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The rise in the Hispanic population in the United States has meant an increase in Hispanic media outlets: radio stations, newspapers, and television. The boom has implications for the country's diverse Hispanic communities and for advertisers.

Some U.S. congregations have grown so large that they could pass for small cities. But some mega-churches are trying to reverse the trend by creating smaller satellite campuses, aided by video technology.

Commentator Ed Cullen, owner of a pickup truck with a manual shifting lever on the steering column, laments and celebrates that he drives an anachronism.

Essayist Tim Brookes recently got a puppy, and discovered a new form of geekdom: dog breeding. Having grown up with mutts, he's stunned to learn that $600 was a good price and that dozens of new flavors of doggie have been invented.

In the 1800s, American frontier towns and agricultural communities far from churches saw the rise of summer revival camps. Traveling preachers would bring evangelism to the countryside. The tradition is still going strong at a bible camp in Georgia dating back to 1828.

The Motown combo of Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier and Edward Holland wrote many hits, from "You Can't Hurry Love" to "Heat Wave." In 1990 they were inducted into the Rock Hall of Fame. A new 3-CD box set -- Heaven Must Have Sent You -- is out. (This interview originally aired May 12, 2003.)

A 2003 State Department memo clearly indicated Valerie Plame's identity was to be kept secret, according to a Washington Post story. Plame, wife of Ambassador Joseph Wilson, is the CIA officer whose identity was made public in a leak to the press.

Rona Jaffe's hit 1958 book The Best of Everything is being reissued, along with a DVD of the 1959 movie. Renee Montagne speaks with Jaffe about the smashing success of her first novel.

In a bid to stop the sale of bootleg DVDs, Los Angeles police, backed by the film industry, have placed surveillance cameras in Santee Alley, a block of L.A.'s Fashion District that a movie honcho calls "one of the biggest pirate havens on the West Coast." The ACLU objects.

As British authorities hunt suspects in two attacks on the London transit system, they are distracted by a fiasco. Saturday, authories said a man shot dead by plainclothes police officers at a subway station Friday was a 27-year-old Brazilian not connected to the bombings. Brazil's goverment wants an explanation.