When he went to record the song, he wasn't happy with the sound on the amp, so he pierced holes in the speaker cone to create additional distortion. Guitarists including Pete Townshend and John Lennon were influenced by his work. Wray's other hits include Rawhide and the Batman theme.

The Agoraphobic Cowboy is a tongue-in-cheek tribute to country music by comic actor Rick Moranis. It features lyrics along the lines of this one: "Nine more gallons, and I'll have me a hat."

When troops get seriously injured in Iraq, multiple surgeries at a military hospital are often required, and it helps if there's usually a family member there. A Marine charity, The Semper Fi Fund, is making it easier for families to stay by the bedside over the long course of recovery.

Researchers who challenged video evidence supporting the rediscovery of the ivory-billed woodpecker have withdrawn their challenge. They say sound recordings confirm that the long-lost birds are living in an Arkansas swamp.

Most influential national security voices have said it would be a mistake for the U.S. to get out of Iraq immediately. But retired Lt. Gen. William Odom says our presence in Iraq is fueling al Qaeda. Steve Inskeep talks to the onetime director of the National Security Agency.

In honor of World AIDS Day, the StoryCorps oral history project presents the story of how the disease affected one family -- at a time when AIDS was still entering America's consciousness. Mary Caplan shares the story.

Jim Cramer says he lost his soul making tens of millions of dollars for wealthy investors in the 1980s and '90s. His penance takes the form of an adrenaline-pumping, hour-long CNBC show, five nights a week.